Beliau menzahirkan hasrat itu sewaktu pertemuan dengan delegasi Ericsson yang diketuai presiden merangkap ketua pegawai eksekutif kumpulan Börje Ekholm pada Rabu.

Beliau berkata demikian pada sidang media selepas Majlis Penutup Persidangan Pasukan Pelindungan Kanak-Kanak dan Pasukan Kebajikan Kanak-Kanak (PKKK) JKM di sini, hari ini.

“We also want to focus on socio-economic development, including infrastructure and village road facilities like the water supply, the electricity supply, and telecommunications facilities,” - State EXCO for Orang Asli and minority affairs, V. Papparaidu.

“Pahang, for example, has not been able to bear its huge debt burden because it has not been able to raise tariffs for 30 years. Only Johor has been successful in raising (tariffs) before 2018 because it was able to replace the whole lot of 20,000 pipes that needed to be changed,” he said

Jelasnya, kerajaan negeri bertegas untuk bertahan dengan kos RM787 juta bagi menaik taraf Stadium Shah Alam merangkumi peralihan dan menaikkan tapak, projek tebatan banjir dan integrasi stesen Aliran Transit Ringan (LRT).