The Sunday Star on Jan 16 featured an article, Walking in her own footsteps , about Puteri Umno head, Noraini Ahmad.

The full-page article quoted opinions from various sources. One of them was by Norza Zakaria, an Umno Supreme Council member, who said, '... Noraini must now inject political education into the rank and file and reach out to young Malay women and intellectuals in the universities and colleges'.

We in the opposition and I'm sure the students, too would really like to know whether this means that the University and University Colleges Act has been repealed.

It is obvious that Umno is as aware as anyone else that the grooming of a new generation of leaders must start with the young with one of the prime training grounds being our institutions of higher learning.

'Injecting political education' should consist of exposing them to the fundamental principles of politics and then allowing the free flow of information as well as full opportunities for open debate on any and all issues of importance to the nation, and indeed the world.

Only then can we look forward to being governed by well-informed and mature leaders.

I think most Malaysians feel it is high time to encourage such a development, and hope that Norza himself, and Noraini, too, will work towards a speedy repeal of the UUCA that is, if it has not already been done!