I went to the Selangor Land Department to sort some housing matters recently. The department is housed at the Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah building in Shah Alam which also houses the office of the Selangor Menteri Besar as well as the offices of the Selangor exco members. The building and car park are gated and heavily secured by guards.

I parked my car at the designated car park a few feet from the building. To my shock and dismay, I was bitten by hundreds of mosquitoes. I looked carefully and was appalled to notice that there were many containers with stagnant water or better known in the Malay term as 'air bertakung' near the car park. The stagnant water contained countless of mosquito larva, possibly aedes.

Luckily, in this age of technology, I used my camera phone to take some pictures. I took the risk of being bitten badly just to take some evidence. I took a picture of a container containing mosquito larvae which was alive, moving and swimming. I also took a shot of several run down tractors strangely parked in the same car park lot too. The tractors have scoopers, and they contain stagnant water with countless of mosquito larvae were swimming.

I cannot believe that the premises where the Selangor Menteri Besar's office is located is a breeding ground for mosquito larva.

My question is this - How can the public abide by the constant calls of the government to keep the country clean and aedes-free when the Selangor state government themselves harbour mosquito larvae on their premises and possibly contribute to the increase in dengue cases in Selangor? As we know, Selangor has the highest number of dengue cases in Malaysia.

The relevant authorities should not just be going from home to home summoning people who harbour mosquito larvae. They should also be going to government departments, in this case, the Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah building which houses the highest government officials in the Selangor government.