Energy, Science, Technology, Environment and Climate Change Minister Yeo Bee Yin described the personal attacks on her over the Pasir Gudang health issue as insulting the professionalism of government officers who have been patiently seeking the source of the incident from day one.

Yeo said these allegations were serious lies and were not constructive, especially when both federal and state governments are working hard to look into the health issue.

“Hundreds of our officers from the Environment Department, Pasir Gudang Municipal Council, Civil Defence Force...are taking the readings day and night to identify the source. How can one minister control all of them when they taking the readings everywhere?

“How can I control the readings taken by the dozens of enforcement teams from every factory? This is an insult to the professionalism of the government officers,” she told reporters at Menara Aqabah here this evening.

Yeo also described “these attacks” as “very ugly politics” and lambasted these parties for not giving constructive solutions to whatever efforts taken by the government.

“I will take stern action to find whoever is disseminating these lies online and I will take them to court," she said.

Yeo was commenting on several allegations in regards to the Pasir Gudang issue which seemed to turn personal against her and her spouse.

Yesterday, the minister was reported saying that she vowed to sue those behind a social media post accusing her husband’s involvement in the second bout of air pollution in Pasir Gudang.

- Bernama