"SAVE SUFIAH PROGRAMME??!!"

Bernama quoting Minister in the PM's Department Zahid Hamidi......

The Prime Minister's Department and the Malaysian Missionary Foundation (Yadim) will try to assist former child maths genius Sufiah Yusof, now aged 23 and fending for herself as a prostitute in Salford, Manchester.

Zahid said they would help the gifted girl to return to the right path through the "Save Sufiah Programme".

"The first thing we should try to do is to contact her mother or arrange a meeting with Sufiah to find out the real reasons for her to turn to prostitution, offering her services through the Internet and using the name Shilpa Lee," he told reporters after attending a biefing by Yadim here Tuesday.

It has been reported in the "News of the World" that Sufiah is now a 130- pound an-hour hooker operating from her dingy back street flat.

The "Save Sufiah Programme" is headed by Deputy Minister in the PM's Department Mashitah Ibrahim who will come up with strategies to assist Sufiah as soon as possible.

Sufiah created news when she was accepted into Oxford University at age just 13. Her mother, Malaysian-born Halimaton Yusof from Muar, Johor, and her father, Farooq Yusof from Pakistan both tutored her and her siblings at home.

However, Farooq is now in jail after he was found guilty of sexually assaulting two 15-year-old girls whom he home tutored in maths.

AC_here says...... I'm not really clear about this but isn't she a British subject and she's over 18 and an adult by law. So why are our ministers so concerned about a foreigner. Her father is a sex offender and her mom gave up her Malaysian citizenship so why so much interest in their affairs. It really doesn't make sense to assist someone who makes GBP130 an hour. What makes them think that she wants to be helped in the first place.

Frankly i think these fuckers in the goverment should take care of its own backyard first instead of looking into the plight of a so called flawed math genius from Oxford. There are loads of other deserving cases closer to home that i don't see these goverment jokers giving any attention. Instead they want to help a British subject who don't give two hoots about Malaysia.

So my message to all "Ministers" and "Heads" of Foundations............. CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME.