Putrajaya had previously pledged 150,000 laptops and tablets under the CERDIK initiative announced in the 2021 budget.

“This is nonsense,” former youth and sports minister Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman said in a tweet.

The Muar MP said he had already distributed close to 1,000 laptops and tablets in his constituency, and will distribute another 300 tablets now that there is a nationwide lockdown.

“Why is the government so slow?”

Earlier today, education minister Radzi Jidin said as of last night, only 12,887 laptops had been distributed to students from B40 lower-income households.

Another 40,290 units will be delivered by June 12 and the remaining 96,823 will be delivered by end September.

PKR’s Fahmi Fadzil said the 12,887 laptops made up 8.6% of the total units pledged.

He said this was probably why Radzi and finance minister Tengku Zafrul Aziz never issued an update on the initiative, announced in November last year.

“If this isn’t a huge failure, I don’t know what to say,” the Lembah Pantai MP said.

“Radzi and Zafrul, you have failed.”