PUTRAJAYA, May 9 – Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak braved the rain to let participants ‘Run’ 9 to 5 ‘ Young Workers’ Run (‘9 to 5 Run) here today. Although he did not participate in the event, Najib, who arrived at 7:20am, dressed in sports clothing and wearing a hat.
In a short speech, he said that healthy workers are essential to increase productivity and the critical factors to ensure good health is through exercise. “Some of the reasons that good health is to vigorously carry out, participate in a healthy lifestyle and a healthy mind to become productive workers,” he said.
Some 16,800 people attended the event which jointly organised by Koperasi Profesional Putrajaya Berhad (Koprojaya) and Persatuan Belia Pekerja Munda (BPM). The event is an initiative young professionals and officials in the public service and private sector efforts to promote healthy lifestyles of workers in the aged of 18 to 40 years.
It also occurs in the Malaysia Book of Records as “the most number of unions participating in a run’ as an employee of more than 50 workers’ organizations from the public and private sectors took part. BPM President, Dazma Shah Daud said the organizers are targeting 10,000 participants but it is more than 16,800 individuals.
