ps- quick point to Gunasegaran inquest, lest we forget.
It’s crazy just how stark the discrepancy is sometimes. Let’s see what is happening in Shah Alam these days.
BN:
More than a month after allegations of irregularities surfaced over the Shah Alam Hospital project, the Public Works Department (PWD) has yet to respond to the questions raised.
Last month, Malaysiakini reported source-based claims that the contract was awarded under debatable circumstances and at an inflated price of about RM500 million to Sunshine Fleet Sdn Bhd, a company owned by a member of the Selangor royalty.
The company has allegedly been skimming off project funds for ‘advances’ and ‘expenses’, and also stands accused of harassing companies it had engaged as sub-contractors. It has refused comment, saying that queries should be directed to PWD which ‘owns’ the project.
Since then, PWD secretary-general Judin Abdul Karim – who signed the letter awarding the contract – has not been available for comment, despite repeated phone calls to his office.
Among the questions were whether the contract was awarded in an open tender or if it was directly negotiated and why the cost has escalated from the original allocation of RM300 million.
Prior to this, sources close to the PWD confirmed the existence of an internal report that was commissioned to address the issues, together with a list of answers to Malaysiakini’s questions.
However, the source implied that the matter is being held up pending approval by Works Minister Shaziman Abu Mansor.
Yesterday, Saipol said his department has yet to go through the response because the personnel “are busy with more routine matters.”
RM 200 million up in smoke, and the MACC is nowhere in sight (did you know they moved out of Plaza Masalam? Ghosts, I expect).
Plus, one can’t help but think about how well Gamuda has done (owned largely by Perak royalty), and what happened in the silver state last year.
Anyway. Pakatan:
The police today recorded the statement of Selangor exco Xavier Jayakumar at his office in Shah Alam with regards to a police report lodged against him.
The report, filed with the Klang district police headquarters, concerned the alleged ‘abuse’ of RM1.67 million in allocations for Tamil schools last year.
Following the allegation, Jayakumar has published on his blog a list of tables detailing how the state’s allocations were spent for Tamil schools last year.
I’m all for the immediate investigation of all charges of corruption, and welcome any into Pakatan politicians.
But surely there must be some consistency. The difference here is like the difference between RM1 and RM200 (or RM500, really). Where is the MACC in the hospital case?
Also compare the different responses. BN hides and schemes, refusing to answer questions. Dr. Xavier immediately put up a table of allocations (reproduced below), inviting people to do their own investigations.
I don’t know about you, but I’m sick of these BN thieves draining our country dry. Perhaps we’ll have a chance to work for change in Hulu Selangor soon enough, Insyallah (Nazri says it’s ok for me, FT resident, to say such things, apparently :P Something about not having a Sultan? My dad quipped: What about Melaka then?).
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