Finance Ministry must reveal all NGOs receiving government allocations, says Nurul.
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KUALA LUMPUR: PKR vice-president Nurul Izzah has questioned if the government is funding Isma and Perkasa through the Finance Ministry’s RM30 million allocation for non-governmental organisations in Budget 2015.
While debating the budget in parliament today, the Lembah Pantai MP said: “The chairman of Isma is currently being investigated under the Sedition Act.
“If the government decides to fund the organisation, including its forum that is also being attended by Mahathir Mohamad, it is indicative that the government supports someone who’s seditious about racial relations,” she said.
Upon Nurul’s insistence that the Finance Ministry reveal all the NGOs that were benefiting from allocations given by the government, Deputy Finance Minister Chua Tee Yong explained that government grants were reserved for NGOs registered with the Registrar of Societies that met specified conditions and criterion.
He however did not furnish the list of recipients as Nurul requested.
During the Budget 2015 speech, Prime Minister Najib Razak declared that a one-off grant worth RM50 million would be allocated to creditable NGOs.
As part of “empowerment of NGOs and volunteerism or MyNGO,” Najib said the fund would benefit NGOs and uniformed bodies that were involved in community development programmes, unity, social welfare, consumerism, health and security.
KUALA LUMPUR: PKR vice-president Nurul Izzah has questioned if the government is funding Isma and Perkasa through the Finance Ministry’s RM30 million allocation for non-governmental organisations in Budget 2015.
While debating the budget in parliament today, the Lembah Pantai MP said: “The chairman of Isma is currently being investigated under the Sedition Act.
“If the government decides to fund the organisation, including its forum that is also being attended by Mahathir Mohamad, it is indicative that the government supports someone who’s seditious about racial relations,” she said.
Upon Nurul’s insistence that the Finance Ministry reveal all the NGOs that were benefiting from allocations given by the government, Deputy Finance Minister Chua Tee Yong explained that government grants were reserved for NGOs registered with the Registrar of Societies that met specified conditions and criterion.
He however did not furnish the list of recipients as Nurul requested.
During the Budget 2015 speech, Prime Minister Najib Razak declared that a one-off grant worth RM50 million would be allocated to creditable NGOs.
As part of “empowerment of NGOs and volunteerism or MyNGO,” Najib said the fund would benefit NGOs and uniformed bodies that were involved in community development programmes, unity, social welfare, consumerism, health and security.
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