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Tuesday, July 16, 2013

No experience? We'll give you the contract anyway


YOURSAY ‘The government in effect is declaring, ‘Look, we know you have neither the technical nor financial muscle, but we award it to you in the spirit of ‘I help you, you help me'.'

MP: Rail project derails PM's pledge

your sayFellowMalaysian: Why is there a need for a RM1 billion 20-station railway when the six-lane Iskandar Coastal Highway costing RM900 million has started operation early this year?

This railway project sounds even more fishy as all the negotiations, including financing structures, were carried out surreptitiously between the government and the concessionaire, Masteel.

This was done with intent to obfuscate the public and to avoid public scrutiny as this directly-negotiated deal harbours elements of subterfuge and duplicity.

The Ampang LRT extension was also a contract clinched by George Kent Malaysia Bhd (GKMB) at a cost of RM1 billion in late 2012 and similar controversies clouded the manner it was given to this company.

It appears that BN cronies have won the upper hand in clinching one seedy deal after another as PM Najib Razak and his administration chose to renege on their pledges in order to appease their benefactors.

Malaysian Joe: What's new, Petaling Jaya Utara MP Tony Pua? That pledge of Najib's for transparency was just for GE13. After that, everything is back to normal.

There is no need to keep to such loose commitments because there has been a lot of funds raised during the elections and these need to be ‘settled' with public funds.

We continue to increase the national debt with large chunks going to the intermediaries.

Toonarmy: The elections are over. It's ‘Janji Diketepikan' time. Why would the illegitimate regime keep their promises when there are plenty of kickbacks to be made?

Who cares about the rakyat anyway - so ungrateful of us not to give them the two-thirds majority that they deserved, which is their birthright.

Heavywater: If the government has to lend money to these companies for the project to take off, it might as well the government do the project itself.

What nonsense is this, another Cowgate? The idea of awarding these projects is to lessen the financial burden of the government and not to pile it up.
Dudeno: Apart from the obvious corrupt practices, the users of the railway are the nation's people. Safety is a real concern here.

This contract is basically the rakyat paying to endanger their own lives. The willingness of the government to gamble the lives of the people with inexperienced contractors just to benefit their cronies is abhorrent and to be condemned.

Fourtan: So where is Transparency Minister Paul Low? This, along with the YTL internet learning deal, is so murky and muddy that I can't see the bottom of this ‘pork barrel'. Some transparency please, Low?

Gen2indian: I curse the people concerned every time I use the (PLUS) North-South highway. Built at a cost of RM6 billion, it was revealed in Parliament that RM24 billion has been collected thus far.

Even after allowing for overheads, the profit margin is obscenely staggering and we hard-working, honest people have to keep feeding the cronies and their future generations. This is what awaits you, good people of Johor.

Malaysiawatch4: The government in effect is declaring, "Look, we know you have neither the technical nor financial muscle to do this mega-project, but we award it to you in the spirit of ‘I help you, you help me'." - Malaysiakini

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