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We must be in imminent danger of a terrorist attack!

While the rest of us get on with our lives knowing that no one will spend a single sen to protect us from petty snatch theives...

Oh yeah, I remember... "Work with ME, not for ME"

BTW, I wonder who got the contract?

OMG TEH TERRORITZ WILL USE MOTORCYCLES TO CRASH INTO PUTRAJAYA!!!!!!

molotov cocktail thrown from motorcycles?

no wonder we all spending more and more to barricade ourselves with employed securities in housing areas.

PM also not feel safe anymore. what more us? Rakyat?

Satu lagi projek Barisan Nasional to line up pockets. Banyak lagi coming in 9MP.

The non-bumi bloke who did the actual work probably charged less than 50% for all the work including equipment, fittings etc. The chap with all the MOF bumi license and connections got the rest.
Which reminds me when the American senate questions the high cost of parts supplied to their warships in the late 70's/early 80's. A toilet seat cost thousands and screws, nuts and bolts cost hundreds of dollars.

at this rate, probably we will see maggi mee supplied to the govt at RM15 per packet in the future?????

actually, the cost is not THAT high... if the equipment supplied are top of the line imported american stuffs, or slightly lesser if european, plus foreign expertise to install and commission the thing, plus 30-50% markup by the main-con, you can get to that kind of value...
now may be 30-50% markup is unheard of in fair openly tendered contracts, but for umno-putras, it must be the least you can expect to pay, and that's provided you are dealing with a reasonably ethical contractor.
there may or may not be non-bumi subcons. one can always engage foreigners only. any non-bumi sub-cons may be just local agents of these foreign suppliers.
if you are looking for misconducts or such in this project, you may not find one, because everything may still be done according to gov policies - no tender, high markup to enrich bumi contractors, top of the line equipment to protect the pm, etc, etc. but if you are attacking the policies - well.... i think who ever exposed this info is in risk of being dealt with under osa... you don't think so?

And recently, a "civil servant" just ask to install feudalism system to topple the democracy for "political stability".

http://www.bharian.com.my/m/BHarian/Monday/Nasional/20060911000241/Article/

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GEORGETOWN: Jawatan Perdana Menteri, Ketua Menteri dan Menteri Besar dicadangkan supaya dipegang oleh pemimpin yang sama sehingga akhir hayat kecuali mereka tidak lagi mampu memberi khidmat seperti jatuh sakit.
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Menteri Besar Perlis, Datuk Seri Shahidan Kassim, yang juga Ketua Umno bahagian itu, berkata usul berkenaan diluluskan bagi mengelak krisis kepemimpinan dalam parti.

Was it for a new security system for PM's residence? Why?

For such a big and prestigious building, if a security system is required, normally it is installed during construction stage, so that most of the material especially cables can be concealed!

Maintenance too high? System not working?

Who was in charge of the design, work supervision and acceptance of the system?

I wouldn't mind to be the jaga for PM's residence throughout my entire life for RM20 milion. Just pay me upfront RM 5 mil now, RM 0.5 mil yearly for the next 20 years, and another RM 5 mil when I die, made to the nominees stated in my will. That'll be a real value for me. I won't mind to 'mati' for the PM.

that's just the wannabe 1st-world-ers showing their dirty basksides again.
and our country is led by leaders who listen to people like this.
what to do? for the sake of peace and unity, we all got to go down to the lowest common denominator lah...
damn. it's so low. i can smell the lembu...

ok..ok..Contrary to the popular belief, I strongly feel there's not even one soul out there who would dare to break into the PM's house. The 3 Police guards infront of his house is MORE than enough to secure the whole place even from Jet Li, Mike Tyson or Bin Ladin for that matter. Infact I'm sure they would want to make appointment to see him even if their intention is to steal anything from Sri Perdana. RM 50 a day to feed the 3 guards breakfast, lunch and dinner would already be sufficient to ensure trespassers be killed on the spot! Maybe, Pm wanna see less of his SIL, thats why the sophisticated and expensive system.

In fact, with that amount of money, you can actually hire one kampung of people to spit on the pepertrator. The amount of spits will drown him in seconds. You can buy a vote with RM200.00. Now imagine how much spit you can buy with that amount of money.

The Islamic terrorists will go for Bush, Blair and the likes, NOT malaysian PM for crying out aloud!!

As for spending by the YB and YAB's, this is only the tip of the iceberg, my friends. We all KNOW that's how the country's income and tax payers' money have been spent all this while dont't we? We KNOW that we have been screwed... what can we do about it?

I assume the figure shown is the amount spend on the security system only.

I wonder how much they spend on yearly operation and maintenance. And how much they really spent to operate and maintain.

Which company is awarded?Any open tender?

Maybe they will change the system again, next 3 - 5 years. In the pre-text of to keep up with the technology.

'Change' not 'upgrade' OK. More flesh ....

"The report also disclosed that 700 computers worth RM2.10 million were bought with the fund’s money without calling for tender in 2004."

Man! That's like RM3000 per PC! I bought a darned decent machine in 2004 for RM1760.

Let's just say some kick-ass crony bought those PCs at the price I did and sold them to the at RM2.1 million. That fella just made a RM868,000 doing almost nothing! An instant (almost) millionaire. Though, I am sure at 700 PCs, you can definitely get PCs at much less than RM1760 per PC.

Pak Lah, what say you about this? Can you still remain elegantly silent?

Know why there are no one dies as a virgin in Malaysia?

At this rate we are going, we will be screwed..sooner or later.

Maybe the PM is afraid of the Mat Rempit attack...or else why put up motorcycle barriers?

Maybe Putera UMNO will organize the Mat Rempits to attack Putrajaya to justify this type of expenditure....

Strange...

RM665m for the state of Terengganu... Well, to the Kampong kampong people sekalian in Terengganu, welcome to the BN (to be exact UMNO) management!

Perhaps the money had been used for de-marginalization of Malay in the state.

While waiting for Pak Lah's explanation on the trivial renovation costs,
Pak Lah's administration could score big record in Malaysia Book of Records in :-

1. the government with most apologies given
(recent one include within the Education Ministries itself)
2. the government with most apologies tipu-tipuly delayed
(where's The son-in-law's apology for his last month's so-called misrepresentation?)
3. the government with most apologies exchanged among peers
(recent one include within the Education Ministries itself - AGAIN! *sic*)
4. the government being puppet-runs by The son-in-law who trying to evade his apology by delaying them to some meeting, but want to get immediate response from Gerakan
(include point 2. above and subsequently the haste by Hishamuddin in getting response from Koh Tsu Khoon. What a fast turn of event)
5. the government with most apologies pretend like dunno
(from the Lady la, whoelse)
6. the government with most apologies...whatever

Folks

Two things need to be clarified.

Firstly, the PM must deserve all the security trappings required under present global conflict situation.

Secondly the obscene costs must be questioned and open to public scrutiny and debate.

Having said that, it does not take a rocket scientist to tell you that :

a) No open tenders were called.

b) Closed tenders offered to UMNO cronies.

c)Only UMNO cronies were capable of making such obscene costs.

Reason: UMNO sees Malaysian taxpayers money as rightly belong to UMNO.

And nobody, under threat of being accused as anti-national by the UMNO leadership ,should question this closed tender started under the New Economic Policy.

And lastly, after all, the obscene costs to be funded by taxpayers are to help the UMNO-putras, and that is allowed under current national policy.

So, why should we complain? And we should not complain, because we elected this UMNO-dominated govt.

Frank&Honest - WE did not elect the present govt (may be you did)- the poor kampung folks, the teachers and the army did! And they may not even be reading this blog!!! - hence they may not even have a clue how money has been spent, except for the odd bridge here, and a mosque there - which make them quite happy to elect them again, and again, and again

Pak Mail

You said.....WE did not elect the present govt,

Sadly or unfortunately, YOU or the "WE" are the minority. Because the present Govt had been in power since 1957, presumably even before you were born or when you were just a little kid.

Unless "You" or "WE" go out and make a difference,make your voice heard instead of on this blog, instead of whining and whingeing, this UMNO-dominated Govt will be in power for the next 10 elections. Until then, "YOU" or the "WE" learn to live with it, especially with the obscene abuse of taxpayers' money with no check and balances. The Auditor-General for all you know, probably is an UMNO-member or an UMNO sympathiser and the Solicitor-General,likewise. So where is the check and balances.

Even the usual Govt bureaucrats are fearful of their jobs to even question UMNO's excessive influence in normal Govt machinery, even if they are not UMNO members.

So what gives?

And you have the UMNO-owned Straits Times, which most likely you will buy every mornng to read, or Star, the MCA-owned newspaper, you will also most likely subscribe to read every morning, dishing out political propaganda on local politics against the Opposition Parties like PAS and DAP and Keadilan etc, and you fall for it. That is why many non Malays in the West Coast have this unreasonable and untested fear of PAS and the rural kampung folks are so frightful of DAP.

Mainly because they had no recourse to alternative news or that "YOU" and "WE" were well brainwashed by UMNO-owned New Straits Times and the MCA-owned Star,without knowing these two papers are media machines of UMNO and MCA.

I suggest YOU wake up to this realpolitik in Malaysia, unless you are now living overseas.

Why are we as the taxpayer not doing anything if this is real?
Do we want them to continue spent our hard earn money like that?

I think we people to stand up and express ourselve.

E36

You asked.....WHY are we as the taxpayer not doing anything if this is real?

It is a 64 million dollar question.

Yes.Why ??? and who are the "WE" ???

Just wonder how much they spent initially on the PM's Residence Security System.

Why it costs so much to replace it?

In the first place, why replace it?

Was the maintenance costs to the existing system too high? Was the system not functioning?

How can that be? Surely there must be designer and consultant appointed to design, approve, supervise, test & commission the system.

If the system is not functioning, why the Government took over? Just throw it back to the Contractor.

It bleeds me to see the high cost!

Who is monitoring the situation? Is there no independent auditor to access and evaluate the situation.

At the end of the day, it shows how competent we are. Got the system screwed up, got the Rakyat screwed and these bunch of people laughing all the way to the Bank.

I cry for Malaysia! Happy Belated Malaysia Day. Semuanya Boleh!

Just wonder how much they spent initially on the PM's Residence Security System.

Why it costs so much to replace it?

In the first place, why replace it?

Was the maintenance costs to the existing system too high? Was the system not functioning?

How can that be? Surely there must be designer and consultant appointed to design, approve, supervise, test & commission the system.

If the system is not functioning, why the Government took over? Just throw it back to the Contractor.

It bleeds me to see the high cost!

Who is monitoring the situation? Is there no independent auditor to access and evaluate the situation.

At the end of the day, it shows how competent we are. Got the system screwed up, got the Rakyat screwed and these bunch of people laughing all the way to the Bank.

I cry for Malaysia! Happy Belated Malaysia Day. Semuanya Boleh!

Angel_bumi06

You said...Got the system screwed up, got the Rakyat screwed and these bunch of people laughing all the way to the Bank.

I hope you are not terribly surprised!! This has been going on for the best part of the last 15-20years.

Otherwise, how do you account for the instant millionnaires that crop up like instant noodles. And if you make a Who's Who among these sweatless instant millionnaires, they are mostly UMNOputras plus the trickling of MCA-supported instant millionnaires like the son of the former President of MCA who joined the millionnair club even before he hits 30. At that age, you and I are just about to start saving our first decent dollar.

Frank&Honest,

Honestly, I am not surprised at all.

I am just venting my frustration. This thing happening right in his own residence.

His cronies will say up-to-date system is required. The more expensive the better. No open tender because must be as secretive as possible, because he is No. 1. All these are for their personal gain.

No. 1. My foot!

Come the next GE, I have decided where my vote will go to.

remember TDM mentioned when questioned that the PM's residence in putrajaya cost only RM75million. He misled the public as the total cost of Pm's residence came to hundreds of millions of ringit. The RM75miilion he mentioned was the PM's quarters which is situated at one wing and exclude the rest.
And we still have people who have a soft spot for the old chap.

if you guys compare AAB residence with TG nik aziz in pulau melaka, you will surprise.

Any one can go and see him after solat subuh in the masjid near his house, no prokol at all.

btw, jeff i suggest you try to make an one day interview of TG nik aziz and see how humble and close to rakyat he is