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This should also be vigorously pursued and the matter nailed down OAFA (once-and-for-ALL); one fails to understand how progress payment and project accounting can allow such things to happen ; the names of contractors should be published; so too who gave out the contracts:

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Thursday September 7, 2006

Khir puzzled by claim of project’s extra expenses

SHAH ALAM: There is no new slaughterhouse in Selangor and Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Dr Mohd Khir Toyo wants to know how RM21mil could have been wasted on the project's delay.

Dr Khir is perplexed over an account in the Auditor-General’s 2005 report claiming that Selangor had incurred an additional RM21mil in expenses for the delay in constructing two slaughterhouses.

“I have checked with the economic planning unit and the Veterinary Department. There are no such projects in the state. I would have known if there were,” he told reporters yesterday.

He was commenting on a newspaper report that the original cost to build the two slaughterhouses was RM8mil but the state government needed to fork out an additional RM21mil because construction was delayed.

Dr Khir said the projects might have been a private initiative or done in other states but mistakenly attributed to Selangor.

The report had also listed other wasteful projects, such as the RM180,000 Kampung Idaman food court in Klang, which is now a car park.

Other failed projects listed were the Jalan Meru market (RM19mil), Pandamaran Baru market (RM2.2mil) and Kapar fruit stalls (RM666,000).

Dr Khir said he was waiting for a report from the Klang Municipal Council on claims of wastage of public funds.

There must be a sea-change in the way the govt treats issues of integrity and accountability.

If there are serious questions of impropriety involving public officials, proper investigations must be carried out. Followed by police reports and hopefully criminal charges in the courts if there are grounds for such.

If possibly tainted officials are only transferred, or worse, promoted, no way any real changes will take place. No way corruption will be reduced.

I am still wondering what has hapened to the Semuanya OK incident when the PM himself had to contradict Khir Toyo.

Now, Mohd Arif Abdul Rahman, has been made the new Financial Officer for Selangor with apparently nothing going to be done to scrutinise his possible role in the pest control concessions fiasco.

Apparently Teflon-coated public officials do not make for credibility built on accountability and integrity.

First of all thanks to Nades for the positive outcome but it is sad that for every Nades there are literally thousand and thousands of unscrupulous people in power whose life ambition is to enrich theselves and at times in outrageous schemes that only their twisted minds can come up with .This process actually takes up all their working time while in their positions of influence. A very very sad state of affairs that seems to get only worse by the year as such people become more powerful with each SCK ..skim cepat kaya.
Take a drive along the Fed hiway and nowadays its like driving through a Sign/bill board 'forest' as bill boards of all shapes and sizes and height are everywhere .I am not against it but there is ABSOLUTELY ZERO thoughts given to aesthetics and what we have is plain old unsightly mess of these boards.
Sometimes I am amazed that we have to live with such blatant abuse of power.
Can't somebody do anything about this MESS !

In this country, the more you waste, the bigger the budget you will get next financial year, and that comes with promotion. Thanks to the KPI's. If you save money, the KPI's will notify the management that you are not doing your job, and you get demoted. Hence you get councillors trying their best to spend their budget on useless things such as plastic trees etc.
Due to this, the people who blew away RM30 billion are now controlling the country's finances.

This posting seems to imply a complot...is it? Nah...Still...

I asked myself, is the link-man between the 2 episod that Jeff had thought aloud has any truth in it? Can it be pursued to the very end of the worm-hole? How much and how far can the issue of accountability be pursued in this country? Which agency can be entrusted to such job without fear or favour?

Can KSW (Karam Singh Walia) be persuaded to step out and off his environmental crusade to a different platform to do the work? Or maybe someone else of such doggedness can arise then?

The lamenta here, mine included, is so depressing to the ear and to the wellbeing of the soul.

I hear there was once a proposal to bring back local election...I say, bring it back.

Can blog be used to bring out and keep track of public office abuses if our media not ready or not willing? I'm sure it can do the job here, after all it has been proven before at other places...

For my sanity...CHEERS.

In another issue of Subang Jay, they are supposed to build a 3 storey building at SS15/4, purported for a 2 storey car park and groung floor market.
But now it has a market and a top floor but no car park. Obviously the plan has changed and the cost has changed, but who benefits?
I have no inside info but I understood that YB Lee objected to the change of the plan when the pilling for 3 storey car park has completed.

Look people, if we can allow suspected felons to be ministers, why can't we allow this guy to be in charge of the till ? The most you can prove is incompetence (of the highest order, I may add) but then we have incompetence right at the top, don't we ?

It times to re-introduce local council Election.

Jeff you show here your total ignorance of Malaysian UMNOPutra culture. Don't you know that in UMNOPutra Culture incompetence, corruption, reckless disregard for western defined proprieties are to be rewarded? Just see our SEcond Finance Minister, Mohd Nor Yacop, or whta ever his name was? In compliance with the culture after losing RM31 billion in foreign exchange while only a Deputy Govenor in Bank Negara, he is rewarded a higher level function in the Ministry of Finance. And Toyo in keeping with that culture positions this guy where he is really good at. Fleecing the goody bag!