PKFZ - Mother of All Scandals

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Synopsis:

The PwC audit report into the PKFZ scandal has been described in the media as "a damning disclosure of mismanagement, clandestine deals, conflicts of interest and a total disregard for transparency and accountability" for a project which was supposed to cost RM1.088 billion in 2002. It is now reported that the final cost of the PKFZ scandal could be as high as RM12.5 billion.

How much is RM12.5 billion? It can be used:

* to build four Penang bridges; 25 universities at RM500 million each; 125 hospitals at RM100 million each; 1,250 schools at RM10 million each; 312,500 low-cost houses at RM40,000 each.
* to provide amnesty from collecting assessment for 13 years for Selangor state or 45 years for Penang state;
* to give everyone of the 27 million Malaysians regardless of age a payout of RM338!
* in fact it is like striking a RM1 million price lottery each and every month non stop for the next 1,041 years!


RM12.5 billion is also equivalent to five RM2.5 billion BMF scandals, "a heinous crime without criminals" as pronounced by the then Prime Minister, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad in the 1980s. Will the PKFZ scandal become another "heinous crime without criminals" under the current Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak?


FOREWORD

The RM12.5 billion Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) Rip-off, which I have described the “scandal of scandals”, is a test case of accountability, integrity and good governance in Malaysia half a century after independent nationhood, particularly after the political tsunami of the March 8, 2008 general elections.

Are Malaysians prepared, as in the past three decades, to accept with a shrug of the shoulder the litany of financial scandals and corruption which had plunged Malaysia’s ranking in Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index from No. 23 in 1995 to No. 37 in 2003 when Datuk Seri (now Tun) Dr. Mahathir Mohamed stepped down and sliding further to No. 47 in 2008 at the end of the short-lived premiership of Datuk Seri
(now Tun) Abdullah Ahmad Badawi?

Unraveling the PKFZ scandal is still a work-in-progress, testifying to the herculean efforts needed to promote a culture of accountability, integrity and good governance in Malaysia. For this purpose, a website http://pkfz.blogspot.com/ has been created which you should visit and play active part.

This publication covers three parts of the DAP battle to hold the PKFZ scandal to public account:

(i) My speeches (including Parliament) and statements during the tenure of Datuk Seri Chan Kong Choy as Transport Minister from August 2007; Mother of All Scandals

(ii) Those from April 2008 to May 2009 during DatukOng Tee Keat’s first year as Transport Minister; and

(iii) From 28th May 2009, when the PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) audit Report on PKFZ was finally made public till 15th June 2009.

There have been daily speeches/statements on the PKFZ scandal since June 15 but they will have to await a new publication.

I hope that this publication will help to create greater national consciousness and pressure for the full accounting of the PKFZ “mother of all scandals”.

Lim Kit Siang
DAP Parliamentary Opposition Leader
19th June 2009, Ipoh Timur

Book Detail:
ISBN (english): 978-983-9820-29-4
ISBN (chinese): 978-983-9820-30-0
Author: Lim Kit Siang
Publisher: Democratic Action party
Year: 2009
No of Pages:
Price: Price: MYR 15-00 (excluding postage cost)
Weight (english): 305 gms
Weight (chinese): 250 gms

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Demonstrasi Anti ISA di Kuala Lumpur (1 Ogos 2009)-Aljazeera

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Desa Mentari Di Mata Dunia

Dengan kerja-kerja yang tidak pernah lekang, tanpa disedari aku telah membawa Desa Mentari ke mata dunia melalui dokumentari yang ditayangkan saluran berita antarabangsa al-Jazeera.

Pada 3 Julai yang lalu, aku telah membawa siaran TV ini ke sebuah kawasan yang dibelenggu kesempitan akibat pembangunan yang tidak mampan. Sebenarnya, aku telah dipanggil oleh salah seorang produser di siaran TV itu untuk mencadangkan kepada mereka tempat yang sesuai dan mempunyai kesan yang besar akibat kenaikan harga petrol beberapa bulan lalu.

Secara serta-merta aku membuat perancangan utuk mereka dan mendapat sebauh keluarga di Blok 3, Desa Mentari untuk dipaparkan di dalam dokumentari mereka.

Aku bangun seawal 5 pagi untuk membawa penerbit, Ong Julin dan jurukamera Matthew Allard ke lokasi penggambaran.

Zopri mengisi minyak motor di stesen Petronas, Desa Mentari

Zopri yang dipaparkan di dalam rakaman tersebut terpaksa menjalankan beberapa kerja untuk menanggung keluarga mereka atas kesempitan kehidupan berpunca daripada kenaikan harga petrol.

Malangnya, aku tidak dapat mengikuti mereka untuk penggambaran sebelah petang kerana terpaksa bekejar ke tempat kerja lain.

Sebelum ini, pada 24 Februari 2008, aku pernah didatangi al-Jazeera untuk memaparkan kes pengundi hantu.....dan aku membawa seluruh krew ke Blok 2 Desa Mentari untuk rakaman mereka.

Alhamdulillah, isu yang aku bangkitkan menerusi al-Jazeera yang dirakamkan di Desa Mentari itu mendapat perhatian Ahli Parlimen untuk mendapat maklumbalas daripada Perdana Menteri.

Berikut ialah soalan yang akan dibentangkan dalam soalan lisan pada sessi yang akan bermula 18 Ogos hadapan:

Tuan Gwo-Burne Loh [ Kelana Jaya] minta PERDANA MENTERI menyatakan hasil daripada siasatan polis berkaitan dengan laporan yang dibuat oleh Sharmila Turaisingam pada 12 Januari 2008 bahawa beliau tidak pernah berdaftar sebagai pengundi tetapi namanya terdapat di dalam senarai pemilih di Kubang Kerian, Kelantan.


Rakaman juga dibuat di Glenmarie (gambar atas) di mana rumah pengudi hantu yang aku kenalpasti.

Aku diberitahu bahawa rakaman yang kami buat itu mendapat anugerah global.

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Aku berada di Aljazeera mulai hari ini (28 Feb)

Sila sebarkan tayangan kempen keADILan / BERSIH kepada semua.

Tayangan akan disiarkan di saluran Astro 513, Aljazeera melalui program 101 East.

Dalam tayangan ini, beberapa kes jelas wujudnya pengundi hantu di Parlimen Kelana Jaya (P104) dipaparkan.

Aljazeera bersama saya sendiri telah melawat kediaman-kediaman pengundi hantu dan terbukti hantu-hantu berkeliaran di Kelana Jaya.

Salah satu 'hantu', Sharmila Turaisingam juga telah tampil dan mengatakan bahawa beliau tidak rela kembar hantunya turun membuang undi di Kubang Kerian (namanya didaftarkan di Parlimen Kubang Kerian sungguhpun beliau tidak pernah menjejak kaki ke Kelantan).


Pasukan Aljazeera yang turun ke Kelana Jaya termasuk:

Berikut ialah waktu-waktu tayangan:

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Faisal in Al Jazeera

I was called for an interview in Al Jazeera News Network today.

The issues that I was asked to talk is about the mass rally, human rights and the people's power.

I was also told to report on the certain loopholes in the Elections Commissions (SPR).

While being interviewed by the Producer, Hywell Davies from the
English Language Channel

Trying to avoid nervousness

The airtime is on this coming Thursday (15th Nov, 2007 at channel 513 Astro)

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