When taxpayers funds are at stake, another gag order is the standard order of the day from Pakatan
DAP, along with Pakatan Rakyat claims to champion openness and transparency. However, as DAP’s and PAS infighting spill over to the public domain, thereby negating their chances of defending many seats, issuing gag orders become the order of the day!
However, what is more harmful is DAP’s act of not ordering investigation into matters that affect public interest especially concerning possible practices of nepotism on awarding projects in exchange for favours.
Perak
DAP stalwart Lim Kit Siang was hasty to instruct a gag order on the issue of DAP vice chairman Kulasegaran giving DAP secretary Nga Kor Ming a dressing down over his wife’s company Ethan and Elton Sdn Bhd awarded the tender to tailor lounge suits for Ipoh city councillors despite offering the highest quotation of RM650 over Goodman Tailor’s RM450. A more interesting point which must be alerted is that Ethan and Elton was registered with the Companies Commission Malaysia barely 42 days after Pakatan formed the Perak government.
These public monies could have been better saved if the tender had been awarded to the lowest bidder but expectedly, Kit Siang would rather this fact be wrapped away from public scrutiny.
Penang
Failure by DAP 3-men panel comprising DAP life adviser Dr Chen Man Hin, advisor Lim Kit Siang and Secretary General Lim Guan Eng to launch any internal probe into Penang Deputy Chief Minister II Dr R. Ramasamy’s allegations for projects and favours demanded from DAP grassroots point to DAP wanting to wash their hands off any responsibility on possible cronyism occurring which involve public funds.
Earning a rebuke from his own DAP state assemblyman for Seri Delima R.S.N. Rayer who remarked that “people are looking at us as if we are no longer the competent, accountable and transparent (CAT) government we’ve claimed to be.” If DAP top honchos are deaf to the pleas of their own members to come clean, the welfare of the rakyat who do not have any contact whatsoever with Pakatan rakyat elected representatives will be given a worse rebuff.
In both cases, these are not personal funds being used but taxpayers’ hard earned salaries which are being utilized for practices that warrant further probe. Thus, not only should DAP launch internal probes if there were any power abuse by the state top administrators, the police and MACC also should be called in to pre-empt any accusations that DAP internal investigations are influenced by personal bias.
Other examples of DAP gag orders on matters involving public interests or funds
The recent cases in Penang and Perak are not the only cases where DAP leaders had sought to muzzle the speech and hearing of party members.
In Selangor, when Selangor exco Ronnie Liu’s letterheads and office seal were misused as support letters by a former Klang councillor and released to obtain businesses for his family and friends. But Karpal then ordered every DAP members to cease talking to the media. Despite calls for Ronnie’s sacking, he remains in office.
Also in Penang, it is well known that Penang state chief of staff Jeff Ooi are at logger heads with each other over the allocation of low-medium cost public housing. But Chief Minister Guan Eng stepped into the fray and directed that no DAP members speaks to the press. Meanwhile, the low-medium cost unit recipient namelist is still not properly disclosed.
Datuk Tan Ching Meng
MCA Perak Secretary
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