Gag Order = Conventional Practice of Pakatan Rakyat?

Below is the message of MCA Perak secretary Datuk Tan Chin Meng

DAP, along with Pakatan Rakyat claims to champion openness and transparency. However, when the infighting between DAP and PAS spilled over to the public domain, thereby negating their chances of depending many seats, issuing gag orders become the standard 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.

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.