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| Paul Low invited to sit on PKA board |
| Politics & Government 2009 | |||
| Written by Sharon Tan | |||
| Tuesday, 04 August 2009 00:03 | |||
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PKA chairman Datuk Lee Hwa Beng, who chaired the PKA board meeting yesterday, said Low was not a board member but would sit in as a member and could give opinions. Last week, Transport Minister Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat suggested that a representative of TI-M be given a seat on the PKA board for six months to ensure the recommendations of the Ad Hoc Committee on Administration and Corporate Governance headed by Low were followed through. Lee also said Paul Chan, who is the secretary-general of the Malaysian Institute of Corporate Governance, would attend meetings in Low's absence. Chan was also a member of the Ad Hoc Committee. PKA is also looking to fill four other board seats, two of which are for independent directors. The board currently has six members including Lee. PKA general manager Kee Lian Yong is on the board by virtue of his position. Lee said PKA was open to suggestions and would like to appoint persons with good industry knowledge but would not discount the possibility of Low filling one of the independent director seats. Asked if the board also discussed a seat for the Selangor state government representative, Lee said the matter was discussed in the previous board meeting. The Selangor government recently recommended Seri Andalas assemblyman Dr Xavier Jeyakumar for a PKA board seat. Previously, Selangor was represented by a representative of the deputy state secretary. Xavier was rejected because the the deputy state secretary was already on the board. The Selangor government has since withdrawn the deputy state secretary from the PKA board and the seat has remained vacant. "There is no provision that there must be a representative from the state. This is a federal agency. The Ministry of Transport decides who sits on the board," said Lee. The PKA board also agreed yesterday to allow the Auditor-General to send a senior staff member to sit on the PKA audit committee. Asked if the board planned to take action against its past board members who were said to be negligent for failing to discharge their fiduciary duties, Lee said: "We discussed but we think we should wait for the outcome from the taskforce. The taskforce has to give their report to PKA and the Minister of Transport by Aug 10." The taskforce was set up on June 10 to look into the legal and financial side of matters which arose from the Port Klang Free Zone fiasco. Lee said Kee had been tasked with studying all the recommendations put forward by the Ad Hoc Committee in order to "jive" with PKA's existing procedures.
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