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| Opposition urges declassification of cabinet papers on PKFZ |
| Written by Sharon Tan | |||
| Thursday, 05 November 2009 23:12 | |||
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William Leong (Selayang-PKR) said the public wanted to know the content of the letters and notes that resulted in the cabinet making the decision to purchase the land for the project. "If we are going to focus on Tan Sri Chan Kong Choy and Datin Paduka O C Phang, then we will not have the full picture. "We need the government to declassify the documents and see who made the decision to buy the land," he said at a press conference at Parliament lobby today. Meanwhile, Lim Lip Eng (Segambut-DAP) questioned the PKFZ occupancy status, as Appendix 17 of the PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) positioning review revealed that most buildings and infrastructure in the project have yet to receive the certificate of fitness (CF). "Out of the 19 buildings there, only one has CF. If PKFZ is unfit for occupancy then how can the government solicit investment?" he asked. Lim also wanted the government to freeze Chan's and Phang's assets, locally and abroad, since the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) had recommended that the duo be investigated for criminal breach of trust. Lim Kit Siang (Ipoh Timur-DAP) said the PAC report had inadvertently revealed the ongoing high-level conspiracy to suppress pertinent information about ministerial and top government abuses of power and malpractices that landed the country with a RM12.5 billion "mother of all scandals". "The Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, the Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin and the Cabinet are all putting up a great pretense as if they are learning about the abuses of power, criminal breach of trust, illegalities and improprieties in various aspects of the PKFZ scandal for the first time when most of this information had been in their possession for quite some time," said Kit Siang. He said PAC should also issue a damning report against the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) and the police for failing in their duties to uphold the law. "For if the government is really serious as claimed by Najib and Muhyiddin in wanting to get to the bottom of the PKFZ scandal, the various errant personalities would already have been hauled to court and standing trial for a multitude of criminal offences. "But even up to now, the government is still continuing with the conspiracy of pretences, presenting a front as if they knew nothing about the various revelations in the PAC report and that the Special Task Force into the PKFZ scandal recently set up by the cabinet and headed by the chief secretary would work on the revelations of the PAC report," said Kit Siang. He said Chief Secretary Tan Sri Mohd Sidek Hassan, who is now heading the Special Task Force on the PKFZ scandal, was directed by the cabinet in June 2007 to conduct an inquiry as to how the Letters of Support could have been issued unlawfully and to take the necessary disciplinary actions against the culprits. "The chief secretary should explain why this had not been done for more than two years. Why didn't PAC summon the chief secretary to report on the status of such investigations since June 2007?" asked Kit Siang.
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