Now that the British East Herts Council had rejected the Malaysian government’s application to establish a RM70 million Sports High-Performance Training Centre (HPTC) at the Tun Abdul Razak Research Centre (TARRC) in Brickendonbury outside London, the siren proposal to appeal against the decision must be decisively resisted and struck down.
The Cabinet next Wednesday should just bury the idea of the RM70 million Brickendonbury Sports HPTC and establish an inquiry to ascertain who were responsible for the folly of wasting RM2 million in pursuing the project and who had really benefited.
The Council had publicly said that the Malaysian government had been consistently advised of the constraints in developing the Brickendonbury site due to the Green Belt policy, the site’s remoteness, the listed mansion and the historic park land. The Council had been doubtful about how outdoor sports facilities would assimilate satisfactorily and be accommodated within the historic garden landscape.
Why then was the Sports Minister, Datuk Azalina Othman and the Deputy Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak as Chairman of the Cabinet Committee on Sports, so stubborn in ignoring these objections to the extent of throwing RM2 million of public funds down the drain, when good governance and good sense would have advised against it?
The Brickendonbury Sports complex, originally costed at about RM490 million but later scaled down and projected to cost RM70 million, should be an object lesson as to how public funds should not be misspent and wasted.
YB Mr Lim,
This stubborness must have something to do with commissions since a percentage can be garnered for some reasons or other like they did to the various mega projects under the various ministries. This is one for the Youth and Sports.
To the PM, RM 2million is kacang saja. By increasing the price of petrol by 5osen alitre, he would be able to recover that RM 2million in a matter of minutes. Just like throwing away RM90 million to enable a village bum to tour space
The Government do not know how to spend the millions?
Instead of doing for the benefit of the rakyat, they prefer to spend it in far away place like Russia(sending a space tourist) or England.
These projects bebefit no one except the cronies.
Thank God, the project is rejected. The British Government is to be praised!!!
Stubborness??? Must be kidding…. Just some Umnoputras trying their luck in order to making millions and millions……
Just wondering, what are the RM2million spent on?
“Just wondering, what are the RM2million spent on?”
I would reckon on business class plane tickets to & fro to the UK…expenses while they were there (accomodation, makan2x, travelling, phone bills to report back to Pak Lah…)
Another case of abuse and mismanagement of the nation’s finance. There are too many of such sad and stupid stories happening in this country and it is a norm now.
That is how the local as well as the foreigners look at the government leaders and people of this country. Too bad. As ususal there will rhetorics to justify the wastages.
Shit! really? That can amount to RM2million?!?!?!?!
*jaw wide open in disbelief*
It is not a joy for the people do government-bashing in the media, but one depressing stories after another involving people’s money is driving the man-in-the-street up the wall literally.
“I would reckon on business class plane tickets to & fro to the UK…expenses while they were there (accomodation, makan2x, travelling, phone bills to report back to Pak Lah…)”
That can amount to RM2million?!?!?!?
*jaw dropped wide open in disbelief*
There have been indications in the beginning that the project will never be approved by the local council there and yet our so called experts still went ahead hoping for miracles. Maybe they thought that the local council there are corrupted!
Saya ingin menyatakan bahawa sokongan saya terhadap Ronnie Liu tidak bermaksud saya menyokong DAP dan pembangkang secara menyeluruh dan pada masa yang sama tidak bermaksud juga saya menyokong kerajaan. Sokongan peribadi kepada Ronnie Liu adalah disebabkan sokongan saya terhadap seorang invidu yang dianggap maha hebat , mulia dan baik.
Sebelum itu saya juga berharap Ronnie akan bertanding sama ada untuk kerusi Timbalan ataupun Naib Presiden DAP dalam pilihan raya parti akan datang. Kita sama – sama berdoa supaya harapan ini akan menjadi realiti. DAP perlukan Ronnie !
†Saya ingin meminta jasa baik bekas pelajar saya di Sekolah Kebangsaan La Salle Klang supaya menyeru rakan – rakan , ibu bapa dan saudara mara supaya undilah untuk Ronnie. Begitu juga dengan bekas pelajar di Pusat Tuisyen Skor A1 , MRC Centre dan kelas – kelas persendirian saya. Saudara – mara saya yang tinggal di sini. Ahli – ahli penyokong kelab SYA. Rakan – rakan di sekitar Klang. Bekas guru sekolah dan tuisyen. Akhirnya kepada semua yang mengenali saya di Klang. Sebarkan berita dan katakanlah Shen Yee Aun meminta dan juga merayu kepada semua supaya menangkan Tuan Ronnie Liu Thien Khiew di sini ! Para pembaca yang mengenali sesiapa di sini juga diharapkan dapat membantu memohon supaya kenalan di sini memangkah dan undi Ronnie kerana ini bukan soal perbezaan parti dan ideologi tetapi soal individu yang berintegriti dan baik maka penyokong kerajaan wajib menyokong Ronnie sekiranya mahukan janji yang mungkin tidak terlaksana oleh individu yang lainâ€Â
Ronnie Liu merupakan seorang yang mesra tetapi tegas dan adil dalam perjuangan beliau. Beliau sanggup mengenepikan harta dan kekayaan demi perjuangan yang jitu dan tulen. Saya pernah diberitahu pada zaman muda beliau pernah ada cubaan untuk membeli beliau tetapi tidak berjaya. Saya juga diberitahu oleh bekas calon Pandamaran saudara Tee Boon Hock yang menentang YB Teh Kim Poo dari MCA bahawa Ronnie liu ditawarkan oleh satu peluang pekerjaan ke China dan gaji itu bersamaan dengan RM 25 ribu sebulan tetapi Ronnie sanggup tinggalkan kekayaan material demi kemakmuran material masyarakat.
Setakat ini saya masih belum melihat ada orang yang betul – betul ingin berjaya dalam pilihan raya selain Ronnie. Mungkin ada tetapi mungkin saya tak berpeluang untuk melihat. Dalam kes Ronnie boleh saya katakan 6 bulan lepas beliau kerap datang ke sini dan hampir 2 kali seminggu ! Inilah pemimpin yang harus dicontohi oleh sesiapa sahaja. Begitulah pemimpin masyarakat yang akan bersama rakyat dan membantu sesiapa sahaja yang memerlukan sekiranya diberi peluang. Ronnie sememangnya ikhlas ingin berbakti.
Ronnie mempunyai jiwa yang amat besar dan sanggup melepaskan kawasan Parlimen yang pernah ditandingi oleh beliau 2 kali dan dilepaskan kepada seorang darah muda. Berani ramai yang sanggup melepaskan peluang sedemikian ?
Saya berani katakan versi Tian Chua di Parti Keadilan Rakyat tidak banyak beza dengan versi Ronnie Liu di DAP. Walaupun kedua – dua ini mempunyai ciri – ciri dan cara pembawaan yang amat berbeza tetapi persamaan mereka adalah dari segi dedikasi dan kerajinan yang ditunjukkan kepada parti dan masyarakat. Kita juga tak dapat nafikan Ronnie memiliki banyak keunikan yang mungkin tidak dimiliki oleh Tian Chua dan mana – mana pemimpin di negara ini.
Amat jarang sekali untuk bertemu dengan seorang legenda yang begitu rendah diri. Saya dapat lihat Ronniu sebagai seorang ahli politik yang berjiwa besar dan pada masa yang sama memiliki hati yang suci dan baik. Beliau menghormati adat dan agama orang lain dengan hati dan mentaliti yang terbuka. Kita perlukan lebih ramai pemimpin yang mempunyai matlamat dan hati yang suci dan bersih seperti Ronniu.
Mungkin saya dikaburi dengan imej baik yang cuma dipaparkan oleh beliau sebagai seorang ahli politik tetapi saya berani berkata amat sukar sekali seseorang ingin bermuka dua di depan saya. Bukan saya sombong tetapi pandangan dan mata saya biasanya adalah tepat. Tidak dapat dinafikan tiada manusia yang sempurna di dunia ini tetapi setakat ini dari segi sahsiah , keikhlasan dan dedikasi Ronnie dijamin tidak hiprokrit !
Ronnie sudah lama bertapak dalami dunia politik dan apatah lagi memainkan peranan yang penting dalam parti DAP. Malangnya beliau tidak pernah menang sehingga hari ini. Shen Yee Aun memberi sokongan penuh kepada Ronniu Liu dalam pilihan raya yang akan datang. Saya berharap masyarakat akan memberi peluang kepda beliau untuk membuktikan diri sendiri.
Saya menyokong Ronniu bukan disebabkan saya menyokong DAP. Biar hari ini Ronnie berada di dalam PAS , MCA , PKR , GERAKAN , mahupun calon bebas saya sokong Ronnie disebabkan saya percaya beliau ada hati yang suci untuk berkhidmat kepada masyarakat tanpa mengira kaum dan bangsa
Bukan mudah untuk kita berbicara dan berkawan dengan seorang legenda. Walaupun hanya sehari bersamanya ( 7 jam setengah ) bagaikan saya sudah mengenali dirinya untuk berbulan – bulan disebabkan beliau sememangnya seorang yang terbuka dan mesra.
Ronnie fasih dan mahir dalam menguasai pelbagai bahasa. Beliau merupakan seorang yang multilingual sama ada Mandarin , Inggeris , Melayu , Hokkien dan sebagainya. Seorang pemimpin yang kini turut menguasai dunia penulisan , blogging dan tidak buta IT. Seorang pemimpin yang tahu banyak tentang selok belok agama , sejarah , falsafah dan budaya dunia.
Ronnie merupakan salah seorang ahli DAP yang unik kerana mampu menjalinkan hubungna dengan sesiapa sahaja dalam kalangan pembangkan sama ada dalam kalangan DAP sendiri ataupun dengan pemimpin di sebelah yang merangkumni Parti Keadilan Rakyat dan PAS.
Keunikan Ronnie bertambah apabila beliau selalu bersetuju dengan saya supaya perjuangna DAP harus berubah dan DAP harus lebih banyak berusaha berjuang untuk masyarakat bukan cina khususnya Melayu dan India. Oleh itu , percayalah bahawa Ronnie bukanlah seorang yang bersifat perkauman dan sanggup berjuang sehingga akhir nafasnya untuk mana – mana pihak , agama , bangsa , warna , budaya dan jantina.
Keberanian yang ada pada Ronnie amat menakjubkan. Pahlawan sebeginilah yang kita perlukan untuk mengetuai sesuatu pasukan ataupun negara untuk berperang. Ronnie Liu tidak pernah tunduk kepada tekanan kuasa. Ronnie Liu sudah terkenal dengan dirinya yang lantang bersuara dan berani mengkritik demi pembaharuan dan kebaikan.
Walau sehebat mana Ronnie dalam DAP tetapi beliau tetap menghormati pejuang – pejuang dan ahli – ahli lama yang sudah lama berbakti. Ronnie sanggup tunduk dengan rendah diri dan meminta tunjuk ajar daripada mereka yang lebih tua daripadanya walaupun tidak semestinya mereka lebih bijak daripadanya. Saya sendiri menyaksikan apabila Ronnie membawa saya dan perkenalkan saya kepada golongan veteran DAP yang tidak pernah berjawatan dan berkuasa tetapi walaupun tidak memiliki apa – apa Ronnie tetap menghargai jasa dan bakti mereka. Jelas Ronnie menghormati golongan dan warga tua. Beliau berbudi bahasa dan berbudi perkerti !
Percayalah masyarakat bahawa Ronnie tidak akan berdiam diri sekiranya hak anda tercabar. Percayalah Ronnie tidak akan duduk bergoyang kaki apabila masyarakat memerlukan pertolongan dan bantuan. Percayalah Ronnie tidak akan leka dan tidur apabila menang dan dipilih. Percayalah Ronnie tidak akan lupa diri apabila berjaya dan dipuji ! Percayalah Ronnie tidak akan undur apabila ditekan.
Laman Blog beliau boleh didapati di Ronnie Liu Thien Kiew
Sesiapa yang hendak berkawan dengan beliau bolehlah email kepada Ronnie yang selalu terbuka untuk berkawan dan menjawab sebarang persoalan serta permasalahan di [email protected]. Seorang yang mudah dibawa berbincang. Sanggup mengorbakan masa demi membantu rakyat. Tidak pernah melihat kepada status , kedudukan , bangsa umur dan jantina.
Sesiapa yang ingin berbakti , membantu menolong Ronnie sama ada dari segi sokongan moral , tenaga , wang , masa , promosi dan apa bentuk sokongan bolehlah hubungi terus kepada saya. Segala sokongan yang bakal diberi adalah amat dihargai.Ingat buat baik berpada – pada dan buat jahat jangan sekali. Kita diseru supaya membantu mereka yang betul – betul layak memimpin.
Salah seorang pengunjung laman blog saya pernah memuji Ronnie di ruang komentar suatu ketika dahulu dan berbunyi †Ronnie memang seorang insan yg berjiwa besar dan rajin. Pernah saya bangkitkan nama Ronnie kpd Guan Eng. Guan Eng juga menyanjung semangat Ronnie and kefasihan beliau sebagai seorang multi lingua. â€Â
Sebenarnya kehebatan dan kebaikan Ronnie tidak dapat dihuraikan dengan hanya menulis dan sekiranya menulis mungkin sebuah buku yang beratus – ratus muka suratnya tebalnya hanya mampu menonjolkan kewibawaan beliau. Sebenarnya banyak lagi yang ingin yang berkongsi dengan semua tetapi tidak mampu. Cuma ingin saya ingatkan sendiri berkawan dengan Ronnie. Sendiri turun padang dan lihat cara Ronnie berjuang dan berkerja dan lebih penting menangkan Ronnie dan lihat dengan mata sendiri apa Ronnie boleh buat.
Para pembaca yang membaca rencana ini makalah marilah kita bersama – sama mendoakan kemenangan Ronnie dalam pilihan raya akan datang . Marilah kita berdoa supaya kekuatan dan semangat yang kental bersama Ronnie. Kita berdoa supaya rakyat akan turun beramai – ramai mengundi dan juga menyokong Ronnie dalam apa jua bentuk sokongan. Kita berdoa suapya Ronnie akan menang dan berjaya menjadi seorang wakil rakyat dan berdedikasi , mulia dan baik.
SHEN YEE AUN sanggup memberi jaminan segala janji di sini adalah dijamin benar dan bukannya janji manis seorang ahli politik. Kalau Ronnie tidak seperti yang dikatakan oleh saya maka carilah saya kerana saya yang memberi jaminan Ronnie adalah antara yang betul – betul unik , terunggul dan terbaik.
Penulisan saya mungkin timbul keraguan daripada kalangan pembaca. Apa yang saya dapat dan apa yang Ronnie Liu beritahu. Ingin saya tegaskan apa pun tak dapat. Ronnie sendiri tidak tahu saya menulis rencana ini dan saya selaku bekas Presiden 5 buah kelab , Pengerusi Pengelola lebih daripada 50 program , Penasihat Kelab Pemimpin SYA , wakil kempen pemenang One In A Million Suki Low Sook Yee , antara pengasas awal Kelab Supersukis , Pengurus Kempen calon ASPIRASI pilihan raya kampus dan berjaya menewaskan Presiden Fakulti , Johan dan Pendebat terbaik Bahasa Melayu Universiti Malaya dan banyak lagi sendiri secara individu mengiktiraf kepimpinan Ronnie Liu tanpa disuruh , dibayar ataupun dipujuk.
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Why make so much noise about a tiny sum of RM2 million? Not even enough to build a palatial mansion like ‘bang Zakaria or to buy a Ferrari. Voters must understand the needs of elected Umnoputras, who have to have gaya to represent voters. Tsk, tsk.
They had taught that since anything can be done in Malaysia, they could use the same with the British East Herts Council forgetting that this council was in UK, not Malaysia.
I am really sad to the point of crying because our country has come to this pathetic state.
It is totally illogical and insane to say the least to have a Malaysian sports center outside of Malaysia. What purpose does it serve? None that I could think of.
Why do we need to send our sportsmen to Britain when the facilities here are just as good?
This is total madness!!!
Wouldn’t the cost of training increase exponentially with the high currency rate and living standards of Britain?
Let’s be frank about this matter. It is nothing but a daylight robbery about to happen. People who initiate this idea has only one thing in mind – $$$$$$$$$$
I dare bet till my last underwear that IF, IF the sports center in Britain materialized, it would cost a bomb!! At least 500 million hard earned Malaysian ringgit.
An eventually it will become a god-damned white elephant.
So in the end, who benefits?
You know , I know larrrrrr!!!!!!!
STOP STEALING OUR MONEY YOU SHAMELESS, IMMORAL, GREEDY MINISTERS!!!!!!!
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from it cost us 102 million to send space boy from bolehland
now we just wasted 2 million…all went to the drain…
thank you BN…thanks UMNO…instead of helping the poor u’re helping the rich…no wonder the outskirts of our country can’t be developed….
develope our outskirts people instead of wasting public funds…
wonder how many minkeys are there in BN…or maybe all monkeys!!!
thx BN…
His Majesty Said no…
The garentee may not be there, but our struggle still stays, we will still do our best, we really need a better tomorrow for the people, for the children, for the nation…
YB LIM,
Keep up the good work, a lot of people look up to you…
The govt thinks that everybody has a price.
This episode reflects the govt’s despicable lack of respect for community planning as seen in Malaysia. They won’t hesitate to build intrusive structures in the playgrounds or enchroaching on forest reserves, or cutting down age-old landmark trees in towns across the country. They think that it can do likewise in other countries with total disregard for the interest of other communities.
this could have been used in fuel subsidy you BRIGHT BRIGHT leaders.
2 MIL can produce 4 doctors
2 MIL can buy lots of milk for babies
2 MIL can help the poors
2 MIL can help to cut kolo mee by 50 cents per bowl
2 MIL can allow SIO BEE to be F.O.C
WHY DRAIN THE MONEY AWAY?!?!?! blithering idiots!!!!!!
Can someone total the amount of millions of ringgit by projects the govt. has wasted.
The above amount of wastage should exclude the whatever subsidies given to the bumiputras.
Believe me,the amount will be enormous when combined together.
You see.we are a rich country being sucked to bankruptcy by the Umnoputras and yet these idiots do not give a damn about the country.
It must have been more than 2 years ago when none other than Sekhar Mr. Rubber of Malaysia has said publicly that a sport complex cannot be put up at the Tun Abdul Razak Research Centre and he should know having been Director of RRI for a long time and closely associated with Tun Razak Research Centre.And yet this Azalina l…… kept at it for the last 3 years in spite of protests from public, wasting public money along the way.
Why? In spite all the valid and powerful reasons put up by citizen Nades Azalina persisted.There could only be 1 reason ie she wants big projects as well for her ministry. After all not like other
ministries project like this is hard to come by!
The sad part is that it takes a foreign governance body to help the Malaysian rakyat to save its hard earned tax ringgit.
its been their way of life for too long…these scumbags think they can buy away with anything as they hv always done so.2 million is just like 2 dollars to them cos its not their own money they are spending on.they want to be above the rest …even the law.what we hv known here are only a friction of those monies they hv swindled…wat abt those really under the carpet and those gelap gelap ones that we dunno.just imagine that idiot who built that mansion…how on earth cud he amassed such wealth to build such a luxurios and worse he did it without a permit and got away with it so lightly.why nobody is doing anything abt that?who doesnt wan a piece of those big “cakes” once they got the opportunity in the administration.its just like a culture to them.any idiot cud see whether any of those projects they hv spent on so far hv really benefited us malaysians.just look at the way they spend the money….so much has been unaccounted for….whr in the hell those scumbags really korek?whn wiil it be enough for them?do they expect us to be idiots and we people hv to bear for what the damage they hv brought unto us people of malaysia?and yet these scumbags are so adamant and wanna pursue with this “high performance” sports center.yeah right….70 million at first…thn at the end of the day the same reasons will come and the stupid whole thing will boom to hundreds of millions.wanna bet it wont happen?why in the hell do we need a “high performance” sports center for?pasal muka ka?damn these scumbags…they dun think and they cudnt care less with how they spend.damn and i had to work so hard for my money.you think they ever bothered how we malaysians are protesteing the stupid things they do?no way….they are only thinking of how to korek more and more.once greed creeps in….they wont hv any conscience of who u are.thats how things are in the government today.mr pm…either u hv been sleeping over ur job for too long or u dun hv that credibility at all to lead malaysia.ur SIL is not a born leader so dun push it too hard.its not his time yet.let him grow and take his time to get to knw wat we malaysians are made of.u cant be a leader whn u dun even understand ur own people.
ps: “own people” means including every other single race of this mother land.
“…where in the hell those scumbags really korek?”
Maybe we should ask V.K. Lingam?
wasting tax payer money.. —-> “tak apa”..not the minister own poket money…i bet some minister don’t ever pay income tax..!!
Forget Y tax. They don’t even pay alimony, child support etc to their three wives they kicked out to create new slots for the new ones!
RM 2 million to pursue an opportunity that could have ultimately cost RM 490 million to the taxpayers ? That’s a no-brainer for the den of thieves. The bigger the contracts the bigger the commissions. After all, we bought second hand submarines for a lot more – and for what ?
DPM Najib should have engaged the powerful American Jewish Lobby to get the project approved. Just spend more millions, the Jewish Lobby (JL) is very influential in US & Europe, and for that matter in the whole world.
If Najib does not spend the budget for the project yet, he will not let up. Instead of wasting more unnecessary money on getting the approval from the Council, JL will be sure bet.
Bloomberg 14 Nov :
Multiracial Malaysia gives ethnic Malays preferential treatment in government contracts, housing and company ownership. Malaysian ministers rejected Rommel’s comments in June that these policies have resulted in protectionism in areas including automobiles, agriculture and services. Only Pakistan and Japan have signed bilateral trade accords with Malaysia.
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They should have taken this excuse of a project to Paki or Jepun that subscribe to their practice.
Anyone how we spend annualy to maintain the Tun Razak Research Centre? Most of them are english!!! Maybe YB Lim should post this question to YB Peter Chin
How much is the running of TARRC costing Malaysia annually? Why does Malaysia need a rubber research facility in the UK? And why does it need to be located by a listed mansion, with a staff of almost 100 people, with probably substantial annual running expenses? Why can’t such facilities by located in Malaysia, what are the advantages of NOT having such facilities closer to their source?