My three questions (No.79 to No. 81 on the 27th day in the current series) to Transport Minister Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat on the RM12.5 billion Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) scandal today are:
Question No. 1: This is the end of the second week of Parliament, which will adjourn next Thursday on 2nd July following a two-day extension.
Ong, who had absconded to France for the Paris Air Show instead of being Parliament when it met on June 15 to give an accounting of the PKFZ scandal, has now put up a great show of his commitment to the principles of accountability, transparency and integrity by claiming that 300 copies of the PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) audit report and appendices on the PKFZ scandal have been sent to Parliament for MPs – but not a single MP whether from Barisan Nasional or Pakatan Rakyat has received it.
Ong may be trying to become a David Copperfield in Malaysian Parliament – conjuring up 300 sets of the PwC report and appendices which MPs cannot touch, see or read!
Is Ong so useless as Transport Minister, but good as Minister for Air Shows, that he could not even ensure that MPs and the media are instantly given copies of the PwC Report and Appendices?
Since I became a MP in 1969, I have not come across a more lame excuse than the one given by Ong that the PcW report and appendices have not been tabled in Parliament because it is up to the Parliament Secretary, Datuk Roosme binti Hamzah to decide how and when to table them in Parliament. No other Minister had ever used such an excuse because it is just silly and stupid.
If the Transport Minister today writes officially to the Parliament Secretary that the PwC report and appendices be tabled immediately for all MPs, Datuk Roosme would comply and the PwC report would be on the table of all MPs the next morning.
With his long years in Parliament and government, Ong could not be ignorant of this.
Why then he is going along with this charade that he is utterly powerless to decide whether the 300 copies of the PwC report and appendices on the PKFZ scandal is given to all MPs without any further delay, and that it is in the hands of the Parliament Secretary?
What is the use of being a Transport Minister when he is even powerless to ensure that MPs are immediately given copies of the PwC report and appendices?
The reason is simple. Ong wants the present arrangement to continue, which is that the 300 copies of the PwC report and appendices of the PKFZ scandal are not given to MPs until the end of the year, purportedly as part of the Public Accounts Committee report on PKFZ. This is because nobody expects any PAC report on PKFZ until the 35-day budget meeting of Parliament from Oct. 19 to Dec. 15, 2009.
My first question to Ong is whether he is so useless and powerless a Transport Minister that he cannot ensure that the 300 copies of PwC report and appendices on RM12.5 billion PKFZ scandal are tabled in Parliament on Monday instead of collecting dust till end of the year?
Question No. 2: I have yesterday submitted a motion to refer Ong to the Committee of Privileges for misleading Parliament in his eight-minute Ministerial statement (really a non-statement) on the PKFZ scandal on Monday, 22nd June 2009.
As Ong also accused me of misleading Parliament, has he submitted a motion to refer me to the Committee of Privileges?
Shall we jointly approach the Speaker, Tan Sri Pandikar Amin, to ask that both these motions of privilege be given top priority so that they are debated next Monday and that both motions, his and mine, be debated together?
Question No. 3: Former MCA President and Transport Minister, Datuk Seri (now Tun) Dr. Ling Liong Sik signed the first of four unlawful Letters of Support forcing the Cabinet in July 2007 to decide on a RM4.6 billion bailout of PKFZ which has now ballooned into a RM12.5 billion PKFZ scandal. Does Ong know why Ling signed the Letter of Support on May 28, 2002, which was his last act on his last day as Transport Minister? Did he ever ask Ling for the reason?
No wonder there are lots of redtape in the govt and parliament!!!
Aiyoyo OTK, just send softcopy and ask each MP to print their own!!! Like that also tak tau!!! Two things that OTK dont know how to do; this one he does not know and that one he does not know, too!!!
Who is the contractor that Ong Ta Kut used to print the 300 copies ? How much did this contractor charge ?
Kit:
Suggest you guys print a multi-lingual brochure on this scandal and distribute it via the PR parties. There are many folks in the rural areas who are unaware of this theft of public funds, and they have to be educated on this.
Did he ever ask Ling for the reason?
Can’t see the point of raising this question? What the different? They just do what they fancy as far as the money is not thiers and the tax payers’
YB Lim,you have been continueously shaking OTK especially his head so hard and harsh without a pause for days and weeks causing him to feeling pretty drowsy,plus french wine and jetleg,he’s now behaving like a fly dashing around aimlessly without a head. Please give the poor guy a break.Let him recuperate to gain his senses back .Hopefully in future he can ensure his “reveal all report” including his two predecessors who are responsible for the PKFZ 12.5 billion scandal.You know some psychology helps.
What a hopeless OTK. Oh dear, he can’t even handle a simple job! Is MCA so lack of competent people?
Perhaps, UMNO should do a poll to decide whether they should abandon MCA in BN coalition!
the reds, UMNO need not do any poll to see if MCA should get the hell out of BN. If only the unity government talks between UMNO and PAS have gone through, MCA and all the other non-Islamic parties in BN would have “scrambled” out without their shoes!
Anyone can see that crook OKT is deliberately using delaying tactics to slow down any investigation of that scam. By so doing, he is hoping that climate change comes early in 2010 with the sea swallowing up PKFZ so that there is nothing left to report.
This is because if they do not do so, MCA members would have to do three compulsory things:
1. Go for circumscision;
2. Go home and destroy their ancestral worship tablet;
3. Change their names immediately and maybe even MCA itself to MICA – Malaysian Islamic Chinese Association!
Ai-ya-yah, LKS
U are supposed to be like almost all ordinary Malaysians
Listen and then forget
Don’t u know, Malaysians mudah lupa
Not expected to be so persistent n cheong-hei
Keep asking one Q after another Q
LKS no know ah
BN people above law n no need to answer one
No wonder OTK said LKS no EQ n no otak lah
OTK, known by many as “the last conscience of MCA” is losing ground.
He cant deal with this great filth, no one can.
I sincerely thank Kit Siang and his team for this righteous, hot pursuit.
We deserve better.
1. Shouldn’t be any mechanism in Parliament to “Summon” the Minister to answer?
PLEASE MAKE YOUR QUESTIONS STRAIGHT TO THE POINTS on
a) What and How approvals had been sought from the Parliament, Cabinet or MOF or PM for all those different Budgets?
b) A full picture of how those 3.xx billion of fund being raiser? Under what kind of Guarantee?
c) WHEN and WHO had approved the soft-loan?
etc.
2. NOT ONLY MOT, BUT, ALSO MOF & PM SHOULD ANSWER. The Record of the Parliament should come up with what had been approved by the Parliament.PLEASE PUT THESE BASIC QUESTIONS OFFICIALLY TO ALL THESE PARTIES who has the obligations to answer IN WRITING.
ORAL DEBATE IS NO MORE SUFFICIENT ON SUCH A MATTER WITHOUT WRITING ANSWERS FROM ALL THOSE CONCERNED!!
IF NO ANSWER FROM THEM, THE PARLIAMENT SHOULD MOTION TO SUSPEND THOSE MINISTERS. OR, A VOTE OF CONFIDENCE TO PM.
3. A MOTION SHOULD AT LEAST BE RAISED TO SUSPEND ANY FURTHER FUNDING FROM MOF UNTIL ALL PENDING QUESTION OF THE LEGITIMACY OF THE PROJECT BEEN SOUGHT OUT!!
4. A) DID PARLIAMENT APPROVED THE PROJECTS WITH ALL THE FIGURES MENTIONED?
B) IF THEY WERE APPROVED WITH THE NECESSARY DETAILS? .
C) Did payment been made after “competent” certification” of job done?
5. What had happened is not showing OTK not performing, but also MOT, MOF, PM and even the Parliament are not performing.
ANYONE IN THE ADMINISTRATION IS WORKING??
OTK, known by many as “the last conscience of MCA”? Walaueh!
He is actually “the latest scoundrel of MCA”. He probably had a hand in the videotaping of dirty old Chua in that Muar hotel room.
Ha ha ha, there are really people calling him that, k1980.
But i guess it will soon be replaced by what you have suggested.
So …he should be Minister for Air Shows & Video Producer?
OTK,i tink CSL,ur deputy is more daring than u,u r rily a coward,if u dun hv any scandals for others’to withhold,wat r u afraid of?
u hv no bad backs for others’ to scratch,go ahead n tell everyone the facts about PKFZ scandal of the scandals!dun gv excuses n push ur duties to other ppl!!!
i m sick n ashamed by ur respond!