Five things from the PAC PKFZ report

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 5 — The 28-page report by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) into the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) scandal that was tabled in Parliament yesterday is an education tool for all Malaysians.

In fact, it should be required reading for all Malaysians, for it lifts the veil of secrecy surrounding the government and this scandal of all ages; and it tells us much about our leaders and the workings of the Cabinet.

Here are the five things learnt from the report.

1) Veteran Opposition leader Lim Kit Siang is prone to occasional bouts of hyperbole but he is spot on when he accuses the country’s top leadership of collusion in the PKFZ scandal and of being great actors.

More than 80 per cent of the current Cabinet knew of the problems related to the PKFZ long before the rest of the country got a whiff of the stench of wrongdoing, negligence, and incompetence. They knew that former Transport Minister Datuk Seri Chan Kong Choy overstepped the boundaries by issuing three letters of support to facilitate fund-raising for the project. - + selanjutnya

Five things from the PAC PKFZ report