What Is Khir Toyo Up To?
Please read this report in the Sun today.
Ten days ago, Selangor Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Dr. Mohd Khir Toyo denied the Sun's front page report that one company will be given the exclusive rights to manage billboards in the state. His contention - the state did not want a monopoly.
The Sun can now reveal that the state government had not practised what it is preaching - 20 months earlier, it had entered into a monopolistic agreement with Bernam Kiara Sdn Bhd.
The documents in our possession reveal the following:
>> the State Executive Council (Exco) approved the deal at its weekly meeting on Jan 27, 2004.
So for the mentri besar to claim "No, there is nothing (on the privatisation of billboards)", we can prove him wrong and debunk what he said: I think this is theSun exco which has made a decision, not the Selangor Exco. I think theSun has its own exco to decide on the state of Selangor.
>> Initially the monopoly was restricted to the privatisation of maintenance and sponsorship of pedestrian bridges, gantries and signages.
The offer letter signed by Azizan Mohd Sidin of the privatisation section of the State Economic Planning Unit set out the specific terms and a concession of 15 years with an option to renew for another five years.
However, the state entered into an agreement where the company was given wider powers in relation to outdoor advertising.
>> On Jan 12 last year, the state signed a contract with Bernam Kiara for the "privatisation of maintenance, build and operate pedestrian walks, pedestrian bridges, gantries, road directional signs, overhead bridges and outdoor advertising in the whole state".
Therefore for Mohd Khir to claim that the state did not want a monopoly was erroneous because it had already entered into such a contract 20 months earlier.
The contract was signed by the then State secretary Datuk Ramlan Othman and his then deputy director for development Datuk Dr Abdul Munit Kasmin.
Bernam Kiara's signatories were its directors Abdul Rahman Shamsi and Aiman Firdaus Tan Abdullah.
The mentri besar may have not been aware if he had not attended that Exco meeting. Even copies of the offer letter were extended to only one Exco member - Datuk Mohd Mokhtar Ahmad Dahlan.
Perhaps the mentri besar's colleague can shed light on the matter and offer some explanation as to why Mohd Khir was kept in the dark - if he ever was in the first place.
>> Annual returns of RM30,000 per billboard and a licence fee of RM3,000. The licence fees is payable to the local authority, but to whom does the RM30,000 go to? The state government, the local authority or the sports clubs of local authorities?
Mohd Khir said that billboard companies can contribute to the local authorities voluntarily to various causes like sports development and the building of places of worship.
So, how much revenue had been derived from this contract which has been in existence since January last year?
**** What you have just read is a chronicle of blatant cheating and thievery in the highest levels of the Selangor government. The one which claims to be 'developed.' It speaks of the gay abandon with which elected leaders are robbing the people and stashing fortunes in remote places to serve them on a rainy day. It is a story of unlimited greed and betrayal of the citizen's trust.
For far too long this billboard charade has been going on and in the process many attempts to hoodwink the public have been made. However due to the diligence of journalists like R. Nadeswaran, supported by the Sun's editors, the cheats of the Selangor government have been exposed. But who is to take action against them? How do you deal with these thieves who now seem to be above the law? Quo Vadis Malaysia?
Ten days ago, Selangor Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Dr. Mohd Khir Toyo denied the Sun's front page report that one company will be given the exclusive rights to manage billboards in the state. His contention - the state did not want a monopoly.
The Sun can now reveal that the state government had not practised what it is preaching - 20 months earlier, it had entered into a monopolistic agreement with Bernam Kiara Sdn Bhd.
The documents in our possession reveal the following:
>> the State Executive Council (Exco) approved the deal at its weekly meeting on Jan 27, 2004.
So for the mentri besar to claim "No, there is nothing (on the privatisation of billboards)", we can prove him wrong and debunk what he said: I think this is theSun exco which has made a decision, not the Selangor Exco. I think theSun has its own exco to decide on the state of Selangor.
>> Initially the monopoly was restricted to the privatisation of maintenance and sponsorship of pedestrian bridges, gantries and signages.
The offer letter signed by Azizan Mohd Sidin of the privatisation section of the State Economic Planning Unit set out the specific terms and a concession of 15 years with an option to renew for another five years.
However, the state entered into an agreement where the company was given wider powers in relation to outdoor advertising.
>> On Jan 12 last year, the state signed a contract with Bernam Kiara for the "privatisation of maintenance, build and operate pedestrian walks, pedestrian bridges, gantries, road directional signs, overhead bridges and outdoor advertising in the whole state".
Therefore for Mohd Khir to claim that the state did not want a monopoly was erroneous because it had already entered into such a contract 20 months earlier.
The contract was signed by the then State secretary Datuk Ramlan Othman and his then deputy director for development Datuk Dr Abdul Munit Kasmin.
Bernam Kiara's signatories were its directors Abdul Rahman Shamsi and Aiman Firdaus Tan Abdullah.
The mentri besar may have not been aware if he had not attended that Exco meeting. Even copies of the offer letter were extended to only one Exco member - Datuk Mohd Mokhtar Ahmad Dahlan.
Perhaps the mentri besar's colleague can shed light on the matter and offer some explanation as to why Mohd Khir was kept in the dark - if he ever was in the first place.
>> Annual returns of RM30,000 per billboard and a licence fee of RM3,000. The licence fees is payable to the local authority, but to whom does the RM30,000 go to? The state government, the local authority or the sports clubs of local authorities?
Mohd Khir said that billboard companies can contribute to the local authorities voluntarily to various causes like sports development and the building of places of worship.
So, how much revenue had been derived from this contract which has been in existence since January last year?
**** What you have just read is a chronicle of blatant cheating and thievery in the highest levels of the Selangor government. The one which claims to be 'developed.' It speaks of the gay abandon with which elected leaders are robbing the people and stashing fortunes in remote places to serve them on a rainy day. It is a story of unlimited greed and betrayal of the citizen's trust.
For far too long this billboard charade has been going on and in the process many attempts to hoodwink the public have been made. However due to the diligence of journalists like R. Nadeswaran, supported by the Sun's editors, the cheats of the Selangor government have been exposed. But who is to take action against them? How do you deal with these thieves who now seem to be above the law? Quo Vadis Malaysia?
posted by The Malaysian. at 8/15/2006 12:28:00 PM
3 Comments:
Selangor has always been a Looter's Paradise since forever(16th century)!
Ask the Portugese, Dutch, British and of course the present Bugis descendents.
He should have been dropped ages ago instead of being a huge embarrassment to the leadership, ... assuming the leadership is embarrassed with such blatant lies.
biasa-lah. Its malaysian culture per se.
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