Sabtu, 16 Jun 2012

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Philosophy Politics Economics


Parliamentary Questions 2012 (II)

Posted: 16 Jun 2012 07:29 PM PDT


Below are the set of 15 questions I've submitted to Parliament for the current on-going sitting.

Oral Answer Questions:

1. Tony Pua minta Perdana Menteri menyatakan terma-terma Lebuhraya Pantai Barat (WCE) termasuk anggaran tol yang akan dikenakan dan pulangan kepada pihak konsesi mengikut jangkaan kos pembinaan sebanyak RM7.1 bilion.

2. Tony Pua minta Perdana Menteri menyatakan
(a)   sebab Maju Expressway (MEX) akan diberikan kebenaran untuk menjual konsesi Lebuhraya KL-Putrajaya kepada EP Manufacturing Bhd
(b)   sama ada kerajaan boleh mengambil-alih MEX dengan kos RM400 juta mengikut perjanjian konsesi

3. Tony Pua minta Perdana Menteri menyatakan sebab pemindahan Pengkalan Tentera Udara Diraja Malaysia dari Sungai Besi ke Sendayan dan lain-lain tempat memakan kos sebanyak RM2.7 bilion, jauh melebihi nilai tanah Sungai Besi RM1.6 bilion yang dijual kepada 1MDB

4. Tony Pua minta Perdana Menteri menyatakan
(a)   sebab 1MDB menambahkan pinjaman kepada 1MDB-PetroSaudi Limited sebanyak US$500 juta (Mac 2010) dan US$200 juta (Mei 2011)
(b)   kedudukan kewangan PetroSaudi International yang memberikan jaminan kepada pinjaman oleh 1MDB-PetroSaudi Limited sebanyak US$1.9 bilion

5.  Tony Pua minta Perdana Menteri menyatakan
(a)   asas penilaian semula hartanah 1MDB daripada RM194 juta kepada RM1.02 bilion atau 426% dalam jangkamasa 1 tahun sahaja untuk merekodkan keuntungan RM544 juta
(b) lokasi dan deskripsi hartanah tersebut

6. Tony Pua minta Menteri Kewangan menyatakan
(a)   kedudukan siasatan Suruhanjaya Sekuriti ke atas kes RBTR Asset Management Bhd. (RBTR) yang melibatkan kehilangan RM13.5 juta sejak Ogos 2009
(b)   sebab tindakan tidak diambil ke atas pihak pengarah RBTR yang meluluskan dan menjual produk pelaburan tersebut kepada orang awam

7.  Tony Pua minta Menteri Kewangan menyatakan kedudukan siasatan Securities Commission ke atas saham Supercomnet Technologies Bhd yang melibatkan anak Perdana Menteri Mohd Nazifuddin menandatangani perjanjian option membeli saham syarikat tersebut dan selepas it menolak option tersebut dalam jangka masa 48 jam

8.  Tony Pua minta Menteri Kewangan menyatakan
(a)   jumlah pinjaman korporat merentasi kumpulan syarikat yang dikawal-milik Tan Sri Syed Mokhtar al-Bukhary dan sama ada Bank Negara mengambilkira risiko sistemik disebabkan pinjaman tersebut
(b) institusi kewangan yang terdedah kepada pinjaman beliau dan nilai kepada setiap satu

9.  Tony Pua minta Perdana Menteri menyatakan
(a)   sebab nilai saksama pelaburan anak syarikat yang tidak disebut Ekuiti Nasional Bhd. (Ekuinas) dapat meningkat RM163 juta dalam 2011 walaupun prestasi kewangan (EBITDA) syarikat-syarikat tersebut merosot
(b)   unjuran kewangan yang menjadi asas kepada pernilaian tersebut

10.  Tony Pua minta Perdana Menteri menyatakan punca wang dividen sebanyak RM1.69 bilion yang diperuntukkan kepada peneroka Felda sempena penyenaraian Felda Global Ventures Holdings (FGVH) di Bursa Malaysia.

Written Answer Questions:

11. Tony Pua minta Perdana Menteri menyatakan
 (a)   sama ada tanah FELDA sebanyak 340 ribu hektar yang diuruskan Felda Plantations Sdn Bhd akan diuruskan oleh FGVH sekarang
(b)   kadar harga pajakan tanah FELDA tersebut yang dicaj kepada FGVH dibandingkan dengan harga pajakan pasaran purata untuk ladang kelapa sawit

12.  Tony Pua minta Menteri Pengangkutan menyatakan sebab Lembaga Pelabuhan Kelang (LPK) masih membayar pemegang bon Kuala Dimensi Sdn Bhd sebanyak RM733 juta dalam 2011 walaupun litigasi berterusan sebanyak RM1.6 bilion terhadap KDSB atas pelanggaran kontrak dan lain-lain

13. Tony Pua minta Menteri Pendidikan menyatakan
(a) sebab kemerosotan prestasi pelajaran Malaysia yang dikemukakan oleh laporan terkini Program International Student Assessment (PISA) 2009+ dan The International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2007
(b) kos yang dibayar kepada konsultan untuk "Education Review" dan sebarang retainer yang dikenakan

14. Tony Pua minta Perdana Menteri menyatakan
(a)   kedudukan pembangunan Taman Industri Minyak, Gas dan Logistik Tanjong Agas sejak diumumkan pada tahun 2009
(b)   jumlah, terma dan status pinjaman Tanjong Agas Supply Base and Marine Services Sdn Bhd daripada institusi kewangan Malaysia

15. Tony Pua minta Menteri Pengangkutan menyatakan
(a) sebab syarikat Itali, ENAV, diberikan peluang menawar untuk menjadi perunding kawalan trafik udara KLIA walaupun ENAV sedang disiasat atas tuduhan rasuah
(b) jumlah kos terkini bagi pembangunan Lapangan Terbang KLIA2

Sale of Maju Expressway Scuppered?

Posted: 16 Jun 2012 06:15 PM PDT

No nod for Maju Expressway sale, Putrajaya tells Parliament
By Shannon Teoh June 14, 2012


KUALA LUMPUR, June 14 — The controversial RM1.7 billion sale of the Maju Expressway (MEX) appears to be scuppered for now after the federal government said it had not approved the sale of the concession held by Maju Holdings.

The Prime Minister's Department said in a written reply to a parliamentary question by Petaling Jaya Utara MP Tony Pua (picture) yesterday that no permission has been given for the deal due to "several policy matters related to this highway concession that must be studied by the government."

"The government has never given permission in relation to the proposal for the sale of the KL-Putrajaya Highway to EP Manufacturing Berhad (EPMB)," it said.

Maju Holdings had hoped to walk away with RM668 million in profit.
[Tony: It's RM1.09 billion in profit!]
But the DAP publicity chief told The Malaysian Insider that "while it appears the deal is off, the answer only says it has not but does not say it will not give approval."

EPMB had in March entered into an acquisition agreement with Maju Holdings to acquire MEX for RM1.15 billion and also assume debts totalling RM550 million, valuing the deal at a total cost of RM1.7 billion.

This would allow Maju Holdings, controlled by Tan Sri Abu Sahid Mohamed, to walk away with a "whopping" return of RM668 million, taking into account that the construction cost of RM1.3 billion was offset by a huge government grant of RM976 million.

MEX is 96.8 per cent owned by Maju Holdings, in which Abu Sahid controls a 91 per cent stake.

The opposition had promised the same month to buy back the MEX concession if it took over federal power after a coming general election and later called the deal a "rape" of taxpayers perpetrated by Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad while he was still prime minister.

Pua had said the concession agreement was awarded "on a silver platter" to Abu Sahid in 1997 and revised in 2003 just prior to Dr Mahathir's retirement.

"The rape of Malaysian taxpayers which made a billionaire out of Abu Sahid... is simply outrageous and unacceptable because out of his 'profit', RM976.7 million was paid for by Malaysian taxpayers," he said, referring to the grant which was worth 74 per cent of the RM1.32 billion construction cost.

Pua said it was the former Umno president who made the decision to offer the RM976.7 million grant instead of a loan, allowing Abu Sahid to cash out quickly.

EC Powerful or Powerless?

Posted: 11 Jun 2012 12:20 AM PDT

EC indeed has power to reject registration, says DAP
Kuek Ser Kuang Keng
1:39PM Jun 6, 2012

DAP today attempted to prove that contrary to the Election Commission's (EC) earlier claim, the panel actually has the power to reject the registration of voters with incomplete or inaccurate details.

During a press conference held at the party's headquarters this morning, DAP parliamentary leader Lim Kit Siang and national publicity secretary Tony Pua (right) furnished the party's records that showed voter registration forms submitted to the commission had been rejected due to various reasons.

These reasons include the addresses given by the voters were different from the addresses recorded in their MyKad, voters did not state their religion in the forms or they had given a different religion from the one recorded in their MyKad.

Those forms were submitted to the state EC office last year by DAP assistant registrars appointed by the EC.

"They told us the forms were incomplete so they were rejected, so it is within their power to do so," Tony said.

"Hence the comment made by the EC chairperson Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof was completely reckless. He was trying to defend the indefensible action of registering dodgy voters to support the government."

Pua was referring to Abdul Aziz's statement to Malaysiakini yesterday that the commission has no right to reject the registration of voters with incomplete and dubious addresses as long as they are in the records of the National Registration Department (NRD).

If these registrations receive no objection from local residents and are subsequently gazetted, whatever critics have to comment would have no effect unless the voters themselves applied for changes, Abdul Aziz added.

Abdul Aziz was asked to comment on political researcher Ong Kian Ming's recent findings that many new voters registered by a government agency (not the EC) have code 71 in their identity numbers but without house numbers and street names.

Code 71 indicates that those voters were born outside of Malaysia.

The lack of complete addresses make it difficult for political parties to trace these voters and verify if they are valid voters in the areas they are registered.

Ong further raised the question whether these dubious voters were given identity cards by the NRD to vote in the election.

Election Commission - BN Colludes to Cheat

Posted: 08 Jun 2012 09:22 PM PDT

'EC-BN collusion clear in snub S'gor call'
Kuek Ser Kuang Keng
2:39PM Jun 6, 2012

The DAP sees "clear evidence of collusion" between the Election Commission (EC) and the BN, based on calls to the public to snub the Selangor government's voter verification exercise.

"There can't be clearer evidence of collusion between the EC and the BN especially Umno," said DAP national publicity secretary Tony Pua at a press conference this morning.

"It is completely illogical because the EC should be thanking the Selangor government for cleaning up the electoral roll for them ... (instead) the EC is defending a dirty electoral roll... If the electoral roll is clean, why are they so afraid of our cleaning exercise?"

Pua was responding to EC deputy chairperson Wan Ahmad Wan Omar's advice to voters not to cooperate with the Selangorku Bersih campaign, as he is worried this may "create uneasiness".

Wan Ahmad reportedly said the public have the right to decide whether or not they want to show their MyKad to campaign workers, and advised against handing over the document too easily.

He was echoing Selangor Umno deputy chief Noh Omar's stance that the campaign amounts to abuse of power as only the EC has the authority to verify voters' identity.

Selangor Menteri Besar Khalid Ibrahim (left in photo) had recently launched the campaign, which is mobilising civil servants and village development and security committee members to clean up the electoral roll.

They will conduct house-to-house visits to verify the identity of voters registered at the addresses and raise objections should they fail to locate the voters.

This is in response to the discovery of a spike in the number of voters in the state.  

Pakatan Rakyat has alleged that this may involve irregularities and fraud, including the registration of foreigners as voters, and the transfer of voters into the state.

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