The twist and turn in the PKFZ fiasco worries Najib....

The RM12.5 billion Port Klang Free Zone financial debacle took a fresh twist after news leaked alleging that the cabinet had been kept apprised of the massive cost over-runs and may have thereby even given its tacit approval.The shocking revelation has forced Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak into damage control mode. He has ordered the police to immediately investigate the security lapse.

"Anyone who exposes cabinet papers will be subjected to police investigations and action under the Official Secrets Act will depend on the investigations," Najib told reporters late on Friday.

Meanwhile, Deputy Inspector-General of Police Ismail Omar confirmed a probe has begun.

“We are investigating to find out who is responsible for exposing information on the cabinet paper,” he said.

Earlier this week, copies of an 18-page memorandum submitted by the Finance Ministry to the cabinet made the rounds in cyberspace after top anti-government blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin exposed the document on his website. The crux of the memorandum was to seek the cabinet’s retrospective endorsement for a RM4.6 billion government loan to cover the huge over-expenditure in the PKFZ project, which originally was due to cost only RM1.8 billion.

Coincidentally, Raja Petra’s blog has been blocked the past couple of days, with regulator Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission refusing to comment when asked if it had been instructed to do so.

“Has it anything to do with the RM12.5 billion PKFZ documents including cabinet papers, onbillion Port the website in the past three days?,” asked opposition stalwart Lim Kit Siang.

PKFZ is an integrated 1,000 acre commercial and industrial zone located adjacent to the national gateway and transhipment hub in Port Klang. It is the government’s largest port investment ever. However due to massive cost overruns that independent auditors have blamed on weak governance and questionable practice, the original development budget has ballooned multiple folds and and could hit RM12.5 billion if funding undertaken for the project is not revamped soon.

source:malaysian mirror

Najib said the investigation was not to deny the peoples' right to information but the act of exposing the cabinet paper on the Internet was unacceptable. But, the act of not disclosing the real culprits behind the heist that blew the PKFZ scandal out of proportion is also unacceptable.

Najib arah polis menyiasat penyebaran dalam internet rahsia Kerajaan berhubung Skandal Rasuah dalam PKFZ yang termuat dalam blog Raja Petra. Kini blog Raja Petra dikatakan sama ada disekat atau digodam. Sejak dokumen rahsia itu bocor, ribuan pelayar internet di seluruh dunia telah membacanya.

Pelik juga, jika dokumen kabinet itu adalah palsu, kenapa Najib minta siasatan dijalankan? Secara tak langsung, Najib telah mengiyakan kesahihan dokumen berkenaan. Sekiranya dokumen itu palsu sudah lama Najib akan menafikannya dalam satu sidang akhbar.

Sekiranya dokumen tersebut adalah sahih, siapakah dalangnya yang menyebarkan dokumen 'rahsia' itu. Kalau nak tuduh pembangkang, itu adalah pelik juga,kerana fail-fail rahsia ini ada dalam simpanan gomen. Jadi punca kebocoran dokumen itu mesti datang daripada orang dalaman gomen dan apakah tujuan ianya dilakukan, allahu a'alam .

Namun, mungkin selama ini gomen banyak merahsiakan skandal ini, orang itu tuduh orang ini dan orang ini tuduh orang itu, aku saman dia,dia saman aku, macam adengan dalam drama minggu ini. Tapi apa yang jelas sekarang ialah, 100% yang terlibat dalam skandal membalun berbilion-bilion wang rakyat adalah tokoh-tokoh politik daripada UMNO,MCA dan rakan-rakan BN.

Dalam hal ini,Najib hendaklah telus dan ikhlas. Jika benar seperti mana yang didedahkan di dalam dokumen itu, gomen Najib hendaklah bertanggungjawab. Sekiranya, peristewa begini berlaku di negara-negara lain, bak kata sifu Mahathir,"In other countries, when a leader fails, he resigns voluntarily. In Japan, he would commit harakiri (suicide)".

Jadi, sama-sama kita tunggu, andainya dokumen 'rahsia' itu sahih, apakah Najib dan gomennya akan letak jawatan......

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