14 November 2010

The Selangor Water Scandal - Con job.....

Every one who has received this must seriously sit down and read this. The writer has simplified the issue for us. There is no song-and-dance in his writing. Very simply explained in simple English that we can comprehend. So, read this and pass it on.- Nathaniel Tan

Here’s how I would distill the decidedly murky waters surrounding the Selangor water scandal.

If I were the Selangor government, I would hammer these points and these points alone (or maybe even whittle it down even more). The facts are gleamed from a (slightly over wordy) brochure produced by the Selangor State Government.

To recap, the Selangor government is seeking to reacquire previously privatised water concessionaire companies. The Federal Government is offering to do the same, but at a much, much higher price, and under a different set of circumstances. The long and short of it, if you believe us, is that BN is looking to spend hundreds of millions more of our money in a plan that will only further enrich cronies at the expense of the rakyat.

Here’s how:

1 .Under the federal plan: there will be a *31% INCREASE in water tariffs*, as opposed to a 25% decrease in tariffs under the Selangor plan.

- the Federal Government (ie, us) will take on *RM 6.4 billion of debt*, currently owed by the water concessionaires.

- there will no longer be 20 cubic meters of free water every month.
2. Here’s what privatised water concessionaire companies like Syabas have been up to:
- Syabas CEO *Rozali Ismail’s salary is a whooping RM 5.1 million a year*(RM 425,000 a month).
- Pipe purchases worth *RM 600 million* were made from an Indonesian company, also owned by Rozali Ismail*.

- No open tenders for *RM 600 million worth of contracts* (over 72% of the total awarded).
- *RM 51.2 million* spent on renovations of the Syabas head office (JKAS, the water regulatory body for Selangor approved expenditures of only RM 23.2 million)

- Between 2005 - 2007, Syabas exceeded its contract value limit by *RM 200 million*. The brochure contains much, much more information and numbers, but I think the above says enough.


Clearly, some enormously fat cat cronies are getting paid off like there was no tomorrow - all this at the expense of a rakyat that is suffering and having their backs broken by an economic crisis of epic proportions.

Again, I really think Selangor and Pakatan should focus on this information, put it in a common package, and reiterate it again, again and again via every single medium (including say, billboards) at its disposal.I’ve likened it before to a number of submarine commission scandals happening right under our noses, only this time, we still have the chance to stop it, if only we work hard enough.

Spread the word!!



Air Selangor - Kembalikan Hak Air Kepada Rakyat!

Bermula tahun 1997, kerajaan BN telah menswastakan syarikat-syarikat air di Selangor. Sejak ini, Syabas dan syarikat-syarikat lain telah merugikan ratusan juta duit rakyat. Kerajaan negeri Selangor yang diterajui Pakatan Rakyat kini ingin mengembalikan pengawalan syarikat-syarikat air ini kepada tangan rakyat.

Pelan Syabas:

Tahun Kenaikkan Tarif
2009 37%
2012 25%
2015 20%

SYABAS

1. Laporan audit terhadap SYABAS menunjukkan bahawa lebih daripada 72% kontrak bernilai RM 600 juta diberikan kepada syarikat-syarikat yang dipilih melalui rundingan terus dan tanpa tender terbuka.
2. RM 325 juta ‘hilang’ apabila perbandingan teliti dibuat antara kontrak yang dianugerahkan dari 2005 hingga 2007 dan akaun awam Syabas.

3. Pada Jun 2005, SYABAS melanggar perjanjian dengan menggunakan paip yang diimport daripada Indonesia bernilai RM 375 juta. Syarikat Indonesia tersebut dimiliki oleh Tan Sri Rozali Ismail, CEO Syabas. Gaji beliau adalah RM 5.1 juta setahun atau RM 425,000 sebulan.

4. RM 51.2 juta dibelanja untuk mengubah-suai pejabat SYABAS sedangkan Jabatan Kawalselia Air Selangor (JKAS) hanya meluluskan sebanyak RM23.2 juta.
5. Setelah kerajaan Selangor menghentikan Syabas dari menaikkan tarif air dengan mendadak, Syabas kini berhasrat menyaman Selangor untuk pampasan sebanyak RM 1 billion.

Pelan Selangor:

Tahun Kenaikkan Tarif
2009 12%

2012 12%

2015 12%

Apakah pelan Selangor?

1. Kerajaan negeri Selangor yang kini diterajui oleh Pakatan Rakyat berhasrat membeli balik konsesi air demi menjamin hak rakyat untuk mendapat air yang mencukupi pada harga yang berpatutan.
2. Aset awam seperti air harus dikendalikan oleh kerajaan yang berjiwa rakyat, bukan Syarikat yang hanya pentingkan keuntungan.

3. Empat syarikat swasta air akan dibeli balik dan diletak dalam satu badan di mana rawatan dan agihan air akan dilakukan oleh satu pengendali tunggal. Ini akan meningkatkan kecekapan dan mengurangkan tarif air kerana tiada isu "kos pemindahan".

4. Penekanan terhadap integriti dan ketelusan - seperti yang termaktub dalam Enakmen Kebebasan Maklumat yang diperkenalkan oleh kerajaan Selangor - akan mengelakkan dari sistem yang hanya menguntungkan kroni dan merugikan rakyat.

5. Dengan sokongan rakyat yang mencukupi, kerajaan Selangor akan mampu mendapat balik kawalan syarikat-syarikat air demi rakyat, menekankan integriti dan ketelusan, dan memastikan akses air yang mencukupi dengan harga yang berpatutan untuk semua lapisan rakyat.
Pilihan di tangan anda!

Pertahankan Hak Rakyat Untuk Dapat Air Bersih & Murah


Beri sokongan anda kepada Kerajaan Negeri Selangor dengan menghadiri perhimpunan penyampaian memorandum kepada DYMM Yang di-Pertuan Agong pada 5 Disember, 2010 di Masjid Negara Kuala Lumpur. Pengurusan Perkhidmatan Air akan lebih terjamin di bawah kelolaan Kerajaan Negeri Selangor.

Kembalikan Hak Air Kepada Rakyat!

source: www.airuntukrakyat.net

cheers.

3 comments:

  1. You got it wrong. Your facts are shallow and incomplete. You don't even realise that selangor has even announced that they will profit from this deal of billion of dollars. They're profitting as middle man. And you don't even realise that at the end as a result of this middle man profit it will be reflected as a higher tariff.

    Go read the long debate at rights2write. He's voted for 'pr in 08 and also pushing for it.

    Get a perspective first unless you simply don't care for the truth. Await your debate there.

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  2. Selangor wont profit from this water restructuring exercise,if it goes thru,not even as middle man. The ones who will make big money will those companies involved.And these big companies belongs to UMNO. By right water should be run by the Selangor govt.not by someone in Putrajaya.

    As Dr.Rafficks has rightly said that water should not be regarded as a commodity that enriched a few at the expense of millions of Selangor and Kuala Lumpur residents.

    Goto:

    http://rights2write.wordpress.com/2010/11/11/water-bn-moving-two-steps-backwards/

    http://rights2write.wordpress.com/2010/11/14/selangor-water-where-do-i-sign-mb-khalid/

    In the first place why must privatise water industry?

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  3. Kerajaan pusat sedang bermain wayang dengan kerajaan negeri Selangor,kerana negeri Selangor tu pembangkang. Bagi kerajaan pusat apa kerajaan Selangor buat semua tak betul.

    Walaupun kerajaan Selangor mahu beli syarikat2 yang terlibat dalam pembekalan air di Selangor dengan harga yang murah namun kerajaan pusat sanggup bayar harga yang lebih tinggi.

    Tau sajalah kerajaan pusat Najib ini,bukankah dia kata "kita akan pertahan Putrajaya walau dengan nyawa seakalipun" semasa persidangan UMNO baru2 ini.

    Awak faham2 aja apa yang dimaksudkannya. Apa kah kerana air kita mahu berperang?

    Apakah kerana nak jaga seorang CEO yang gaji RM 5 juta setahun lebih penting daripada membekal air murah kepada rakyat Selangor?

    Sapa yang bodoh?

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