RM79,053 untuk sambut birthday Najib di Seri Perdana...

KEADILAN hari ini mendedahkan perbelanjaan mewah hari jadi Najib Razak pada 24 Julai 2011 di Seri Perdana berjumlah RM79,053.

Pengarah Strategi KEADILAN, Rafizi Ramli pada sidang medianya di Parlimen memberitahu, majlis tersebut menyajikan 47 juadah istimewa termasuklah daging panggang yang diimport dari New Zealand, makanan Jepun, makanan Barat dan lain-lain.

“Berdasarkan ‘Banquet of Order’ (BEO), majlis tersebut dibuat oleh Pejabat Perdana Menteri, walaupun jelas ia adalah majlis peribadi Najib,” kata Rafizi.

Purata perbelanjaan untuk 100 tetamu itu ialah RM207, RM7,000 bagi undangan kugiran Syed Sobri dan undangan kugiran ‘Batak’ (RM5,000) serta RM750 bagi 5 gelen minuman.

Manakala RM30,000 untuk gubahan bunga dan RM12,000 caj pengendalian cukai menjadikan jumlah keseluruhan RM79, 053.

Rafizi turut mendedahkan bukti baru yang belum disangkal Najib berhubung tempahan majlis pertunangan anaknya di Hotel Shangri-La atas nama pejabat Perdana Menteri.

Salinan BOE Shangri-La Hotel yang dikemukakan Rafizi menunjukkan pada ruang ‘function’ bertulis ‘Private Dinner hosted by PM’.

Manakala alamat penganjur ialah ‘Pusat Pentadbiran Kerajaan Persekutuan’, iaitu pejabat Perdana Menteri sendiri.

“Persoalan yang dibawa bukanlah semata-mata siapa yang menanggung kos majlis pertunangan, tetapi ketelusan dan operasi pejabat Perdana Menteri yang sewajarnya mengasingkan kepentingan peribadi dengan tugasan rasmi.

“Najib menjanjikan transformasi politik, ekonomi dan sosial. Tapi gagal menunjukkan contoh,” tegas Rafizi mempersoalkan slogan yang dilaungkan BN seperti dasar ETP (Program Transformasi Politik).

“Jika perbelanjaan mewah ini ditanggung penaja, apakah ia tidak mempengaruhi keputusan Najib selama ini? Dan wajarkan Najib berbelanja mewah ketika konsep ‘wasatiyyah’ dan kesederhanaan diperkenalkannya sendiri dalam pentadbiran.

Katanya lagi, sementara rakyat ‘ikat perut’ dan berjimat cermat, purata belanja hari jadi Najib yang mencecah RM800 itu lebih tinggi dari pemberian BR1M (Bantuan Rakyat 1Malaysia) yang berjumlah hanya RM500.-keailandaily

PMO nafi biaya majlis sambutan hari jadi Najib

PMO billed RM80,000 for PM's birthday bash

PKR has levelled a fresh claim that the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) had been billed for Najib Abdul Razak's private affairs, this time involving RM79,053 for his birthday party.

At a press conference today, PKR strategy director Rafizi Ramli furnished a banquet event order from Shangri-La Hotel to the PMO.

According to the document, the dinner for 100 people was held on July 24 last year at the prime minister's official residence, Seri Perdana, in Putrajaya.

"At the event, 47 international dishes were laid out, including roast meat imported from New Zealand, Japanese delicacies and Western dishes," Rafizi told reporters at the Parliament lobby today.

The BEO states that RM21,495 was spent on food and beverages, RM31,800 on flower arrangements and RM13,038 on two live bands, while a RM12,720 handling charge was also imposed.

PKR had previously claimed that the PMO had footed the catering bill for Najib's daughter’s engagement party on June 17 last year, amounting to RM409,767. However, the PMO denied this, while the hotel stated that Najib had paid the bill.

“It is not enough to issue a bare denial, because we need to see the trail of documents and the trail of bookings from the PMO," Rafizi commented today.

He noted that, unlike the engagement party, the birthday catering was explicitly recorded as a "private dinner hosted by the PM".

“This raises questions over why his daughter’s engagement was not clearly stated as private but instead as a ‘PMO event’.

"When the hotel sent out the accounts in the name of the payee - even if the prime minister says he had reimbursed the payee - the fact that it was booked by the PMO means that the ... first liability (lies with) the PMO," insisted Rafizi.

He demanded information on the source of the money and how Najib - whose salary is just above RM22,000 a month - could afford to pay for two high-end events within a month.

Meanwhile, the Prime Minister’s Office has again came to the defence of Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak, saying that Rafizi got it all wrong.

In a text message to Malaysiakini, the PMO said that claims that taxpayers’ money was used for the event are “completely untrue”.

“The amount said to have been spent is also incorrect and the bill was paid by the PM himself,” it said.- malaysiakini
 

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