Chua Tee Yong patut belajar mengira berapa ekor lembu NFC berpindah ke kondo, sebelum mengajar menilai harga tanah milik Talam...

Timbalan Menteri Pertanian dan Industri Asas Tani, Datuk Chua Tee Yong(kanan) yang giat menyerang kerajaan Selangor berhubung kutipan hutang Talam Corporation hari ini dicabar untuk menjelaskan tanggungjawabnya dalam siasatan ke atas skandal National Feedlot Corporation (NFC).

Setiausaha publisiti DAP Tony Pua juga mencabar Chua untuk mengutip semula pinjaman mudah RM250 juta dari NFC.

“Jika tidak, mungkin Datuk Chua boleh berikan sebab mengapa dia layak menjadi timbalan menteri pertanian dan bukannya budak suruhan kepada panglima perang Umno Selangor dan menteri Datuk Seri Noh Omar,” kata Pua dalam satu kenyataan hari ini.

MP Petaling Jaya Utara itu mencabar Chua untuk menyatakan sekiranya timbalan menteri itu telah menyiasat mengapa pinjaman mudah RM250 juta itu diberikan kepada syarikat NFC yang dimiliki oleh keluarga ketua Wanita Umno Datuk Seri Shahrizat Jalil pada 2008.

Sedangkan pinjaman itu diberikan dua tahun sebelum perjanjian pelaksanaan projek ditandatangani di antara NFC dan Kementerian Pertanian, kata Pua.

“Saya minta Datuk Chua Tee Yong supaya menyatakan berapa kali beliau lawat National Feedlot Centre dalam masa setahun lalu untuk menyelesaikan skandal NFC?

“Adakah dia melawat NFC sekali, mungkin untuk mengira jumlah lembu yang diternak di ladang tersebut, dan bukannya melawat tasik Bestari Jaya berulang kali untuk memancing?,” kata Pua.

Pua berkata, beliau menyatakan cabaran itu memandangkan Chua begitu rajin melawat lokasi tertentu di Selangor untuk membangkitkan dakwaan berhubung penilaian harga tanah milik Talam dan kutipan hutang RM392 juta itu.

Beliau juga bertanya sekiranya Chua telah menyiasat mengapa NFC tidak membayar sesen pun kepada kerajaan walaupun syarikat itu sepatutnya berbuat demikian sejak Januari 2012.

“Bolehkah Datuk Chua berikan jaminan kepada rakyat Malaysia bahawa setiap sen daripada RM250 juta itu akan dikutip semula, sama ada dalam bentuk tunai atau aset sepertimana yang diuruskan kerajaan Selangor dalam mengutip semula hutang Talam RM392 juta itu?,” soalnya lagi.

NFC kini bergelut dengan kes perbicaraan di mahkamah apabila pengerusi eksekutifnya Datuk Seri Mohamad Salleh Ismail, yang juga merupakan suami Shahrizat, didakwa atas tuduhan pecah amanah.- malaysiakini

Chua Tee Yong should learn to count NFC's cows and not finding fault with the Talam deal...

Deputy Agriculture and Agro-based Industries Minister Chua Tee Yong has been asked how many times he has visited the National Feedlot Corporation’s (NFC) cattle-breeding project, which is in an “ugly state” today.

Petaling Jaya Utara MP Tony Pua (left) raised this when pointing out Chua’s tenacity in highlighting the Selangor government’s debt recovery exercise involving Talam Corporation Bhd.

“Did (Chua) even visit the NFC a single time to perhaps count the number of cows being bred in the farm, instead of making multiple fishing trips to the scenic Bestari Jaya lakes?” he snapped in a statement.

“Has Chua delivered his ministerial responsibilities by finding out why a RM250 million soft loan was extended to NFC ... in 2008, two years before (the) project implementation agreement was even signed between his ministry and NFC?”

“Has Chua ever taken the trouble to find out why NFC has not paid a single sen back to the government (although the) ... first repayment instalment (has been due) since January 2012?

“Can he provide an assurance to all Malaysians that every sen of the RM250 million will be collected back, whether in the form of cash or assets, just as the Selangor government has managed to successfully collect back the RM392 million Talam debts?

“If not, then perhaps Chua could give Malaysians a reason why he is fit to be a deputy minister other than to be the errand boy for the Selangor Umno warlord and its minister Noh Omar.”
 
Pua said that Chua (right) - in his crusade against the Selangor government's RM393 million debt recovery exercise - had made the serious and inaccurate allegation that it is bailing out Talam to the tune of RM1 billion.

“Instead of a bailout, it has been proven that the Selangor government was able to collect back the full amount of RM392 million in the form of cash and assets.

“The RM392 million was a debt legacy from the BN administration since the 1990s which was never properly accounted for or collected.

“In fact, Talam shareholders must be ruing the day Pakatan Rakyat took over Selangor because they had to pay up their debts within two years ....” - malaysiakini

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