“Ia membuktikan krisis itu berpunca daripada kegagalan Syabas mengurus dan menyelenggara loji rawatan air mereka, membina takungan air terawat tambahan, termasuk memperbaiki dan mengantikan paip lama dan usang,” kata Tony Pua.
“Dengan RM120 juta bagi tujuan itu, ia menunjukkan krisis air itu boleh dielakkan jika Syabas melabur dana sendiri bagi tujuan tersebut,” kata ahli Parimen Petaling Jaya Utara itu lagi.
Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Razak hujung minggu lalu mengumumkan bantuan sejumlah RM120 juta kepada Syabas, walaupun syarikat pengurursan bekalan air itu sebelum ini telah menerima peruntukan sebanyak RM606 juta.
Pua turut menegaskan kedua-dua kerajaan negeri dan Pusat tidak mempunyai tanggungjawab untuk memberikan bantuan kewangan kepada Syabas bagi menaik taraf infrastruktur mereka seperti terkandung dalam perjanjian konsesi air.
“Bantuan RM120 juta kepada Syabas bukanlah geran daripada kerajaan Pusat untuk membantu rakyat di negeri ini, tetapi skim untuk ‘bail-out’ Syabas.”
Beliau menjelaskan, setakat ini kerajaan Pusat telah memberikan pinjaman mudah tanpa faedah kepada Syabas sebanyak RM320.8 juta dan tempoh dilanjutkan sehingga 20 tahun pada 2009, tambahan 20 tahun daripada RM110 juta pinjaman pada Oktober 2011, dan kemudiannya mengambil alih bond Syabas bernilai RM2.9 bilion.
“Sehingga ke hari ini, kementerian tenaga, teknologi hijau, dan air Datuk Peter Chin belum memaklumkan sama ada Syabas telah membayar walau satu sen pun daripada RM2.9 bilion bond itu. “Daripada jumlah itu, kerajaan BN (Barisan Nasional) telah memberikan ‘bail-out’ kepada Syabas sehingga mencecah RM3.41 bilion,” tegas Pua.
Menteri Besar Selangor Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim semalam berkata bantuan RM120 juta yang diumumkan Najib itu tidak akan menyelesaikan krisis air yang melanda negeri di bawah Pakatan Rakyat (PR) itu.
Tambahnya, bantuan-bantuan seperti itu adalah jelas menunjukkan kegagalan Syabas menguruskan sumber air negeri, yang mana pengambil alihan syarikat pemegang konsesi itu oleh kerajaan negeri merupakan langkah terbaik bagi menyelesaikan kemelut air di Selangor.
Khalid juga sebelum ini mengumumkan kerajaan negeri pimpinannya akan membeli Syabas dan syarikat konsesi air yang lain di negeri itu bagi meneruskan polisi air murah.-malaysian insider
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'BN has spent RM3.41bil to bail out Syabas'...
The additional RM120 million allocation to Syarikat Bekalan Air Selangor (Syabas) announced by Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak (below) has further pushed the amount of the ‘bailout funds’ from the federal government to RM3.41 billion in just four years, claimed DAP.
This
shows nothing but Syabas' incompetence and BN’s continued support to
its crony, said DAP national publicity secretary Tony Pua in a statement
issued last night.He pointed out that the RM120 million for Syabas has proven that the Selangor and Kuala Lumpur water crisis has nothing to do with the shortage of raw water which requires immediate water transfer from Pahang via the exhorbitant RM9 billion Langat 2 project.
“Instead, it proves that the crisis was a result of a deliberate under-investment by Syabas to upgrade its treatment plants, build additional treated water capacity as well as to repair and replace old and broken pipes.
“With the RM120 million meant for the above exercise, it shows that the current crisis could have been prevented had Syabas invested its own funds on the exercise earlier.”
According
to Pua, under the water concession agreement between the government and
Syabas, there is absolutely no obligation for the federal and state
government to provide financial grants or loans for Syabas to carry out
its obligation to upgrade all the required water infrastructure.Hence the RM120 million handout to Syabas is not a grant by the federal government intended to assist the people of the state but is instead a well-disguised scheme to bail out Syabas, asserted Pua.
The Petaling Jaya Utara MP then recounted the previous 'bailout funds' extended by the BN federal government to keep Syabas afloat.
“In December 2009, the BN government has extended a 20-year RM320.8 million zero-interest soft loan to Syabas.
“In October 2011, the BN government again extended another 20-year RM110 million loan to Syabas for the same purpose.
“And in November, when Syabas outstanding bonds of RM2.9 billion was nearing its due date for repayment, the federal government again bailed out Syabas by taking over the entire RM2.9 billion bond.
“To date, Energy, Green Technology and Water Minister Peter Chin (left)
has not revealed if Syabas has even repaid a single sen of the RM2.9
billion bond bail-out by the federal government,” he said.Hence, the total accumulated bill to date is RM3.41 billion, Pua stressed.
Despite the repeated offers by the Selangor Pakatan Rakyat government to acquire Syabas or even to terminate the Syabas concession for its failure to fulfil its obligations, said Pua, the federal government has refused to support Selangor’s proposals.
“It is clear to all Malaysians that the BN government would rather continue to keep Syabas afloat by keeping the company on life-support with billions of ringgit of the rakyat’s money to protect it’s crony’s profits and interests.
“Najib’s economic transformation call is hence a complete sham as he has shown complete unwillingness over the past four years to allow the people’s interest to come first, ahead of BN’s cronies,” he added.-malaysiakini
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