PAS meminta agar kerajaan mendedahkan jumlah pampasan yang perlu dibayar kepada dua syarikat swasta yang mengendalikan Sistem Penguatkuasaan Automatik (AES), Beta tegap Sdn Bhd dan ATES Sdn Bhd jika kerajaan berhasrat mengambilalih sistem tersebut.
Jelas Naib Presiden PAS, Datuk Mahfuz Omar lagi, selain jumlah pampasan yang akan dibayar, kerajaan juga perlu mendedahkan perjanjiaan yang telah ditandatangani sebelum AES dilaksanakan.
"Untuk mengambil alih AES sudah pasti satu bayaran pampasan yang tinggi perlu diberikan kepada kedua-dua syarikat pengendali tersebut.
"Kita minta kerajaan mendedahkan jumlah pampasan yang perlu dibayar oleh kerajaan jika pengambilalihan tersebut dilaksanakan, selain itu juga kita turut mengesa agar kandungan perjanjian didedahkan untuk pengetahuan umum," jelasnya yang juga merupakan Pengerusi Kempen Anti Saman Ekor (Kase).
Mahfuz dalam masa yang sama memberitahu keputusan itu juga turut membuktikan kerajaan tidak cekap serta menunjukkan mereka tidak membuat kajian sepenuhnya pelaksanaan AES.
"Saya lihat kerajaan sebelum ini tidak mengkaji terlebih dahulu apa impak sebenar jika ia diberikan kepada syarikat swasta terutama kesan dari sudut kewangan dan kerugian yang akan dialami.
"Kita dari Pakatan Rakyat dari awal lagi membantah pelaksanaanya terutama jika dilihat dari sudut tekanan yang diberikan kepada pemandu yang diperah poket mereka untuk kayakan syarikat swasta serta menjadi sumber kewangan negara," kata beliau kepada Harakahdaily.
Sementara itu Penasihat Undang-Undang Kase, Zulhazmi Shariff mengesa agar kerajaan menghentikan serta merta pelaksanaan AES sehingga selesai kajian oleh Jawatankuasa Pemandu yang ditubuhkan oleh majlis tindakan Ekonomi Negara.
Malah katanya lagi, kerajaan juga perlu memulangkan ke semua bayaran yang telah dibuat oleh mereka yang dikenakan saman serta membatalkan saman-saman yang telah dikeluarkan sejak 22 September sehingga sekarang.-harakahdaily
AES: Lagi ‘flip-flop’ BN untuk untungkan kroni
Tindakan ‘flip-flop’ Kerajaan Umno BN dalam beberapa isu yang melibatkan pengambilan wang rakyat dilihat seolah-olah sengaja dilakukan bagi membolehkan pemimpin-pemimpin Umno/BN menyalurkan keuntungan kepada para kroni.
Ini termasuklah pengumuman terbaru kerajaan yang bercadang untuk mengambilalih Sistem Penguatkuasaan Automatik (AES) seperti yang diumumkan Pemangku Menteri Pengangkutan, Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein semalam.
Ahli Parlimen Sungai Petani, Datuk Johari Abdul(pic,atas) berkata tidak mustahil kerajaan sudah merancang pengambilalihan operasi AES sebelum sistem perangkap had laju berkamera itu memulakan operasinya tahun lalu.
Johari yakin tindakan kerajaan tersebut diambil ekoran respon dari bantahan yang dibuat rakyat dan pembangkang.
Beliau juga menjangkakan pengambilalihan ini akan melibatkan pengaliran dana kerajaan kira-kira RM1 bilion kepada dua syarikat pengendali terbabit, sekaligus merugikan rakyat.
“Ini bukan dasar ‘flip-flop’, tetapi memang ‘di-design’ untuk ‘flip-flop’ sebab sepatutnya projek seperti ini perlukan tata kelola yang betul, kajian mendalam termasuk ahli akademi dan respon dari persatuan berkaitan.
“Tetapi di Malaysia tidak berlaku, kerajaan lebih berminat memberi projek kepada kroni yang datang dengan pelbagai cadangan, bila gagal dilaksanakan atau dapat tentangan, akhirnya kerajaan mengambil balik projek tersebut dengan bayaran pampasan yang mahal.
Johari berkata antara beberapa projek swasta yang diambilalih kerajaan sebelum ini termasuklah Indah Water Konsortium, MAS dan program Pembelajaran dan Pengajaran Sains dan Matematik Dalam Bahasa Inggeris (PPSMI).
“Zaman Tun Dr Mahathir pun sama juga, adakan PPSMI tetapi akhirnya ditukar semula kepada Bahasa Melayu dan menyebabkan kita kerugian kira-kira RM6 bilion untuk kos mencetak buku teks dan lain-lain.
“Dasar ini merugikan rakyat dan dalam isu AES ini sepatutnya dihentikan terus bukan kerajaan ambilalih,” ujar Johari lagi.
Johari menambah, isu ini akan dibangkitkan pembangkang dalam persidang dewan rakyat akan datang.
Selepas Mesyuarat Majlis Ekonomi yang dipengerusikan Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak semalam, Hishamuddin berkata kerajaan sedang menimbang untuk mengambil alih keseluruhan operasi dan penguatkuasaan AES daripada pengendali sedia ada.-f/bk
Why is AES a national secret, MP asks...
Lim Lip Eng has lashed out at acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein, questioning why the Automated Enforcement System (AES) is a “national secret”.
He was referring to Hishammuddin’s announcement yesterday that the government was planning to take over the AES from the two private companies running it and that compensation may be paid.Lim (left) told reporters today, “I think all Malaysians would want to know how much compensation will be paid to the two companies and what the terms of the original agreement were.
“I raised the question in Parliament last month and the minster replied that the documents were classified and secret.
“This is about the installation of cameras by the road side and he says this is a national secret. So secret even MPs can’t know about it,” the Segambut MP said.
The
AES was set up last September and concessionaires were given to Tegap
Sdn Bhd and Ates Sgn Bhd to operate the AES road-side speed cameras
nationwide.Lim said that he would raise the issue again in the coming Parliament session and that it was up to Hishammuddin (right) to come clean on the deal.
“I will ask the acting transport minister to come clean, disclose to the public what actually transpired, and what compensation will be awarded to the companies.
“The Najib (Abdul Razak) government’s transformation programme has ceased to transform, it is dead in this AES project,” Lip Eng added.-malaysiakini
No vision upstairs and double vision on the road, that’s AES for you...
Which is more important? Supporting your political adviser who’s been defending a couple of companies that lost RM100 million? Or holding faith with that person called the Malaysian, who voted you into office and expects you to protect his interests, always?
A simple poser for Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak. But a timely one, given the decision on Monday by the National Economic Advisory Council (NEAC) headed by him to allow the troubled Automated Enforcement System (AES) to continue, pending a complete study on it.
Question: what is a sign that government decision-making is ad hoc, hurried or just incompetent?
Answer: when it commissions a study on a project after the thing’s been running for 11 months.
And yet there was Acting Transport Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein declaring that a final decision on the AES – a privatised speed-camera system for traffic control – would be made only after legal and other issues are thrashed out.
After all the layers of unhappiness about this privatisation project have been peeled away, this has been the most disturbing fact surrounding the AES.
It has the stench of a rush job. No thinking. No planning. No asking how motorists would react to having two systems of traffic cameras, one profit-driven and the other by the police.
Two companies – Beta Tegap and Ates – were given a five-year contract to supply the hardware and software and set up a command centre for Road Transport Department (RTD) officers.
The job of the RTD officers is to check the images of speeding vehicles and send out the summonses. Sounds simple, right? It is simple.
You would have thought that the police and RTD, which have decades of experience in the summons business, could have bought and operated the hardware and software. But no, this is Malaysia where the middleman and privatisation have pole positions.
The project became mired in controversy when it became clear that the police, who enforce speeding laws, would also retain their speed traps, alongside the privatised speed-camera system, the AES.
So what happened was many motorists received two speeding tickets, one from the police and the other from AES.
Equally upsetting was news about the revenue-sharing model between the RTD and the two companies running the privatised speed traps.
Shouldn't this source of government revenue – fines – all go to the government? It would have made more financial sense for the government to have purchased the hardware and given the two AES companies a maintenance contract.
Instead, the government opted for the revenue-sharing deal, the highlight of which is an internal rate of return of up to 17%.
No one is questioning the value of speed cameras and any other initiatives to make Malaysian roads safer.
But why inject a profit-motive into the equation? Or if the government really had to privatise this function of the RTD, then it should have asked the police to dismantle their speed cameras.
Instead, the government has decided to persist with the double whammy approach.
To be sure, this idea of privatising the traffic camera system did not emerge during the Najib era. It was raised by a businessman close to Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi when the latter was the PM.
It did not get much traction then, with objections from the police as well as some Cabinet members who felt that anything to do with summonses should be left to the government.
There was also resistance to this privatisation idea from senior members of the Najib administration when the idea resurfaced. But this time, the objections melted away when it became clear that the PM was a supporter.
Around this time, it emerged that a key promoter of the privatisation concept was the PM's adviser. When criticisms against the project mounted and there was talk that the government could cancel it, he went on overdrive to safeguard the project.
As recently as a couple of weeks ago he defended the AES, saying that the criticisms against the project were focused only on that narrow point of the revenue-sharing model, not the project overall.
He is wrong. The objection to the AES goes deeper: in the eyes of the public, this is just another example of another privatisation project that doesn’t make sense.
But is the PM listening?-malaysian insider
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