Adik Hishamuddin dapat kontrak label arak RM77 juta...

Adik Hishammuddin terima kontrak cetak label cukai rokok, arak secara diragui...

DAP hari ini mempersoalkan kewajaran adik kepada Menteri Pertahanan, Datuk Seri Mengapa adik Hishammuddin terima kontrak cetak label cukai rokok, arak... menerima kontrak mencetak label keselamatan rokok dan minuman keras bernilai RM77 juta.

Ahli Parlimen Petaling Jaya Utara, Tony Pua mempersoalkan samada syarikat milik Datuk Haris Onn, Lembah Sari Sdn Bhd, menawarkan harga paling rendah sehingga berjaya menerima kontrak berkenaan.

"Adakah syarikat ini sahaja yang mempunyai kepakaran dalam bidang ini, atau adakah mereka sahaja yang menawarkan kontrak yang paling rendah," soal Pua pada sidang media di lobi Parlimen, hari ini.

Laporan akhbar perniagaan The Edge pada 12 September berkata, Lembah Sari yang menjalankan perniagaan dakwat keselamatan mengambil alih konsesi percetakan label keselamatan daripada Kod Efisien Sdn Bhd pada 2006.

Kod Efisien menerima konsesi berkenaan pada 2003 daripada Jabatan Kastam Diraja Malaysia.

"Bagaimanapun tidak pasti bagaimana kontrak itu berubah tangan namun diserahkan kepada Lembah Sari, menimbulkan persoalan bagaimana konsesi dianugerahkan kerajaan," kata Pua memetik laporan The Edge.

Beliau yakin penggunaan label keselamatan itu tidak berkesan mengekang kegiatan penyeludupan.

Pua mencadangkan kerajaan menggunakan dana sedia ada bagi mencari alternatif lain kepada penyelesaian isu penyeludupan itu.

“Mengikut laporan yang diterbit pada Julai tahun lalu, kerajaan rugi RM1 bilion setiap tahun atas sebab penyeludupan rokok.

“Ini jelas menunjukkan penggunaan label ini meningkatkan kos dan memberi keuntungan kepada syarikat tetapi tidak dapat mencegah penyeludupan rokok di negara kita.

“Adalah lebih baik kerajaan menumpukan dana mereka mencari langkah-langkah lain mencegah masalah rumit ini supaya pendapatan kerajaan dapat ditingkatkan tanpa beban diagihkan kepada orang ramai,” katanya. – tmi 

MP questions RM77mil contract for Hisham's kin...

DAP lawmaker Tony Pua today questioned Putrajaya's granting of a RM77 million contract to the brother of Defence Minister Hishammuddin Hussein.
      
The Petaling Jaya Utara MP said the liquor security-labelling contract was awarded to Haris Onn Hussein by the Royal Malaysian Customs Department.

"The government must explain why a company belonging to the relative of a minister is given a contract through direct negotiation," Pua told a press conference in the Parliament lobby.

The contract granted to Haris' firm Lembah Sari Sdn Bhd was first highlighted by The Edge, which reported that the company will design, print, store, supply and distribute banderols (tax stamps) for liquor from 2014 to 2019.

It will also supply authentication devices to the Customs Department as well as providing the necessary training. The system is aimed at combating the smuggling of liquor.

Pua asked the government to justify its contract given to the company and whether it had offered the lowest price.

He added that the company had previously caused an uproar due to the high charge it imposed for a similar system meant for cigarettes.

“Will this security label prevent smuggling of liquor?

“The security labels on cigarettes have proven ineffective to stop smuggling,” he said, quoting the British American Tobacco company’s claim that said one in three packs of cigarette in the country were smuggled.

He added that if the system cannot help combat smuggling, the government would better spend money on other methods to stop such activities. - mk

 Datuk Abdul Ghapur Salleh (BN-Kalabakan) tidak berpuas hati apabila kontrak lebuh raya merentasi Borneo, Pan Borneo Highway di Sabah didakwa diuruskan syarikat-syarikat dari Semenanjung.

Dua syarikat yang dimaksudkan itu adalah UEM dan MMC yang mempunyai kaitan dengan ahli perniagaan, Syed Mokhtar Albukhary.

Menurutnya, senario itu menyebabkan surat layang mendakwa 'Umno merompak' diedarkan kepada orang ramai.

"Di Sarawak, (kontrak) diberi kepada syarikat dari Sarawak," katanya.

"Walhal di Sabah, bukan saya reka-reka, ada surat menyatakan Umno rompak lagi.

"UEM, MMC adalah syarikat Umno yang diketuai (Tan Sri) Syed Mokhtar Albukhary ambil alih semua jalan raya di Sabah," katanya . - mk

UMNO MP: Tycoon-link fuels 'highway robbery' claim...

East Malaysian lawmakers may be lauding the Pan-Borneo highway across Sabah and Sarawak but one MP is far from impressed.

The RM27 billion highway stretches 1,633km across the two states.

Abdul Ghapur Salleh (BN-Kalabakan) complained that the project has given detractors fodder to accuse Umno of robbing the state.

He was upset that the Sabah section of the highway would be handled by UEM and MMC which are West Malaysia-based companies.

"I am not making this up but there are letters going out saying: 'Umno is robbing again, Umno is robbing again'.

"UEM and MMC, which is led by Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary (left), will be taking over the roads in Sabah," he said.

In contrast, Abdul Ghapur said the Sarawak section was being handled by the state's own companies.

"If there is a dialogue on this I am going to oppose (the West Malaysia companies),  and I call on the prime minister - if this is true, to give it to Sabahans," he said.

Abdul Ghapur, who is from Umno himself, is a vocal leader for East Malaysia interests.

When debating the budget speech, Abdul Ghapur also asked that other projects such as those involving Felda, to only be given to Sabahans.

"I do not even want to see a single screw coming from peninsula Malaysia for Felda," he said.

Claim poverty rate falling scorned

Abdul Ghapur also poured scorn on Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin's claim that poverty rate in the country was falling.

"Where is the drop? He said only 1.7 percent left in the country are poor.

"This 1.7 percent cannot possibly include Sabah, they are peninsula Malaysia statistics," he said.

He called for the formation of a bi-partisan parliamentary committee to determine the exact household income in Sabah, rubbishing official government statistics.

"Present a report to Parliament on the exact percentage of poor in Sabah... let's have a real evaluation. Sabahans don't want their eyes to be clouded," he said.

He added if city folks in Sabah knew about the situation in the state, BN would be defeated in the next general election.

Ong Kian Ming (DAP-Serdang) (left) then pointed out that according to the Household Income Survey 2012 released by the department of statistics, the average Sabah household income was RM4,000 a month.

"I would like to ask Kalabakan if this is an accurate reflection of the household income there and if not, why would there be such a figure?" he said.

"Serdang said that the household income is RM4,000 but even the speaker is smiling because he knows you can't get this amount even in Beluran," he said.

"Just because rich people make RM500,000 a month, we can't calculate it by dividing that amount among the poor, how can that be," he said.

The sitting was chaired by house speaker Ronald Kiandee, who is MP for Beluran.

He also lamented the the poor electricity supply in Sabah, stating that there could be four to five disruptions in one day.

"Even I have to use generator and it’s often turned on because of the electricity disruptions," he said.- mk

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