Menteri enggan dedah kos penerbangan Rosmah...

DAP mengutuk keengganan kerajaan mendedahkan kos penerbangan khusus yang membawa isteri Perdana Menteri Datin Seri Rosmah Mansur ke Padang, Indonesia baru-baru ini.

Ahli Parlimen Seremban Anthony Loke Siew Fook(gambar) berkata, identiti penumpang dan kos perlu didedahkan kerana ia melibatkan urusan rasmi kerajaan dan digunakan atas urusan Perdana Menteri.

“Apakah kelayakan isteri Perdana Menteri menggunakan pesawat khas kerajaan? Perkara ini telah berkali-kali dibangkitkan namun ia tetap berterusan.

“Saya amat terkilan dengan keengganan Shahidan untuk memberikan jawapan kos secara terperinci. Sama ada dia tidak faham soalan atau sengaja merahsiakan butiran tersebut untuk mengelak persepsi negatif terhadap kerajaan?

“Apakah kerajaan telah memulakan langkah ke belakang dengan merahsiakan segala maklumat yang boleh menimbulkan persepsi negatif terhadap BN?” soalnya dalam sidang media di Lobi Parlimen, hari ini.

Pada Mac lalu, Anthony yang juga Setiausaha Organisasi DAP telah mengajukan soalan di Dewan Rakyat berkenaan kos penerbangan Rosmah ke Qatar menggunakan pesawat kerajaan yang melibatkan kos RM426,489.46

Hari ini, beliau juga telah menggesa kerajaan agar mendedahkan tujuan pesawat NR1 dengan nombor pendaftaran 9M-NAA pada 27 Ogos lalu yang membawa Rosmah ke Padang, Indonesia untuk menerima satu anugerah dari komuniti Minangkabau.

Namun, Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Shahidan Kassim sekadar menjawab ia adalah urusan rasmi tanpa menyatakan jumlah keseluruhan kos.

Menurut Anthony, pesawat yang membawa Rosmah itu telah dikesan melalui laman web pengesan pesawat FlightRadar24 berlepas dari Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Kuala Lumpur (KLIA) ke Padang dan ke Singapura sebelum kembali ke KLIA pada 27 Ogos.

Tegas Anthony, tidak ada alasan untuk mana-mana tidak menjawab sebarang soalan daripada Ahli Parlimen, terutama jika ia melibatkan dana awam.

“Setiap sen yang dibelanjakan untuk kemudahan rasmi yang digunakan Najib dan isterinya serta anggota-anggota pentadbiran adalah dana awam dan boleh dipersoalkan.

“Sekiranya Parlimen pun tidak dapat memberikan jawapan, bagaimanakah ketelusan perbelanjaan kerajaan dapat dijamin?

“Pendekatan ‘kerahsiaan’ kerajaan ini tidak boleh dibenarkan sama sekali. Tanpa ketelusan dalam perbelanjaan kerajaan, pembaziran sumber dan pemborosan dana awam akan semakin berleluasa dan lebih parah,” ujarnya.

Tambahnya, semalam kerajaan juga merahsiakan identiti lima anggota pentadbiran yang membida nombor plat ‘BMW’ dan jumlah bayaran dibuat atas alasan untuk melindungi mereka daripada persepsi negatif.

Timbalan Menteri Kewangan Datuk Ahmad Maslan turut enggan mendedahkan jumlah cukai yang dibayar oleh 20 hartawan yang dibangkitkan Ketua Pembangkang Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim. -Roketkini.com

Minister coy about Rosmah's flight...

The government has refused to disclose the specific cost for a flight ferrying the prime minister's wife, Rosmah Mansor, that flight trackers detected over Indonesia on the same day she had received a Minangkabau award in Padang.

DAP Seremban MP Anthony Loke had asked Putrajaya to disclose the purpose of Flight NR1 - with the registration number 9M-NAA - flying to Padang on Aug 27.

He also wanted to know the cost involved and passenger manifest.

However, Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Shahidan Kassim, in a written reply, merely said the flight was on official business to Singapore and was carrying Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak, Rosmah and a government delegation.

"The flight is an official government flight which is used for the prime minister's affairs. All costs involving the flight is within a suitable estimation for the service," Shahidan said.

The aircraft was detected by FlightRadar24 on Aug 27 to have flown from the KL International Airport (KLIA) to Padang and then travelled to Singapore before returning to KLIA on next day. 

Loke criticised the government's refusal to disclose the details, stating that the secrecy went against Putrajaya's promise of transparency.

 

"It is very clear they are hiding information. I have asked many questions of this nature and I always get the answer (figures) but not this time," he lamented.

 

Rosmah had received the ‘Darjah Kebesaran Kerabat Yang DiPertuan Gadih Minang’ award, the highest award for the Minangkabau community.

The award comes with the title 'Puan Puti Reno', which means the supreme princess in Minangkabau royal family.

 

However, Najib was not spotted there during the award reception.

According to FlightRadar24, the 9M-NAA jet began its journey from Subang Airport and stopped for 53 minutes at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport, perhaps to pick up both Najib, Rosmah and a number government officials.

It then continued its journey to Padang where it stopped for one and a half hours before heading to Singapore. Najib was on an official one-day visit which included the opening of Malaysia’s first Agro-bazaar outlet overseas. 

The plane left Singapore the next day for KLIA and finally returned to Subang Airport.

Shahidan's return reply did not deny nor confirm any detour to Padang, Indonesia, as stated in Loke's question.

Loke said that the use of the government jet involves public funds and should not be kept secret.

"Every sen spent for official services for the prime minister and his wife, as well as members of the administration, are public funds and can be questioned," he said.

Last year, Loke had also queried about Rosmah's flight to Qatar using a government jet, for which the government disclosed that an amount of RM426,489.46 was spent. - mk

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