PKR hari ini mendedahkan pemaju pembinaan Ibu Pejabat Polis Kontinjen (IPK) Johor yang terbengkalai sejak setahun setengah lalu mempunyai kaitan dengan pemimpin Umno.
Pengarah Strategi Pemuda PKR Akmal Nasir berkata, berdasarkan hasil carian di Suruhanjaya Syarikat Malaysia (SSM) menunjukkan pengarah eksekutif bagi syarikat kontraktor yang dilantik untuk projek tersebut Global Globe (M) Sdn Bhd ialah Datuk Zamri Rahmat.
"Carian kami menunjukkan individu yang berperanan utama adalah Zamri iaitu selaku pengarah eksekutif sekaligus pemegang saham terbesar syarikat tersebut.
"Zamri merupakan pimpinan Umno di kawasan Ampang dan berkempen secara aktif sewaktu pilihan raya umum ke 12 dan ke 13," katanya pada sidang media di Ibu Pejabat PKR, di Petaling Jaya hari ini.
Beliau berkata, syarikat pemaju bagi pembinaan IPK tersebut, Global Globe (M) Sdn Bhd sepertimana yang dinyatakan ketika sidang Dewan Undangan Negeri (DUN) Johor pada Jun tahun lalu menerima bayaran sebanyak RM46 juta sebelum projek tersebut terbengkalai.
"Malah syarikat tersebut didenda lebih dari RM2 juta iaitu bersamaan dengan RM17,000 sehari bagi tempoh 165 hari sebelum kontrak mereka ditamatkan.
"Namun kita tidak tahu adakah syarikat pemaju berkenaan yang juga ahli Umno sudah menjelaskan bayaran denda tersebut," katanya.
Isu mengenai kelewatan pembinaan IPK Johor itu disahkan Timbalan Menteri Dalam Negeri Datuk Seri Wan Junaidi Jaafar seperti dilaporkan sebuah akhbar berbahasa Inggeris Jun lepas.
Projek pembinaan tambahan IPK yang terletak di bandar Johor Baru bermula sejak 2010 dan masih terbengkalai.
Perkara tersebut dibangkitkan di DUN Johor dan maklum balas yang diberi kerajaan negeri ialah projek berkenaan sepatutnya siap pada Julai 2013.
Namun, ia masih gagal disiapkan selepas 5 tahun dimulakan, atau lebih 18 bulan dai tempoh projek itu patut disiapkan.
Kontrak pembinaan IPK Johor ini bernilai RM103,556,694.84, merangkumi pembinaan bangunan pentadbiran, tempat letak kereta bertingkat dan perumahan anggota polis.
Bagaimanapun, pada Ahad lalu Pengerusi Jawatankuasa Kira-Kira Wang Negara (PAC) Datuk Nur Jazlan Mohamed dilaporkan berkata, kontraktor baru dilantik bagi menggantikan Global Globe setelah syarikat itu ditamatkan kontrak pada Oktober lalu.
Jazlan berkata, perkara itu dimaklumkan Ketua Setiausaha Kementerian Dalam Negeri Datuk Seri Mohamad Khalid Shariff yang menjelaskannya semasa menghadiri prosiding jawatankuasa berkenaan, berhubung pengurusan pembinaan Ibu Pejabat Polis Daerah (IPD) Sentul pada 14 Oktober lepas.
Sehubungan itu, Akmal menggesa Menteri Dalam Negeri Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi mendedahkan pemilik kontraktor baru tersebut.
"Beliau perlu menjawab siapakah kontraktor baru yang dipilih untuk projek IPK, apa proses dan kriteria pemilihan, dan bila projek itu mampu disiapkan," katanya.
Beliau berkata, amat mencurigakan kerana KDN tidak mengemukakan nama syarikat kontraktor baru meskipun mendakwa ia ditawarkan melalui tender terbuka.
Selain itu, Akmal mendesak Zahid memberikan maklumat mengenai jumlah kos tambahan yang terpaksa ditanggung kerajaan bagi menyiapkan projek terbengkalai tersebut.
"Kami berharap Zahid dapat mengambil pendekatan lebih telus dan bertanggungjawab menjawab persoalan dikemukakan.
"Kerjasama beliau akan memberikan sedikit keyakinan kepada rakyat terhadap kesediaannya mencari jalan menyiapkan pembinaan IPK Johor yang terbengkalai selepas 5 tahun ia dilancarkan," katanya. – tmi
Putrajaya to pay up to RM1 billion for failed traffic enforcement system...
The settlement with these two companies could cost Putrajaya a hefty sum, as much as RM500 million each, said a source close to the matter.
The AES was supposed to be launched nationwide in September 2012, but Putrajaya backtracked on its push to get the automated traffic enforcement system off the ground due to resistance from opposition and Barisan Nasional members of parliament
Beta Tegap and ATES, operators for the AES, have taken their case to be settled at the Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration (KLRCA), after Putrajaya backtracked on its contract with the two companies.
The case that has been under arbitration for more than two years now is due for hearing within the next two weeks.
When contacted, Treasury Secretary-General Tan Sri Mohd Irwan Serigar Abdullah told The Edge Financial Daily that the matter will be settled soon.
“I cannot elaborate [on the settlement package] as the negotiations are ongoing,” he said.
Another source close to the matter said Putrajaya and the two companies were working out a settlement and it needed to be kept under wraps until it was completed. Otherwise, the deal could unravel.
Under the agreement that was signed in early 2012 and implemented from September 2012, Beta Tegap and ATES were to build, operate and maintain the equipment and systems for the AES, to be handed over to the Road Transport Department (RTD) at the end of the five-year concession period.
The two companies had invested a huge sum just in the initial rollout of the AES — setting up of several secure facilities nationwide, including in Sabah and Sarawak, to house the RTD enforcement team and the monitoring system.
Based on the contract, the rate of return for both companies was capped at 17%, and it was to be remunerated based on a three-tier structure. Under the first tier, both companies would be entitled to RM16 per valid summons up to five million summonses.
After hitting more than five million summonses, tier two would kick in, with the additional revenue to be split evenly between the two companies and Putrajaya up to a cap of RM270 million each.
After hitting the cap, tier three would kick in with the companies each receiving 7.5% from the remaining revenue and the government the rest.
But both companies would only be paid if motorists settle their summonses — which is where the snag lies because motorists are not compelled to settle them.
After a huge public outcry over the system in 2013, then acting transport minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein announced that a wholly-owned government unit, AES Solutions Sdn Bhd, would take over the management of AES from ATES and Beta Tegap.
Hishammuddin also announced that the government was willing to give a 50% discount on the AES summonses, if traffic offenders paid up quickly, meaning that those fined RM300 only need to pay RM150.
From what appeared to be an ambitious nationwide project to nail down traffic offenders, there are only seven cameras in operation to-date, a small number out of the planned 404 cameras that were supposed to be rolled out under a plan by the Transport Ministry targeted for September 22, 2013. – tmi
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