KUCHING: Stakan SUPP has expressed disbelief at what it calls “DAP’s double standards in policy making and governance.”
It said the recent expose in Parliament that a total of RM6.61bil spent by the PH government via direct negotiations went against DAP’s so-called competency, accountability, and transparency policy.
“DAP, through its leader Lim Guan Eng (LGE), has admitted using the very same modus operandi of previous BN government in approving direct negotiation contracts, which DAP claimed as opaque and not transparent.
“Does this mean the PH government is equally bad and corrupt?” asked Stakan SUPP chief Sim Kiang Chiok.
According to the revelation on Aug 24 in Parliament by Finance Minister Senator Tengku Zafrul, under the PH government, LGE as then Finance Minister, had awarded a total of 101 contracts valued at RM6.61bil via direct negotiation in their 22 months in power.
Sim said equally devastating was the revelation by Senior Minister of International Trade Mohd Azmin Ali, who was also in the previous Cabinet as Minister of Economic Affairs, that the matter (direct negotiated contracts) was never brought up in the Cabinet for approval.
Under its election manifesto, Sim said PH had agreed and pledged not to award contracts through direct negotiations.
“They have clearly broken more of their promises. Incidentally, DAP claimed PH never had a manifesto and therefore it was not a promise. They claimed that the so-called PH manifesto was only a pledge by the former prime minister Tun Dr Mathatir Mohamad.”
Sim said DAP’s failure in honouring its promises and pledges at national level was also reflected at state level, when Sarawak DAP failed to keep its promises of, among others, granting Sarawak’s demand of a 20 per cent oil and gas royalty, returning 50 per cent of tax collected from Sarawak, and recognising Unified Examination Centre certificates.
