BN said Frusis cannot receive bantuan anymore because he earns RM2000 per month
HA HA HA Damn stupid excuses! Biggest joke so far !
Using that same logic, all the rich BN YBs wifes sons daughters uncles grandkids konco-konco should NOT get more big projek from BN lah!
Already rich YBs still mintak big projek for themselves!
Or the rich YBs admit themselves as Cacat OKU to deserves bantuan get big projek ???
NOT CACAT OKU BUT RICH YBS STILL ASKING HELP GET PROJEK ?
MEMANG BONGOK PALOI BODOH PUNYA BN !
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Fatimah: Disabled farmer earning RM2,000 a month, therefore does not require govt aid
By ZORA CHAN, The Star, Friday March 9, 2012
KUCHING: Welfare aid recipients, including physically challenged or disabled people, are subject to annual revision and the Government will terminate an aid if a person is out of the poverty bracket.
This was the case with a disabled farmer from Sri Aman, 52-year-old Frusis Lebi, whose welfare aid was terminated in October last year after it was discovered that he had been earning more than RM2,000 a month, said Welfare, Women and Family Development Minister Datuk Fatimah Abdullah.
She explained that the welfare officers reviewed Frusis’ socio- economic status and decided to terminate his welfare aid before Assistant Agriculture Minister Datuk Mong Dagang gave the directive to the Sri Aman agriculture office to withdraw the monthly aid.
“As far as the Welfare Department is concerned, we’ve investigated Frusis’ case and since he was earning a stable monthly income of more than RM2,000, he is not categorised as poor anymore.
“Based on our guidelines, he is no longer considered needy and, therefore, the aid for him was stopped,” she said yesterday when asked to comment on Mong’s action.
Mong admitted that he wrote a letter to direct the agriculture office to cancel a fertilizer subsidy and welfare aid to Frusis.
In the letter, Mong said the withdrawal of the government aid was also justified as Frusis had supported, and set up an operations centre, for the Opposition in the last polls.
The letter had generated a lot of criticism against the Bukit Begunan assemblyman.
Frusis, who has deformed arms and legs, has been receiving a working allowance since July 2008.
He has also been given a RM500 grant to start a small business, while in April last year, he was awarded the 1Azam scheme.
Fatimah defended the Welfare Department’s action to terminate Frusis’ aid, saying it was not political and Mong’s letter was coincidental.
She said termination of any welfare aid was a very sensitive issue among recipients and, therefore, often reminded her officers to go to the ground to carry out thorough assessments and to act in a professional manner at all times.
Some exceptions could be made in certain situations where an elderly couple could not rely on their children to take care of them because the children were labourers with low income and had their own families to support, she said.
“Look at their homes and living conditions. If parents and their children are all living in difficult situations, the aid will be provided to the elderly couple. But if their children can support their parents, the aid will be reduced or stopped,” she said.
Fatimah explained that welfare aid could not be given to a person forever because there were new needy people everyday who needed assistance.
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Taib’s son awarded millions in govt contracts
by Joseph Tawie, FMT, November 7, 2011
Most of the contracts were awarded without an open tender being called, claims the DAP.
KUCHING: For the past five years, Chief Minister Taib Mahmud’s son Abu Bekir has been the main beneficiary of millions of ringgit worth of government contracts awarded by the state government.
Confirming widely speculated rumours here, the state government recently disclosed in its written answer to a DAP assemblyman that most contracts were awarded without an open tender being called.
The contracts were awarded to two companies – Titanium Project Management Sdn Bhd and Woodville Construction Sdn Bhd.
Titanium is linked to Abu Bekir.
The revelations, according to Kota Sentosa assemblyman Chong Chieng Jen, were “really shocking”.
“These details which are contained in the answers to my questions (submitted to the State Legislative Assembly) are really shocking,” he said.
Chong, who is also state DAP secretary, had put in his questions during the assembly’s June sitting.
He had written to ask the State Infrastructure Development and Communications Minister for a list of all contractors awarded by the state and federal governments for the construction and completion of bridges in Sarawak in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011.
He had also asked for the respective contract sums and actual sums of each bridge.
Contracts to Titanium
Chong also wanted to know whether the awards of these contracts were carried out pursuant to an open tender process and, if so, what were the criteria and consideration for appointment of these contractors as the main contractors for these bridges.
“Basically, there are two companies given the state projects to build bridges in Sarawak without open tender.
“One was Woodville Construction which is owned by Shin Yang group of companies and the other was Titanium Project Management which is owned by Abu Bekir, son of the chief minister,” he said.
Woodville Construction was given two projects worth RM217,500,000 while Titanium Project Management was awarded one contract.
In 2008, the Titanium Project Management was awarded a contract to design, construct and complete bridges and culverts to replace temporary and semi-permanent council bridges and some Public Work Department bridges in Sarawak.
“Under this contract, a few hundred bridges were given to Titanium Project Management to construct, and the value of the contract is RM1,178,410,000,” he said, pointing out that this was “almost a monopoly” in the construction of bridges.
“What is shocking is that the state projects were awarded to Abu Bekir and Shin Yang companies not through open tenders unlike the federal projects.
“This is totally against the principle of fairness and transparency in awarding government contracts.
“If you remember in 2001, the government contract was given to Titanium Management to construct 384 bridges at the cost of RM500 million.
“In 2006, the company constructed only 332 bridges or about 80 percent of the bridges, but the government has to pay the company RM948 million,” he said.
Corrupt practices
According to Chong, in 2008 the government again awarded another contract to Titanium.
This time the contract was awarded to Titanium Project Management.
“Although it is a different name, it is the same company with the word ‘Project’ added to its name with the same constitution and the same shareholders.
“This is an abuse of power and an unfair government practice that is cutting off other contractors from doing government works.
“I think the State Infrastructure Development and Communication Minister Michael Manyin has a lot of explanation to make to the people of Sarawak,” said Chong.
He described the whole process of awarding these contracts by the state government as “smacking of corrupt practices”.
When asked if the opposition would lodge a report on the issue with the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), Chong said: “Is there any use?
“There is no point to lodge a report as MACC has made its position very clear that binoculars that could be purchased for RM5,000 each and were charged at RM50,000 apiece is not corruption.”
Chong was referring to the Auditor-General’s Report 2010 which disclosed that binoculars purchased by the Marine Department was charged RM50,000 each instead of RM5,000 as it should have been.
“If that is not corruption, I don’t know what corruption is. But the MACC ruled that it is not corruption,” he said, drawing a comparison between this issue and the Teoh Beng Hock case.
‘MACC, a BN political tool’
Chong said Teoh had allegedly spent RM2,000 to buy and distribute Malaysian flags and the MACC interrogated him throughout the night and forced him to commit suicide.
“If you compare this case with Teoh’s, you can see a stark difference in the treatment,” he said.
Chong said that although there was a prima facie corruption case, the MACC did not open any file or investigate.
“They just brushed off the case.
“Judging by the way it (MACC) conducts itself, it appears that MACC is a political tool of Barisan Nasional to oppress the opposition, while condoning such acts of abuse of public funds by the BN government,” he said.
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Taib keeps his YBs wealthy
by FMT Staff, March 7, 2012
Taib Mahmud’s 30-year tenure as Chief Minister and Sarawak Barisan Nasional chairman has spawned many millionaires within its circle of Ybs, says Sarawak Report.
KUCHING: Sarawak Chief Minister Taib Mahmud’s secret to staying in power is bribery, at least that’s what the ‘political insiders’ here are saying.
According to them, Taib has allegedly “bribed” MPs and assemblymen with timber concessions, plantations, contracts and whatnots in return for their absolute loyalty over the past 30 years.
Taib has been in power since 1981 and whilst he has himself amassed an unexplainable amount of wealth which runs into billions in US dollars, here and abroad, he has also ensured that his ‘immediate’ circle of political allies have also become as wealthy.
Take for instance his loyal deputy Alfred Jabu Numpang. Jabu has been Layar assemblyman for over 35 years, but the constituency is reportedly in a pitiful state. The man and his family however have reaped millions simply for keeping the native Ibans there convinced that Taib is ‘god-sent’.
Jabu has allegedly received contracts, concessions and kickbacks each time Taib awarded himself some goodies.
Jabu’s wealth is now sizzling the internet with disclosures of contracts awarded to him in the last decade.
Jabu – who may very well be yet another billionaire – and his politically connected cronies have allegedly received over RM500 million in contracts through KACC construction in the last 10 years.
The company is listed in the Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) website.
The website also offers names of the projects and contract worth. All except two of the contracts awarded to KACC Construction by the Taib government are in Bintulu.
Shares in KACC Construction are reportedly held, jointly, by Jabu’s family and the families of state secretary Mohd Morshidi Abdul Ghani and Fadillah Yusof.
Fadillah is the MP for Petra Jaya. She is also the Deputy Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation.
KACC’s shareholders are Jabu’s daughter Jennifer and his cousin Robert Lawson Chuat (a PBB assemblymen). Other shareholders are Abdul Ghani’s brother Mohd Taufik and Fadillah’s niece and nephew.
Millions for Sagan’s loyalty
These details were part of a series of revelations on Taib’s ‘wealthy YBs’ by online investigative portal Sarawak Report (SR).
According to the portal, KACC Construction is not the only source of Jabu’s wealth.
Over the years Jabu and Taib have worked hand-in-glove in persuading natives to release their lands to them and their cronies, Jabu and his family run Herba Aromatics Sdn Bhd.
The state government had awarded this company lucrative concessions which include rights to oil palm plantation, said the portal.
Early last year it was widely rumoured that Jabu had ‘scored’ when he allegedly sold these lands to Felcra for RM7 million
Then there is Sarawak Land Consolidation and Rehabilitation Authority Malaysia (Salcra). Jabu is the chairman of the controversial Salcra which involved the mass conversion of tens of thousands of hectares of native customary lands into oil palm plantation.
Salcra was promoted as a way of providing the poor landowners with Sarawak with a living from the profits. But the portal said Jabu and his cronies however have happily reaped the benefits of the palm oil boom.
Meanwhile other juicy bits on Sarawak Report include how federal minister Jacob Sagan, who is the Baram MP, allegedly sold his allegiance to Taib for hundreds of millions of ringgit in timber concessions and construction contracts.
Sagan gave his support to Taib’s proposal to construct the monstrous Baram dam which will dislocate thousands of natives and destroy their livelihoods.
Naroden, another beneficiary
The Sarawak Report also mentioned Sarawak Entreprenuer Development Assistant Minister Naroden Majais who has made himself richer by allegedly awarding himself RM100 million worth of government contracts, with Taib’s permission.
Details and value of the contracts were posted on the CIDB website. The contracts were awarded to Embun Pelangi Sdn Bhd, whose board of directors include Naroden’s wife, Massenah Ahmad and son Kamaruzaman.
Since 2002 Embun Pelangi received no less than RM100 million in contracts from Taib.
Naroden, who is allegedly ‘very close’ to Taib, is also one of the biggest timber concessionaires in Sarawak. Much of these concessions areas are in the region of the Baram Dam.