Zahid eyes new air force support vehicles for next year

Zahid urged a antithesis to stop doubt a ministrys need to outlay on brand new assets. File pic

KUALA LUMPUR, October twenty-eight Datuk Seri Zahid Hamidi today said a Royal Malaysian Air Force will buy brand new aviation ground await vehicles (AGSV) subsequent year as a existent fleet was apropos too costly to maintain.

The infancy of AGSV are old as well as need to be replaced. The Auditor-Generals Report obviously shows a vicious need for a brand new assets, a counterclaim minister was quoted by Bernama Online today.

I think you will replace a vehicles subsequent year regulating existent allocations as you have to belong to certain ceilings in our budget, a inform quoted him further.

Zahid afterwards urged a federal antithesis not to subject his ministrys need to outlay on brand new resources during times of peace, observant a Auditor-Generals inform should open their eyes to reality.

The Defence Ministrys output has come underneath repeated inspection by Pakatan Rakyat (PR), which has continually sought explanations for a multi-billion counterclaim deals involving a ministry.

The ultimate was a query as to why a ministry paid RM7.6 billion for armoured crew carriers (APC) procured by DRB-Hicom Bhd for only US$559 million (RM1.7 billion).

A RM6 billion stipulate for six offshore patrol vessels (OPVs) drew similar courtesy at a start of a year.

An annoying failure by a single of a countrys billion-ringgit Scorpene submarines to plunge last year attracted serve reservations over a anticipation of a countrys counterclaim spending.

While a supervision maintains which such contracts must be personal as a make a difference of inhabitant security, PR has insisted which Malaysians have a right to know how public funds were being outlayed since a ministrys history of cost overruns.

Anti-graft watchdog Transparency International-Malaysia (TI-M) h! as addit ionally urged a supervision to stop to regulating inhabitant confidence as an excuse for a secrecy which ends up stealing graft involving counterclaim contracts, as well as consider appointing independent monitors for such deals.


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