Buzz Sociopolitics Malaysia: Badawi defends Shahrizat on NFC

November 15, 2011

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Badawi defends Shahrizat upon NFC, though does he really know what he is articulate about?

By Syed Mu'az Syed Putra

Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi pronounced today minister Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil need not give up a Cabinet to take a heat for her family's purported disaster of a RM250 million National Feedlot Corporation (NFC) cattle-farm scandal.

Abdullah, who was Prime Minister from Oct 2003 to April 2009, waded in to a debate today to defend a Wanita UMNO arch after she came under conflict from a partyman.

Kinabatangan MP Datuk Bung Mokhtar Radin had demanded a Senator give up a Cabinet as well as take shortcoming for her family's purported mishandling of a national project.

"Ask a individual concerned. What's it got to do with Shahrizat? It's her husband Shahrizat's not involved, so do not ask her," Abdullah told reporters.

"If Shahrizat were a CEO then sure [you can ask her] though right right away she's not concerned as well as it is very unfair to label her as involved," pronounced a ex-PM, popularly well known as Pak Lah, echoing Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin.

Shahrizat, who has headed a Women, Family as well as Community Ministry since 2001, is married to NFC executive director Datuk Dr. Mohamad Salleh Ismail. Their three young kids run a cattle business.

Allegations of monetary impropriety have stubborn a company owned by Shahrizat's family after a Auditor-General suggested la! st month which a NFC had unsuccessful to meet prolongation targets for 2010 notwithstanding benefiting from a RM134.72 million soothing loan from a government.

The Malaysian Insider understands a NFC proposed operations in 2008, during Abdullah's administration. At which time, Muhyiddin was a agriculture as well as agro-based minister.

The Auditor-General's Report also criticised a NFC, pointing out which it was right away "in a mess".The report pronounced prolongation in 2010 was only 3,289 conduct of cattle or 41.1 per cent of a target set.

But Agriculture Minister Datuk Seri Noh Omar responded upon Oct 31 which a plan is a success as well as had met a targets.He pronounced a sum of RM250 million was earmarked for a NFC plan as well as placed in a special loan account in Maybank which was controlled by a Finance Ministry.

He pronounced RM181 million from which account has already been disbursed to NFC based upon a claims. But opposition politicians have purported which RM10 million of a money for a cattle plan had instead been used to buy a luxury common ownership in Bangsar, a high-end suburb in a collateral city.