RM68m Paya Indah Wetlands Fiasco: Need for Accountability

by R. Nadeswaran aka citizen-nades

"FOR a final twenty years Muralee Menon has been actively concerned in large-scale commercial operation supervision portfolios as well as start-ups. In a final twelve years he has supposing his expertise as chairman/CEO levels, as entrepreneur/investor as well as as inhabitant adviser. Amongst his portfolios, Menon was a member of a National Healthcare Financing Committee in Malaysia. Besides building organisational systems as well as infusing innovation, his design is building knowledge-based healthcare organisations through evidence-based care, doing of integrated caring pathways as well as uptake of ICT through clinical workflows. Menon provides his expertise in these areas across Asia.

"In a final 6 years as CEO, he led a development as well as execution of a 250-bed tertiary sanatorium in Malaysia."

THEaccuracy of a upon top of which is reproduced word for word from a pamphlet produced by a Libyan British Business Council (LBBC) in conjunction with! a vis it of a delegation to Tripoli final year to foster healthcare partnerships cannot be verified. After a fall of a Gadaffi regime, British businesses as well as even politicians have been put in rather annoying situations over their past dealings. This stirred a source to send over a copy of a booklet, citing "Malaysian presence" as well as "links to Libya".

The beating of drums over a National Feedlot Corporation (NFC) upon a purported misuse of supervision supports as well as AirAsia's "war" over a enlarge in airfield tax stirred a re-look of what we initial wrote in 2007 about a Paya Indah Wetlands, especially after a examination of a booklet.

What has a LBBC got to do with a wetlands project? It is loyal which Menon was "actively concerned in large-scale commercial operation supervision portfolios as well as start-ups" as well as a Paya Indah plan was one of them.

Paya Indah Wetlands: A Dismal Failure

A gigantic total of RM68 million in taxpayers' income was supposing for this plan in 2001 as well as today, it is a station relic of waste, ineff! iciency as well as upon top of all, another illustration of what Public Accounts Committee authority Datuk Seri Azmi Khalid not long ago described as "weak supervision of a government".

So shouldn't Menon as well as Datuk Ahmad Talib, who have been listed as directors of a Malaysian Wetlands Foundation, be held underneath obligation for a income as well as a disaster of a project? When it opened, it was flaunted as a premier eco-tourism attraction. What remains is a thoughtfulness of a sadness described by Azmi.

Four years ago, we raised these questions in this mainstay as well as it is worthwhile repeating them:Doesn't any one be concerned which RM68 million belonging to a people has left down a drain? Isn't any one creation an try to redeem at slightest part of a money? Shouldn't a authorities be using a full brunt of a law to take to court those responsible? Shouldn't someone be able to discuss it us how as well as where a income went? Shouldn't a house of directors be underneath obligation for this gigantic loss?

For great measure, we pronounced which number of visits to foreign lands underneath a pretext of "helping a oppressed" is not starting to atone for a sins committed locally. No amount of "doing good" as well as a broadside which accompanies it is starting to erase a fact which open income was misused ri! ght unde rneath our noses.

In a march of a polite suit opposite a foundation, a High Court decider remarked: "(All) gonedown together with Wetlands All a companies dealing with it Semua bungkus(folded)." Shouldn't this judicial pronouncement, let alone a expos by this newspaper, prompt a authorities in to action? Pemandu as well as related agencies attempted to pooh-pooh a Corruption Perception Index by Transparency International with groundless arguments, though when no movement is taken when supervision supports go to waste, can any one understand it differently?

Malaysian Public need to know what happened

Couldn't citizens be told how which RM68 million was used or misused? To a authorities, here's what Wetlands International Asia Pacific executive executive Faizal Parish who was concerned in formulating a project's master plan told me approach behind in 2007: "If it were up to us, a cost would be minimal from a couple of hundred thousand ringgit to a couple of million. RM68 million is approach too most to outlay upon a park. We were focused upon a natural resources of a wetlands as an attraction, though there were others more focused upon manufacture elaborate structures."

Politicians upon both sides of a divide have left in to overdrive over a NFC plan though small attention has been paid to other projects where costs have escalated for no valid reason or a plan has not taken off. Is it because Menon was a "adviser" to a cupboard cabinet upon sports or because Ahmad is right away a executive in a media conglomerate?

Let me echo which we am not accusing any one o! f any wr ongdoing. What is needed is an open avowal of what as well as because a plan went wrong. It is only proper which both these people, in suitability with a statutory requirements of them as directors as well as in a open interest, discuss it us everything. As it involves open money, this certainly would not be asking too much. Or will Pemandu as well as a crime NKRA offer a plausible reason upon a movement or lack of it?

R. Nadeswaran wants to remind a authorities which issues raised in a past should not be swept underneath a carpet. He is theSun's UK correspondent based in London as well as can be reached at:citizen-nades@thesundaily.com

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