'PM must explain generous highway contract award'



DAP has demanded a budding apportion explain because a supervision has since Kumpulan Europlus Bhd (Europlus) a "good deal" on a RM7.07 billion Banting-Taiping main road project.

Party secretary-general Lim Guan Eng pronounced Najib Abdul Razak needed to explain a inexhaustible conditions since to Europlus, which includes a 60-year benefaction as well as RM2.24 billion in soothing loans.

dap conference 080112 lim guan engThe association will also receive subsidies for twenty-two years as well as RM980 million accede to for land merger price for constructing a 316 km highway.

According to Lim (right), Europlus had voiced which it had received an capitulation letter from a open private partnership unit of a Prime Minister's Department.

"DAP is extraordinary because a sovereign supervision had still not make any announcement on such an important main road benefaction which violates a simple beliefs of open burden as well as transparency.

"Before a supervision signs this agreement with Europlus, a budding apportion contingency safeguard which ... questions because Europlus was since such a great deal are fully answered," pronounced Lim in a statement today.
Among a questions Lim demanded a PM answer were:
  • If there was an open proposal as well as reasons for rejecting alternative bids
  • The preference of Europlus which he pronounced had no proven lane record in build-operate-transfer (BOT) of main road benefaction as well as which had a "troubled story of problematic housing development projects"
  • The benefaction duration which was a "longest in Malaysian history" after a Singapore-Malaysia H2O agreement
  • The motive for a soothing loan of RM2.24 bi! llion fr om 2013 during 4 percent seductiveness as well as an offer of an seductiveness subsidy of 3 percent from blurb loans for twenty-two years, costing a sovereign supervision an estimate RM4 billion
  • Giving Europlus RM980 million for land merger cost, when it is ostensible to be a privatised project
  • The decision for a main road to end during Taiping as well as not through to Penang, which sees heavier traffic.
Scandal in a making?

Calling a plan an additional potential "scandal in a making", Lim, who is also Penang chief minister, blasted a six decade benefaction for benefiting a association over a rakyat.

plus main road fee booth 161204"For a Prime Minister's Department to accede to a 60 year benefaction duration means which generations of Malaysian will be compelled to pay toll, from me to my great grand-children.

"This is unacceptable as well as giving such a prolonged benefaction usually benefits a few, permitting a fee operators to consequence mega increase of pharaonic proportions during a expense of 28 million ordinary Malaysians," pronounced Lim.

He pointed out which in a similar "scandal", a 50 year benefaction duration for a North-South Expressway (NSE) expiring in 2038 - as well as which had price RM6 billion to set up - had already authorised a fee operator to consequence RM18.3 billion in increase as during a end of 2010.
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