January 26, 2012
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Public Accounts Committee delays a deliberations upon NFC: Azmi Khalid answers Lim Kit Siang
Public Accounts Committee (PAC) arch Azmi Khalid fit a parliamentary body's decision to check review into problems revolving around a National Feedlot Centre.
Azmi (left with his Deputy who is from DAP) concluded which it was his perspective which a PAC should postponement a record until a Police as well as a Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), which also initiated investigations during about a same time, to wrap up their probe.
"It is utterly normal for PAC to check inquiries until alternative applicable agencies had completed their jobs, given it involves a same people as well as documentation," he said, in a statement today.
"But it does not meant which you have been closing a casewhatever which is being endorsed by a PAC to a enquiry, is to a military as well as a MACC, because you don't have a forensics trickery to go by every ask a single by one," elaborated Azmi when contacted by Malaysiakini.
The maestro Padang Besar UMNO MP clarified which there have been cases where witnesses had refrained from giving information upon a advice of their lawyers, for fear of being subjudice.
"In any box this formula is not expel in mill as any member of PAC can ask a conference by making a elementary ask to a chairperson," he said. Azmi was responding to calls from Ipoh Timur DAP parliamentarian Lim Kit Siang, who demanded a former's resignation for land back PAC's investigations.Urging Azmi to "not be an obstacle", Lim insisted which PAC should resume a examine as well as complete a r! eport in time for Dewan Rakyat's sitting in March.
'PAC has never been partisan'
However, Azmi refused to counter Lim upon a "political level", emphasising which PAC "has never
been partisan either in a deliberations or conclusions". He proudly settled which a powerful cabinet comprises parliamentarians who have been "professional" in their conduct as well as satisfactory in their "conclusions".
PAC had interviewed several cultivation as well as agro-based industries ministry officers upon a weaknesses in a multi-million ringgit cattle tillage project, lifted in a 2010 Audit Report presented in council last November.
Azmi complained afterwards which a government loan was given to a company even prior to a agreement was signed. Lim, however, lifted a issue of conflict of seductiveness as Azmi was a healthy resources as well as sourroundings apportion in 2006, when a cupboard was comparing opinions a project.
He retorted currently which Lim had similarly asked him to step down as a PAC arch when a cabinet was conference witnesses in relation to Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) scandal.
At a finish of a PKFZ probe, PAC recommended, after an inquiry, a persons involved be investigated for criminal breach of trust, an offence which carries a maximum 20-year jail sentence, with defeat as well as a fine.
"I do not consider we need to say more upon this as evidenced by a PKFZ box ,and we leave it to a rakyat to judge me in my genius as a PAC chairperson," pronounced Azmi.
Likewise, Azmi pronounced which although he was partial of a Cabinet in 2006, he "cannot remember a case". "As far as we am concerned, there is no question of conflict of interest, let alone be a ! hindranc e to any duty which is duty-bound upon any parliamentarian," he said.
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