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KUALA LUMPUR: A total of 97 Kuala Lumpur City Council (DBKL) land sale transactions have been conducted without reference to any SOPs since 2011, according to Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC).
Its president, Wong Kah Woh, said that based on the procedures carried out, PAC considered that the process was too lax and was exposed to abuse of power, as well as a lack of protection for the residents of DBKL and Kuala Lumpur.
He said that PAC found that DBKL did not have any POE for the disposition or sale of its land.
“It was only after 2015 that DBKL improved the land sale and disposal process by empowering the Privatization Committee with the provision of a checklist incorporating more detailed procedures that obtained ISO certification (in 2017),” he said today in a statement.
For the proceedings from April 4 to November 12 of this year, PAC had called, among others, former Minister of Federal Territories Khalid Abd Samad, former Attorney General Tommy Thomas, former Chief Commissioner of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) Mohd Shukri Abdull and the former Kuala Lumpur. Mayor Nor Hisham Ahmad Dahlan.
Wong said the PAC also found that the Kuala Lumpur city draft 2020 Plan approved by the minister was different from the draft plan that was shown to the public in 2008 and that the published plan has yet to get feedback from all parties. interested.
He said DBKL had issued more than 200 development orders while awaiting approval from the federal territories minister on the plan, which can cause negative effects on the environment by converting commercial zones and modifying density (proportion of parcels).
It added that PAC also found that the administration of Yayasan Wilayah Persekutuan (YWP), which participated in the DBKL land purchase, was exposed to a conflict of interest, as the minister of federal territories and the mayor of Kuala Lumpur are the president of the foundation and the members of the board of directors, respectively.
Apart from management, YWP, which is a company registered under the Companies Act 1965, is not supervised by any authority, including the National Audit Department.
In this regard, PAC has proposed to the government that the sale and disposition of DBKL land be carried out in a transparent manner based on a complete set of SOPs, in addition to reviewing the 2020 Kuala Lumpur City Plan taking into account changes made to the original draft.
He said that PAC also proposed that the functions of the YWP be reviewed in line with the objectives of its establishment to protect the interests of Kuala Lumpur residents, while its status should be modified in a statutory body to allow for more effective monitoring by the government.
According to Wong, members of the public can study the PAC Report on the DBKL Land Sale under the Ministry by downloading the report from the PAC website at www.parlimen.gov.my/pac.
