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PETALING JAYA: Former Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng today urged Housing and Local Government Minister Zuraida Kamaruddin to disclose documents on two directly negotiated projects involving his ministry.
This comes after Zuraida said she was willing to hand over the documents, letters purportedly from the secretary general of her ministry to the finance ministry requesting approval of direct negotiations on a RM 170.3 million solid waste project.
Zuraida had said he was not aware of the projects and claimed that direct negotiation for the solid waste project was directly assumed by Lim.
Lim disputed this and, in a statement today, said that such a large project could not have been approved without Zuraida’s knowledge.
“You cannot hide behind the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) not to reveal all the letters related to the Taman Beringin solid waste project worth RM170.3 million,” he said.
He said that if there was a letter from him instructing direct negotiation, Zuraida would have exposed it.
“For the sake of truth and transparency, please disclose all relevant letters from me, Zuraida, the Secretary General of the Treasury and the Secretary General of the Ministry of Housing and Local Government.
“Zuraida must not claim the existence of such a letter and does not dare to reveal it in public,” he said.
Earlier, Finance Minister Tengku Zafrul Aziz published a list of 101 projects that he said were negotiated directly under the Pakatan Harapan government, and the Ministry of Housing and Local Government awarded two projects: a solid waste project from Ringgit 170.3 million in Taman Beringin, Kepong, and a RM 501,000 software accounting system.
