Ahli Parlimen Kelana Jaya Wong Chen hari ini membidas penampilan singkat Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Razak yang hanya selama lapan minit di Dewan Rakyat, 13 hari selepas beliau membentangkan Bajet 2018.
“Dia menjawab soalan pada jam 10.04 pagi dan meninggalkan dewan pukul 10.12 pagi,” kata Wong.
Najib hari ini berada di Parlimen untuk sesi soalan.
Walau bagaimanapun, Wong mendakwa sepanjang lapan minit itu segala-galanya sudah dirancang untuk Najib yang hanya diajukan dengan soalan ‘mudah’.
“(Ia adalah) mengapa dia begitu hebat dalam soal ‘ekonomi digital’. Soalan yang dirancang oleh ahli parlimen Umno.
“Selepas membaca teks jawapan selama empat minit, soalan ahli parlimen Umno (yang sepatutnya secara spontan) bermula dengan ‘Tahniah atas kejayaan program, kita adalah pemimpin dunia dalam ekonomi digital…’ Cara mengampu seperti ini adalah agak standard,” katanya.
Wong berkata Najib kemudian menjawab kenyataan susulan dengan ucapan yang disediakan selama dua minit.
“Di bawah pentadbiran Najib, beliau secara ajaib mengubah sesi soal-jawab Parlimen kepada lakonan mengikut skrip,” kata Wong.
Najib kemudiannya, kata Wong, meninggalkan Dewan Rakyat tanpa peduli untuk mendengar ataupun menyokong menteri-menteri lain yang menjawab soalan-soalan seterusnya.
Katanya, sebaik sahaja Najib bangkit mahu meninggalkan dewan, Ahli Parlimen Tanjung Karang, Tan Sri Noh Omar dan Ahli Parlimen Pontian Datuk Ahmad Maslan bergegas membuka pintu untuknya.
“Pagi ini menggambarkan bagaimana demokrasi Parlimen perlahan-lahan mati di Malaysia,” katanya.
Wong juga memaklumkan bahawa 18 menteri dan timbalan menteri hadir tetapi jumlah itu masih 30 peratus berkurangan daripada jumlah keseluruhan kabinet Najib.
Sebagai rekod, Najib hari ini bertolak ke Danang, Vietnam bagi menghadiri Sidang Kemuncak Pemimpin Kerjasama Ekonomi Asia Pasifik (APEC) ke-25.
Perdana menteri dijadual berada di sana selama tiga hari bagi menghadiri mesyuarat APEC kali ini yang bertemakan, Mewujudkan Kedinamikan Baharu, Mengukuhkan Perkongsian Masa Depan.
Petang ini, Najib akan membuat kunjungan hormat ke atas Presiden Vietnam, Tran Dai Quang.– mk
P.Pinang - Diskaun air,cukai pintu
bagi mangsa banjir...
Ketua Menteri, Lim Guan Eng berkata, pengecualian itu diberikan sebagai membantu meringankan beban kos penggunaan air bagi tujuan pembersihan kediaman dan kawasan yang dilanda banjir.
Katanya, diskaun air sebanyak 50 peratus juga akan diberikan kepada pengguna domestik.
“Bagi pengguna komersil, PBA akan memberikan diskaun 25 peratus. Ini akan melibatkan penjimatan sebanyak RM10 juta,” ujarnya.
Selain itu, katanya yang juga Setiausaha Agung DAP, Majlis Bandaraya Pulau Pinang dan Majlis Perbandaran Seberang Perai akan memberikan diskaun cukai pintu sebanyak 10 peratus untuk semua jenis hartanah dengan keseluruhan jumlah bantuan dijangkakan mencecah RM40 juta.
Tambahnya, dokumen-dokumen kerajaan negeri milik mangsa, seperti geran tanah, yang rosak atau hilang akibat daripada banjir boleh diganti secara percuma. – Roketkini.com
I’ve seen evidence of UMNO’s
funds transfer to PAS...
The evidence involved banking transactions through Affin Bank, the Kelantan Amanah politician said in a dialogue session posted on his Facebook page last night.
“I’m not playing with words. I’m speaking after having seen for myself the source of information, and after determining that it is accurate and correct.
“The money was channelled through Affin Bank to several parties related to the PAS leadership, besides other banking evidence,” said the Salor assemblyman.
Husam, who has spoken about the transactions before, said the amount given to PAS leaders exceeded RM90 million.
“In my previous speech, I did not mention the amount. I only mentioned the name of Affin Bank.
“I still stand by what I have said, other than revealing the amount now,” he told interviewer Syed Ibrahim Syed Noh in the recorded dialogue.
Allegations that the Islamist party had received RM90 million from Umno have also been reported by whistle-blower website Sarawak Report, whose UK-based editor, Clare Rewcastle-Brown, is being sued by PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang for defamation.
Husam, who was sacked from PAS in May last year for criticising its leadership, had made similar claims at an Amanah ceramah in Kelantan earlier this year.
Another opposition politician who has alleged that a PAS leader had received money from Umno is PKR’s Pandan MP Rafizi Ramli.
Husam noted, however, that Rafizi was not being sued, while Rewcastle-Brown was. Rewcastle-Brown, in her statement of defence, named PAS leaders who had benefited from the money allegedly given by Umno. Luxury vehicles were cited as among the items these leaders had purchased.
The editor’s statement of defence also named prominent human rights activist and lawyer Ambiga Sreenevasan as the source of her information on the funds given by Umno to PAS, which traditionally has been the former’s arch-rival for the Malay-Muslim vote. PAS, which has left the main opposition bloc, was replaced by splinter party Amanah.
Ambiga is being investigated under the Penal Code for causing public alarm in relation to Rewcastle-Brown’s article.
The article, titled "As Najib denies all over 1MBDB let’s not forget his many other criminal connections", was published on August 6 last year and suggested that money was given in exchange for PAS’ support for ruling coalition Barisan Nasional.
Hadi’s suit against Rewcastle-Brown was file in the UK through Carter-Ruck, said to be one of the most expensive law firms there.– themalaysianinsight
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