Gaji Pengerusi Syabas RM425,000 sebulan, mampu tampung bil air rakyat

Gaji Pengerusi Syabas RM425,000 sebulan, mampu tampung bil air rakyat



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Saturday, 14 March 2009 08:24

(Hrkh) - Dewan Rakyat kelmarin menjadi sedikit 'riuh' apabila diberitahu bahawa gaji Pengerusi Syabas Tan Sri Razali Ismail sejumlah RM5.1 juta setahun.

Perkara ini diungkap kembali oleh Ahli Parlimen Permatang Pauh Dato' Seri Anwar Ibrahim ketika membahaskan rang undang-undang perbekalan tambahan 2009 yang dalam masa yang sama menjawab soalan Ahli Parlimen Titiwangsa Dr. Lo' Lo' Ghazali berhubung gaji dan elaun pengurus atau pengarah GLC.

"Apa dan mengapa nak dirahsiakan gaji GLC ini? Gaji syarikat boleh dibuka. Oleh sebab itu seperti mana yang saya sebutkan tadi, keadaan di Syarikat Bekalan Air Selangor bila tanggungan begitu bila sudah naikkan beban bagi rakyat, baru kita tahu rupa-rupanya pengurusnya RM5.1 juta.

"Itu basic belum lagi elaun-elaun tambahan. Ini keterlaluan kalau dibiarkan keadaan begitu," kata Anwar.

Sementara itu turut menarik perhatian ahli-ahli dewan ialah Zulkifli Noordin(KeADILan -Kulim Bandar Baharu) yang membuat pecahan kiraan gaji pengerusi syarikat air itu yang boleh dimanfaatkan oleh rakyat.

"Saya buat 'simple calculation' ini. Pada gaji RM5.1 juta setahun, bermakna gaji beliau RM425,000 sebulan. Satu hari, gaji dia RM14,166... Satu jam gaji dia RM1,770. Satu minit, dia dibayar RM29.51...

Kata Zulkifli gaji beliau itu boleh membayar gaji 34 Ahli Parlimen sebulan ataupun boleh membayar 425 anggota polis dengan gaji RM1,000 sebulan. "Bermakna lima unit FRU boleh ditanggung dengan gaji beliau... ataupun kalau bil air... RM100 sebulan, boleh membayar 4,250 rumah atau kalau bil air itu RM50, boleh bayar 8,500 sebulan," katanya yang menyebabkan ramai ahli parlimen ketawa dan cuba mencelah.

Ahamad Kuris pleads not guilty to corruption

Thursday January 22, 2009
Ahamad Kuris pleads not guilty to corruption
By FLORENCE A. SAMY

KUALA LUMPUR: Former Semenyih assemblyman Datuk Ahamad Kuris Mohd Nor, who is also former head of the Hulu Langat Umno division, pleaded not guilty to four separate counts of corruption involving RM200,000 at the Sessions Courts here and in Ampang.

The charges were linked to a road construction tender, and were allegedly committed while he was the assemblyman and a Kajang Municipal Councillor.
He also claimed trial yesterday to three alternative charges of misusing money belonging to the Hulu Langat Umno division.

In Ampang, Ahamad Kuris, 52, was charged with attempting to obtain a cash bribe of RM170,000 from Ufuk Rata Sdn Bhd owner Azlan Ahmad Marshid as an inducement to obtain the tender for the construction of a 100ft entry-and-exit road at Taman Impian Ehsan, Balakong, Cheras.

On trial: Ahamad Kuris leaving the Sessions Court in Kuala Lumpur with a family member yesterday.

He allegedly committed the offence at 11.53am on Feb 26, 2007 at the Ufuk Rata office in Jalan Cheras.

Ahamad Kuris also faced a second charge of obtaining cash totalling RM20,000 and a third involving RM5,000, on two separate occasions from Azlan as an inducement to help his company obtain the tender.

He allegedly committed the offences around 12.30pm on May 11, 2007 and around 12.30pm on Aug 17, 2007 respectively at the Hulu Langat Umno office at the Umno building in Kajang.

He also pleaded not guilty to two alternative charges of misusing RM20,000 and RM5,000 belonging to the Hulu Langat Umno division at the same times, dates and place while he was the division head.

Ampang Sessions Court judge Noradidah Ahmad fixed bail at RM35,000 and set March 12 for mention.

Later in the afternoon, Ahamad Kuris appeared at a Sessions Court in Kuala Lumpur and pleaded not guilty to obtaining a RM5,000 bribe for a credit card payment from Azlan while being an assemblyman and a municipal councillor.

He also pleaded not guilty to an alternative charge of misusing RM5,000 belonging to the Hulu Langat Umno division while he was division head, to pay the same credit card at the same date and place.

Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court judge Rosbiahanin Arifin agreed to Abdul Razak’s request to transfer the case to the Ampang Sessions Court to be tried jointly with the other charges.

End the business of political contracts

(The Edge) - The news that Umno has been ordered by the High Court to pay an election merchandise supplier RM218 million for campaign paraphernalia for the 2004 general election is indeed stunning.


As the online news site Malaysiakini describes it, the amount is the highest ever that the party has been ordered by a court of law to pay.

The circumstances surrounding the case are deeply disturbing on a number of counts. Firstly, the plaintiff had obtained millions of ringgit of supplies from various companies based on its alleged links with an “influential” politician. This implies that a contract is seen as unnecessary when people in power are believed to be backing a project. The question that reverberates through this episode is, what has become of the basic rules of doing business?

Secondly, some politicians had acknowledged receiving the campaign materials for “free”, and said that it was normal for them to receive such gifts from supporters at election time. This situation leaves ample room for vested interests to influence politicians, and clearly poses an ethical issue that is crying to be addressed.

Thirdly, Umno treasurer Datuk Seri Abdul Azim Mohd Zabidi’s response to the judgment reflects a serious lack of accountability in political affairs. His argument that Elegant Advisory, which had supplied the election materials, had sued the wrong body, since it was the Barisan Nasional (BN) and not Umno that had contested in the election does the party no service. It is not an answer that is expected of the party that calls the shots in the ruling coalition. (Abdul Azim has applied to set aside the judgment as well as to strike out the main suit, on the basis that he had not been served the writ of summons.)

Fourthly, it is disturbing that the supplier’s attempts to obtain a response from BN leaders were met with silence and denial, and that even overseas sub-contractors had failed to get satisfactory replies to their repeated queries to high-level sources. The damage to the country’s reputation from this caper is not to be taken lightly.

Clearly, the need for the business of politics to be cleaned up is imperative. Each of the mistakes that has been made in this case has a clear remedy. There must be no room for “contracts” that are based on the backing of important individuals. The onus of killing this culture of patronage lies primarily with company boards that receive such “offers”.

Political parties have to open their accounts to public scrutiny so that anyone can verify who is paying for what. Politicians must also learn about honour, that forms the basis of their moral authority to lead. Ultimately, leaders must recognise that the time for a national rejuvenation is at hand. They ignore the opportunity at their own peril.