This is true umno punya style. Logging success at the earliest point possible which in most instances lies at the time of project announcement / launch and not at the later time of result delivery.

MSC was pronounced a success and a gift to the world during launch. MACC was pronounced a success also during launch. Jib had hardly warmed his seat in putrajaya and already the effects of his economic policies (although till now still unclear) was declared a success a year or two ago and was in fact given an iconic status with the silly name jibbyonomics (something like that). There are many more examples.

Those idiots do not know that success or failure as the case may be comes years and sometimes decades later. 40 yrs ago umno decided to be clever and changed the language of instruction in schools to malay. The disastrous effect of that change was not felt until several decades later. Again, the failure of nep and the terrible side-effects of that policy were not felt until, again, decades later.

Ni semuanya style umno. Tak confident bertemu dengan keputusan yg sebenar. Jadi declare je lah kejayaan se awal mungkin. Actually this too is an ill-effect of nep. Project launch is all that matters to umnoputras now. The final completion and implementation of the project are not important at all. Nep gave birth to this mentality. Nep under dr mamak’s time was morphed into a special interests policy favouring cronies only. Merits, ability and competency were then kicked aside. So umnoputras had to work with and rely on those who have them, i.e. the ability, merits and competency. And so umnoputras reduced themselves to 10% commission agents (for procuring projects). And worse, because commissions is payable upon successful procurement of the projects (by market practice, this means signing of agreement) umnoputras naturally would see their efforts as successful when projects they procured were launched / announced.

“Ahhh tu dia. Komisen masuk akaun kat luar negeri dulu. Kalau projek tak jadi, tak habis, ada problem tu segala galanya bukan pasal saya. My job is finished.”

And this in turn gave rise to more ill-effects. (1) It is a super quick way to make lots of money. Hence umnoputras have very little respect for knowledge and ability. (2) Umnoputras became fixated with the need to cook-up all sorts of stupid and unworkable projects. The more the better. (3) Greed has a life of its own for it too can grow. So soon umnoputras began to inflate project costs so that the commission collection is enlarged.

This thing about inflating the FDI numbers is therefore not unexpected at all.