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5-minute debate for RM13 billion Defence Ministry budget 2009

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

I was stunned when I stood up late last night to debate the 2009 Budgetary estimates for the Defence Ministry to be told by the Deputy Speaker Ronald Kiandee, that MPs are limited to five minutes each!
The Defence Ministry has a budget of RM13 billion for next year and is one of the six big-spending [...]

Posted in Defence, Parliament | 19 Comments »

Still no PAC report on Eurocopter inquiry – will Azmi emulate Indian Home Minister and resign?

Monday, December 1st, 2008

On November 11, Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Chairman Datuk Seri Azmi Khalid had promised that the PAC report on its inquiry into the RM1.6 billion Eurocopter deal would be tabled in Parliament “in two or three days”.
How can Azmi’s interpretation of “two or three days” be so elastic as to stretch to three weeks, and [...]

Posted in Corruption, Defence | 21 Comments »

No PAC report on Eurocopter and no PAC investigation into HSBB and BII scandals after more than a month

Monday, November 17th, 2008

No Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report on its inquiry into the RM1.6 billion Eurocopter deal has been tabled in Parliament today although the PAC Chairman Datuk Seri Azmi Khalid had promised last Wednesday that the PAC report would be ready to be tabled in two or three days.
More than a month had passed since [...]

Posted in Defence, IT, Parliament | 14 Comments »

Eurocopter answers PAC must give in its report

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

I thank Datuk Seri Azmi Khalid for committing a grave parliamentary impropriety yesterday in compromising his position as the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Chairman and trying to hit out at me in Parliament for my earlier criticisms of him in mishandling the PAC inquiry into the RM1.6 billion Eurocopter helicopter deal, resulting [...]

Posted in Corruption, Defence, Parliament | 14 Comments »

Why Azmi should resign as PAC Chairman

Saturday, November 8th, 2008

Yesterday, the Star carried a letter by an ex-airman contending that “We don’t need the Eurocopter”.
He wrote:
“AS an ex-RMAF serviceman for 22 years, I believe I am qualified to comment on our government’s insistence on purchasing the Eurocopters. Worse still, without any physical tests.
“Buying the Eurocopter for use in Malaysia is like buying an F1 [...]

Posted in Defence, Parliament | 19 Comments »

Azmi’s unilateral rush as PAC Chairman to whitewash Eurocoper helicopter deal fiasco

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

Public Accounts Committee Chairman Datuk Seri Azmi Khalid has provided the most eloquent testimony why there is a Commonwealth parliamentary convention that a senior Opposition parliamentarian should be head of the PAC (and why a Minister who has just stepped down from the Cabinet should not head the PAC) if the parliamentary watchdog [...]

Posted in Defence, Parliament | 30 Comments »

Are Nuris “flying coffins”?

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

Are Nuris “flying coffins”? If not, why not just upgrade them for a few hundred million ringgit, a small fraction of the cost as compared to the billion-ringgit purchase of Cougar EC725 Eurocopters, which are 40-year-old Cougars in any event?
This is one important question which the Public Accounts Committee should probe, answer [...]

Posted in Defence, Parliament | 16 Comments »

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