Tun M: Saya tahu ke mana duit hilang

Tun Dr Mahathir menjelaskan kerugian yang dialami di zamannya adalah berpunca daripada kelemahan dalam pengurusan.

PETALING JAYA: Bekas Perdana Menteri, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad mengakui pernah melakukan kesilapan sepanjang mentadbir negara ini.

Dalam tulisan di blognya, chedet.cc beliau menjelaskan beberapa kerugian yang pernah ditanggung sehingga menyebabkan Malaysia kehilangan wang.

Ulasnya, kerugian yang dialami ketika itu adalah berpunca daripada Perwaja Steel, Bank Bumiputra Malaysia Finance dan Maminco kerana terdapat kelemahan dalam pengurusan.

“Yang nyata ialah negara tahu dimana pergi wang yang dilabur semasa saya. Dalam perniagaan adakala untung, adakala rugi. Yang tidak boleh diterima ialah duit itu hilang tanpa diketahui kemana,” katanya.

Jelasnya, kejatuhan nilai Ringgit sebanyak 70 sen pada masa ini adalah penyebab kerugian berbilion ringgit kepada negara.

“Tetapi apabila Ringgit diselamatkan dari penyangak matawang, berbillion ringgit duit kerajaan diselamatkan. Dan ramai peniaga yang muflis dan hampir muflis terselamat pada tahun 1998. Lupakan sahajalah peristiwa ini kerana ia berlaku di zaman saya,” katanya.

Menurut Dr. Mahathir, apa yang berlaku, di bawah pentadbiran Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, lebih teruk berbanding zamannya selepas hutang negara meningkat.

Situasi yang berlaku dikaitkan dengan kegagalan pelaburan 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), sehingga Malaysia terpaksa menanggung hutang mencecah RM42 billion.

Beliau mendakwa bahawa peranan Jho Low yang diberikan kepercayaan oleh Najib untuk mengendalikan dana 1MDB yang berjumlah berbilion ringgit langsung sama sekali tidak sama dengan apa yang dilakukan Tun Daim Zainuddin ketika beliau menjadi Menteri Kewangan.

“Saya bukan tuduh Datuk Seri Najib. Saya bertanya beberapa soalan kerana hutang berbillion ini akan ditanggung oleh rakyat akhirnya.

“Jawapan tidak juga diberi oleh mereka yang mengecam saya selain daripada berkata saya punyai kepentingan atau saya juga buat kerja yang sama,” katanya ketika menjawab semula kritikan yang dilemparkan ke atasnya.

Dr M answers his critics

He says his disagreement is not with Umno, but with its leader

PETALING JAYA: Former premier Mahathir Mohamad has defended himself against critics of his attack on Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak, including those who have implied wrongdoing on his part when he was in power.

In his latest blog entry, Mahathir denies that his previous article accused Najib of any crime, saying he only asked for answers to questions raised by the public. It is for the police to determine whether Najib is guilty of any crime, he says.

To those who have asked why he has waited eight years to raise the issue of the Altantuya murder, he says: “What I have raised is an issue that is relevant today – the issue of the lives of two policemen who have been sentenced to death. It would be unjust indeed if they were to be killed for obeying an order. I merely asked who gave the order to Sirul and his companion.”

Mahathir admits that the country lost money during his administration, but he says Malaysians and the rest of the world know where the money went. “They know about Perwaja’s losses. They know about the mismanagement of Bank Bumiputra.” He attempts to explain Maminco’s losses, but with regard to allegations connected to Konsortium Perkapalan and Forex, he asks his accusers to explain how he was involved in them.

“What is clear,” he says, “is that the nation knows where money was invested during my time. In business, we sometimes gain and we sometimes lose. But it is unacceptable when we don’t know where the money goes.”

He says he asked a few questions regarding 1MDB because the billions in debt that it has incurred will eventually burden the public.

“Those who have attacked me have not given any answers. They only say that I have an agenda and that I did the same thing when I was in power. “

He says he won’t object to investigations into his alleged wrongdoings.

He also reveals, without giving details, that Najib was “partly instrumental” in the ouster of his predecessor, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.

Addressing critics who say he has a political agenda, Mahathir asks: “What is wrong with that? A Prime Minister must be seen to be clean and able to explain and answer questions and to be good for the country. Najib cannot even answer and has not answered any question, beyond exercising elegant silence or saying the allegations are not true.

“There is also an attempt to divert attention from my questions by saying that I am siding with the opposition, even that I have become leader of the opposition.

“If saying something that is similar to the opposition makes me aligned with the opposition, then Najib must be more with the opposition than me because he agreed with the opposition to abolish the ISA, the prevention of crime law and ignore the NEP. He also wanted to abolish the Sedition Act as demanded by the opposition. If Umno did not object, the Sedition Act would have been abolished. So is Najib a member of the opposition?

“I am still an Umno member. My disagreement is with the leader, not with the party. I criticised the leader, not the party. It is simply because I want to see the party win. It will not win if Najib is the leader.”

DR M SAYS HIS FINANCIAL MISTAKES IS NOT BAD AS NAJIB

The Malaysian Insider filepic, April 7, 2015.

In a rare admission of his past policy mistakes, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamed conceded that he lost public money during his time as Prime Minister, but stressed that these were not as bad as the billions going missing under the current administration.

In a blog posting today, Dr Mahathir attempted to defend some of the ill-fated decisions of his 22-year administration in a bid to counter  the argument that he should not criticise Najib’s policy mistakes such as the 1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal.

“I admit that during my time there was also loss of the country’s funds. But the public and the world knows how the money went missing,” Dr Mahathir wrote in his blog posting today.

Isu Air Selangor

KRISIS AIR DI SELANGOR

SULTAN Selangor, Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah pada Isnin (30 Mac) mahu perjanjian penstrukturan semula industri perkhidmatan air di negeri itu dimuktamadkan segera mengikut perjanjian utama yang ditandatangani oleh kerajaan negeri dan kerajaan Persekutuan pada 12 September 2014.

Baginda menggesa supaya proses itu dijalankan berlandaskan semangat dan terma perjanjian utama serta tidak dipolitikkan mana-mana pihak agar ia dapat dilaksanakan dengan sempurna bagi memenuhi keperluan pembangunan serta kehidupan rakyat Selangor.

Sultan Sharafuddin juga menitahkan supaya kerajaan Selangor sentiasa bersedia dengan langkah-langkah terbaik untuk memastikan bekalan air bersih mencukupi bagi keperluan domestik dan industri.

Pada pandangan penulis, mereka yang benar-benar sayangkan duit rakyat dan cintakan ketelusan perlu melihat isu ini sepertimana berikut:

> Tanpa pembinaan loji Langat 2, keseluruhan projek yang sudah 80% siap (termasuk 44.5km saluran paip dari Sg Pahang ke Selangor) ini akan menjadi projek gajah putih. Kerugian? RM8.5 billion.

> Kedegilan kerajaan negeri untuk mencari solusi lain seperti teknologi membran akan menelan belanja RM3 bilion. Tetapi ini adalah untuk jangka masa pendek.

> 11 projek mitigasi ketika krisis air tahun lepas menelan belanja RM750 juta. Tanpa Langat 2, sekiranya krisis air berlaku lagi, projek mitigasi baru diperlukan kerana tiada bekalan alternatif.

> Penilaian kembali tawaran aset syarikat air SPLASH akan meningkat daripada RM250 juta kepada RM2.8 bilion seperti yang dituntut. Ini adalah RM2.55 bilion lebih banyak yang terpaksa dikeluarkan daripada kantung kerajaan.

Jadi potensi kerugian jika kerajaan Selangor masih lagi berdegil untuk tidak meneruskan Langat 2 adalah seperti berikut pula:

> RM 8.5 bilion + RM3 bilion + RM0.75 bilion + RM2.55 bilion = RM14.8 bilion.

> Ini adalah 14,800,000,000 sebab mengapa isu air di Selangor juga memberikan 'risiko sistematik’ kepada kehidupan kita sebagaimana 1MDB.

Mari kita fahami mengenai krisis air di Selangor;