Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Mahathir: Pak Lah spent RM54 bil a year!

It is quite interesting to see how Dr M framed the claims by a former managing editor of Asian Wall Street Journal (now Wall Street Journal Asia).
He is willing to be investigated.
Then he made some impossible demands - like asking the government to open up all documents for the commission to look at.
Whoa.
That could open more pekung di dada from here to Zimbabwe.

But more interesting to me was what Dr M revealed about his Mr Clean successor: Abdullah Badawi, the Tun.
Abdullah spent RM270 billion in his mere five years in office, said his former boss.
Oh my God!
That is an average RM54 billion a year.
Or RM4.5 billion a month!!! (times five years).
Semua duit Petronas. Wang rakyat.

Dr M mentioned some of these projects too. Allegedly of course.
Read about these claimed misappropriations here in his blog.

Well, the entire Petronas Twin Towers cost US$1.2 billion - at today's ringgit value, that is RM4.1 billion.
Eeks, so Pak Lah could've built one Petronas Twin Towers projects A MONTH during his five years in office.

OKlah, say that the price now is RM50 billion for each Twin Towers. Maklumlah, inflasi.
He could've still built five Twin Towers!!!
ADDITION: One in Kepala Batas, one near PM's Office in Putrakaya, oops Putrajaya, one each in Ipoh, GeorgeTown and Shah Alam.

Instead we got Monsoon Cup.
And errrr..... nothing else.
Sigh.

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