Pakatan Rakyat MPs made the call after the Selangor state government revealed its independent audit on Talam yesterday.
KUALA
LUMPUR: Several Pakatan Rakyat MPs today challenged the federal
government to table its audit report on the National Feedlot Corporation
(NFCorp) scandal to the public.
“We know that audit firm PricewaterhouseCoopers had already delivered
its report on NFCorp. Make it public,” said DAP MP Tony Pua at a press
conference held at DAP headquarters.
Also present were PAS MP Dzulkefly Ahmad and PKR MP William Leong.
Pua made the call after audit firm KPMG Transaction &
Restructuring Sdn Bhd reported yesterday that the Selangor state
government made a “sound commercial decision” in the Talam debt recovery
exercise worth RM392 million.
Since July, Agriculture and Agro-Based Deputy Minister Chua Tee Yong
had accused the state government of misappropriating nearly RM1 billion
to bail out debt-ridden Talam.
Selangor Menteri Besar Abdul Khalid Ibrahim, however, said that KPMG
had found that the state government had only collected money from Talam
and no payment was made to the company as accused by Chua.
The full report would be tabled at the Selangor State Legislative
Assembly in November. Khalid also appointed Pua, Dzulkefly and Leong as
the official spokesmen on the matter.
Pua said that if Chua was unhappy, the latter can challenge the audit
report by providing any evidence of wrong-doings to the state
government, MACC or KPMG.
The DAP leader also said that he would conduct a forum on Talam at the MCA leader’s own constituency of Labis, on Sept 9.
“We will hold the forum at the Yong Hock Kong Chinese Temple Hall at
7.30pm and I challenge Chua to come debate us there. Previously, he
dismissed me saying I’m not the official spokesman but now the state had
made me one of the spokesmen.
“If he doesn’t show up, he should forever hold his peace on the
matter and focus on recovering the RM250 million lost from the NFCorp
issue. However, we will continue with the forum as we need to explain
the matter to the public,” he said.
Echoing Pua’s sentiments, Dzulkefly said that Chua should ask how Talam got itself into a massive debt in the first place.
“Chua got it all wrong. The culprits are now trying to sound like victims in the whole thing,” he said.
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