Water privatization
PUNCAK NIAGA BEGINS WAR WITH LIM KENG YAIK
75,000 ROZALI'S STAKEHOLDERS WITH INTER-RELATED INTERESTS & PERSONAL INTERESTS CONSPIRED UNDER THE BANNER OF SELANGOR MALAY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (OF WHICH ROZALI IS THE PRESIDENT), SENT A MEMO TO PM TO SPEED UP WATER PRIVATIZATION AWARD TO SYABAS-PUNCAK NIAGA IN THE PRETEXT OF THE WATER WOES FACED BY SELANGOR RESIDENTS.
The memorandum, addressed to Prime Minister called on the Government to speed up the privatisation of water supply, if it had decided to do so.
It was handed to Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister Datuk Shafie Apdal during a dialogue with the Selangor Malay Chamber of Commerce here today.
The signatures were collected by a group of 15 organisations and associations who largey comprises his cronies, his consultants for the target project and his probable sub-contractors and suppliers, and probably his staffs and includes those others related.
Chamber president Tan Sri Rozali Ismail said frequent water supply disruptions, poor water quality, low water pressure and other forms of water supply problems had consistently affected consumers. Among the points raised in the memorandum was that consumers were now having to purchase individual water filters as a result of poor water quality. Another was that consumers do not want to hear continuously about financial difficulties and the hassles of government bureaucracies before any suggested solution is put forward. An example is the setting up of the National Water Commission. The time that would take for it to be set up has been used as an excuse for not implementing remedial works and integrated actions to solve the problems. Another point raised was that inefficient management and planning of water resources had contributed to the increased level of water lost through leaking pipes, burst pipes and rampant illegal supply connections. These are the factors why water is not a revenue earner. Rozali said if immediate steps were not taken to solve the problems, it would be the consumers who would suffer and subsequently their businesses would be affected in many ways. "Consumers are often informed of the problems causing the lack of water supply but they are not being solved," he said.
LIM KENG YAIK WAS EQUALLY QUICK & WITTY. HE TOO CALLED FOR A MEETING WITH INDUSTRY PLAYERS AT HIS MINISTRY.
In that meeting, it was reported that water industry players have urged the Government to review some of the contracts awarded by some states, saying they are inconsistent with the current plan to centralise water supply operations in the country. They said some of the contracts were only awarded recently, but not through the Economic Planning Unit (EPU), which oversees privatisation projects.
“There could be some irregularities in the way certain contracts were awarded and they should be reviewed in the spirit of creating a level playing field for all water industry players,” an executive with one of the companies told StarBiz.
Such concerns were voiced by industry players during a series of meetings organised over the past week by the Ministry of Energy, Water and Communications.
“Most players in the state are unhappy about how some of the water contracts were unequal with one company enjoying higher rates than the others,” the executive said, adding that in one instance, payments received by a water company from the state government were based on its total capacity rather than its actual production, as was the case with other water firms. The difference in contract pricing, he said, had resulted in a higher water bill for the state water body, Perbadanan Urus Air Selangor Bhd (PUAS), which had to pay for treated water it did not use. In the long run, such contracts would also disadvantage consumers, the executive said.
EPILOGUE:
It can be clearly seen that Tan Sri Rozali is getting impatient and sense that he and his Puncak Niaga will not have an easy time with Lim Keng Yaik as regard to the price he wants and the profit that was presumably assured by the Mahathir's regime. So, before the National Water Commission gets to the parliment for approval, he abused his position in the Selangor Malay Chamber of Commerce by selectively organizing his group of cronies and stake-related-holders to present a Memo to the Prime Minister in an effort to apply communal political pressure under the disguise of the interest of Malay Chamber of Commerce and the selective Malays in general, to discredit Lim Keng Yaik and forced him to back-off or they would trash him into pieces.
God forbid if Rozali ever managed to get his way, it will spell the death of democracy and meritocracy, which is the core integrity of Badawi's government. The game is getting insidious and they are treading the line of communalisim and exclusivism. My wonder is: "Was it the intent of the privatization deal made by Mahathir, to be on communal basis and is Rozali representing the Malay chamber of commerce and the malays as a whole?
When it comes to money and the get-rich quick national-economic-scheme, you will see the declared public angel unweils his devilish fangs.
I hope the nation gets behind Keng Yaik to thwart-off the schemers. We can never find another brave man in the likes of Keng Yaik, who had the absolute courage to stand by the right principles and who isn't afraid to lose his neck which is out-stretched to the limit in order to protect and uphold the Rakyats' interests and in exposing the national robber barons.
KENG YAIK BOLEH & WE HOPE PAK-LAH WILL SUPPORT YOU!
PUNCAK NIAGA BEGINS WAR WITH LIM KENG YAIK
75,000 ROZALI'S STAKEHOLDERS WITH INTER-RELATED INTERESTS & PERSONAL INTERESTS CONSPIRED UNDER THE BANNER OF SELANGOR MALAY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (OF WHICH ROZALI IS THE PRESIDENT), SENT A MEMO TO PM TO SPEED UP WATER PRIVATIZATION AWARD TO SYABAS-PUNCAK NIAGA IN THE PRETEXT OF THE WATER WOES FACED BY SELANGOR RESIDENTS.
The memorandum, addressed to Prime Minister called on the Government to speed up the privatisation of water supply, if it had decided to do so.
It was handed to Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister Datuk Shafie Apdal during a dialogue with the Selangor Malay Chamber of Commerce here today.
The signatures were collected by a group of 15 organisations and associations who largey comprises his cronies, his consultants for the target project and his probable sub-contractors and suppliers, and probably his staffs and includes those others related.
Chamber president Tan Sri Rozali Ismail said frequent water supply disruptions, poor water quality, low water pressure and other forms of water supply problems had consistently affected consumers. Among the points raised in the memorandum was that consumers were now having to purchase individual water filters as a result of poor water quality. Another was that consumers do not want to hear continuously about financial difficulties and the hassles of government bureaucracies before any suggested solution is put forward. An example is the setting up of the National Water Commission. The time that would take for it to be set up has been used as an excuse for not implementing remedial works and integrated actions to solve the problems. Another point raised was that inefficient management and planning of water resources had contributed to the increased level of water lost through leaking pipes, burst pipes and rampant illegal supply connections. These are the factors why water is not a revenue earner. Rozali said if immediate steps were not taken to solve the problems, it would be the consumers who would suffer and subsequently their businesses would be affected in many ways. "Consumers are often informed of the problems causing the lack of water supply but they are not being solved," he said.
LIM KENG YAIK WAS EQUALLY QUICK & WITTY. HE TOO CALLED FOR A MEETING WITH INDUSTRY PLAYERS AT HIS MINISTRY.
In that meeting, it was reported that water industry players have urged the Government to review some of the contracts awarded by some states, saying they are inconsistent with the current plan to centralise water supply operations in the country. They said some of the contracts were only awarded recently, but not through the Economic Planning Unit (EPU), which oversees privatisation projects.
“There could be some irregularities in the way certain contracts were awarded and they should be reviewed in the spirit of creating a level playing field for all water industry players,” an executive with one of the companies told StarBiz.
Such concerns were voiced by industry players during a series of meetings organised over the past week by the Ministry of Energy, Water and Communications.
“Most players in the state are unhappy about how some of the water contracts were unequal with one company enjoying higher rates than the others,” the executive said, adding that in one instance, payments received by a water company from the state government were based on its total capacity rather than its actual production, as was the case with other water firms. The difference in contract pricing, he said, had resulted in a higher water bill for the state water body, Perbadanan Urus Air Selangor Bhd (PUAS), which had to pay for treated water it did not use. In the long run, such contracts would also disadvantage consumers, the executive said.
EPILOGUE:
It can be clearly seen that Tan Sri Rozali is getting impatient and sense that he and his Puncak Niaga will not have an easy time with Lim Keng Yaik as regard to the price he wants and the profit that was presumably assured by the Mahathir's regime. So, before the National Water Commission gets to the parliment for approval, he abused his position in the Selangor Malay Chamber of Commerce by selectively organizing his group of cronies and stake-related-holders to present a Memo to the Prime Minister in an effort to apply communal political pressure under the disguise of the interest of Malay Chamber of Commerce and the selective Malays in general, to discredit Lim Keng Yaik and forced him to back-off or they would trash him into pieces.
God forbid if Rozali ever managed to get his way, it will spell the death of democracy and meritocracy, which is the core integrity of Badawi's government. The game is getting insidious and they are treading the line of communalisim and exclusivism. My wonder is: "Was it the intent of the privatization deal made by Mahathir, to be on communal basis and is Rozali representing the Malay chamber of commerce and the malays as a whole?
When it comes to money and the get-rich quick national-economic-scheme, you will see the declared public angel unweils his devilish fangs.
I hope the nation gets behind Keng Yaik to thwart-off the schemers. We can never find another brave man in the likes of Keng Yaik, who had the absolute courage to stand by the right principles and who isn't afraid to lose his neck which is out-stretched to the limit in order to protect and uphold the Rakyats' interests and in exposing the national robber barons.
KENG YAIK BOLEH & WE HOPE PAK-LAH WILL SUPPORT YOU!
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