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SARAWAK Sarawak DAP Youth has lodged a report against a state government-owned transport company for allegedly signing a RM 122 million contract to buy 55 buses with hydrogen engines.
The cost of each bus at some RM 2.2 million is way too expensive and must be investigated, said Sarawak DAP Youth Secretary George Lam.
Lam and his team of DAP youth leaders lodged the report at the Malaysian Anti Corruption Commission Sarawak branch headquarters in Kuching today.
"We are lodging this report to urge the MACC to investigate this award of RM 122 mil just to buy 55 buses with hydrogen engines.
"The large sum of money to buy these buses is a matter of concern to the rakyat.
"Chong Chien Jen (Sarawak Opposition chief and State DAP chairman who is Padungan state assemblyman) had tried to raise this query in the recent State Legislative Assembly sitting.
"However the State Transport Minister Datuk Seri Lee Kim Shin refused to answer Chong.
"We in Sarawak DAP want an official investigation," Lam told reporters after lodging the report.
Chong and DAP state assemblywoman for Pending, Violet Yong, had taken the Gabungan Parti Sarawak state government to task for spending mega suns of billions of ringgit just to facilitate the hydrogen trams project in Kuching.
Yong had said more than RM 6 billion was being spent on this project in Kuching alone.
During the State Budget tabling, it was further announced that out of the RM 10 bil development funds for 2025, some RM1.2 billion will be set aside for the hydrogen trams project in Kuching. - November 28, 2024
