KUALA LUMPUR – Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin will be giving his statement to the Public Accounts Committee on the issue of the development and procurement of MySejahtera application on April 14.
He was quoted as saying by Bernama that he “has nothing to hide”.
“I have nothing to hide. This important app is used for (the management) of Covid-19, vaccinations and the Virtual Covid-19 Assessment Centre.”
He said this after visiting the Raja Permaisuri Bainun Hospital in Ipoh yesterday.
The controversy over the app came to a head when ownership is linked to an intricate web of corporate structure and non-Malaysian shareholders in those entities.
Khairy had said the deal to transfer the app’s intellectual property and software licence between its original developer Entomo Malaysia Sdn Bhd (formerly KPISoft) and MySJ Sdn Bhd is unrelated to the government’s latest negotiation.
Last Friday, he downplayed concerns about foreign interests in Entomo Malaysia, saying that the majority shareholders in the company are Malaysians.
He also revealed to the Dewan Negara that the government had signed a non-disclosure agreement with the developers of the MySejahtera contact tracing app on April 1, 2020, to secure ownership of all user data, and that one of the main terms in the agreement was for the government to gain full ownership of data and information obtained from MySejahtera users. – The Vibes, April 6, 2022
