KUALA LUMPUR – Claims that a RM285 million reservoir upgrading project allegedly approved after Parliament was dissolved for the 15th general election are untrue, as the project was approved in November 2020, caretaker environment and water minister Datuk Seri Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man said today.
The claim was made by PKR deputy president Rafizi Ramli in a press conference and on his Facebook yesterday, with the use of a letter purportedly from the Treasury’s procurement division to the ministry’s secretary-general.
However, Tuan Ibrahim today said the project to upgrade the catchment area reservoir in southern Klang was approved in November 2020, and the project’s procurement process began on October 6, 2021.
“As such, statements by those who alleged that the government approved the project after Parliament was dissolved (on October 10, 2022), are unfounded,” Tuan Ibrahim said in a statement.
“The ministry is very careful making any decisions or taking action while it is a caretaker government,” he added.
Rafizi had claimed that the letter from the Treasury to the ministry was dated October 27, 17 days after Parliament’s dissolution.
Rafizi is being sued by Tuan Ibrahim over separate claims that the ministry had approved another RM2 billion flood mitigation project awarded to an Umno-linked company, also after Parliament’s dissolution. – The Vibes, November 17, 2022
