FORM ROYAL PROBE ON DR M'S SQUANDERING - Dr. Mahathir Mohamad / Mahathir: Pak Lah spent RM54 bil a year!

FORM ROYAL PROBE ON DR M'S SQUANDERING

By

Dr. Mahathir Mohamad

1. I welcome Lim Kit Siang's proposal for Najib to set up a royal commission on whether I burned RM100 billion on grandiose projects and corruption during my 22-year reign.

2. Such a commission should not be made up of Government nominees but should have as members impeccable people including foreigners and members of Transparency International.

3. The commission should not confine to one Prime Minister only but to Tun Abdullah Badawi's regime.

4. It should include how RM270 billion of Petronas money paid during Abdullah's five-year term was spent; what projects were financed by this huge fund and the cost of all these projects.

5. It should include how much money was lost due to the cancellation of the crooked bridge and the Johore Baru to Padang Besar railway.

6. What is the cost over-run in the construction of the Bakun Hydroelectric project.

7. The financing of the second Penang Bridge and the procedure followed when giving out this contract.

8. I also agree with Lim Kit Siang that the investigation would reflect Najib's commitment to "combating corruption".

9. In order that the enquiry by the commission would be successful, Government must give the undertaking to give full access to the commission of all the documents and accounts of the Government over the period 1981-2009. There should be no cover-up of any kind.

10. Barry Wain must provide documentary proof of any sum that he alleged I had burned.

11. I will co-operate fully with the commission.

12. Depending upon the result of the commission, I reserve the right to sue Barry Wain, Lim Kit Siang and Malaysiakini.com for libel for a sum to be disclosed later.

13. If the Government is witholding the book: "Malaysian Maverick: Mahathir Mohamad in Turbulent Times", I would request that the book be released forthwith. I am not in need of Government protection.

source : chedet

Mahathir: Pak Lah spent RM54 bil a year!

It is quite interesting to see how Dr M framed the claims by a former managing editor of Asian Wall Street Journal (now Wall Street Journal Asia).

He is willing to be investigated.

Then he made some impossible demands - like asking the government to open up all documents for the commission to look at.

Whoa.

That could open more pekung di dada from here to Zimbabwe.

But more interesting to me was what Dr M revealed about his Mr Clean successor: Abdullah Badawi, the Tun.

Abdullah spent RM270 billion in his mere five years in office, said his former boss.

Oh my God!

That is an average RM54 billion a year.

Or RM4.5 billion a month!!! (times five years).

Semua duit Petronas. Wang rakyat.

Dr M mentioned some of these projects too. Allegedly of course.

Read about these claimed misappropriations here in his blog.

Well, the entire Petronas Twin Towers cost US$1.2 billion - at today's ringgit value, that is RM4.1 billion.

Eeks, so Pak Lah could've built one Petronas Twin Towers projects A MONTH during his five years in office.

OKlah, say that the price now is RM50 billion for each Twin Towers. Maklumlah, inflasi.

He could've still built five Twin Towers!!!

Instead we got Monsoon Cup.

And errrr..... nothing else.

Sigh.