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Thursday, January 8, 2015

Kit Siang shocked RM800m spent so far on flood victims!

“There should be strict audit of the RM800 million spent so far as Kelantan alone is entitled to get RM500 million to RM600 million as the worst flood stricken state.”
RM800M najib2KUALA LUMPUR: The Opposition has expressed surprise and shock that the Federal Government has already spent RM800 million so far on flood victims in the peninsula as against an announced allocation of RM500 million previously.
“There should be strict audit of the RM800 million spent so far as Kelantan alone is entitled to get RM500 million to RM600 million as the worst flood stricken state,” said DAP elder statesman Lim Kit Siang in a statement on the sidelines of a visit to Gua Musang, the worst-hit area in the country.
“I am shocked that Deputy Finance Minister Ahmad Maslan announced on Tuesday that the government had so far spent about RM800 million through the National Security Council to help victims in states affected by floods in the provision of food supply, logistics and cleaning houses of victims.”
No one in Kelantan would feel that the Federal Government had spent RM500 million to RM600 million in Kelantan in the past two weeks of the floods catastrophe to help flood victims, he added. “No money should be spared to help the flood victims, but not a sen should be wasted.”
Lim, who is also DAP Parliamentary Leader and Gelang Patah MP, warned that government expenditures to cope with the catastrophe must directly benefit the flood victims and “not the flood barons, entrepreneurs and cronies”.
He urged Deputy Prime Minister and Education Minister Muhyiddin Yassin to pledge that every student affected by the floods will be provided free sets of school uniforms, text books, exercise books, and all other necessary school supplies, which will be evidence of such expenditures directly benefiting the flood victims.
“There should be no rigid requirement for students to wear school uniform at least for the first month of school for the flood-stricken areas, until every student has been supplied with two sets of free school uniforms,” he suggested.
He recalled that he sent an email to Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak on a five-point action plan on the floods catastrophe which have caused 23 dead, evacuation of a quarter of million people, and a million people adversely affected by the floods, and losses running into billions of ringgit.
Five-point action plan to cope with floods catastrophe.
“I also asked for an urgent meeting with the Prime Minister before the Cabinet meeting this week,” said Lim. “The people expect the Cabinet to make important decisions on the floods catastrophe especially with Ministers on vacation abroad and since the Cabinet had not met for 20 days including during the worst period of the December 2014 floods catastrophe.”
“As the Prime Minister is suffering from E Coli after floods visits, I am not pressing for a meeting with Najib before the Cabinet meeting.”
Lim reiterated the five-point action plan which he had outlined to him in his email viz. declaration of a state of emergency for the flood-stricken states; formation of a BN-PR Joint Action Council on Floods Catastrophe; a Special Sitting of Parliament this month on the Floods Catastrophe and to discuss the deferment of the implementation of GST to reduce the burden on the flood victims.
The five-point plan also includes an increase in the allocation for relief of flood victims to enable every flood victim whose livelihood/business had been wiped out by the floods catastrophe to apply for interest free loans to start life and business anew; and the establishment of a Royal Commission of Inquiry into the weaknesses and failures of the Floods Disaster Preparation Plans to provide relief and help to the flood victims of the current floods catastrophe.

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