Water Department case is still tip of the iceberg albeit the biggest so far in Sabah for MACC

Water Department case is still tip of the iceberg albeit the biggest so far in Sabah for MACC

Am I seeing more and more of this big seizure of RM114.5 m cash by Malaysian Anti Corruption Commission? After decades of desire since leaving school Sabah College in a little known personal crusade against abuses of power, corruption, criminal breach of trust, mismanagement and embezzlement of public funds for decades, at last I see this case had been just waiting to emerge.  Such evil practices long known but now finally exposed in Sabah albeit of a medium scale in a scale of 10 with the high end of billions of Ringgit in many cases in the nation yet to be dealt with, when the Sabah case of "The seizure of RM114.5 million cash is the biggest in the history of MACC since it was established 49 years ago," Azam told a press conference at the MACC Sabah office, here, Wednesday.

I hope MACC conduct thorough investigation on all projects worth Billions of Ringgit nationwide and in this case of RM3.3b for the water project in Sabah, how much actually reached Sabah sector.  I also hope MACC would also scrutinise the TAED project in Tanjung Aru Beach worth much more than the water project.

I believe the “Ops Water” case is still ongoing until more people in the State Water Department would be implicated and arrested with much more assets etc…

The press revealed that “Also seized from them are nine luxury cars, branded watches and handbags, jewellery and 127 Sabah land titles, among others, worth a total of RM300 million.”  On the cash and other funds recovered, Azam of MACC said if the court found the money to be ill-gotten, it would be returned to the Government.

So the process would be still to be concluded in the Civil Court and we would like to know if the money is still with the MACC’s Kota Kinabalu office or it had been “disposed” off otherwise.

I have personally lodged more than 30 Police Reports and also to the MACC office since 2004 worth many trillions of Ringgit of official profligacy but I have yet to see any positive action by the relevant authorities.

Now what I see this water case after more than a decades is pale in comparison with what I did mention in all my bulky Police Reports of thousands of double sided pages of more than two inches done with great personal sacrifices.

As we all know Malaysia is entangled with massive abuses of power, corruption, criminal breach of trust, mismanagement and embezzlement of public funds for decades.  The adverse impact of such “culture” largely denied at most times has been that nothing would move without greasing of the palms of the authorities.

Chief Minister responded to this case with cooperation and how would CM deal with the entanglement of corruption and the downside thereof?

Today, we witness the confirmation of sort of the evil trend of corruption and what else we could expect with the latest development in the State Water Department.

It has been all along that the Water Department is mismanaged for various reasons as there had been little improvement over the decades. Now we would be under the pretext that everything in the Water Department would be alright after the arrest of 4 key personnels when much more is still to be desired.  Would this be so?

With a bit of stretched imagination, when any department is loaded with corruption the consumers would certainly suffer at its mercy.  So it is with the water department at this point in time as how the services of the water department could show remarkable improvement with the balance of the staff which had been so used to the culture of corruption?

Without the continued greasing of the palms at that department, would anyone really be believer that the consumers would be provided with better products and services?  What is the motivation now for them to perform?

Would the Water Department be revamped with renewed motivation of the staff so that the consumers would continue to get quality water regularly? 

I certainly hope that the emergency services for broken pipes be handled urgently when all contractors needing cash with kick backs  to the officer concerned for the emergency services to restore the broken pipes whenever and wherever be  done promptly as the office would have some cash on standby.  Now that such emergency cash could be withdrawn at the office and delay to the repair of broken pipes could be delayed to have adverse impact in water supplies to the consumers.

We cannot pretend that corruption would be resolved with the exposed cases of corruption and maybe a total change of Government would stand a better chance in fight on corruption.  Joshua Y C Kong 7^th October, 2016


Published by DE 10/10/2016

Biggest bust may be tip of iceberg

Published on: Saturday, October 08, 2016

THE seizure of RM114.5m cash by Malaysian Anti Corruption Commission was case just waiting to emerge.

The seizure of RM114.5 million cash is the biggest in the history of MACC since it was established 49 years ago.”

I hope MACC conduct thorough investigation on all projects worth billions of ringgit nationwide and in this case of RM3.3b for the water project in Sabah. How much actually reached Sabah sector.

I believe the “Ops Water” case is still ongoing until more people in the State Water Department would be implicated and arrested with much more assets, etc.

The press revealed that “Also seized from them are nine luxury cars, branded watches and handbags, jewellery and 127 Sabah land titles, among others, worth a total of RM300 million.”

On the cash and other funds recovered, Azam of MACC said if the court found the money to be ill-gotten, it would be returned to the Government.

So the process would be still to be concluded in the Civil Court and we would like to know if the money is still with the MACC’s Kota Kinabalu office or it had been “disposed” of.

I have personally lodged more than 30 Police Reports and also to the MACC office since 2004 of official profligacy but I have yet to see any positive action by the relevant authorities.

Now what I see in this water case after more than a decade pales in comparison with what I did mention in all my bulky police reports of thousands of double -sided pages of more than two inches done with great personal sacrifices.

As we all know Malaysia is entangled with massive abuses of power, corruption, criminal breach of trust, mismanagement and embezzlement of public funds for decades.

The adverse impact of such “culture” largely denied at most times has been that nothing would move without greasing the palms of the authoritie.

Today, we witness the confirmation of sort of the evil trend of corruption and what else we could expect with the latest development in the State Water Department.

It has been all along that the Water Department is mismanaged for various reasons as there had been little improvement over the decades.

Now we would be under the pretext that everything in the Water Department would be allright after the arrest of 4 key personnel when much more is still to be desired. Would this be so?

With a bit of stretched imagination, when any department is loaded with corruption the consumers would certainly suffer at its mercy.

So it is with the water department at this point in time as how the services of the water department could show remarkable improvement with the balance of the staff which had been so used to the culture of corruption?

Without the continued greasing of the palms at that department, would anyone really believe that the consumers would be provided with better products and services? What is the motivation now for them to perform?

Would the Water Department be revamped with renewed motivation of the staff so that the consumers would continue to get quality water regularly?

I certainly hope that the emergency services for broken pipes be handled urgently when all contractors needing cash with kickbacks to the officer concerned for the emergency services to restore the broken pipes whenever and wherever be done promptly as the office would have some cash on standby.

We cannot pretend that corruption would be resolved with the exposed cases. http://www.dailyexpress.com.my/read.cfm?NewsID=2243