Posted in Current Issues, Parliament, Transparency on Mar 18th, 2009 24 Comments »
It is wrong to think that Defence scandals confine only to submarine, Eurocopter, Sukhoi, and big-time weapons.
Today I held a press conference in the lobby of the Parliament to expose more scandals in awarding Defence contracts. Last week, I received a written answer from the Ministry of Defence revealing that in 2008 54% of the [...]
Posted in Altantuya case, Human Rights, Parliament, Politics, Umno, Viewpoint on Mar 16th, 2009 11 Comments »
After delivering lots of carrots in the stimulus package, Najib is now ready to wave the big stick.
MP for Puchong Gobind Singh Deo was suspended for a year today. The Speaker won’t even let the House to have a proper debate.
Last Thursday (12 March), Gobind has been suspended for one day. But that was not [...]
Posted in Altantuya case, Economy, Parliament on Mar 12th, 2009 7 Comments »
Two Members of Parliament were kicked out today (12 March)
The MP for Ranau Siringan Gubat was suspended by the Parliament Speaker during question time this morning. The House Speaker Pandikar ordered him to leave the chamber when Gubat interjected the debate on social contract between Parit Buntar MP Dr Mujahid Yusof Rawa and Deputy Minister [...]
Posted in Parliament on Mar 5th, 2009 7 Comments »
On 3 March, I received a written answer from the Ministry of Defence on defence purchases.
My question was:
Request the Minister of Defence to list down the number and value of military purchases or projects that had been conducted through direct negotiation from year 2006-2008.
The answer was rather disappointing. The Defence Minister who is the outgoing [...]
Posted in Activities, Human Rights, Parliament on Dec 18th, 2008 6 Comments »
This morning cyclists from “Cycling for Change” Campaign arrived in Parliament to hand over their memorandum. This was the final stop for the campaign.
MP Sg Siput Dr Kumar Devaraj had given prior notice to the Parliament and book a hall to host lunch for the cyclists.
I reached Parliament House at about 10:30hr, a large groups [...]
Posted in Parliament on Dec 16th, 2008 4 Comments »
At 19:30hr (16 December), after two days debate, the parliament dominated by BN MPs is now bulldozing the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) Bill.
Subang MP Sivarasa proposed several amendments to strengthen the power of the Commission. We also advocate that the MACC to be free from Attorney General Office. However, MPs from BN rejected our motion [...]
Posted in Parliament, Transparency on Dec 15th, 2008 3 Comments »
It is already 23:15hr, 15 minutes before parliament ends, I am still waiting for my chance to speak on Malaysian Anti Corruption Commission Bill.
All speakers from both ruling and opposition parties had pointed out various weaknesses of the bill. I am rather pessimist that the Government is willing to amend or improve the bill.
The Opposition [...]
Posted in Parliament, Viewpoint on Dec 14th, 2008 3 Comments »
The PM has tabled a number of bills last week. These are supposedly the reforms initiated by PM Abdullah.
The Parliament scheduled an additional week to rush through these bills. In the last 6 days of parliament session this year (which end on 18 December), we have to stay for extra hours at night to debate [...]
Posted in Parliament on Dec 3rd, 2008 7 Comments »
It has been a while, we have not seen PM in Parliament.
Tonight (3 December) we have another long extended session of parliament as we are rushing to pass Budget 2009 at the committee level. Parliament will end by 18 December. We have to finish the Budget by next week and the remaining days we will [...]
Posted in Parliament, Visual on Nov 26th, 2008 1 Comment »
I raised a question on parking system in KL. Got a long lecture from the Minister of Federal Territory.
As we heard, the parking system of KL is like a big cake, it is being cut into pieces for so many companies and interest groups.