{"id":15970,"date":"2020-09-02T18:11:58","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T10:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/?p=15970"},"modified":"2020-09-02T19:18:53","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T11:18:53","slug":"zuraida-should-not-hide-cover-up-the-truth-or-run-away-from-the-real-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/zuraida-should-not-hide-cover-up-the-truth-or-run-away-from-the-real-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Zuraida should not hide, cover up the truth or run away from the real facts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/eng-1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15981\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/eng-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/eng-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/eng-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/eng-1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/eng-1-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/eng-1-465x262.jpg 465w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/eng-1-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>DAP Secretarty-General, Lim Guan Eng urges the Minister of Housing and Local Government (KPKT), Zuraida Kamaruddin to not hide the real truth and facts behind her ministry&#8217;s Taman Beringin Solid Waste Project (PSPTB).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was after Zuraida plead ignorance regarding the project and out of nowhere accused Lim as former Finance Minister as the one who approved it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/erere-692x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15886\" width=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/erere-692x1024.png 692w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/erere-203x300.png 203w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/erere-465x688.png 465w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/erere.png 730w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><figcaption><em>Why did Zuraida in 2019 visited the project that she never knew her ministry approved?<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n&nbsp;\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;Zuraida is still trying to manipulate the facts by accusing me of approving the PSPTB project without her knowledge. This is impossible.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;I would like to reiterate that the standard procedure is for the ministry in charge (in this case KPKT) will apply to the Finance Ministry (MoF) for any direct-negotiation projects to be approved. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;Hence, there should be an application letter from KPKT to the Finance Ministry.&#8221;<\/strong> said Lim in a statement today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He further stressed that the mentioned KPKT application letter has been sent to MOF in 2018 by the former&#8217;s secretary-general (KSU) since the project involves a sizeable amount of RM170.3 million. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/DSC_8070-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15976\" width=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/DSC_8070-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/DSC_8070-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/DSC_8070-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/DSC_8070-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption><em>Lim Guan Eng speaking during a press conference in DAP HQ on 1.9.2020<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n&nbsp;\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;It is not possible for the KSU of KPKT to write an official letter in 2018 to the MoF without the knowledge or agreement of its minister, namely Zuraida.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cIf it is true that the application was made without Zuraida\u2019s knowledge, KSU could be subject to disciplinary action.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Up until today, Zuraida has still failed to produce a letter given out to KPKT from either MOF or Lim. The Member of Parliament for Bagan added,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\"><strong>\u201cI hope Zuraida does not hide, hide facts, cover up the truth or run away from the real facts,\u201d <\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In the same statement, Lim also reminded the current Finance Minister, Tengku Zafrul to reveal the list of direct-negotiation projects approved by Barisan Nasional (BN) in the past and by his own government, Perikatan Nasional (PN). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beliau juga menggesa Zafrul untuk memperbetulkan fakta berkenaan 101 projek RT itu, kerana 95 peratus atau RM6.258 bilion nilai projek itu diwarisi daripada pemerintahan BN yang terpaksa diteruskan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAP Secretarty-General, Lim Guan Eng urges the Minister of Housing and Local Government (KPKT), Zuraida Kamaruddin to not hide the real truth and facts behind her ministry&#8217;s Taman Beringin Solid Waste Project (PSPTB). This was after Zuraida plead ignorance regarding the project and out of nowhere accused Lim as former Finance Minister as the one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260,531],"tags":[803,804,802,805,639,419,801],"class_list":["post-15970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current","category-featured","tag-finance","tag-hide","tag-kpkt","tag-ksu","tag-lge","tag-mof","tag-zuraida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15970"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15987,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15970\/revisions\/15987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}