{"id":7672,"date":"2014-04-01T15:29:57","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T07:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/?p=7672"},"modified":"2014-04-01T15:29:57","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T07:29:57","slug":"cost-for-klia2-mushrooms-to-over-rm-4-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/cost-for-klia2-mushrooms-to-over-rm-4-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Cost for KLIA2 mushrooms to over RM 4 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/klia2-design-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7676\" style=\"padding-right: 20px;\" title=\"klia2-design-2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/klia2-design-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/klia2-design-2.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/klia2-design-2-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/klia2-design-2-298x175.jpg 298w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Petaling Jaya Utara MP Tony Pua has taken the government to task for the massive skyrocketing of construction costs for Kuala Lumpur International Airport 2 (KLIA 2)\u00a0from RM1.7 billion in 2007 to the latest admitted figure of over RM4 billion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Edge Financial Daily reports that\u00a0Deputy Transport Minister Dato\u2019 Abdul Rahim Bakri\u00a0has admitted that the cost for KLIA 2 would exceed RM4 billion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is despite the previous assurance given by the\u00a0head of \u00a0the Special Cabinet Taskforce on KLIA2, Abdul Aziz Kaprawi, as well as the acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein who had claimed the cost would not exceed RM4 billion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Heads must roll, or the entire Najib administration will be responsible for perhaps a revised RM 5 billion \u201clow cost\u201d KLIA2 scandal and to send a message to all Government-linked companies\u00a0(GLC), that he will not tolerate incompetence and gross mismanagement,&#8221; Pua said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The DAP MP said the government should fire MAHB managing director Bashir Ahmad Abdul Majid in view of the constant cost ballooning of KLIA 2.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The airport had initially been slated to cost RM1.7 billion, as announced by then-Transport Minister Ong Tee Keat. The budget was subsequently increased to RM2 billion in March 2009, RM2.5 billion in October 2010, and RM3.9 billion in November 2011.<\/p>\n<div>Pua said that the continuous cost overruns reflected mismanagement of taxpayer&#8217;s money, saying that MAHB had continuously deceived Malaysians on the matter. He pointed out that the authorities denied a previous comment by Air Asia CEO Tony Fernandes that the airport cost had ballooned to RM5 billion in July 2012. -The Rocket<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Petaling Jaya Utara MP Tony Pua has taken the government to task for the massive skyrocketing of construction costs for Kuala Lumpur International Airport 2 (KLIA 2)\u00a0from RM1.7 billion in 2007 to the latest admitted figure of over RM4 billion. The Edge Financial Daily reports that\u00a0Deputy Transport Minister Dato\u2019 Abdul Rahim Bakri\u00a0has admitted that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7672","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7672"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7693,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7672\/revisions\/7693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}