‘The people are not stupid and neither are the Selcat investigating team. Typical of Khir Toyo to blame others. I say get back every penny.’
On Ex-MB slams Selcat for tarnishing his reputation
John Johnson: Come on, Khir Toyo, please don’t think the rakyat are stupid or not aware of your wrongdoings. What was the outcome of your trip? Was it justifiable?
Where are the projects that were deemed to be applicable to our country since you and your entourage went on this ‘learning expedition’?
Of course, with your wife and children too. I guess the children also had to assess and survey the Disneyland location.
When you were in the top position, you were bound to take advantage. PNSB always foots the bill.
You are a big gun in Selangor and they definitely have a ‘you scratch my back., I scratch yours’ kind of attitude.
The people are not stupid and neither are the Selcat investigating team. Typical of you to blame others whenever you are in big trouble.
I say get back every penny whether from him or PNSB. They are accountable.
CH Siew: I could recall a recent in the past when our ex-PM Abdullah executed some cost-cutting measures.
One such measure was cutting down on vacation trips for ministers and civil servants.
Prior to the changes, all-expense paid trips inclusive of the family was allowed.
As such I believe Khir Toyo when he said this trip was above board. There is therefore no need to involve the MACC.
Furthermore, the trip was more than a vacation, it was also to study technology and investment opportunities for the benefit of Selangor. Therefore, the trip should be justified.
What troubles me however, is the morality of spending such a sum of public money for personal gain.
It may be legal but from a moral view, Khir has failed the people who paid up in terms of taxes.
Has Khir Toyo considered that this is public money and should be spent carefully?
Additionally, if such a sum of money was spent for the benefit of the people he served, namely Selangorians, what changes have been made to improve the lives of the Selangor people after the trip?
What lessons have been learnt and implemented? Our lives have still been the same for the last 10 years.
The only changes are the deterioration of public facilities.
The public transport system has worsened as time passes and many people are still living in slums.
Perhaps Khir Toyo's trip for ‘technology and investment’ have only benefitted in the building of the MB’s residence where he had expected to stay until his death.
This spending to me is a reckless abuse of public funds and a waste of taxpayers money. Arguing that the Selcat has tarnished his reputation is an exaggeration.
Selcat has simply brought to light how Khir Toyo spent and wasted public money. Of course, everything is still legal, no doubt about it.
But it clearly shows the incompetency of his management and to think that he intends to get back in again sends chills down my spine.
On 'State agency funded Khir's Disney tours'
GH Kok: News reports say that Permodalan Negeri Selangor Bhd (PNSB) spent about RM1.7mil for former mentri besar Khir Toyo, his wife, children, their maid and the company’s officials to tour France, Morocco and the US.
News reports also quoted Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng as saying that the state government had allocated RM213,385 to help the hardcore poor in the state.
Let me put it this way :
- RM1.7 million for Khir Toyo's holiday (BN).
- RM213,385 for hardcore poor programme (Pakatan).
Both these programmes are funded by taxpayers. Both these figures are plucked from newspapers. I did not make up these figures.
So taxpayers, how would you have liked your hardearned money spent?
How much of your money have been spent on holidays for BN politicians over the last 50 years?
How much of your money has been siphoned away all these years? How much of that money could have gone to reduce hardcore poor (of all races)?
How much of that money could have been used for education, infrastructure, fighting crime, etc?
How much of that money could have been used to reduce taxes, tolls, fees, etc?
How much longer can you stand this nonsense ?
Really Fed-up: How could anybody in BN, particularly Umno, tolerate such a nonsense by saying not a word on this scandal? Talk about reform.
This guy should be sacked immediately and be charged in court to show that the old, wild partying with a blank cheque by so-called leaders must be historied, as starter to reform.
The working class need to have two jobs now to bring food back to the family while the poor have to almost beg to survive.
And here we have a super-rich family having a good time touring the world with their gang of cronies bankrolled by the poor rakyat.
As a responsible citizen and a taxpayer with no political ambitions, I now wish to see all state governments (whether ruled by BN or PR) table their yearly accounts for all to scruntinise.
Don't ever use that textbook excuse again and again - ‘government matters, private and confidential, cannot be revealed to the public’ or ‘now is not the time’.
We the rakyat want the money back to be distributed it to the poor struggling families.
These families' children need basic food and basic necessities to survive, and we will have to answer to God if we fail to lift a finger.
Not-A-Tun-And-Proud-Of-It: I just find it rather meaningless that the title 'Tun' is given out to someone just because he managed to attain the post of prime minister.
Especially when this particular person went from the biggest majority in history to begin with to ending with the worst majority in history during his shortened term.
So what on earth is that honorary term supposed to signify other than that a person has survived long enough to reach an apex post in government?
On MCA, MIC laud Najib's 'One Malaysia' concept
Braveheart: Great! If Najib is for all and he is going to reform, then appoint someone outside Umno for the deputy PM’s post.
If that is not possible, then at least as finance minister. If that too is not possible, then education minister. Last try, home minister.
Worst case? International trade and industry minister.
If all this is still not workable, then Lee Wei Kiat and the rest of MCA should read the 11th Commandment: ‘Thou shall not kid myself.’
As for the MIC, it is is a waste of time to even bother commenting.
