Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB) spent a staggering RM770,000 to supply electricity to a single house under its Rural Electricity Supply Project (BELB), the Auditor-General reveals.

According to the project report, electricity supply was intended for 17 houses at a village in Indera Mahkota, Pahang.

NONE But a visit by the Auditor-General's Office to the site found only one house there.

In its explanation, TNB said when the project was approved, the 17 houses were in the process of being built but only one was subsequently completed.

However, the Auditor-General took TNB to task for approving the project, despite the area not fulfilling the criteria required under the BELB project.

"... The houses there should have been permanent residences that are occupied and suitable for electrical wiring to be done."

NONE It was further noted in the Audit Report 2010 that TNB approved a RM65,193 project to supply electricity to five abandoned houses at a village in Bera, Pahang.

The report rated the performance of the BELB project as unsatisfactory, with only 43.2 percent or 16 of its 37 projects completed as of last year.

‘Computers as termite feed'

In a separate audit, the Auditor-General said the RM160.74 million project to build, supply and equip computer labs for schools in Sabah tasked to TimeCom Holdings Sdn Bhd, has failed.

In a visit to SK Kepayan, Kota Kinabalu, it was found that the school's computers and other ICT equipment have been left in their packaging for three years.

NONE It was further discovered that some of the computers and equipment were infested with termites.

This, the report said, was due to prolonged delays in completing the computer laboratories, which were meant to begin on Oct 31, 2006, and completed on April 30, 2008.

However, it noted that as of 2010, only two of the 300 planned computer laboratories were completed and handed over to the Education Ministry.

This was despite the contractor having been paid RM98.9 million or 87 percent of the RM113.74 million total construction cost.

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