Economy Minister Rafizi Ramli has denied allegations from ‘voices of dissent’ claiming that the development of the government’s Central Database System (Padu) is a waste as it involves contracts worth hundreds of millions of ringgit.

Rafizi said Padu was fully developed by civil servants from three agencies (the Economy Ministry, Department of Statistics Malaysia and the Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit) in collaboration with all other agencies.

“For me, the strength of Padu lies in the...