S Manikavasagam is the elected MP of Kapar(P.109).He stood under the PKR ticket.He is also in the Environmental Committee(opposition).
While the BN federal government is asking the people of Malaysia to cut cost, their counterpart BN ruled Terengganu state government is buying 14 new Mercedes E200 Compressor luxury cars for their state excos , state secretary, state financial officer and state legal officer.
They Dump away 4 year old functional Proton Perdana without disclosing cost of disposals. The total cost of the purchase amounting to whooping RM3.43 Million.
The pakatan rakyat run state governments cancelled purchase of new cars . They still using the same old cars used by previous BN government.
Even Sultan of Trengganu decided to save cost by celebrating his birthday moderately.
By the way what happen to Mr Muhammad Taib BN’s consensus before making decision. Had you discuss with Mat Said in Terengganu.
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Jul 21, 2008 at 10:17:04
WHAT PROTON GOT TO SAY ABOUT THIS. IS THIS MEANS MILLIONS OF RINGGIT HAD BEEN SPEND BY MALAYSIAN GOVERNMENT OFFICERS BY USING PROTON.
KUALA TERENGGANU: The state government has defended the purchase of 14 Mercedes E200 Kompressor cars at RM3.43mil for the use of its state executive councillors and senior officials.
Mentri Besar Datuk Ahmad Said said the state government had planned to purchase the cars for a long time now to replace its Proton Perdana V6 Executive fleet in a move to cut cost.
“Please understand that the Proton Perdanas go through continuous long-distance journeys. It’s costing us a lot of money due to high cost of maintenance.
“We are not saying that the national car is not good but in reality we are coughing up more money for maintaining the Proton Perdanas, particularly the gear boxes,” he said.
Ahmad cited the example of the Proton Perdana of state Commerce, Industry and Environment committee chairman Toh Chin Yaw, which has twice undergone expensive repairs costing RM50,000 within 36 months.
“In the long run, Mercedes cars are cheaper to maintain and could also save us fuel costs.
“This is the state’s long-term plan – we are farsighted. The cars could also fetch a high market price, when sold as second-hand cars.
“We studied all angles before deciding to buy the Mercedes E200 cars,” he added.
Ahmad also denied that the oil royalty money was used to buy the cars.
“In the first place we have yet to receive the oil royalties from the Federal Government.
“The funds to procure the cars were from our own coffers and has nothing to do with the oil royalties,” he said.