Category: Accountability

The Barisan Nasional Government is suffering from one of the greatest credibility gap in Malaysian history

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, at the Penang DAP State Leadership Training Course held at Komtar Conference Room, Penang on Sunday, 6.9.1987 at 10 a.m. in a paper on “1990s Movement-Objectives, Issues and Challenges”

The Barisan Nasional Government is suffering from one of the greatest credibility gap in Malaysian history

Yesterday, Finance Minister, Daim Zainuddin, blamed the fall in share prices over the past few days on two seminars which he said “highlighted our differences” and the burning of five mosques in Pahang. Continue reading The Barisan Nasional Government is suffering from one of the greatest credibility gap in Malaysian history

The $360 million UMNO complex is no excuse or justification for any unethical conduct or conflict or interest in government, or to force the people in the Klang Valley to pay toll after widening of an old highway

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Saturday 29.8.1987

The $360 million UMNO complex is no excuse or justification for any unethical conduct or conflict or interest in government, or to force the people in the Klang Valley to pay toll after widening of an old highway.

The Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Dr. Mahathir Mohamed, said in Johore Bahru yesterday that he agreed with the first Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, in his weekly ‘As I see it’ column in Monday’s STAR, calling on UMNO not to enter into business but to concentrate on politics. Tunku Abdul Rahman was commenting to UEM, a company controlled by an UMNO holding company, Hatibudi Sdn. Bhd. Continue reading The $360 million UMNO complex is no excuse or justification for any unethical conduct or conflict or interest in government, or to force the people in the Klang Valley to pay toll after widening of an old highway

Relaxation of rules for civil servants to do business when there is growing incidence of conflict of interest situations involving high public officials will not enhance public confidence in the integrity and incorruptibility of government leaders and officials

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, at the Seri Rambai Dap Branch official opening dinner held at Taman Seri Rambai, Bukit Mertajam, on Saturday, 22.8.1987 AT 9 p.m.

Relaxation of rules for civil servants to do business when there is growing incidence of conflict of interest situations involving high public officials will not enhance public confidence in the integrity and incorruptibility of government leaders and officials

It was reported today that the government has relaxed rules for civil servants to engage in business. Under the new Public Service Department directive, civil servants can now set up family-holding companies to administer property-including capital, buildings or land-owned by them and their immediate families. They are also allowed to sit on the boards of these companies subject to certain conditions imposed by their departments. Continue reading Relaxation of rules for civil servants to do business when there is growing incidence of conflict of interest situations involving high public officials will not enhance public confidence in the integrity and incorruptibility of government leaders and officials

Support for Tunku Abdul Rahman’s proposal for a Constitutional amendment to provide that any Ruler who had committed an offence by tried by a tribunal of his brother-Rulers

By Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Penang on Monday, August 17, 1987:

Support for Tunku Abdul Rahman’s proposal for a Constitutional amendment to provide that any Ruler who had committed an offence by tried by a tribunal of his brother-Rulers

Bapa Malaysia, Tunku Abdul Rahman, must be commended for his wise and perceptive proposal that the Constitution be amended to provide that any Ruler who had committed an offence be tried by a tribunal of his brother-Rulers, and its findings should be binding. Continue reading Support for Tunku Abdul Rahman’s proposal for a Constitutional amendment to provide that any Ruler who had committed an offence by tried by a tribunal of his brother-Rulers

Opposition does not oppose for the sake of Opposition but is the conscience of Parliament and guardian of government accountability

(Part 2) of Paper presented by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjong, Lim Kit Siang, at the ALIRAN Conference on “Reflections on the Malaysian Constitution – 30 years after Independence” on “The Role of Parliament” held at Federal Hotel, Kuala Lumpur on 15-16, August 1987.

Opposition does not oppose for the sake of Opposition but is the conscience of Parliament and guardian of government accountability

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Call for establishment of Parliamentary Select Committee on government companies on their billion dollar losses to check whether they incurred $143 billion losses in 1985, to ensure they stop being a drain on the government finances and national economy.

Paper presented by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, at the ALIRAN Conference on “Reflections on the Malaysians Constitution – 30 Years After Independence” on “The Role of Parliament” held at Federal Hotel, Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, 15th August 1987 at 3.30 p.m.

Call for establishment of Parliamentary Select Committee on government companies on their billion dollar losses to check whether they incurred $143 billion losses in 1985, to ensure they stop being a drain on the government finances and national economy.

Thirty years after Merdeka, Parliament’s greatest threat comes from within the constitutional system, in particular the ever-concentration of power in the hands of the executive leading to its increasing ascendancy and usurpation of the powers of Parliament. Continue reading Call for establishment of Parliamentary Select Committee on government companies on their billion dollar losses to check whether they incurred $143 billion losses in 1985, to ensure they stop being a drain on the government finances and national economy.

Dr. Lim Chong Eu has called for separate on the $10 million Batu Ferringi sewerage project tender by MPPP to be submitted by the State Secretary and State Legal Adviser to study whether to set up a Committee of Enquiry into the tender award.

By Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Penang on Friday, 7.8.1987 after leading a DAP delegation to meet Penang Chief Minister, Dr. Lim Chong Eu, on the $10 million Batu Ferringi Sewerage Project Scandal in the Chief Minister’s Office at 9.30 a.m.

Dr. Lim Chong Eu has called for separate on the $10 million Batu Ferringi sewerage project tender by MPPP to be submitted by the State Secretary and State Legal Adviser to study whether to set up a Committee of Enquiry into the tender award.

A six-man delegation, comprising Gooi Hock Seng (MP for Bukit Bendera & Assemblyman for Ayer Itam) Peter Dason (MP for Bayan Baru) Tan Loo Jit (Assemblyman for Batu Lanchang) Lim Hock Seng (Assemblyman for Bagan Jermal), N.Shammugam (Assemblyman for Prai) and I myself, met the Penang Chief Minister, Dr. Lim Chong Eu, for an hour over the $10 million MPPP tender award for the Batu Ferrengi sewerage project and the Thean Teik Estate problem. Continue reading Dr. Lim Chong Eu has called for separate on the $10 million Batu Ferringi sewerage project tender by MPPP to be submitted by the State Secretary and State Legal Adviser to study whether to set up a Committee of Enquiry into the tender award.

Lim Kit Siang to wait for Dr. Ling Liong Sik at the Ipoh ceramah of co-operative depositors at Wisma Chin Woo on Saturday, April 25

Press Statement by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Thursday, 23.4.1987:

Lim Kit Siang to wait for Dr. Ling Liong Sik at the Ipoh ceramah of co-operative depositors at Wisma Chin Woo on Saturday, April 25

I must confess that I cannot understand the inconsistencies and illogic of the MCA and its leaders. Continue reading Lim Kit Siang to wait for Dr. Ling Liong Sik at the Ipoh ceramah of co-operative depositors at Wisma Chin Woo on Saturday, April 25

Call on Prime Minister’s Department to explain why the 1983 Report of the Auditor-General on selected government operations and programmes was tabled in Parliament three years later

by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Tanjung, Lim Kit Siang, in Parliament House on Friday, 20.3.1987:

Call on Prime Minister’s Department to explain why the 1983 Report of the Auditor-General on selected government operations and programmes was tabled in Parliament three years later

The Government has tabled the second special report of the Auditor-General, Tan Sri Ahmad Nordin bin Haji Zakaria on the performance audit of selected government operations and programmes to Parliament. Continue reading Call on Prime Minister’s Department to explain why the 1983 Report of the Auditor-General on selected government operations and programmes was tabled in Parliament three years later

Corruption in the Butterworth multi-million dollar Bukit Mertajam Metropolitan Sewerage Project contract of MPSP

Excerpt of speech by Lim Kit Siang on Penang Development Estimates in Penang Assembly on 26.12.1986

Corruption in the Butterworth multi-million dollar Bukit Mertajam Metropolitan Sewerage Project contract of MPSP

Call for public inquiry into serious allegations of corruption in the multi-million dollar Butterworth /Bukit Mertajam Metropolitan Sewerage Project contract of MPPS Continue reading Corruption in the Butterworth multi-million dollar Bukit Mertajam Metropolitan Sewerage Project contract of MPSP