Category: Accountability

A full public report on the causes of the cave-in to the $90 million Kuala Lumpur- Seremban highway should be made public

Statement by Parliament Opposition Leader and DAP Secretary- Genenral, Lim Kit Siang, on Monday, 18th July 1983.

A full public report on the causes of the cave-in to the $90 million Kuala Lumpur- Seremban highway should be made public following the shocking disclosure by the Geological Survey Department that it was not consulted before work on the highway commenced.

The disclosure by the Geological Survey Department that it was not consulted by the Public Workds Department before work on the $90 million project started in 1975 has thrown a completely new light on the cave- in and damage to the highway, 22 kilometres from Kuala Lumpur. Continue reading A full public report on the causes of the cave-in to the $90 million Kuala Lumpur- Seremban highway should be made public

Parliamentary Opposition Leader to seek meeting with Finance Minister, Tengku Razaleigh, over Asian Wall Street report about scandals about $1 billion Bumiputra Malaysia Finance loans to three Hong Kong companies.

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, at the DAP Policy Review Conference official opening at Hotel Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, on Saturday, 26.3.1983 at 9.30 a.m.

Parliamentary Opposition Leader to seek meeting with Finance Minister, Tengku Razaleigh, over Asian Wall Street report about scandals about $1 billion Bumiputra Malaysia Finance loans to three Hong Kong companies.

Yesterday, the DAP MP for Bandar Kuching, Sdr. Sim Kwang Yang, unsuccessfully sought to adjourn Parliament to discuss a matter of urgent, definite public importance concerning the billion dollar loans made by Bank Bumiputra subsidiary, Bumiputra Finance Malaysia, to three Hong Kong companies which are now either facing liquidation or awaiting rescue operations. Continue reading Parliamentary Opposition Leader to seek meeting with Finance Minister, Tengku Razaleigh, over Asian Wall Street report about scandals about $1 billion Bumiputra Malaysia Finance loans to three Hong Kong companies.

DAP appoints Lee Lam Thye and Chan Kok Kit to conduct investigation into Hu Sepang-Chia Ban Chan affair

Press Statement by DAP Secretary-General and MP for Kota Melaka, Lim Kit Siang, in Petaling Jaya on Thursday, 24.6.1982:

DAP appoints Lee Lam Thye and Chan Kok Kit to conduct investigation into Hu Sepang-Chia Ban Chan affair

I had announced at a Malacca press conference on Monday that the DAP would conduct a thorough investigation into the Hu Sepang-Chia Ban Chun affair, where the Seramban Nanyang Siang Pao reporter alleged that DAP Assemblyman for Rahang had gone to the press office and rummaged his drawers and threatened him. Continue reading DAP appoints Lee Lam Thye and Chan Kok Kit to conduct investigation into Hu Sepang-Chia Ban Chan affair

Urgent cable to Acting Prime Minister urging immediate inquiry and stern disciplinary action including court martial against soldiers involved in rampage assaulting and molesting tappers at Batu 66, Mengkarak on February 26, 1982

Press Statement by DAP Secretary-General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, on Monday, 1st, March, 1982.

Urgent cable to Acting Prime Minister urging immediate inquiry and stern disciplinary action including court martial against soldiers involved in rampage assaulting and molesting tappers at Batu 66, Mengkarak on February 26, 1982

I have today sent an urgent cable to Acting Prime Minister, Datuk Musa Hitam, urging an immediate inquiry and stern disciplinary action including court martial against a platoon of soldiers who went on a rampage last Friday at Batu 66, Mengkarak, Pahang, assaulting and molesting rubber tappers in their holdings, including, women and a 13-years-old boy. Continue reading Urgent cable to Acting Prime Minister urging immediate inquiry and stern disciplinary action including court martial against soldiers involved in rampage assaulting and molesting tappers at Batu 66, Mengkarak on February 26, 1982

Call For Cuts In Minister’s Allowances

(Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, in the Dewan rakyat on Friday, 4th December 1981 on the 1980/1981 Supplementary Operating and Development Estimates)

Call on the Prime Minister, Dr. Mahathir Mohamed, to proceed with the reduction in the salaries and allowances of Ministers, Deputy Ministers, Parliamentary Secretaries as well as Chief Ministers, Mentri-Mentri Besar, State Executive Concillors, Mps and State Assemblymen

Yesterday, Parliament had just approved the 1982 estimates totaling $31,951 million for both operating and development expenditures. Continue reading Call For Cuts In Minister’s Allowances

DAP to move a motion to cut Lee San Choon’s salary by $10 during the Committee Stage of Budget on Wednesday over his responsibility on the Permatang Tinggi rail bus crash which killed 18 and injured 30

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary-General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, at a DAP ceramah held at Sungai Way Community Hall in Sungei Way, Petaling Jaya, on Monday, 30th Nov. 1981 at 8 pm

DAP to move a motion to cut Lee San Choon’s salary by $10 during the Committee Stage of Budget on Wednesday over his responsibility on the Permatang Tinggi rail bus crash which killed 18 and injured 30

When the 2-M leadership of Dr. Mahathir and Datuk Musa took over the administration of the government as Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister respectively, they introduced the clock-in and clock-out system, and emphasized that they want a ‘clean, honest and sufficient’ government – ‘BCL’ – ‘berseh, cekap dan licin’. Continue reading DAP to move a motion to cut Lee San Choon’s salary by $10 during the Committee Stage of Budget on Wednesday over his responsibility on the Permatang Tinggi rail bus crash which killed 18 and injured 30

Sugar-coated election budget

(Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary- General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, in the Dewan Rakyat on Tuesday, 27th Oct. 1981 on the 1982 Budget)

1982 Budget- a sugar-coated election budget which gives away $167 million in reduced taxes on consumer items in return for a blank cheque to spend $80.95 million nest year

The 1982 budget is clearly an election budget- sugar-coated to win votes in the next general elections expected early next year. Those who have doubts about the general elections being held next year need doubt no more with such a budget, especially with the way fears of the people were created and manipulated that there would be a tough budget, followed by the relief of a soft budget. Continue reading Sugar-coated election budget

1982 Budget- a sugar-coated election budget which gives away $167 million in reduced taxes on consumer items in return for a blank cheque to spend $80.95 million nest year.

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary- General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, in the Dewan Rakyat on Tuesday, 27th Oct. 1981 on the 1982 Budget.

1982 Budget- a sugar-coated election budget which gives away $167 million in reduced taxes on consumer items in return for a blank cheque to spend $80.95 million nest year.

The 1982 budget is clearly an election budget- sugar-coated to win votes in the next general elections expected early next year. Those who have doubts about the general elections being held next year need doubt no more with such a budget, especially with the way fears of the people were created and manipulated that there would be a tough budget, followed by the relief of a soft budget. Continue reading 1982 Budget- a sugar-coated election budget which gives away $167 million in reduced taxes on consumer items in return for a blank cheque to spend $80.95 million nest year.

State Advances Fund

(Speech by the Parliamentary Leader, DAP Secretary-General and Member of Parliament for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, in the Dewan Rakyat on the motion to establish a States Advances Fund under the 1957 Financial Procedure Act on October 16, 1981)

The Deputy Finance Minister, Datuk Najib Tun Razak, yesterday moved a motion to propose the establishment of a States Advances Fund under Section 10(4)(a) of the Financial Procedure Act 1957 to help States having financial difficulties. The Deputy Finance Minister said that with the expected increased tempo of development in the country, the government was of the view that such a Fund would play an ever important role.

In emphasising that financial support for the states from the Central Government is very important to speed up development in the states, the Deputy Finance Minister is attempting to present the debate on the States Advances Fund as whether one was for development or against development. Continue reading State Advances Fund

The Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee should stop belly aching about dissatisfied about explanations

Speech by Parliamentary Opposition Leader, DAP Secretary- General and MP for Petaling, Lim Kit Siang, when declaring open the two-day Penang State DAP Political Course at Hotel Continental, Penang on Saturday, 19th Sept. 1981 at 2.30 p.m.

The Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee should stop belly aching about dissatisfied about explanations by government officials, and summon Ministers to hold them responsible for giving satisfactory explanations to the Auditor-General’s comments.

Since the start of the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee hearings into the Auditor-General’s Report of the 1977 Federal Government Accounts, on 2nd Sept. 1981 the constant feature of the PAC meetings is the daily belly-aching by the PAC Chairman, Datuk Lee Boon Peng, after each day’s sitting about how unsatisfied he was about the explanations offered by government officials to various matters examined by the PAC. Continue reading The Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee should stop belly aching about dissatisfied about explanations