First of all, the writer has to express his regretness for not updating the blog for a long time. The writer was quite busy with his work these days. The writer will try to keep this blog up todate. The writer once again express his regretness to the viewers who have been showing support and following this blog.
One of the heatest discussions in the Parliament would be the tender process for purchasing the Eurocopter helicopters, in replacing the current Nuri helicopters.
The writer will not go into the details of the reason of replacing Nuri helicopters with Eurocopter helicopters. The writer is more willing to discuss about the tender process.
As announced by the PAC (Public Accounts Committee) chairperson Azmi Khalid on 03.11.2008 that PAC cleared the government of wrongdoing in the suspended billion-ringgit Eurocopter deal. There is no abuse in the tender process in the Eurocopter deal. In view of this news, should we as the Rakyat be happy as our government have acted for the interest of Rakyat?
The writer always thinks that Malaysians are very humourous and creative people. Since PAC (officially) announced that there is no abuse in tender process, how come the chairperson later make a statement that “the committee was concerned over the lack of physical evaluation and test flights”?
Before you purchase most of the things, especially if it involves a lot of money, will you not inspect it first? Will you solely base on the comment, reputation and suggestion by others only? For instance you wanted to buy a million ringgit motorcar. The writer supposes you will go to the show room, ask for the salesperson to explain/ show you the motorcar and then you go for a test drive? Is it part of the “deal”?
This is the reason why the writer thinks that Malaysians are homourous and creative people. PAC chairperson could now annouced that there was no abuse in the tender process, but later make a statement that the committee is concerned about the lack of physical inspection of the Eurocopter.
If the lack of physical inspection only happen in this helicopters deal, the writer thinks that it is still okay because who does not make mistakes? Some time it is an oversight, some time it is too busy to inspect etc etc… However, if there are many similar cases, the writer really thinks that the government, the opposition and the Rakyat should consider the current situation and try to find a solution to it.
The writer strongly feels that the government, the opposition and the Rakyat should not just forget about this Eurocopter helicopters deal and take things for granted especially when the economy is turning weak. We should all prevent the outbreak of the “bacteria”. If the “bacteria” later turned into “virus”, it would be very difficult for the government and the Rakyat to find a cure for it.
