Shafie rejected open tenders while a minister, says Najib
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Najib Razak posted photographs of appeal letters on tenders, allegedly sent by Shafie Apdal (Facebook pic) |
PETALING JAYA: Former prime minister Najib Razak has accused Warisan president Shafie Apdal of having often rejected open tenders and preferring limited tenders while serving in Najib’s cabinet as rural development minister.
Najib said when Shafie’s requests were rejected, he would write letters of appeal.
“It’s rare for people to write such appeal letters. There was no other minister like him. It came to a point that his applications for limited tenders, and letters of appeal piled up at the finance ministry,” Najib said in a Facebook posting which included two photographs of letters allegedly sent by Shafie.
Najib said Shafie was annoyed that his requests were often denied by the federal government, then run by the Barisan Nasional. Shafie was the rural and regional development minister in 2013, while Najib was prime minister and finance minister.
Shafie was removed from his ministerial posts during a cabinet reshuffle in 2015, after openly criticising the 1MDB scandal. He later formed Warisan and became Sabah chief minister when his party and allies took control of the Sabah state government at the 2018 general election.
His name was recently proposed by former Pakatan Harapan chairman Dr Mahathir Mohamad as the PH candidate to be prime minister should the coalition win the next general election.
Najib said: “Maybe when he becomes the ninth prime minister, he can approve the request for limited tenders”. He also claimed that Shafie was already doing so as Sabah chief minister.
Rather rich coming from Najis, whose children and wife seem to have accumulated massive wealth.
ReplyDeleteShafie Apdal was learning from the sifu.....monkey see monkey do....
ReplyDeleteRosmah"Can I Advise You Something" Mansor couldn't approve these projects without open tender of course but her husband Jibby could.....
Bini punya projek mesti approve but Shafie (who was at that time still a cabinet minister but a harsh critic of Jibby over 1MDB) punya tak boleh jalan.
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Najib ordered Edu Ministry to give RM1.25b solar project to Sarawak BN man’s firm, court told at Rosmah’s trial
Thursday, 06 Feb 2020
BY IDA LIM
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 6 ― Former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak exerted pressure and even instructed the Education Ministry in 2015 to give out a solar hybrid project worth RM1.25 billion to a company run by a politician then with the Barisan Nasional (BN), the High Court heard today.
Datuk Seri Mahdzir Khalid, 59, said all these happened while he was education minister and that the BN man and his business partner had even cited Najib’s name to pressure him into giving out the contract.
Mahdzir was testifying as the fifth prosecution witness against Najib’s wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor, where Rosmah is on trial for taking RM6.5 million bribes from Jepak Holdings Sdn Bhd’s managing director Saidi Abang Samsudin in exchange for helping the company get the RM1.25 billion contract for 369 rural schools in Sarawak.
Saidi was a member of then the Sarawak BN party Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB).
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These Ministerial Letters involving tenders (or non-thereof) are usually RAHSIA, SULIT.
ReplyDeletePolis and MACC must investigate Jibby over this leakage.....ha ha ha.....and Facebook must be charged too for allowing this to be published on their portal......people have been hauled up and charged for lesser things....