Idris Jala denies Pemandu overpaying consultants

Datuk Seri Idris Jala, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department, who is also the Chief Executive Officer of Pemandu (Performance Management and Delivery Unit) has denied claims that the consultants engaged by Pemandu were paid from the RM729.4 million in the budget. He denied the allegations and said that they were in fact paid through the RM40 million budgeted in the first place and that “Its operating budget for 2011 was RM729.4 million were “1,822 per cent exaggerated”. The actual budget of RM40 million was also being used for other purposes besides consultants, including manpower costs, “assets under existing and new policies”, workshops, research, travel and logistics and media costs.”

He added that “The RM729 million figure could have been derived from totalling up Pemandu’s operating budget of RM40 million together with the National Key Result Areas’ (NKRA) operating budget of RM334 million and the National Key Economic Areas’ (NKEA) operating budget of RM355 million. The NKRA and NKEA budgets are parked under relevant ministries, including RM334 million under the Prime Minister’s Department (PMO). None of this money is paid to consultants as alleged. Although the budget allocation was parked under the PMO, there was a clear approval and tracking process in place to ensure that the allocated amount was used to produce the results outlined in the GTP (Government Transformation Programme) Roadmap. It must be stated clearly that final decisions for spending the money is done collectively by the NKRA Steering Committee, which includes all involved parties, and this is chaired by the deputy prime minister,”

The claims were made by Liew Chin Tong, the Bukit Bendera Member of Parliament from DAP who issued a media statement that Idris’ ministry was too costly. To this, Jala said “To be clear, there is no such ministry. The NKEA development budget amounted to RM5.5 billion in 2011 and RM6.4 billion in 2012.”



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Not 'over paying' but 'over shot the budget sja'.

kak kak kak kak kak

Not consultant but CON-sultant.

A BUNCH OF SCAVENGERS…(PEMBANGKAI)

Dingo,Hyena,Jackal,Crow,Vulture,Condor,Komodo lizards ,Maggots,Goannas,Ex-wives and BE END politicians…………..

Now Idris Jala is calling the Finance Minister who happens to be the Prime Minister a liar is he?
Who is actually lying?