Wednesday June 3, 2009
Hold public inquiry, urges Navaratnam
PETALING JAYA: There should be a public inquiry into the collapse of the roof of the one-year-old Stadium Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin in Kuala Terengganu.
Centre of Public Policy Studies chairman Tan Sri Ramon Navaratnam said the incident was another example of a waste of public funds and poor implementation of the tender process.
“It is not surprising that we have structural collapses of this kind, which thankfully did not take lives. Prima facie, the collapse could be due to poor structural design and construction.
“This is because there is so little competition in the tendering process. It is likely that the wrong person was given the wrong job, or an under-qualified sub-contractor was employed or ill-supervised,” he said.
The RM300mil stadium was completed in time for Terengganu to host the Malaysia Games in June last year.
Navaratnam called for the campaign against corruption to be stepped up, or public confidence in the Government would continue to be eroded and “collapse as well”. Star
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