The Kuala Lumpur Traveler

Barely one month into power, the PAS-PKR-DAP coalition state governments had saved almost RM1 million. How?

1. New Penang Chief Minister, Lim Guang Eng refused to spend RM100K on the renovation of the CM official residence.

“Dia (Lim) jawab: ‘Susahlah, kalau nak pindah kena perbaiki. Terpaksa belanja sampai RM100 ribu. Takkan saya nak belanja duit rakyat sampai RM100 ribu untuk kepentingan saya’
Source: HarakahDaily

2. The new Penang State Government just cancelled orders for new cars which was placed by the previous BN Government. Mind you, they already had 43 cars in the first place.

The Penang Government has cancelled an order for five new Perdana V-6 cars worth RM623,000 which were ordered by the previous administration for its exco members.

Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng commended all the new exco members for agreeing to continue using the existing cars to save the rakyat’s money.

“The cars have not been delivered yet. So, we have managed to cancel the orders without incurring any losses for the state.

“Currently, the government has 43 official cars for its senior officers,” he told newsmen after a state exco meeting yesterday.

Source Star Online

3. New Kedah Chief Minister Azizan Abdul Razak also refused to use state budget to put up security fences around his own house. He is not spending people’s money for that. The amount however is not stated.

Menteri Besar Kedah Ustaz Azizan Abdul Razak menolak peruntukan kerajaan negeri untuk membaik-pulih pagar kediaman rumah beliau kerana tidak mahu menggunakan wang rakyat untuk kepentingan peribadi.

Menurut Setiausaha Akhbar Menteri Besar Kedah, Mohd Helmi Khalid menjelaskan penolakan Ustaz Azizan setelah Unit Perancangan Ekonomi Negeri (UPEN) dan pihak polis menyarankan agar pagar rumahnya diperbaiki menggunakan peruntukan sedia ada.

Ini kerana pihak UPEN dan polis yang melawat rumah Ustaz Azizan tempoh hari menasihati beliau untuk membina pagar berkenaan atas faktor keselamatan, kata Helmi.

“Kata MB kalau untuk kediaman peribadi beliau akan membiayainya menggunakan duit sendiri dan bukan peruntukan kerajaan negeri,” kata Helmi memberitahu Harakahdaily.

Source: HarakahDaily

Now, compare that to Chief Ministers and other ministers from the BN Government? I couldn’t be bothered to find the details but we all knew they spend a lot of tax-payers money for the renovations and expensive cars. Pak Lah alone spent RM15.81 million to renovate his official residence in Putrajaya when he took over from Mahathir.

And the Government BN says they care for the rakyat? I rest my case.

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