Anonymous 2413201460529218: The Parliament building to Bukit Tunku is just a few kilometres away. Why the need for an alternative road?

I had travelled on that road to the Parliament speaker’s house a couple of years ago. It was in excellent condition.

This is a waste of our money. Meanwhile, hospital and university allocations are reduced. Unbelievable.

Anonymous #44199885: Is there really an urgent need to build an alternative road? Can’t the House speaker just use the current road?

Money could have been used to help the poor or scholarships could have been given. Such spending when the budget for many urgent needs is being cut is ridiculous.

Hornbill: What’s the purpose of an alternative road to just one official’s residence? Doesn’t the government know that this is not the time to indulge in unnecessary spending when billions of ringgit are still missing?

Mosquitobrain: Taxpayers have to make do with bumpy pot-holed roads, while House speaker get RM1.4 million road with lightings, security, fencing and landscape. All at the expense of taxpayers!

Anonymous_1390303981: Yes, what are the merits for this alternative road when the rakyat are suffering from lack of education funding, poor living conditions, etc, due to the poor economic situation.

If this is not already a failed state, then something must be really wrong.

Jaycee: Who approved the building of the road? Why wasn’t this debated before it is built? Where are the check and balances in this country?

Even US President Donald Trump, who is seeking to build a wall to keep the Mexicans out, has to get approval from Congress.

And shame on the speaker of the House. He could have said the money is better spent building schools or houses for the poor.

Kangkung: Do you see why they all will defend MO1 (Malaysian Official 1) with perhaps their life?

You get all the fringe benefits, like a road built specially for your residence. What is RM1.4 million compared to RM2.6 billion?

Anonymous #07451242: What a way to spend public funds! Indeed, they could have used these monies for scholarships, maintenance of old public buildings, national roads and highways (to repair potholes and fix lighting, etc,).

To spend that kind of public money on a road leading to one individual’s residence is a criminal waste of public funds.

Anonymous 2460391489930458: That’s a lot of money to build an alternative road to this Umno crony’s residence (which is paid for by taxpayers).

Third world mentality is where the people serve public officials and not the other way around.

The roads in Kampung Baru Sungai Buloh are riddled with potholes but are never fixed. And here we have a dedicated road for a so-called “speaker” who is nothing but a gate-keeper for the government-dominated Parliament.

The last time I heard he threatened to resign from his job because he wasn’t given his own personal loo in Parliament.

Ipohcrite: Why? What has House speaker Pandikar Amin Mulia done to deserve such special treatment?

If a public poll were taken, I dare say the results would overwhelmingly be against this confounding decision.

Ryan: The prime minister gets a RM2.6 billion ‘donation’, House speaker gets new RM1.4 million road, the rakyat get Act 355 and are happy to vote for BN again.

DAP duo to ‘inspect’ RM1.4m upgrades at speaker’s house

Vijay47: I think Segambut MP Lim Lip Eng and Serdang MP Ong Kian Ming should also ask Parliament to state how the contractor was chosen for the road repair and related works.

Was it on an open-tender basis or was the contract given out on our famous “negotiated approach”.

Secondly, what portion of this 100-metre stretch was paved in gold as were Dick Whittington’s streets of London? Thirdly, who was the recipient of the contract?

Fourthly, and perhaps most importantly, who was the party that carried out the actual works? If different from Answer Three, who was the one to whom the contract was sub-contracted?

And Number Five, at what value was the sub-contract given to Answer Four?

And finally, the eternal question which applies to all government contracts, if the two parties were different, why was the project given to the initial “successful” person if he simply acted as a typical middle-man making ‘buta money’?

Pandikar, a small tip on how to answer – these are issues touching on national security and thus classified under OSA (Official Secrets Act).

Anonymous 29051438068738: Oh come, come Vijay47, since when was it that the party awarded a contract (under ‘ketuanan’ rules) is also the one which actually does the work?

Were that to happen, what would come of the rentier class – those heavily burdened by titles and privileges and whose daily grind involves getting all dressed up to loiter in the corridors of Putrajaya and the lobbies of five-star hotels?

In any case, don’t you know that everybody “down the line” has to eat as well? Why then have MCA Gerakan and MIC, the last of which, as Malaysians know, is more adept at things like road works?

Now can you understand why this stretch is so unspeakably expensive?

Flabbergasted Malaysian: I still do not understand how the RM1.4 million could be justified. No matter how you look at it, it can never be justified in times like these.

There are so many potholes in the interiors, why can’t the money be spent there instead? No one will make noise if this were the case.

Why aren’t you all equipped with wisdom when serving the people? Isn’t there any fear of God left?

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