News/Notices News Business News Perak Exco blames federal government for costly Toyota Camry 
| Perak Exco blames federal government for costly Toyota Camry |
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| Monday, 15 December 2008 12:13pm | |
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©New Straits Times (Used by permission)
IPOH, Sun.: Senior State Executive Councillor (Exco) Datuk Ngeh Koo Ham today blamed the federal government for the high cost the state government had to pay for the purchase of 16 units of Toyota Camry 2.4 for the state Exco members and senior officers.
He said the refusal of the federal government to give tax exemption
resulted in the state government having to pay RM167,000 for each
Toyota Camry compared with the actual price of only RM97,000 for the
car which would replace the Proton Perdana V6 Executive as the official
cars for the state.
Stressing that the allocation for the purchase of the new cars was approved by the previous Barisan Nasional (BN) state government, Ngeh said the decision was to avoid wastage of public funds in terms of the high maintenance cost for the existing official cars. “It is more cost-effective to maintain Toyota Camry cars than the present fleet of Proton Perdana V6. We want to save more by buying new cars as the maintenance cost will not be that high,” he told reporters after the Perak DAP convention, here today. Last Friday, Perak Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin had said the state would fork out RM2.7mil to acquire the new cars, saying that it was costly to maintain the Perdana fleet. The Menteri Besar’s statement drew various reactions including from the State Assemblyman for Pangkor, Datuk Dr Zambry Abd Kadir, who described the state government as not fulfilling its promise to spend prudently. Dr Zambry, a former exco member, said yesterday he was not denying the state government its right to buy new cars. “But in the first place, they should not have gone around telling the rakyat that they did not want to spend extra money to buy the cars,” he said. Comments (2)
REVIEW UNWISE POLICIES! written by Stephen Tan Ban Cheng, Monday, December 15 2008 06:53 pm
This is not the first time that government policies are being used to achieve a certain end. Neither will it be the last time. Write comment
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Berbelanjalah ikut kemampuan dan keperluan.
Rasanya, ada CAMRY berkuasa 2000cc sama macam Perdana v6.Sudah tentu harga murah sikit.