It’s a bird, it’s a plane, no its PDP!

Project Delivery Partners.

These McKinsey boys must be running circles around our PM. We have been deluged with all sorts of acronyms. Indeed our economic plan for the country is a smorgasbord of sorts -laden with acronyms. Just as we thought we have had enough, out comes another – PDP – Project Delivery Partner. Man oh man.

What? What in God’s name is that? Are UMNO people not interested in seeing through this economic trickery?

You have been screaming about special rights of Bumiputeras. As things are going now, yes, you do have that policy on special rights of Malays, but it’s a policy of special rights for special Malays. The puteras in the Bumiputeras.

It’s a euphemism for one who actually thought of the idea and presented it to the government. Probably the same fellers purposed the Swiss challenge method.

To avoid being labeled as accomplices to cronyism – they allow, through the government, others to come out with similar ideas. Probably, the ‘others’ allowed to submit in are their friendly parties so that those proposals that come after will be always be more expensive and the original one submitted looked like a godsend. In the event, should there be one rouge proposer; the original proposer will be given the chance to revise their proposal. Ini semua trick yang orang kasi tahu sama saya.

In that sense than, the 100 storey Warisan Tower is proposed by a PDP. The Sungai Besi project also by another PDP, the Sungai Buloh by another PDP. We will be seeing PDP-mania.

Whatever happened to the assurance that 92% of the ETP projects were to be financed by private parties? How come in this instance, the yet to be exactly known cost of the MRT is owned by the government?

I think, we can challenge the government to allow MMC-Gamuda to publish their feasibility studies so that, we who have nothing to do, can make an assessment. Really, there’s nothing to be scared of- I am sure the studies were done by brainboxes who can easily trounced our arguments.