Did Khalid ‘hide’ water agreement from new state government, asks Selangor DAP
(The Malaysian Insider) – Shocked that the new Selangor government does not possess its own copy of the water restructuring agreement it had signed with Putrajaya, state DAP chairman Tony Pua said the federal government must now publicly disclose the document to uphold public interests.
Pua also asked why the new state administration under Mohamed Azmin Ali had not obtained a copy of the agreement since Azmin’s succession of former menteri besar Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim more than a week ago.
He suggested that Khalid might have kept the documents away from the new administration.
“The question is whether the former menteri besar not only packed his bags of his personal belongings from his office, but also mistakenly packed the mysterious water agreement with him as well, such that even the state secretary do not seem to have a copy,” he said in a statement today.
“It is either that, or the federal government is showing complete disregard and disrespect to the Selangor state government by not releasing the agreement to the latter. That would be a severe trampling of the rights of the state government as an equal party to the agreement.
“It is inconceivable how the entire state government, including the former executive councillors under Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim, are completely clueless as to why the state doesn’t have a copy of the agreement,” Pua, the Petaling Jaya MP, said.
He said DAP fully supported Azmin’s call for the agreement to be declassified from the Official Secrets Act and publicly disclosed so that the state could discover and act according to its rights under the agreement.
“Only with a copy of the agreement can the new state executive council decide on the next appropriate course of action which needs to be taken to protect the rights of Selangorians,” he said.
