DAP has expressed “shock” that the Selangor government reportedly does not have a copy of the water restructuring agreement signed on Sept 12, and wants Putrajaya to come clean on this.
“The question is whether the former menteri besar (Abdul Khalid Ibrahim) had not only packed his bags of his personal belongings from his office, he also mistakenly packed the mysterious water agreement with him as well, such that even the state secretary does not seem to have a copy.
“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,” Selangor DAP chief Tony Pua said in a statement today.The Petaling Jaya Utara MP said witholding the document from the state, which is an equal party to the agreement “would be a severe trampling” of the state’s rights.
“It is inconceivable how the entire state government, including the former executive councillors under Khalid Ibrahim, are completely clueless as to why the state doesn’t have a copy of the agreement,” he said.
It seems that, in some unexplained way, no copy of the water agreeent signed by disgraced former Selangor MB Khalid and the Federal government has been given to the Selangor State government; a party to it!
This can hardly be junior incompetence, so it must mean that the Federal government, headed by Najib Razak, once more has something to hide. If the agreement was an honest one why hide it?
Equally to the point, how can the Selangor State government be expected to comply with the agreement if it does not know what its provisions are?
Does Najib Razak really expect that Selangor will simply write a cheque to honour any invoice that he sends?
It is clear as water that Khalid has been party to a deal with Putrajaya that is greatly to Selangor State’s disadvantage. He no doubt hopes his new friends in UMNO will protect him from the civil, and possibly criminal, consequences of his act. That will provide another test of the impartiality of the Malaysian judiciary.