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Sabah MP demands probe on Kaiduan Dam after RM114m corruption case
By JULIA CHAN
Thursday October 6, 2016
02:17 PM GMT+8
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Penampang MP Leiking calls for detailed investigations into projects involving a
state firm with two officials arrested over a RM114 million bribery case.
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re by Choo Choy MayPenampang MP Leiking calls for detailed investigations into p
rojects involving a state firm with two officials arrested over a RM114 million
bribery case.
Picture by Choo Choy MayKOTA KINABALU, Oct 6 The Malaysian Anti-Co
rruption Commission (MACC) must launch detailed investigations into projects inv
olving a state utility firm following the arrests of two senior officials over a
RM114-million bribery case, said a Sabah lawmaker.
Penampang MP Darell Leiking said the case required fresh reviews of public proje
cts such as the controversial Kaiduan Dam in his constituency.
A deep explanation by MACC should be made to public especially Sabahans as these
same department and certain officials have been most vocal about pushing for the
Kaiduan Dam.
We do not know the specifics of the likely massive cost construction of the Kaidu

an Dam but the MACC should also take note that some officials from the Sabah Wat
er Department were very vocal about pushing for the Kaiduan dam and ignored the
repair and mitigation over non-revenue water
which contribute a huge loss
as wel
l as leakages and unrepaired water pipes all over Sabah, said Leiking in a statem
ent here today.
He alleged that the officials had ignored the complaints of villagers most affec
ted by the proposed 150m high dam, resulting in it becoming a major source of co
ntention for years.
The state government has vowed to go ahead
ater crisis despite activists claims that
livelihoods of potentially more than 1,000
s 12 square kilometres of forest and parts

with the project to solve a looming w

the dam will displace and threaten the
indigenous villagers when it submerge
of the Crocker Range.

Yesterday, the MACC arrested two officials of a state agency for alleged corrupt
ion and displayed the approximately RM114 million including RM52 million in cash
allegedly obtained from kickbacks involving RM3.3 billion worth of federal proj
ects.
The staggering wealth was stored in the offices and homes of the two, some in th
e nine luxury cars and in six safety deposit boxes, expected to contain millions
of ringgit in each.
The 54-year-old director, his 51-year-old deputy, 55-year-old businessman brothe
r who carries the title Datuk, and his accountant, 50, are currently under reman
d until investigations are completed.
Leiking today commended the MACC, but also questioned how the duo s alleged scheme
could have gotten away undetected since as far back as 2010 and called into que
stion existing, implemented or proposed projects and contracts.
Were they designed as a scheme to serve the alleged crime by these alleged suspec
ts or were these part of the state government's cabinet decision? And who influe
nced the implementation or proposed such projects?
He urged the MACC to be brave in their investigation and prosecute without fear or
favour to any high authority.
The arrests also triggered outcry among Sabahans, who juxtaposed the wealth of t
hose arrested with the conditions in some villagers that do not have access to f
resh water.
Social media users related their experience of water shortages, particularly in
rural and northern areas where villagers are sometimes known to walk for several
kilometres to collect clean water.
Former federal deputy minister and Sandakan MP Datuk VK Liew, in a scathing post
on Facebook, described the arrests as Sabah s own Watergate, referring to the pol
itical scandal of former US president Richard Nixon s administration.
That money was meant to resolve our water woes ... that money could feed an entir
e population in a district in Sabah, he said, before recounting reports of villag
ers in Kota Belud who had no water in the run-up to Hari Raya and were eventuall
y arrested by police when they protested inaction by the government to their wat
er woes.
Now that the rabbits are out of the hat, guess what we're witnessing is probably
just a tip of the iceberg. Questions abound as to whether there are many more go
vernment agencies under the radar of MACC. After all , it's not a secret that so

me government agencies really need a total overhaul to weed out the worms, he sai
d, pointing out that the utility department was relatively small in comparison t
o the wealth that was confiscated.
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