I heard on the news earlier that our Government has allocated RM12 million for an initial review and immediate repair of leaks in the Parliament House. Excuse me? RM12 million? How on earth did they come up with that astronomical figure? Its only for the roof mind you. Gold electroplating not included. Oh, and its for an “initial review and immediate repair”. Is it a proper permanent long term measure then, or is it just a stop gap measure? Will there be another RM12 million expended in a couple of years for a “more permanent repair”? Don’t put it past them to pull that trick.
The best … or maybe worst part is that the leaky roof was not part of the RM19 million renovation undertaken on the Parliament House a few years back. I cannot even begin to understand why this was so. I would have thought that any renovation would have been done comprehensively, not sporadically. Let a private contractor try this and any house owner would have complained their ear off for doing such shoddy work.
Anyway, RM12 million of tax payers money aside, Works Minister Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu blames the leaky cauldron leaky roof on global changes in the weather as “Rain is really heavy nowadays“.
Really? *insert wide eyed bambi look* All this time, I had the impression that I lived in a tropical country that receives at least 2 seasons of monsoon rains a year. Monsoon rains = really heavy rains, no? No?
You can read about it in the online version of The Sun newspaper and I have extracted the excerpt here
Samy Vellu: Weather change to blame
KUALA LUMPUR (July 24, 2007): Global changes in the weather pattern that resulted in heavier rain is to be blamed for the recent leaks in the Parliament building, said Works Minister Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu. Commenting on yesterday’s incident where Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak was greeted with a leak as he stepped out of Dewan Negara, Samy Vellu said it was due to the spell of heavy rain in the last few days.“Rain is really heavy nowadays, not only here, but throughout the world.
“Like in England, streets are filled with five feet (deep) of water, in (the United States of) America there’s also flood,” he told reporters after opening a seminar on Technology Management for Enterprises in a hotel here today.
He said waterproofing works were being done on the Parliament building and the government had just approved a RM12 million allocation for initial study and immediate repair of severe leaks in the building, report’s Malaysia’s national news agency Bernama.
Samy Vellu said as the Parliament building was about 50 years old, the entire roof of the Parliament needed to be waterproofed again, but the cost for the impending renovation had yet to be assessed.
“We have to remove the old concrete, and lay new concrete blocks, and carry out waterproofing at the bottom and top layers,” he said.
He said two or three engineers would be placed on site to supervise the double waterproofing works as it was being carried out to ensure that it was not done shoddily.
“I will personally visit the location tomorrow (Wednesday) to observe what is being done,” he said.
In other words, its ok for our Parliament House to leak because England and America is flooded due to “really heavy rains”. I’m not quite sure how floods in England and America relate to a leaky roof in a tropical country that gets monsoon rains, so maybe some clever person out there would like to enlighten me? It looks like its the whole Act of God accusation again that has cost us tax payers RM12 million.
OUCH! God can’t hate us THAT much.
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I’m buying a boat and putting it in my backyard. River by my house has never been higher. But don’t tell your Parliament about the boat. How many boats would they require.
Government really has an interesting way to spend people’s money. True where ever humans live in the world. Rain in a tropical rain forest. Who woulda thunk it?
Words of a lumbering fool(s) has once again cost us money. Does the govt think we were born yesterday?
SA: The parliament will need Noah’s Ark – 2 of every animal so that means only 2 reps allowed right? haha…
Tine: The govt seems to think we lived in a desert before. Heavy rains my @$$
The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain – or so Dr. Henry Higgins said in My Fair Lady.
The rain on the parliament roof stays mainly on the roof, because of the heavy rains, thus causing the leak, which causes the need to shell out RM12 million of taxpayers money, which will help line the contractors’ pockets. Yeah right.
at the end of the day, the majority of the votes will once again prove what he had said is true, if this joker is lying, how come people still keep on voting for him again n again? somemore longest serving AM EYE SEE president. heehee
That may be two too many!!!
Hah?? will they raise the income tax amount???!! *shudder*
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