Kota Kinabalu: The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has been urged to investigate the concession company that manages the water treatment plants (LRAs) in Sabah, which is alleged to be the cause of the water crisis in the State.
Chairman of the Malaysian People’s Power Movement (G57), Datuk Zulkarnain Mahdar, said they had submitted several related documents to be examined by the MACC.
He handed over the documents to MACC headquarters in Kuala Lumpur on Friday, claiming that the concession company seemed to have a dubious link with the previous Sabah government.
“We see there is a possible connection, that’s why the documents are submitted for further investigations,” he said outside the compounds.
Last week, Sabah Chief Minister Datuk Seri Hajiji Noor was reported to have said that Parti Warisan’s action to terminate the concessions of companies that managed LRA operations during its rule had worsened water crisis in the State.
According to Hajiji, the termination of the concession of nine contractor companies by the previous government not only caused the State Government to be sued and forced to pay compensation amounting to RM315 million but had also affected the existing water supply management.
Parti Warisan President Datuk Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal, in response, stated that the then Warisan-Plus administration ended the contracts of the six companies involved for being “heavily lop-sided”.
He claimed the contracts were a major part of Sabah’s notorious “Watergate scandal”, the trial of which is still going on after eight years.
