'Shocked' Kit Siang wants Daim to reveal stand on CEP, IRC reports

Whaddaya expect of Mamak's accomplice?

Malaysiakini : Lim Kit Siang is “shocked” that the Council of Eminent Persons (CEP), formed under the Pakatan Harapan government, never produced a report. He was responding to former CEP member Jomo Kwame Sundaram’s revelation that a secretariat under former finance minister Daim Zainuddin, and not the council, had produced a report.

The DAP veteran called for the CEP secretariat’s report and the findings of the Institutional Reform Committee (IRC) to be tabled as a White Paper before Parliament adjourned on April 4. He also wanted an explanation from Daim and asked if the latter “agreed that the report of the CEP secretariat and IRC should be made public”.

“I had all along been under the impression that the CEP, which, besides Jomo and Daim, had former Bank Negara governor Zeti Akhtar Aziz, former Petronas president and chief executive officer Hassan Marican and corporate tycoon Robert Kuok, as members, had produced a report.

“When Dr Mahathir Mohamad was prime minister a second time, I had urged him to make the CEP report public,” he added in a statement.

Jomo Kwame Sundaram

Lim also recalled that Daim had called on the government to make the CEP’s recommendations available to the public. He added that the former finance minister and close associate of Mahathir had also stated that the CEP interviewed more than 300 individuals, including bankers, businesspersons, civil servants, civil society members and union officials and that those interviewed had revealed a culture of turning a blind eye towards corruption.

Focusapp : It's pathetic that even a CEP report needs to be classified under OSA. Then why hire these advisors for? Does this not involve public funds and interest?

Fair Play : More cans of worms to be opened up. Very, very interesting indeed.

ScallopEatMcD : It will be extremely interesting if these CEP and IRC reports are to be tabled in Parliament.

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