11-15-2020, 01:26 PM
PETALING JAYA: DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang says the RM85.5 million allocated for the Special Affairs Department (JASA) is nearly as much as the total amount given to the department in four past budgets.
He pointed out that when JASA was under the watch of Umno leader Puad Zarkashi as its director-general from 2015 to 2018, the department received a total of RM97.4 million in the annual budgets.
Lim quoted an aide to former communications and multimedia minister Gobind Singh Deo as saying that one of its agencies, the information department, possessed sufficient staff, expertise and equipment to dispense government performance and policies to the ground.
“Can the Finance Minister Tengku Zafrul Aziz and the Communications and Multimedia Minister Saifuddin Abdullah then explain why there is a need to revive JASA?
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He pointed out that when JASA was under the watch of Umno leader Puad Zarkashi as its director-general from 2015 to 2018, the department received a total of RM97.4 million in the annual budgets.
Lim quoted an aide to former communications and multimedia minister Gobind Singh Deo as saying that one of its agencies, the information department, possessed sufficient staff, expertise and equipment to dispense government performance and policies to the ground.
“Can the Finance Minister Tengku Zafrul Aziz and the Communications and Multimedia Minister Saifuddin Abdullah then explain why there is a need to revive JASA?
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