RM38.5mil was for badly-needed repairs, not renovation, says Muhyiddin

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YOURSAY | Hard to buy Muhyiddin’s story on Seri Perdana

IndigoPuffin9170: Wow, just wow. Most of us can build several bungalows from scratch with RM38.5 million.

Give me half of that, and I will sort out your wiring, plumbing, roofing, etc, and even get furniture for you, with a few million left for my profit.

How on earth does former prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin have the gall to make this statement in public? Does he not realise that there are experienced contractors, builders, and architects who could see right through his lies?

He asked for citizens to raise RM30 million for Covid-19 and he spends RM38.5 million for his official residence.

Wow, just wow.

OCT: It's unbelievable that all the previous PMs who had stayed there didn’t complain that Seri Perdana needed renovation.

The moment Muhyiddin became PM, he approved the renovation at a cost of RM38.5 million at a time when Covid-19 was raging. He approved it during the emergency so that nobody knew or questioned it.

The previous contractors for Seri Perdana must have also shortchanged the government by providing substandard materials not based on architecture specs. We don’t buy your story that Seri Perdana has deteriorated to such an extent that needed such a high cost of renovation.

Was there an open tender or closed tender? A rule of thumb is that when the renovation costs more than the actual cost of the original building, it might be more cost-effective to rebuild the building.

There is no maintenance culture in the government as can be seen by the various dilapidated government buildings. The administration needs to be transparent by showing the bill of quantities on the renovation.
It looks like the rakyat is taken for another ride by the ex-PM. Don’t be surprised when more come in the future.

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