06-06-2023, 08:17 AM
Is it true the gov’t spends a whopping RM2 bil annually to pay pension of MPs, ministers?
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THE government has to quickly answer claims that it spends a staggering RM2 bil annually to fund the pension of former MPs, ministers, deputy ministers (including parliamentary secretaries in the past) to the prime ministers.
Legal practitioner Khairul Anwar Rahmat who sparked the billion-ringgit question further raised the likelihood of big monthly pension bagged by the former wakil rakyat if they had dual roles of being state assemblymen, executive councillors and even Menteri Besar.
Attributing the source of his information to an insider dubbed “blue bird”, the Malaysian Volunteer Lawyers Association (SukaGuam) chairman expressed surprised at the big income that politicians can earn even when they no longer render any service to the people.
“I just did a quick check whereby RM2 bil can build two state-of-the-art hospitals (RM1 bil each) or 10 schools if it is assumed that the cost of each school is RM200 mil,” the International Islamic University Malaysia-trained lawyer penned in a recent Facebook post.
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Legal practitioner Khairul Anwar Rahmat who sparked the billion-ringgit question further raised the likelihood of big monthly pension bagged by the former wakil rakyat if they had dual roles of being state assemblymen, executive councillors and even Menteri Besar.
Attributing the source of his information to an insider dubbed “blue bird”, the Malaysian Volunteer Lawyers Association (SukaGuam) chairman expressed surprised at the big income that politicians can earn even when they no longer render any service to the people.
“I just did a quick check whereby RM2 bil can build two state-of-the-art hospitals (RM1 bil each) or 10 schools if it is assumed that the cost of each school is RM200 mil,” the International Islamic University Malaysia-trained lawyer penned in a recent Facebook post.
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