{"id":1182,"date":"2009-11-03T00:27:50","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T16:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buletinonline.net\/v7\/index.php\/2009\/11\/rm10mil-buses-going-nowhere\/"},"modified":"2009-11-03T00:27:50","modified_gmt":"2009-11-02T16:27:50","slug":"rm10mil-buses-going-nowhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/rm10mil-buses-going-nowhere\/","title":{"rendered":"RM10mil buses going nowhere"},"content":{"rendered":"

KUALA TERENGGANU <\/strong>\u2013 Terengganu government wasted RM10.5mil buying 26 buses that had to be virtually grounded when it abandoned plans to use the new buses to ply urban and inter-district routes because of objections from existing bus operators.<\/p>\n

The wastage occurred because the state government had failed to carry out a comprehensive study before implementing the project<\/p>\n

<\/span>The Auditor General\u2019s Report released on Monday said such studies were needed to avoid failure in meeting the objective.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the report, the state secretariat had in 2007 appointed two companies to supply the buses.<\/span><\/p>\n

The state government had in February this year decided to distribute 18 of the buses to various agencies and departments.<\/span><\/p>\n

The report also noted that a subsidiary of a government-linked company that was supposed to utilise the buses had no experience in the transportation business.<\/span><\/p>\n

Based on the state secretariat\u2019s report, the audit also found the cost of maintaining two Proton Perdana V6 was higher than the cost of procuring the vehicles.<\/span><\/p>\n

A total of RM308,731 was spent on maintenance of the two cars that were originally purchased for RM234,054.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Auditor was unable to analyse the cost of maintenance because the Malaysia Anti-Corruption Agency had seized the files on the two vehicles.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Auditor has also uncovered unauthorised use of fuel cards by personnel in the state secretariat and the Public Works Department.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Auditor has also called on the state government to monitor the activities of its companies to ensure they observe good corporate governance, abide by the law, make a profit and pay dividends to the state.-The Star<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KUALA TERENGGANU \u2013 Terengganu government wasted RM10.5mil buying 26 buses that had to be virtually grounded when it abandoned plans to use the new buses to ply urban and inter-district routes because of objections from existing bus operators. The wastage occurred because the state government had failed to carry out a comprehensive study before implementing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"better_featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}