KUALA LUMPUR: Parliament's Public Accounts (PAC) will begin its probe into the Kuala Lumpur City Hall's (DBKL) flood mitigation measures owing to shortcomings in preventing floods.
"The PAC has agreed to call up the Federal Territories Ministry to begin proceedings involving the management of Kuala Lumpur flood mitigation projects worth RM329.3mil," its chairman Wong Kah Woh said at a press conference in Parliament's media centre on Wednesday (Aug 3).
"The management of the flood mitigation in Kuala Lumpur will be our priority owing to the recent frequent flooding.
"The PAC will be calling Federal Territories Minister Datuk Seri Shahidan Kassim and the ministry's secretary-general (Datuk Seri Rosida Jaafar).
"Also to be called up is Kuala Lumpur Mayor (Datuk Seri Mahadi Che Ngah)," he said.
However, Wong said that a date has yet to be fixed for PAC to begin its probe.
The DBKL flood mitigation measures are a 10-year plan covering 2010 to 2020.
A total of RM415.33mil was allocated for the projects of which RM150.11mil was spent on flood mitigation and RM179.22mil spent on maintenance works.
However, the Auditor-General’s Report 2021 Series 1 revealed that three projects amounting to RM27.68mil did not comply with procurement procedures.
The report stated that DBKL had not fully implemented the proposed short-term flood mitigation measures, with only 11.1% of 18 projects completed, leaving the problem of flash floods in the city unresolved.
The report noted that the audit covered two main areas, namely programme performance and programme management, for the period from 2016 to March 2022.
Wong also said that the PAC was mulling investigations into the delay and cost involving upgrading and renovations work on Parliament building.
The project overshot the completion target by nine years with cost ballooning from RM520mil to RM626.10mil.
The project, which is being done in several phases, began in 2011 and will now take 14 years to complete.
The initial targeted date of completion was 2016 and was now expected to be done by 2025.
