KUALA LUMPUR: The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) will hold proceedings regarding the repeated time extensions provided, leading to a six-year delay on the Bayan Baru Regional Sewage Treatment Plant (Phase 2) project.
PAC chairman Datuk Mas Ermieyati Samsudin said the proceedings, scheduled for Monday (Nov 18) in Parliament, will call on the Energy Transition and Water Transformation Ministry, the Sewerage Services Department (JPP), the project consultant and contractor to record their explanations and statements following a PAC visit to the site of the project, which costs over RM256mil.
"The working visit is to look into the problems faced by the project, under the proceedings of the National Water Management, that is being investigated by the PAC and to provide a real picture of what the project is facing causing the delays," she said in a statement.
She added that 11 PAC members joined the working visit, together with ministry deputy secretary-general (water) Datuk Mohd Rozuan Mohd Baba Sakri, JPP director-general Wan Abdul Rahim Wan Abdullah, Indah Water Konsortium planning and engineering department head Mohd Taufik Salleh and construction contractors.
Mas Ermieyati explained that the PAC held four proceedings from July to October and conducted working visits to Sandakan and Tawau, Sabah on Oct 29 and Nov 1.
During those visits, she said that the PAC had looked at two projects, the Sandakan water supply system upgrade and the Tawau water supply scheme (phase 3) dam building design and construction system project.
"The proceedings for both projects were held in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah with witnesses from the ministry and the Sabah water department," she added. – Bernama
