He said the refusal of the federal government to give tax exemption resulted in the state government having to pay RM167,000 for each Toyota Camry compared with the actual price of only RM97,000 for the car which would replace the Proton Perdana V6 Executive as the official cars for the state.
Stressing that the allocation for the purchase of the new cars was approved by the previous Barisan Nasional (BN) state government, Ngeh said the decision was to avoid wastage of public funds in terms of the high maintenance cost for the existing official cars.
"It is more cost-effective to maintain Toyota Camry cars than the present fleet of Proton Perdana V6. We want to save more by buying new cars as the maintenance cost will not be that high," he told reporters after the Perak DAP convention, here today.On Friday, Perak Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin had said the state would fork out RM2.7mil to acquire the new cars, saying that it was costly to maintain the Perdana fleet.
The Menteri Besar's statement drew various reactions including from the State Assemblyman for Pangkor, Datuk Dr Zambry Abd Kadir, who described the state government as not fulfilling its promise to spend prudently.
Dr Zambry, a former exco member, said yesterday he was not denying the state government its right to buy new cars.
"But in the first place, they should not have gone around telling the rakyat that they did not want to spend extra money to buy the cars," he said.
2 comments:
This is a case of the Pot telling the kettle black. Semua sama saja....
serupa tapi tak sama
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