RM23m for Umno company to play middleman
DAP claims the Puteri Umno leader’s company charged RM23,000 to train a PE teacher when in fact a similar programme conducted by UiTM costs only RM6,000.
Jared Pereira and G Lavendran, FMT
A Puteri Umno leader was awarded a contract worth RM22.9 million by the Education Ministry in 2012, and there are doubts that the company awarded the contract had the capability to do the job, DAP claimed today.
DAP election strategist Dr Ong Kian Ming said the ministry had awarded a contract to the Puteri Umno leader to act as a middleman in a sports arrangement between the Education Ministry and the United States Sports Academy (USSA).
USSA conducts a programme called the ‘International Diploma in Physical Education and Scholastic Sports’ (IDPESS) and the Education Minister, Muhyiddin Yassin, had sought its services to retrain 1,000 physical education teachers here, especially those without proper qualifications.
The alleged company, claimed Ong, was headed by Kedah Puteri Umno deputy chief Hisham Suhaili Othman, who is also Langkawi Puteri Umno chief.
The company is Syarikat KH Sports World Sdn Bhd, who is the authorised agent in Malaysia for USSA, and the contract was awarded via a direct negotiation, said Ong
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The purpose of this arrangement was to train these teachers to complement Muhyiddin’s ‘Satu Murid Satu Sukan’ initiative which was to enhance physical education in nation building.
According to its website, USSA is an online academy which provides sports degree programmes to about 1,300 students annually.
Ong said the training of the teachers began last June but the duration of the program nor the number of teachers that have been trained was unknown.
