Penang Tunnel-Land Scam: Guan Eng’s tai-chi backfires
The Third Force
TTF: In the first place, investigations by the MACC proves that the project award wasn’t through an open tender per se, but through behind-the-counter negotiations involving Guan Eng and the owner of the consortium awarded the project, Zarul Ahmad Mohd Zulkifli.
According to leaked documents, Guan Eng told Zarul that although the project would be tendered out, Zarul’s consortium would be awarded the job.
In other words, the open tender thingy was more show-and-tell than anything else.
But show and tell aside, whether or not a project is awarded though an open tender in no way justifies the idea that corruption couldn’t have gone on.
That’s like me saying because I did not know my wife in person prior to my wedding, there is no way in the world I could have entered a scheme with her to cheat my father in-law of his life savings.
Sometimes, I wonder if this Guan Eng fellow is an idiot or if he pretends to be this idiot.
Maybe he thinks we’re idiots.
