AFTER being embroiled in what deemed to be a hefty bonus payout fiasco for its head honcho despite its poor key performance index (KPI) scorecard, Pelaburan Hartanah Bhd (PHB) – a government-linked investment company (GLIC) under the Prime Minister’s Department (PMD) – has again made waves in the social media for the wrong reasons.
This came about after an online whistle-blower furnished evidence of “how bizarre” the government-linked investment company (GLIC) led by its CEO Mohamad Damshal Awang Damit and facility management head Halim Hussain could have approved what is deemed as “luxury toilets worth RM14 mil).
“The company that won the tender, As-Syaff Resources SB (707387M), is very mysterious,” berated Moebiuz (@moe_biuz) in a thread-laden post on the X platform.
“For a company that doesn’t have a strong (construction) background to be appointed to handle an upgrade project worth almost RM14 mil is absurd!”
What irritates Moebiuz most is the fact that the occupancy rate of the Menara Aras Raya in Jalan Raja Laut, Kuala Lumpur where the toilet upgrading project would take place “is only at 40%”.
“As this building can be said to be HALF EMPTY, a LUXURIOUS UPGRADE is ridiculous. The tenants are only DBKL (Kuala Lumpur City Hall), AKPK (Credit Counselling and Debt Management Agency), PPTN (National Higher Education Fund Corporation) and former PM9 (Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob),” he revealed.
“Who approved the project (letter of acceptance was issued on Feb 28, 2024)? Damshal Awang Damit! (PHB’s CEO)!”
Delving further, Moebiuz further faulted Damshal for failing to ensure that the head of subsidiary PHB Property Ventures Bhd, Fauziah Azali, “carries out the task of increasing new tenants”.
“Almost the entire senior management of PHB under Damshal are earning blind salaries,” he hit out.
“They don’t perform their duties well even though on average they are paid between RM35k to RM50k/month; they thus failing to carry out both the AMANAH (trust) and BUMIPUTERA MANDATE!”
A commenter observed that at the end of the day, “it’s is not the Chinese, not the Indians but the Malays themselves who are ruining the Bumiputera economy” while another wondered if the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has opened its investigation paper on the matter.
Source : Focus
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