DAP: Seda chief 'blind or lying' over solar energy bids

The Sustainable Energy Development Authority (Seda) chairperson is either “blind or lying” for claiming that the award for quotas for solar energy supply was above board, says DAP.

DAP national publicity secretary Tony Pua (left)was responding to Seda chief Fong Chan Onn’s explanation reported inThe Star yesterday.

Pua alleged that checks on some of the bidders revealed that they were unqualified for the job.

“Hence the only conclusion we can arrive at given Fong’s reply, is that he is either completely blind, or is lying through his teeth,” he said.

Pua said that a random check on two of the approved companies – Synergy Must Sdn Bhd and Trinity Creations Sdn Bhd - showed that they had only RM100 in paid-up capital each, although the bidding for the quota for the newly-introduced renewable alternative energy scheme was highly competitive.

“How is it that these companies with no capital, no track record and in all likelihood no employees as at the point of time of application, met ‘all the necessary technical criteria as well as financial commitments?’,” he said.

On Tuesday, Pua had questioned why the lion’s share of the quota had allegedly been awarded to a single contractor, the daughter of recently-retired chief secretary Mohd Sidek Hassan.

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