YOU'RE FIRED, ROZALI! Selangor moves to sack SYABAS chairman and CEO

The state government had set up a Monitoring Committee on SYABAS, chaired by the Honourable State Secretary of Selangor, following an announcement and proposal by SYABAS to ration water.

The purpose of this committee is to monitor on a daily basis the effectiveness, efficiency and the current status of SYABAS water supply to consumers, including reviewing on-site the water supply shortage in the areas identified by SYABAS itself.

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The Monitoring Committee evaluated the proposed improvements and the rehabilitation of the water supply problems encountered.

SYABAS was also asked to present and report to the committee on the following matters: -

1. Daily water production for each plant and water reservoir levels;

2. Water demand on the water bill (Metered consumption) from January 2012 to present;

3. Water demand projections provided by SYABAS;

4. Information on the level of the main pool (balancing reservoir - reservoir-service terminal reservoir);

5. Areas with water shortage;

6. Detailed information on the main water pipe network, including pool water up to the problem area, including NRW;

7. The principal sources of (micro) which causes the area of water problems

8. Proposed solutions designed by SYABAS to the problems raised and

9. Emergency response plan prepared by the SYABAS.

Failed to meet its concession agreement

Based on the results of the research and investigations made ​​by the Committee over a 3-day period, the State Government concluded that:

1. The Selangor State Government will submit recommendations to the Board of SYABAS to dismiss its Executive Chairman (Rozali Ismail) and Chief Executive Officer (Ruslan Hassan) for refusing to attend and give an explanation to the Committee. With this dismissal, the operational cost savings from the salary of the Executive Chairman of SYABAS alone is worth at least RM5.1 million a year.

2. The Selangor State Government is willing to spend to build new water treatment plants to increase production capacity for treated water and will immediately call for a tender for the Project Mitigation 2, which will cost some RM225 million.

The steps taken by the State Government is to protect the interests of consumers in Selangor, Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya who will be affected by the failure of SYABAS to supply clean water as required in the concession agreement.

Selangor government is confident the federal government will not attempt to complicate this effort to protect the interests and welfare of the people.

KHALID IBRAHIM is the PKR DATO' MENTERI BESAR SELANGOR