Ex-federal minister Shahrizat Abdul Jalil told the Kuala Lumpur High Court today that she was not embarrassed when the Auditor-General’s Report highlighted problems in the National Feedlot Centre project.
Under cross-examination by lawyer Ranjit Singh in her RM100 milliondefamation suit against two PKR leaders, she said the project in Gemas and the company - National Feedlot Corporation (NFC) managed by her husband Mohd Salleh Ismail - are separate entities.
"The audit report is on the centre and not on the company. The auditor-general does not audit private companies," she said.Shahrizat, who was the women, family and community development minister, maintained that she initially did not know the details of the bid put in by her husband to run the feedlot project.
And now that she knows, she claimed not to know the full details.
Shahrizat agreed that the auditor-general’s remarks warranted debate by front-benchers and lawmakers, including opposition legislators, in Parliament.
Ranjit: Would you agree that if the project does not meet the beef self-sufficiency target, then it would be considered a failure?
Shahrizat: No, I don’t agree.
Ranjit: If it failed, there will be no satellite (farms) in rural areas as stated in the report ...
Shahrizat: Yes.
Ranjit: Would you agree that, if the centre failed, it would jeopardise the NFC’s repayment (of the RM250 million government soft loan)?
Shahrizat: No I don’t agree. They might have other plans and that question should be directed to NFC.
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