PKR lawmakers Wong Chen (Subang) and Lee Chean Chung (Petaling Jaya) challenged the Prime Minister’s Office to suspend Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil’s access to the MyKhas portal for a month.
“Please let him (Fahmi) experience firsthand what we have endured for 50 and 41 days, respectively.
“We will then look forward to Fahmi’s statement afterwards, so that he can confirm that his rights and functions as an elected representative were entirely unaffected,” Wong said at a joint press conference with Lee in Parliament today.
On June 5, The Edge reported Fahmi as saying that the suspension of access to the portal would not affect the duo’s rights or functions, and that applications for assistance may be sent to the implementation coordination unit under the Prime Minister’s Department.
Lee also urged Putrajaya to carry out an information technology audit on government contracts and IT systems that have been outsourced to private companies, including the Foreign Worker Centralised Management System (FWCMS).
In a separate press conference, he questioned how Bestinet Sdn Bhd had generated RM381 million in fees to run the FWCMS, as revealed in a written parliamentary reply from Home Minister Saifuddin Nasution Ismail dated Feb 10.
He compared this to the value of information and communications technology contracts under the Prime Minister’s Department, which total only RM21.9 million.
Lee said the audit must assess cybersecurity and data privacy protection levels, value for money, and whether the outsourcing model excessively burdens employers, foreign workers, and taxpayers.
“When the profit of a private system can reach hundreds of millions of ringgit per year, the people have the right to know whether the payment structure is reasonable, transparent, and truly safeguards the public interest,” he asserted. - Mkini
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