Wee Ka Siong does not cease to shock Guan Eng

MCA deputy president Wee Ka Siong has been accused of refusing to seek the truth from facts and exploiting BN's control of the mass media to distort facts and pervert the truth about the RM6.3 billion undersea tunnel project.

Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng said he has "seen it all" when Wee allegedly lied that a fashion company was building the tunnel and claimed that the agreement the state signed with contractor Consortium Zenith Construction Sdn Bhd was not stamped.

Lim noted Wee's latest lie that the cost of the tunnel, including three major highways, is not RM6.3 billion but RM20.5 billion.

"And yet Wee Ka Siong has not ceased to shock me with his latest lie that I had admitted in my last statement that I would rather be a coward," Lim said in a statement today.

"This is again completely false. Is Wee’s English so poor that he does not understand I had advised him that in between being both a coward and a political lunatic, it is a better fate to be a coward?" asked Lim, who is also DAP secretary-general.

On March 17, Wee said Lim's excuses to avoid a debate with him do not make sense, while the party's continued evasion merely reaffirmed that DAP is desperately trying to hide the RM20.5 billion scandal.

Wee said instead of admitting failure and coming clean, DAP's "vindictiveness and desperation" to hide the scandal was clear in the party's recent actions, where it decided to field Kluang MP Liew Chin Tong in his (Wee's) constituency of Ayer Hitam in Johor.

Lim then reiterated three points and said Wee does not have the courage to prove them. These are:

• How can there be corruption when the project was granted by open tender?;
   
• Name which Penang state government leader had corruptly accepted millions of ringgit for this project; and
   
• Prove that the minimum paid-up capital requirement of RM381 million was not fulfilled when the Penang Tender Committee headed by state secretary Farizan Darus awarded this open tender to Zenith Consortium.

Lim said even the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), which has "unjustly hounded" the Penang government on this non-existent scandal, does not question the fact that the minimum capital requirement of RM381 million was fulfilled by Zenith Consortium.

"Clearly, Wee intends to sabotage this project for his political benefit at the expense of Penangites continuing to suffer horrendous traffic jams.

"Top BN leaders can easily escape traffic jams in Penang by calling for helicopters, an option not available to both the Penang chief minister and ordinary motorists.

"What then is the alternative for ordinary Penangites?" Lim asked. -Mkini