Cabinet to discuss PKFZ

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KUALA LUMPUR: The Cabinet will discuss on Wednesday the report prepared by the task force on the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ).

“We are looking at the ongoing investigations by the task force and our decisions will be based on reports given by them and the police and what we are going to do for PKFZ’s future,” Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said.

The report by the special task force was presented to him in Putrajaya on Friday.

Site visit: Najib pointing at the old JKR quarters in Cheras yesteray. He was accompanied by Works Minister Datuk Shaziman Abu Mansor (in blue shirt).

At that meeting, Transport Minister Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat, together with members of the task force including its head, lawyer Vinayak Pradhan, briefed Najib for an hour.

Speaking to reporters after a 45-minute walkabout at the Public Works Department (JKR) quarters at Batu 2.5 Cheras here yesterday, Najib said he would report what was discussed in the briefing to the Cabinet.

On the 120 families at the JKR quarters at Batu 2.5 Cheras who would soon get to live in bigger new homes, Najib said the apartments costing RM28mil would be built for the families at Batu 4.5 on Jalan Sungai Besi.

“Immediate action will be taken to develop the new quarters,” he said.

Najib said the current quarters were too small and dilapidated for the residents.

He said it was ironic that JKR staff, who were in the business of building for the public, were “a little left behind” in their own apartments.

Najib said he would also continue with his walkabouts to observe for himself the needs of government staff.

Each apartment for the new quarters, which is to be completed in 30 months, will measure 110sq m and have three bedrooms, three bathrooms, a living room and kitchen.

The entire quarters complex, comprising two eight-storey blocks, will also feature 200 parking bays, a field, kindergarten, playground, surau and two futsal courts.

On the proposed amendments to Umno’s party constitution, he gave an assurance that any such move was to make the party more democratic and promote integrity.

“We are getting detailed feedback on suggestions to improve Umno. I’m open-minded in this sense,” he said, adding that its aim was not only to bring confidence back to its members but to allow the rakyat to see that Umno had their best interests at heart.

However, Najib declined any further comment on the proposed amendments, saying any decision would have to be made by the party supreme council.

On the by-election in Bagan Pinang, Najib said Barisan Nasional, as the “defending champion” there, would do everything it could to keep the state assembly seat.

Bagan Pinang state assemblyman Azman Mohammad Noor died on Friday.