KUALA LUMPUR: The Transport Ministry should ask the Port Klang Authority’s (PKA) board of directors to consider implementing the recommendations made by the ad hoc committee on governance.
Chief Secretary to the Government Tan Sri Mohd Sidek Hassan, who is also the Special Task Force on the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) Development Project chairman, said this was for recommendations which did not involve any amendments to the law.
“One example is the creation of an Ethics and Integrity Monitoring Committee and the appointment of independent non-executive members to constitute one-third of the PKA Board of Directors,” he said in a statement here last night.
Mohd Sidek said this was among the matters that had been agreed upon in the third meeting of the Special Task Force held on Nov 12.
He said the meeting also agreed to establish the best governance practice and for a review of the composition of the Board of Directors in federal statutory bodies and govern-ment firms, such as companies under the Finance Minister Incorporated and government-linked companies.
He said the meeting also agreed for PKA to focus on its role as a regulatory body and not be involved in business activities, such as the PKFZ.
“As such, the focus group on the PKA restructuring, which is chaired by the Treasury Secretary-General, is asked to scrutinise the recommendations on the restructuring and present this to the Special Task Force immediately,” he said.
The meeting also agreed for the decisions of the Special Task Force to be implemented in stages and not at the end of the six-month period given to it to conclude its task, he said, adding that the meeting had been brief-ed by the ad hoc committee on governance chairman Datuk Paul Low on its findings.
The meeting was also informed of the action taken by the police and the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) on various issues, he said, adding that the documents pertaining to the PKFZ case had already been obtained by the MACC.
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