GEORGE TOWN: MCA has challenged DAP supremo Lim Kit Siang to attend a forum tomorrow to disprove the party’s finding on the RM20.5 billion Penang undersea tunnel scandal.
The forum will be held in Kit Siang’s son, Lim Guan Eng’s parliamentary constituency in Bagan at 7.30pm tomorrow.
MCA deputy president Datuk Seri Dr Wee Ka Siong said the party had officially written to Guan Eng, who is Penang Chief Minister, to attend the forum, and would like to extend the invitation to Kit Siang as well.
Wee said, Kit Siang, in trying to divert from getting his son to come to the forum to answer his exposes on the undersea tunnel scandal, had wrongly accused him of “taking directions from anyone.”
“In wrongly accusing me of taking directions from anyone to question his son, Kit Siang had also avoided answering whether he will come to the forum instead of his son and explain to the audience why he believes my findings of RM20.5 billion is wrong.
“In fact, I welcome Kit Siang to come meet me face-to-face and test my knowledge on this subject himself. Let Kit Siang find out if I am taking scripts from anyone,” he said today.
Wee said he was a trained civil engineer with a doctorate in Transportation Planning.
Before entering politics, his professional career specialised in feasibility, traffic impact assessment (TIA) & environmental impact assessment (EIA) and other detailed design for civil projects similar to that of the three paired roads, which is part of the undersea tunnel project.
He claimed to have conducted and overseen dozens of such studies.
Wee said while he appreciated Kit Siang’s desperation in defending his son from the fallout of the mega-scandal, it was not right of the veteran politician to lie and accuse him.
“I would appreciate it if Kit Siang apologises to me for saying that I am taking a script from anyone. If not, I reserve my right to take legal action.
“I will tolerate him calling me names like ‘cats paw’ and ‘ninja assassin’ but I will not accept him slandering me.
Both Wee and Guan Eng had been engaged in continuous “war of words” on the undersea tunnel project through the media in recent weeks.
Wee had claimed that there were numerous discrepancies in the project, which Guan Eng had denied.
The undersea tunnel project is now a subject of investigation by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), particularly on the high cost of the RM305 million feasibility studies as well as the more than 22-month delay in completing it.