正式建桥本来是天大喜事,可我却笑不出来! You may want to laugh at The Klang Third Bridge for having 3 ground breaking ceremonies but I would not. Because I was at the second ceremony before the last elections. The first one was done by taikoh samy vellu and khir toyo in march before the 2008 general elections. To be exact thats 4 days before the polling day on march 8. It was done without anything except a sketch of the bridge. When I was appointed as the exco after the 2008 gen elections, after experiencing the horrible jams in the royal town of Klang, I strongly recommended to mb khalid to build it with state reserves after failing to get a positive reply from the then Works Minister. (After two letters signed by all the elected reps in klang and kapar areas to him and a personal appeal made to HRH Sultan). Khalid finally agreed with me when the state reserves broke the RM 2.6 billion mark in 2012. His plan was to build it first and claim from the Federal Government later. I jokingly said to him and my exco colleagues that it would not be a problem as we are on the way winning Putrajaya in the pending general elections. (We almost made it , winning 52 percent of the total votes cast but only 40 percent of the parliamentary seats in 2013). And now the third ground breaking was done yesterday ie Aug 6. Again by mb Khalid but minus me this time. I was delighted to hear that the bridge would only cost less than 200 million to build by a company called Murni Cergas Sdn Bhd after a tender exercise participated by 23 companies. I thought that was dirt cheap as I remember it would cost more than RM400 million to build! But I cannot feel happy and smile when I was told the company would literally build the bridge and thats it. They said the mb only wanted the bridge without building the connecting roads. WHAT? HOW CAN HE DO THAT? And I stop smiling for a second reason. A little bird whispered to me that the company had a terrible record in building the Penang Second Bridge. WHAT? And the company is being sued after a section of the bridge collapsed and killed a policeman and wounded two civilians. Whats going on Khalid? Read on if you have time. God bless Selangorku. 有此大臣, 天佑雪州!!! Two construction reps charged in second Penang Bridge collapse BY CAVINA LIM EmailFacebook13BALIK PULAU: The representatives of two construction companies were charged in a magistrate’s court here with two counts of causing death to one person and injury to four others in the collapse of the second Penang Bridge connecting ramp in June last year.Chan Kah Heen, 39, who appeared on behalf of Cergas Murni Sdn Bhd, and Abdul Raub Razalim, 50, the managing director of Giga Engineering and Construction Sdn Bhd, claimed trial to the charges before magistrate Muhammad Najib Ismail.Cergas Murni is accused of failing to undertake safety measures during the construction works at the Batu Maung intersection, Package 3A of the Penang Second Bridge about 7pm on June 6 last year.The collapse resulted in the death of former policeman, Tajudin Zainal Abidin and injuries to two civilians Thilasheni Rajendran, 25 and Gajashantini Gajanujan, 25.Cergas Murni was charged under Section 17(1) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) 1994.Meanwhile, Giga Engineering & Construction was accused of failing to ensure the safety of its workers during the construction of the bridge at the same time and place.The collapse of a section of the Batu Maung Interchange also resulted in the injury of two foreign workers Slamet Toket and Tin Maung Lwin for which Giga Engineering & Construction was charged under Section 15(1) of the OSHA.Both the charges are punishable by imprisonment of not more than two years or fine of up to RM50,000 or both, upon conviction.Cergas Murni was represented by Sarita Ashuk Khandar, while Giga Engineering was not represented.Deputy Public Prosecutors Nurakmar Mohd Sani and Nik Azrin Zairin Nik Abdullah from the Human Resources Ministry prosecuted.Muhammad Najib fixed Feb 28 for mention.It was reported that the ramp collapsed and crushed a Kelisa, with a body, later identified as Tajudin, seen pinned to the dashboard.The body of Tajudin, a former policeman who lived in Permatang Damar Laut, was extricated at 8.50pm on June 7, after more than 24 hours of the ramp collapsing.
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