WINNABLE CANDIDATE ?
Dato' Seri Azmi bin Khalid (Lahir 1941) merupakan bekas Menteri Sumber Asli dan Alam Sekitar. Selepas pilihan raya umum 2008, beliau menjadi pengerusi Jawatankuasa Kira-kira Wang Negara Malaysia 2008 di parlimen Malaysia.
Kehidupan AwalBeliau dilahirkan di Kangar, Perlis, memiliki Ijazah Sarjana Muda Sastera jurusan ekonomi dari Universiti Malaya pada tahun 1965. Selain itu, beliau juga memiliki diploma kepakaran dalam bidang kewangan dan perancangan strategik dari beberapa buah institusi pengajian terkemuka seperti Universiti Kebangsaan Singapura dan Institut Pengajian Sosial di The Hague, Belanda.
Beliau yang mempunyai pengalaman luas dalam pentadbiran kerajaan, memulakan karier sebagai Penolong Pegawai Daerah Kuala Selangor sebelum dilantik sebagai Penolong Setiausaha di Kementerian Pembangunan Luar Bandar.
Selain itu, beliau juga pernah berkhidmat di Perbadanan Kemajuan Negeri Selangor (PKNS) sebagai Penolong Setiausaha, kemudiannya dinaikkan pangkat sebagai Setiausaha sebelum dilantik ke jawatan Pengurus Besar
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Chairman of the parliamentary Public Accounts Committee Azmi Khalid said he was “fed up” with having to deal with the non-stop cases involving mismanagement of public finances after interviewing officers from the National Feedlot Centre.
But was Azmi, the Umno MP for Padang Besar, really serious or was he play-acting. As DAP adviser and Ipoh Timur MP Lim Kit Siang has pointed out, Azmi was part of the federal Cabinet which must have approved awarding the beef production project to the family of Women's minister Shahrizat Jalil before it could begin; and as such Azmi should 'recuse' him from hearing the case.
"Azmi was a Cabinet minister in the operative time of the approval of the NFC project – making him to a party to any Cabinet decision on the NFC project. Can Azmi categorically declare that he was not involved in any way in any Cabinet approval or discussion of the NFC project before he was dropped from the Cabinet after the March 2008 general election," Kit Siang had said in a statement out on Tuesday.
All teeth but no bite
PAC, while one of the most powerful committees in the Malaysian Parliament, is far from independent. While bi-partisan, it has more members from the ruling BN coalition than from the opposition and so far, none of the PAC reviews - no matter how serious the breach or extent of corruption - have disadvantaged the BN government.
Perhaps, Azmi was feeling the pressure as the RM250 million NFC debacle has attracted widespread public interest and unhappiness over the way the NFC bosses have refused to admit wrong, even defending their purchase of two super-luxury condos as efficient investments and providing figures that could not stand up to the test of scrutiny.
"Management systems have to be re-looked, even when the ministry tells the truth, the people are also fed up. They don't want to listen (to excuses)," Azmi told a press conference, admitting that such cases made the BN look bad.
Don't give excuses
Azmi also said that PAC would be calling officers from the Finance Ministry as well as the Chief Secretary to the government to help find ways to plug loopholes in the system so as to ensure public funds are properly spent.
However, his suggestion was greeted with caution by PKR leaders, who fear he was just giving excuses not to delve too deeply into the NFC corruption allegations and deflecting attention with a vague management overview instead.
"We hope Azmi will firstly answer Kit Siang's call to clear up on his own eligibility to hear the NFC case. Then we want to be sure PAC focuses on all the transactions that were allegedly committed corruptly and negligently. We don't want to be fobbed off with some macro overview which should be done at another level. This is the NFC probe and it must focus on NFC indepth," PKR vice president Tian Chua told Malaysia Chronicle.
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