BN govt left RM700 million in Perak coffers

sun2surf - The former Perak government has shot down the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) administration's claim of shortage of funds, saying that it left RM700 million in the state coffers in the form of shares and bank deposits.

State Barisan Nasional chairman and former mentri besar Datuk Seri Mohamad Tajol Rosli Ghazali said: "Our government did not leave the state treasury in the red as alleged by the PR-led government. "

He said PR politicians are going around the rural areas claiming there are no funds left for development as the money has been used up by the former BN government.

"This wrong perception conveyed to the rural people has put the BN government in a bad light and I had remained silent for so long. Now I am going to speak my mind and clear all the wrong and misleading allegations," he told a press conference this evening.

Tajol Rosli said the PR government had also been harping about the RM8 million in development funds being used up by the BN state assemblymen within 75 days from January this year, just before the general election.

To this, he said: "There is a RM180 million development fund allocated and left by the former state government. If RM8 million was used up as reported in the press, then the PR should ask questions about the balance of RM172 million remaining with the State Development Officer (SDO)."... selanjutnya.