Rosmah’s trial: Ex-MOE sec-gen admits RM1.25b project’s award skipped procedures, subsequent compliance was ‘futile exercise’
Former Education Ministry secretary-general Datuk Seri Alias Ahmad is pictured at the Kuala Lumpur High Court March 11, 2020. ― Picture by Firdaus Latif
During the cross-examination of Alias, Rosmah’s lawyer Datuk Akberdin Abdul Kader showed a guideline issued by the government’s Economic Planning Unit, where government projects worth more than RM50 million are required to go through value management before the projects’ award to ensure the government’s objectives are achieved and to ensure value for money.
The cross-examination then became increasingly tense as Akberdin continued to press Alias on the Education Ministry’s failure to follow procedures in matters surrounding the RM1.25 billion project.I was advised by my deputy secretary-general that although the SST has been signed, but we also have to have these committees, especially technical committee to look at plans, structure and for us to record in our file at the ministry.
Earlier today, Alias said he had been in civil service for 37 years, and had only been secretary-general at two ministries including a two-year stint from February 2014 to March 2016 in another ministry.
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