KLIA2 cost up, another wastage of public funds
One after another government projects, if it is not a failure, then the cost of the project would eventually shoot up, from millions to billions, then to trillions of Ringgit of public funds. And this is how our money are being simply thrown around like that. Well, today we were gravely surprised of yet another cost up project, currently being undertaken by Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad (MAHB) to construct a Kuala Lumpur International Airport 2 (KLIA2). The cost of constructing the KLIA2 was initially amounted to about RM2.0 billion but by now, it has inflated to about more than RM3.9 billion. This means the cost of the project had doubled extensively. Guess what, when asked about the inflated project cost, the MAHB officials are quick to push the blame on AirAsia for the six months delay over the baggage handling system (BHS) modification of which the changes were requested by the later. AirAsia later denied that it was asking for a more powerful BHS, but merely asked MAHB to ensu...