Closing down PKFZ as suggested by opposition is clearly a knee jerk reaction which spells of political agenda and defeatist attitude.

Lim Kit Siang obviously does not read the blogs or the published media. He asked me for the way forward when I have clearly spelt out that PKA would act on four fronts based on the findings, on the very day the report was released.

It will save people a lot of time not to repeat ourselves for the benefit of self-serving politicians.

At this very moment, professional experts and entrepreneurs have been roped in to provide their views and expertise on how to bring PKFZ back on track for which it was originally conceived.                                                                                                 

We are not sitting still and playing rhetoric. In the weeks and months ahead, my Ministry and PKA will put in place a series of action plans to lessen the pain on taxpayers.

If the opposition has constructive inputs, we would be more than happy to accommodate their ideas on how to save the project and make it thrive.

I will continuously engage and update the public on the milestones that shall be spelt out in our roadmap.

I therefore see no reason to waste valuable time to engage in fruitless public debates of any form that does not help to solve the problems.

It appears that public debates are the opposition's obvious idea of resolving all the country's ills.

PKA has been requested to submit fourteen (14) copies of the report as well as the appendices to members of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), and it will do so as soon as possible.

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