Selangor water concessionaire Syabas has held back payments to water treatment plants for six to seven months, with the arrears growing to some RM2 billion, PKR strategy director Rafizi Ramli claims.
"Syarikat Bekalan Air Selangor Sdn Bhd collects money from you and me; it collects money from our families, but it withholds this money," Rafizi (right) told a forum in Subang Jaya last night, without naming the creditors.
He told the audience of at least 600 people that the Syabas move was to manufacture a water crisis in a desperate bid to help Umno retake Selangor in the next general election.
While this problem continues, he added, Syabas CEO Rozali Ismail continued to live a ‘superstar lifestyle' on an RM5 million annual salary, despite the state having the highest rate of non-revenue water in the country.
“If Rozali is going to withhold payment to the water processing plants in order to incapacitate them and to create a water crisis in Selangor, the least he could do is to forgo his RM5 million (salary) a year.
"Agree or not?” Rafizi asked, to which the audiece responded with a resounding ‘yes’.
Syabas is one of four water supply concessionaires in Selangor and deals primarily with the distribution of water.
The other three are Syarikat Pengeluar Air Sungai Selangor (Splash), Konsortium Abbas Sdn Bhd and Syabas' parent company Puncak Niaga Sdn Bhd.
Last night’s forum was the second and last part of a series on the Talam debt settlement issue, with the first conducted in Chinese on the night before, and the second forum conducted earlier, in English.
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