FEB 20 — It was bound to come out and that should be the moral of the story for the Barisan Nasional government. The country’s civil servants are angered by the new salary scheme fiasco where the senior officers got rewarded at their expense. So more information is now coming out.

Information that the government would prefer to keep hidden, like the word that a company linked to former chief justice Tun Zaki Azmi and Umno lawyer Hafarizam Harun may have been given the concession for the Kinrara-Damansara Exchange (Kidex).

The award of the contract was purportedly made by the government just before the CJ retired. His wife is the shareholder of the company that is said to have been awarded the lucrative contract valued at more than RM2 billion.

Don’t expect Zaki or Prime Minister Najib Razak to comment on this startling revelation. One can only surmise that negotiations for the highway contract were going on while the CJ was in office, when he was expected to be independent.

Was there an open tender? No. Has this company got a track record of building any other highway? No.

So how did a company whose directors include the wife of the CJ and Umno legal counsel come into contention? Because they know a lot about road engineering.

The good news is that this is not the end. Whistleblowers are coming to the fore with more information on deals such as this.

Such as the fact that the man behind the lop-sided West Coast Highway deal is a short Indian man with strong connections to Sri Perdana.

* Gomen Man reads The Malaysian Insider.

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