A Sheer Waste of Public Funds

Just as the RM5m farewell story is dying down, we are now told that the Alor Gajah council spent RM66000 on a study tour where they did not meet any officials as they “could not arrange it on time.”

It was an “official learning trip that was organised using the council’s own money.”

There seems to be some confusion about whose money was spent. The council’s money belongs to ratepayers and the council cannot just make official trips that do not even have any official meetings.

If the other parties were too busy to meet them, why not postpone the study trip to a more convenient time?

This trip definitely smacks of a blatant abuse of public funds.
A just reward for having achieved a clean bill for the first time from the Auditor-General? That should be expected from any council worth its name.

I suggest the AG publish a list of the best-managed local councils so that the weaker ones can make short visits to study how other local councils are managed. Why go to China when we can learn from each other.