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Thursday, March 12, 2015

Azmin asks for Najib’s help in Selangor water deal

Selangor Menteri Besar Mohamed Azmin Ali has requested for the prime minister to intervene in the state's water restructuring deal with Putrajaya. – The Malaysian Insider filepic, March 12, 2015.Selangor Menteri Besar Mohamed Azmin Ali has requested for the prime minister to intervene in the state's water restructuring deal with Putrajaya. – The Malaysian Insider filepic, March 12, 2015.Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak is expected to mediate in the Selangor water impasse between the state and federal governments, to find an immediate resolution, Menteri Besar Mohamed Azmin Ali said today.
Azmin said that he has asked Najib to intervene in the matter, which saw Selangor denying Putrajaya a third extension on the water restructuring deal that lapsed on Monday.
"I conveyed our concern on behalf of the state assembly to the PM when we met this morning at the Rulers conference," the Gombak MP told reporters in Parliament today.
The menteri besar said Najib had responded favourably to the suggestion to mediate in the impasse, after Azmin expressed hope that the issue would be resolved in the near future.
"I hope that we (Selangor and Putrajaya) can sit down sometime next week (to discuss this). I told the PM that the ministry has to hold on to the spirit of understanding and that the master agreement cannot 'depart' from that principle.
"If you keep on changing the goal post, very hard for the state to follow," he added.
Selangor had revoked the controversial water agreement with Putrajaya inked by Azmin's predecessor Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim in September last year.
In doing so, Azmin said that the federal government had failed to comply with conditions set by the state government.
“They (federal government) breached the agreement and did not honour it,” he said.
This had included Putrajaya's request for the land where water pipes would be laid, which Azmin said would result in Selangor giving up sovereignty over its land.
But Energy, Green Technology and Water Minister Datuk Seri Maximus Ongkili said the request for land was to lease it for 45 years, while his deputy Datuk Seri Mahdzir Khalid said the land was meant to be collateral for the RM2 billion that Putrajaya would give the state to help it take over four water concessionaires as part of the restructuring exercise.
The Selangor government had twice extended the deadline for Putrajaya's compliance – January 9 and February 9 – but the federal government had asked for another extension.
Ongkili told The Star today that the matter would be resolved in court if both the state and Putrajaya failed to come to an agreement over the matter.
However, Azmin said today that legal means would be the state's last resort to resolve the water impasse.
"I am sure we can sit down and discuss," he added.
- TMI

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