Deputy Chief Minister Alfred Jabu and his family is now the target of London-based whistleblower Sarawak Report. – Pic courtesy of miesha-jept.blogspot.com, January 17, 2015.Online news portal Sarawak Report, in its latest expose, said a company linked to the Sarawak deputy chief minister had been given government contracts totalling about RM500 million without going through the tender process in the last 10 years.The London-based whistleblower said the largesse corruptly handed out to a company owned by the immediate family of Deputy Chief Minister Alfred Jabu and their politically connected colleagues had dwarfed sums to other ministers.The Report named the company as KACC Construction Sdn Bhd and described it as: a “a joint concern between the families of the DCM (deputy chief minister) Alfred Jabu; the state secretary (Tan Sri) Mohd Morshidi Abdul Ghani and (Works Minister Datuk Seri) Fadillah Yusof; with the key shareholders being Jabu’s daughter Jennifer, Jabu's cousin (Sarawak Assistant Welfare Minister) Robert Lawson Chuat, the state secretary’s brother, Mohd Taufik Abdul Ghani, and also a niece and nephew of Fadillah".In the Companies Commission of Malaysia shareholders listing of KACC shares, Fadillah's niece Siti Yuhaniz Basri is the largest shareholder, holding 6,631,250 shares.The Report said the major contracts that these deserving sons, daughters, brothers and cousins of former chief minister Tun Abdul Taib Mahmud key political allies received were in the official Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) website for all to see.Taib, who stepped down as chief minister on February 28 last year after 33 years, is now the state's governor.Among the 10 sizeable contracts Sarawak Report said KACC had been awarded without going through the tender process between 1997 and 2008 were the construction of the army's First Division headquarters and the 4thRangers camp at Muara Tuang valued at RM211.2 million, the RM115 million police marine base at Muara Tebas and the construction,completion and commissioning of Phase 3 of the Bintulu water treatment plant that was valued at RM28.8million.“The total value of these 10 lucrative contracts alone was nearly half a billion ringgit! Is it any wonder then that Mr Jabu’s houses are so luxurious?" the portal stated.Jabu, one of the state's longest serving ministers and who was elected to the state legislative assembly in 1973, on Thursday signed the integrity pledge drawn up by new Chief Minister Tan Sri Adenan Satem to stay away from corrupt practices.It added that the resources of Taib’s most loyal side-kick, DCM Alfred Jabu, are not limited to mere contracts out of such enterprises as KACC Construction Sdn Bhd.The Report also said the land handed to Heba Aromatics was all native customary rights (NCR) land “belonging to his own people in Betong".It said the compensation made for the vast concession “which was worth millions of ringgit" was a mere RM500 a family. – January 17,2015.
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