GEORGE TOWN: Bayan Baru MP Datuk Seri Zahrain Mohd Hashim, who has been critical of Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng, has not been sacked as the chairman of Island Golf Properties Bhd (IGP).
Lim said Zahrain was still chairman of the Penang Development Corporation (PDC) subsidiary “at the present moment.”
“PDC has informed me that no letter has been sent by either PDC or Island Golf Properties to any director of Island Golf Properties on any changes,” Lim said in a statement here yesterday.
He said Zahrain had been chairman and director of Island Golf Properties since July 9, 2008.
Zahrain claimed yesterday that he had been sacked as IGP chairman.
“Zahrain’s statement is a pack of lies,” Lim said.
Lim added that the PDC, which owns BJCC via its subsidiary Island Golf Properties Berhad, had decided to award the tender of managing BJCC to an experienced company valued at more than RM40mil.
Full details of the tender would be published after Chinese New Year in accordance with the state’s principles of Competency, Accountability and Transparency (CAT), Lim said.
He said certain actions and claims by Zahrain on IGP had compelled PDC to monitor it closely to ensure the company was run with the public interest at heart.
“PDC is concerned at how Zahrain is leading the IGP, when he and IGP recommended on Jan 12 last year that the operations of BJCC be outsourced and awarded to a company with a paid-up capital of RM2.
“To allow a RM2 firm to run BJCC, which involves expenditure involving millions of ringgit, makes a mockery of the open tender system. The company has no track record in running a golf club,” Lim said.
When contacted, Zahrain said: “If they have not sacked me so be it, but the issue is not about me but Lim’s arrogance and his dictatorial style in managing the state. I have reprimanded him, yet he remains stubborn.”
On the tender issue, Zahrain clarified that he only chaired board meetings.
“I don’t interfere with its daily operations. I am only paid allowances for the meetings. I have no hidden agenda, and to be accused of trying to push through a RM2 company is a fabrication. They are trying various ways to boot me out.
“I criticised Lim because I have the interests of PKR and the people at heart. Nothing more and nothing less,” Zahrain said.
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What is Zahrain's job as Chairman of Island Golf Properties which own Bukit Jambul Golf and Country Club (BJCC)?
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