Collapse of yet another building at Belum

The New Straits Times reported:

“How can you spend RM4.5 million for a complex that has only 14 rooms?

“I am really frustrated (with the whole project). As an accountant, I knew that it would be a problem to manage due to the limited number of rooms. You need at least 50 rooms for such a place to be economically viable.”

The collapse of the RM4.5 million Perak State Park Corporation complex in the Royal Belum State Park, Perak has begun, with the Perak Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Mohd Tajol Rosli Ghazali blaming his predecessor Tan Sri Ramli Ngah for the debacle. Tajol said there were developers in Ipoh who could build a complex or resort with 100 rooms on a budget of only RM8 million.

At the coffeeshop talk yesterday, it was joked that if the government spends RM10 million on a project, the actual cost is only RM5 million with the rest lining some people's pockets. This money is actually the citizen's hard earned labor's sweat-and-tears money which had been entrusted to the government to take care of its citizens, but alas, it was not so.

The irony of the collapse is that it happened at Belum, inspiring such remarks like "maybe Malaysia Belum Boleh"