I refer to the Malaysiakini report Audit: PKFZ cost to balloon up to RM12bil .

I applaud Malaysiakini's effort in uncovering the PKFZ scandal. No matter how badly it smells, we face no choice but to clean up the rotten ‘corpse'. I always believe that a responsible media will not only write about bad odour, but rather look for the rotten ‘corpse' that was intentionally ‘buried'.

I had a brief career with several engineering consultancies in Malaysia and still have many friends practising in the industry. We know, through our own experience and from our observations, that we can no longer talk about individual or isolated scandals when it comes to cases like PKFZ.

It is a complicated phenomenon of corruption. Sophisticated methods are employed and very highly-ranked public bureaucrats, politicians and seemingly ‘innocent' renowned experts in the private sector are involved.

To say that these wrongdoings are acts of conspiracy against taxpayers' money is an understatement. It is a functioning and extremely efficient system of doing private business and managing public funds in the most corrupted way.

I urged Malaysiakini to invest more energy and resources in uncovering PKFZ-like scandals which are slowly but surely eroding the very foundation of our economic and social well-being. Digging up the rotting ‘corpse' is not enough; investigating who is involved and how these scandals evolved are equally if not more crucial.

In this Information Age when readers are bombarded with tonnes of information, what makes certain news media exceptional and cherished by society lies within the determination to always inquire further into the roots of the matter.

What we need is more investigative journalism; a series of insightful and targeted writing and not merely news. It is difficult, it will touch upon many disturbing areas and it will inevitably step on the tails of some of the most powerful animals at the top of the political food chain.

As for the PKFZ scandal, one of the key players has a company which is involved in a RM1.5 billion river rehabilitation programme in Selangor. This company has hardly any experience in implementing any river rehabilitation project, let alone a RM1.5 billion project.

And the question is, if so much has been spent, why has so little been made known to the public?