Porr man must not hold post in council: DAP

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DAP has joined in the public outcry over the appointment of the executive chairperson of Penang Outer Ring Road (Porr) concessionaire Peninsular Metroworks Sdn Bhd (PMWSB), Ahmad Ismail, as alternate chairperson of Penang Municipal Council (MPPP) Building and Planning committee.

Its chairperson Lim Kit Siang said today that Ahmad must choose between being executive chairperson of PMWSB or MPPP councillor, "as he cannot be both without compromising the Penang state government and the MPPP in the ethics and principles of urban good governance".

'The impropriety of Ahmad Ismail's MPPP appointments is so fundamental and clear-cut than even school children can see that it is outrageous for the executive chairman of the controversial PORR concessionaire to be a MPPP councillor and even worse, an alternate chairman of its Building and Planning committee, which must make important decisions affecting PMWSB", he said in a statement.

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