Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng has taken on queries about the state’s budget surpluses raised by Gerakan leader Liang Teck Meng, saying Liang knows little about accounting.

Lim went on to school the Gerakan secretary-general on how the state has recorded its surpluses since 2008.

“No wonder Malaysia’s economy is in a state of crisis if we are led by dummies pretending to know accounting,” Lim said, in a statement today.