PKR’s Kelana Jaya MP Wong Chen has gone public with the audit report on his office along with supporting documents after his community spending was frozen by the Selangor government.

He said that he had already written to the state government that he would again go public with this matter if they did not reply to his concerns over the freezing of his accounts by June 30.

“My office has had a really tough five months of hardship. We are involved in a dispute with the Selangor state government regarding the audit issue.

“Some people asked, why am I washing dirty linen in public? I run a clean office... All the papers we write on public policies talk about accountability and transparency.

“I would like to walk the talk, waive my privacy of this matter... It is my duty to resolve this publicly, transparently and as well as possible,” he said in a pre-recorded video uploaded onto his Facebook today.

He then uploaded a series of posts addressing the issue, including a list of frequently asked questions (FAQs), a timeline of the audit and freezing of his community spending as well as links to scanned copies of the audit report and letters between his office and the government.

Wong Chen had previously claimed in a Facebook posting on May 23 that the audit on his office by the Selangor state treasury was done improperly, as they did not contact his office at all during the process.

While noting that the report, which was purportedly released in February 2017, did not discover any corruption or abuse of power, he had nonetheless disagreed with the findings of the report.

Among its findings, the report said that Wong Chen’s office did not spend the targeted amount for small projects to develop infrastructure in his constituency and that a majority of his allocation was instead spent on community programmes.

Protesting the process of the audit and its findings, he said he had written to the Selangor government four times in three months.

“They stonewalled my office for three months. We issued four letters.

“You can imagine an MP of PKR in a PKR government writing letters to the Selangor government and they refused to answer me?” he said.

All information and documents released

Wong Chen lamented that after he went public with his complaints about the audit report, instead of rectifying the audit process and findings, the state government had frozen his office’s community spending.

When he decided to go public with his dissatisfaction over the audit report on Facebook on May 23, he explained that seven days later, he got a “nice letter” from the government saying they will look into his letter.

“I thought that was the end of the matter, but to everyone’s surprise, on June 9, nine days after they wrote a nice letter to me, they wrote a letter saying they have frozen all my community spending,” he said.

This is also not a matter that can be resolved by his party, he said.

Not only would it be morally incorrect, Wong Chen added, it would also be illegal because asking PKR to intervene in Selangor government matters is an abuse of power.

He said he is now releasing all pertinent information and documents related to this issue because he wants to clear the good name of his office and his staff, as well as continue to help the poor in his constituency.

Last month, Wong Chen had suspended a welfare month programme for his constituents though he was tightlipped about the reasons.

“My staffs are very professional and they are good at their jobs so I want to clear their names. Unfreeze my accounts so I can help the poor in my constituency.

“I hope the Selangor government understands where I am coming from and that they can take my criticisms openly,” he said.