Billions Wasted in Repairing public buildings and amenities
Feb 20th, 2006 by Neo

Billions of ringgit have been wasted in repairing public buildings and amenities due to Malaysia’s poor maintenance culture, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said.
“Due to poor maintenance of buildings and amenities, we have to allocate big sums of money for repairs. This is a loss. If minor defects were spotted early and rectified, they would not develop into big problems and cost more money when the services of contractors had to be engaged”.
Why Malaysian’s like to wait until something serious happen only then take remedy actions? Why we can’t act earlier? Quoted from here.


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The funniest thing ever is that the minister in charge of most of the “maintenance”, is still in his capacity, even after the recent reshuffle.
Some things just never fail to amaze me
it’s our culture to do things at last minutes, including the politicians