For the first time ever, Works Minister Alexander Nanta Linggi is bringing in an independent third-party auditor to check highway repairs.
Why it matters: Most highway concession contracts expire next year and until now, quality checks were done only by JKR and the concessionaires themselves.
With external eyes on every pothole patch and guardrail fix, the ministry wants no shortcuts, no subpar work - just safer roads.
Better roads. Fewer accidents. More lives saved.
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00:00We appoint an external auditor, independent external auditor, to help us point out whether the job done by the contractors who repay the job is properly executed or not, whether the quality is to the standard or not.
00:23You see, what happened is, most of the concessions will expire next year.
00:30Ah, okay.
00:30Yeah, most of the road maintenance concessions.
00:33I think there are four or five of them.
00:35All right.
00:35Yeah, except one expired the year after.
00:38Okay.
00:38So, now we are in the process of drawing up a new contract.
00:47So, because of that, we have agreed.
00:52I have proposed, and all officers have agreed, to put a new scope into the new contract terms later on.
01:01Like you said, the new scope is to be an appointment of an independent external auditor to help us to supervise the quality of the maintenance work done later on.
01:17Okay.
01:18As it is now, all these years, there's none, no such person or body.
01:25At all?
01:25At all.
01:26Okay.
01:26We just rely 100% on our officers, JKR, and also the officers from the concession themselves.
01:36Yeah.
01:36And then, there's room for better, I would say, control on the quality of the done if we have an external auditor.
01:52Yeah.
01:52I'm not saying our JKR people are not doing their job well.
01:55They do.
01:56Yeah.
01:56But, there's still room for improvement.
02:00So, the room for improvement, I can see is we appoint an external auditor, independent external auditor,
02:08to help us point out whether the job done by the contractors who repaid the job is properly, what do you call it, executed or not.
02:24Whether the quality is to the standard or not.
02:27To the standard, yeah.
02:27Yeah.
02:28Yeah.
02:28To just make sure semua selamat and betul.
02:30Hopefully, this steps will increase our quality of our road repair.
02:42Would you consider this a major milestone for your portfolio?
02:45For me, I'd like to think this is yes.
02:48Okay.
02:49Hopefully, because hopefully, it will save lives.
