Relevant Ministries To Reply To Dr M – Abdullah
Bernama – 13/6/2006
KUALA LUMPUR - Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said Monday night the relevant ministries would reply to all the allegations made by former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

Abdullah said the answers would be given in detail.

"The answers can be put out but this has got to be done by the relevant ministries, not by me," he was quoted as saying by his assistant press secretary Wan Esuriyanti Wan Ahmad.

Dr Mahathir had said he wanted explanations from the government on several issues including the government's decision to scrap the bridge to replace the Johor-Singapore Causeway, sale of MV Agusta and the issuing of approved permits to import cars.

According to Wan Esuriyanti, Abdullah wanted to clarify a statement by Johor Baharu Member of Parliament (MP) Datuk Shahrir Abdul Samad who was reported as saying that the MPs left it to Abdullah to explain to the people the criticisms.

Shahrir had made the comment after he and a group of MPs and senators expressed their support for Abdullah's leadership at a closed-door meeting Monday.
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