Kelantan government admits leakages in sand mining dockets collection

The Kelantan state government has admitted that there were leakages in the collection of dockets from sand mining.

State Infrastructure, Utilities and Information Technology committee chairman Datuk Hanifa Ahmad, however, said the state government has been intensifying enforcement on the docket (form for the production of minerals) collection and received support from the sand mining operators.

"For example, in 2015, our revenue was more than RM600,000. However, for the first two months of this year, after various serious enforcement actions being implemented, we managed to collect RM800,000.

"With an average of RM400,000 a month, the government expects the docket collection for 2017 to be at RM4.8 million. The docket rate is at RM1.65 per tonne," he told the Kelantan Legislative Assembly sitting at the Kota Darul Naim Complex on Tuesday.

He was replying to a question from by Azami Mohd Nor (PAS-Kadok) who wanted to know about the leakages in the docket collection from sand mining activities in the state.

Earlier, Hanifa had replied to a question submitted by Datuk Md Alwi Che Ahmad (BN-Kok Lanas) who requested for a list of companies that succeeded in getting open tenders for sand mining in the state for 2017.

Meanwhile, outside the assembly, Md Alwi told reporters that PAS' allegations that there were leakages at the federal level have now implicated them as well.

"Not only UMNO that has had suffered leakages over the years, but now they (PAS) have leakages too. This means that leakage occurs everywhere.

"I have showed them where the leakages are, now the state government must rectify the problem," he said. -- Bernama