No rural road projects cancelled, only new contracts deferred, says Zafrul
KUALA LUMPUR: The Finance Ministry (MOF) has never issued any directive to cancel rural road projects, but has only deferred new contracts to prevent outstanding payments to contractors from continuing to accumulate, says the prime minister's senior political adviser Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Tengku Abdul Aziz.
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[Claude] Report 2 is a rewrite of the same Finance Ministry statement on rural road projects, with consistent facts.
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