A PAS MP today demanded that the audit conducted on the overall management of the annual Youth Day celebrations in Putrajaya, which he claimed had cost RM93 million the last four years since 2011, be made public.

Pokok Sena MP Mahfuz Omar said the annual cost of the event has been rising steadily, from RM16 million spent for the 2011 Youth Day to RM30 million estimated to have been spent on the 2014 event.

Yesterday, Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Shahidan Kassim (right) admitted that an audit was done on the overall management of the annual event, which has been hit with controversy.

However, Shahidan said, the details will not be revealed to the public as the Youth and Sports Ministry has decided to take stock of the recommendations in the audit and make the necessary amendments.

"I don't see what the problem is here. In every audit, there is a note, which is a reply by the ministry or the relevant agency. Why can't it be made public?" Mahfuz told reporters in the Parliament lobby.

"In 2011, Parliament set a budget of RM10 million for the event but the final event exceeded the budget. People deserve to know how the money was managed and what are the corrections that the ministry will make," he said.

"Because until now, I had not seen any improvement on how the program is being run," he added.

In the 2012 edition, the presence of K-Pop artists attracted controversy followed by confusion on who footed the artists' RM1.6 million bill.

A drag race accident in the same year also left 17 people injured.


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