Chris Maskilone, a senior journalist with a Kota Kinabalu-based daily contacted Barisan Nasional Back Benchers Club deputy chairman Datuk Bung Mokthar Radin (pix) for comments on Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) president Datuk Yong Teck Lee's claim that MPs who joined the overseas trip were given RM50,000 pocket money.
Bung Mokthar, who is Kinabatangan MP and now in Taiwan has this to say:- "We never offered money to the MPs...we are using our own money."
He said there were 10 MPs from Sabah together with 39 other MPs who left for Taiwan Sunday now on study tour of the island nation.
Bung Mokthar also denied that the trip was purposely arranged in order to prevent BN MPs from crossing over to Pakatan Rakyat and form a new Federal Government on Tuesday - Sept 16, 2008.
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