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Datuk Seri Najib drew comparisons between the high cost and debts needed to finance the NSE and the expense for the HSR, which he maintained is around RM70 billion (S$23.55 billion).
He said the debts incurred to pay for the NSE was still being serviced now even though the iconic highway was built in 1988.
There are still 25 years left to pay off PLUS’ debts, Datuk Seri Najib added, in an attempt to counter the new government’s argument that the HSR had to be scrapped because it’s debts would take too long to pay off.
“But how would the Peninsular West coast have been developed without the (NSE)?” Datuk Seri Najib, whose administration had launched the HSR project, said in his latest attack on the new government over its decision to scrap it.
Datuk Seri Najib drew comparisons between the high cost and debts needed to finance the NSE and the expense for the HSR, which he maintained is around RM70 billion (S$23.55 billion).
He said the debts incurred to pay for the NSE was still being serviced now even though the iconic highway was built in 1988.
There are still 25 years left to pay off PLUS’ debts, Datuk Seri Najib added, in an attempt to counter the new government’s argument that the HSR had to be scrapped because it’s debts would take too long to pay off.
“But how would the Peninsular West coast have been developed without the (NSE)?” Datuk Seri Najib, whose administration had launched the HSR project, said in his latest attack on the new government over its decision to scrap it.