Ex-PM Muhyiddin 'misspoke' on vaccine pricing, PAC hears

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PARLIAMENT | Muhyiddin Yassin misspoke on the budget to vaccinate Malaysians against Covid-19 when he was prime minister, according to testimonies before the Public Accounts Committee (PAC).According to the Hansard for the Jan 5, 2021, PAC hearing, this was revealed when then science, technology, and innovation minister Khairy Jamaluddin testified on vaccine spending by the government.In November last year, Muhyiddin revealed that the government was spending RM3 billion to immunise 6.4 million Malaysians - a whopping RM468.75 per person.Muhyiddin's administration enforced an emergency two months later, where, among others, the government withdrew RM5 billion from the National Trust Fund (Kwan) to finance the vaccination programme.Accessing Kwan using emergency laws allowed the government to bypass Parliament's approval for the funding.Khairy's testimony to the PAC …