PETALING JAYA: The RM65,000 clean-up bill slapped on Bersih 4 organisers reached the wrong house.
The mistake was pointed out to Urban Wellbeing, Housing and Local Government Minister Datuk Abdul Rahman Dahlan when he posted a picture of a house, indicating that the bill had made its way to Bersih's office located in a residential area.
"Today my officers went to Bersih's registered office to deliver RM65k clean-up bill. It's locked and unattended," he tweeted via his account @mpkotabelud, Friday.
He then posted a photo of a dilapidated double-storey house.
"And this is the office of Bersih which doesn't look like "bersih" (clean) at all," he said.
Bersih 2.0 steering committee member Mandeep Singh (@mandeepkarpall) then tweeted to Rahman about the error.
"@mpkotabelud for your information, this is not @bersih2 office. Just wondering, who chose you as a minister?" he shot back.
To this, Rahman said they would try again next week to send the bill.
"We will try again next week to deliver the invoice of RM65k to Maria Chin Abdullah (Bersih 2.0 chairman) and Bersih. #payup!" he tweeted.
Bersih was slapped with a clean-up bill of RM65,000, which Rahman said was the cost of cleaning up the areas used by the demonstrators during the rally in Kuala Lumpur last weekend.
This, he said, was in addition to the cost of repairing damaged property.
Bersih 4 organisers, however, said they would challenge any clean-up bill from Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) and described such an action as "ridiculous".
They demanded to know if such bills were also sent to organisers of other rallies or events or if this was only meant for Bersih
