GEORGE TOWN: Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng has chosen to keep mum on allegations that the state government overpaid for detailed design fees of three road projects.

Asked about the allegations at the end of a press conference at his office in Komtar here on Wednesday, Lim only said, “Another day.”

On Tuesday, Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Abdul Rahman Dahlan had alleged that the Penang government had paid more than four times the standard rate for the designs.

He pointed out the RM177mil paid for consultancy fess, even though the Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM) has a gazetted scale of fees estimated at RM41mil.

Abdul Rahman declared he was giving the state government a week to clarify the issue, failing which, the matter would be referred to the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission.

The three roads are from Teluk Bahang to Tanjung Bungah, Air Itam to Tun Dr Lim Chong Eu Expressway, and Gurney Drive to the expressway.

They are meant to be a traffic dispersal system for the proposed Penang Undersea Tunnel.