The Finance Ministry should clarify the status of rural road projects that have been postponed indefinitely, said Ahmad Zahid Hamidi’s aide at the Rural and Regional Development Ministry.

Fadzmel Fadzil, who is Zahid’s press secretary at his ministry, noted the Finance Ministry’s claim that the project had not been cancelled.

“What many do not know is that the letter dated Sept 10, 2026, from the Finance Ministry clearly directed expenditure control measures. Not a single sen of outstanding arrears was released, and funds that had already been approved were ordered to be ‘postponed’.

“That is why we want the Finance Ministry to answer: postponed until when? ‘Postponed without a date’ effectively means ‘cancelled’,” he said in a Facebook post today.