Mujahid takes home RM3,400 a month after cuts
Taking a leaf from Pandan MP Rafizi Ramli, Amanah MP declares his income, assets and debts.
GEORGE TOWN: Parit Buntar MP Mujahid Yusof Rawa declared his assets, income and debts as part of an initiative to be more transparent as a public official.
Mujahid, a full-time Amanah MP, said the move to reveal his finances was voluntary and he did so after being inspired by his fellow Pakatan Harapan colleague, PKR MP Rafizi Ramli.
When asked if he would ask his fellow party members to do the same, Mujahid said: “I better hope so.”
In a statutory declaration made on Dec 7, Mujahid said his monthly income was RM20,156.97 after tax deductions, contributions and housing loan deduction. He receives RM25,700 as MP.
From the sum, he would fork out RM10,300 for his service centre in Parit Buntar and to fund its programmes.
This included rent for the service centre, allowances for two officers and donations for the hardcore poor.
Mujahid also said he contributed RM4,000 a month to his party.
He also revealed that he was left with only RM3,453.91 a month after cuts and expenditure.
He said he also pays RM2,246.53 for his Honda Accord 2.4 VTi-L which he bought for RM175,876.70 in 2013. He took up a six-year loan for the car.
Mujahid said he bought a Proton Saga SV 1.3 CVT car last year at RM34,000 in cash for his son, Nidhal, 25. He said he paid for the car using back-dated pay from his salary as MP.
Nidhal, a political science graduate, works as a researcher for the Penang Institute.
The assets he owned, which was a house and two cars, are valued at RM423,000.
Mujahid also took a RM60,000 personal loan from Bank Islam, with a two-year repayment period at RM2,656.53 a month.
He also serviced his RM24,000 on his two credit cards by paying RM1,500 a month.
Mujahid has a total of RM6,854 in savings in three different banks.
He also revealed that he was director in three organisations, from which he only received attendance fees.
Mujahid is a non-excutive director of a company that manages Kolej Islam Teknologi Antarabangsa Pulau Pinang.
He said he does not receive a monthly stipend but a payment for being present at meetings.
He is also the director of the Penang Islamic Foundation, which also does not pay him a monthly salary but only a payment if he attended meetings.
For his post as a deputy chairman of the state agency Penang Library Corporation, Mujahid said he only received payments for being present at meetings.
Mujahid said his wife, Zuraida Hussein, 50, is a senior teacher at a government secondary school.
Mujahid said besides his eldest son Nidhal, he has two daughters.
Amal, 23, works at a kindergarten, and Manal, 20, was a student doing her Mandarin-language major at the Beijing Foreign Studies University, China.
Manal, Mujahid said, is on a government scholarship.
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Mujahid was previously a lecturer at Multimedia University and left the academia for politics in 1999.