App developers must be held accountable for misleading advice, says Fahmi
Source: The Star
Published on: 2026-10-31 08:37
PETALING JAYA: Senior management of the company that designed TuJu must be held accountable for any inaccurate information fed to the Federal Government on the navigation app, says Communications Minister Datuk Seri Fahmi Fadzil. He was responding to the statement by Highway Authority chairman Datuk Seri Ir Hasni Mohammad that TuJu was not designed to compete directly with Waze or serve as a full replacement for it. Fahmi was speaking to the media after the launch event for the Journalists' Health Screening Program - a joint collaboration between the Malaysian Media Council (MMC) and Cardiac Vascular Sentral Kuala Lumpur (CVSKL) here on Saturday (Oct 31). "TuJu is an application under the purview of the Works Ministry and the Highway Authority. "If their representatives provided any information during the meeting, they must take responsibility for what was communicated. "In my view,...
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