2. After many abuse or much lacking of actions by ACA and MACC, especially the TBJ case, no one had seen any investigation report by those Advisory Committee. They have performed NOTHING!! They. themselves, are destructive!!

PERSONALLY, I DO NOT SEE HE SHOULD HAVE THE FACE TO COMMENT OTHERS!!

The problems with the Malaysia is there are TOO TOO MUCH of these kind of “careered” Red Herring!! Wasting of Public Money, blocking normal operations, doing lip-service only!

A report to ACA some years ago on the flattening of Condo expense by the MC, the reply was it is regarded as “Misappropriation”, report to the Police!”

CODE OF PRACTICE or RULES OF PROCEEDING, had never been the backbone of this type of so called “Disciplinary Force”! Same goes go for the majority of the Government!
HOW CAN THEY RUN THE GOVERNMENT??
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A complaint was made to the Court with copy to the Chief Judge. The Court reply to the Chief Judge instead of the Complainant!! But, without giving anything that could answer any point of the complaint!!

The Chief Judge office replied the Complainant to refer to the reply from the Court!!

DO THEY KNOW WHAT IS ADMINISTRATION AND WHAT SORT OF DUTIES THEY HAVE TO PERFORMED?

Administration by Puffing??????

Orang Rojak is absolutely correct. This comment by the MACC No. 2 betrayed his true political inclinations. Perhaps Dr Lim was seduced by Dato’ Abu Kassim’s honeyed words that he missed the implications of these words, which clearly proves where the biaseness of the MACC lies. If Dato Abu Kassim is sincere in MACC’s neutrality he would have said “Believe me, MACC wants real reform,……”

Until the day I see those huge corrupted sharks from the BN or connected to them are actually behind bars, all these are mere rhetoric. I would not even give the time of the day, let alone believe them.

MACC has problems, so do other agencies like PDRM, Judiciary, AG and etc.; in fact they never deny that, they could not deny that.. The main problem of these agencies is they do not have the courage and strength to correct these. Look at cases like TBH, Perak state government, Linggam, PI Bala, is not one agency they are facing, more like against the whole government. Let’s not putting much expectation of any real reform; those are only rhetoric slogan and nothing else. Anyhow, expectation is good! That makes you change the government by next GE.

Because this is Malaysia and because this is MACC, political neutrality can only happened if M’sia achieves neutrality in political power. Political neutrality can only be achieved when both political masters have equal power and opportunity to lead. Other than changing the current regime there will be no reform. In fact the current regime is asking us to help them reform, we have to vote current regime out, in order for MACC and other government agencies to achieve political neutrality and reform.

Like what happened in Penang last GE12, the ex-CM is urging penangites to “zhai zhuan bian” which simply means “made another change” that’s why we get DAP to lead the state government. We are Malaysia, we are stupid, we follow what the government say, let’s reform the government. So, you really don’t know which is destructive and which is constructive!.

Your 1st and 2nd suggestions (on MACC’s mission statement and 6th Committee) are Ok though the more important is the 3rd suggestion – that the MACC reports to Parliament and not to the Prime Minister- is the more important.

I have 3 other suggestions based on your premise “in my view (shared by many Malaysians), the fatal flaw of the MACC is that it is not politically neutral.”

The first is that MACC’s prosecution must be independent of the “go ahead” or “no go” from the Attorney General (AG). Section 58 of our MACC Act states that a prosecution for an offence under the MACC Act “shall not be instituted except by or with the consent of the Public Prosecutor(AG)”. The AG is the government’s lawyer, member of cabinet. So how could there be neutrality if it reposes on AG to decide whether to prosecute or not? So Section 58 has to be amended/deleted.

My second suggestion is that things will not improve unless there is a constitutional amendment making the PM’s position one that is directly voted upon by the rakyat. Presently his position in dependent on votes, support and graces of party warlords influencing delegates to vote him to vice president and from there to deputy president and president of the party.

This cannot work where party warlords have vested interests in the present corrupt system and will not support any person evincing a modicum political will to really combat corruption.

The third suggestion – which is even harder to execute – is withdrawal of NEP.

Corruption flourishes more pervasively in a milieu of an interventionist state actively engaging in all aspects of the nation’s economic life under the justification of NEP and generating rents for collection by the favour few connected to those in power dispensing license, contracts and other largesse in quid pro quo exchange for favours, financial or otherwise.

The three aspects I raise – 1. making MACC’s prosecution independent of AG 2. direct election of PM by the people instead of by party warlords, 3. withdrawal of NEP – go to the root of political will, the first prerequsite to combatting political corruption.

Can this happen in Bolehland where a tainted Prime Minister is hiding behind his “1Malaysia” multi-million-ringgit advertising blitz to burnish his reputation?

I disagree with your statement that the MACC is a much maligned agency. Do you mean to say that most of the allegations against the MACC are false or untrue?

It is the running to the umno gobermen ever so often that gives people the impression that the macc is under umno’s thumb.

They have all the trademark speeches made by the former US presidents. Hmmm… I wonder.

Read my lips – believe me

It does not mean anything period..Words don’t change anything, wanting don’t change anything. What changes things is actions and consequences. And the bottom line is consequences and actions falls far far short..

On the surface, the Pekan MP’s ’1 Malaysia’ sloganeering appears admirable enough in promoting racial unity & multi-culturalism.
The man also said that his political party is not racist.
But after that, when some members of his party members made some racist remarks, he tells the rakyat to just ignore them.

Yep, on the surface, he can ask the people to believe & trust him, but below the surface, well, it’s anybody’s guess……

First, the budget for MACC must be approved directly by the Parliament. In other words, MACC do not need to submit the annual budget to the Treasury first. MACC should prepare the annual budget and members of Parliament, either through a select committee or the committee of the whole house shall scrutinise the budget or approve it. Finance is very important. Many agencies are beholden to the Treasury because of that, more so Finance Minister is also the PM.

Second, the selection and promotion of MACC officers must be transparently done. If possible members of Parliament must come up with specific guidelines on the selection and promotion of MACC officers. The appointment authority, the Public Services Commission, must adhere to the guidelines in terms of racial compositions, qualifications and experience. The same principles apply to promotion. If possible, during the initial period experienced officers from other services (even those who have retired) who have impeccable records shall be appointed to fill up the shortage.

There’s a country which has been ranked 24 places higher than Malaysia in the 2009 Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index, and this country has been regarded as a ‘negara haram’ by the Malaysian government, and thus, has no diplomatic & trade relations with it. The police force in that ‘negara haram’ had once investigated and brought charges of corruption against that country’s own prime minister without even needing any form of a separate anti-corruption agency or commission, and without fear or favour. So, it boggles the mind that in what is considered a ‘negara haram’ that such action can be taken, without much problems, against the top-most leader of its government for committing ‘satu perbuatan haram, iaitu rasuah’…