Comments on: Under Abu Kassim, can MACC redeem itself and restore public confidence, which has plunged to lowest ebb in nation’s history, as an independent, professional and fearless fighter against corruption?

By: rubini

rubini — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:07:36 +0000

This fellow cannot change anything. So what if he was a career officer. Despite mounting evidence on Khir Toyo before the 24million mansion, nothing was done!

I say throw out the BN government & allow PR to rule. Unless this happens i do not see Malaysia’s corruption level improving.

By: OrangRojak

OrangRojak — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 04:51:51 +0000

I’m sure you know what an ecosystem is.
An ‘ecosystem at equilibrium’ would normally be composed of independent constituents, all enjoying a minimum of costs for the advantages on offer. There is no over-arching force replacing components that ‘rock the boat’. What usually happens during times of rising costs (boat rocking) is that a cost ‘mountain pass’ can eventually be crossed (territories re-drawn, interactions changed, diets modified, that kind of thing) into a new valley of low costs (maybe higher or lower than original), or membership changes – possibly catastrophically.

I don’t know who you imagine is independent in Bolehland. It seems to me that Bolehland is a rather straightforward Imperial arrangement where power is assigned from the layer above, where ‘above’ is normally (for Bolehland) determined by ancient allegiances, not by democracy. That kind of system more easily accommodates your suggestion of ‘immediate replacement’.

By: boh-liao

boh-liao — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:32:17 +0000

Abu Kassim said MACC has to redeem itself
Easy, b honest abt TBH’s death
Go n pay respect 2 d victim, just do it

By: taiking

taiking — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:25:21 +0000

Dear Abu Kasim,

Remember this. Do your job instead of umno’s job.

Do also remember this. You are a civil servant first and last. And not a politician. So distance yourself from politics and politicians.

And finally, never ever forget this. When issues come to a boil and if you, rather unwisely were to associate yourself with politicians for rewards or otherwise, your politician associate will definitely sacrifice you to save himself. You will be the limbs he would cut to save his body!

Good luck and I wish you success.

The country depends on you.

By: frankyapp

frankyapp — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:54:46 +0000

Hi Onlooker Politic, I totally agreed with your first statement and you right too in most of your other comments. Lets us hope YB Lim Kit Siang takes note of our opinions. Do you remember me telling YB Lim and PR in this blog the danger and possiblility of not being able to enter Putra Jaya should they win the 13th GE. I hope PR should realise that winning the GE is one thing and pulling up and holding the people and country together is an other thing. Yep,Onlooker Politic,I really appreciate your sincere comments.

By: Godfather

Godfather — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:07:37 +0000

Rojakman:
I’m sure you know what an ecosystem is. In Bolehland, all the key species live in harmony, and equilibrium is achieved. The key species are BN parties, Chief Justice, IGP, Attorney General, MACC commissioner, Elections commissioner. Any of these species try to rock the boat, they will be immediately replaced.

Capisch ?

By: alaneth

alaneth — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:18:43 +0000

“The MACC which started operations this year had been touted as modeled after world-famous Hong Kong’s Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC)”

I never believe it will work in the first place. We are far far far behind HK in terms of discipline. No, we cannot compare Malaysian to Honkies. 56th in Transparency International !

Current Malaysian Leaders (BN) likes to talk BIG but get nothing done. Better join “NATO”.

By: Onlooker Politics

Onlooker Politics — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:50:37 +0000

“Oh come on onlooker politic,you still don’t get it.” (frankyapp)

frankyapp,
I believe that there is no such thing as a permanent friend or a permanent foe in politics. If YB Kit doesn’t attempt to change the heart of the newly appointed MACC Chief Commissioner by offering him a continual service contract in MACC when Pakatan Rakyat is able to take over the control of the Federal Government, do you think Abu Kassim will be kind enough to cooperate with YB Kit in order to take on the corrupted Umnoputra BIG FISH?

If YB Kit is to continue to choose taking the position of confrontation with the million counts of public servants even when there is hope for Pakatan Rakyat to take over the Federal Government by the next General Election, do you think Pakatan Rakyat can effectively take over the rule of the Federal Government without being harrassed or hindered by Najib through the organised sabotage within the whole team of Public Services Work Force?

Just take a look at Perak State Government. Pakatan Rakyat cannot even help much to protect the Perak Speaker Sivakumar from being robbed of the Speaker’s robe when it seems that the entire public services work force in Perak, including the High Court Judges, are standing by the side of Umnoputras. With the possible confrontation or protest by the huge public services work force, how do we expect Pakatan Rakyat to be able to effectively taking over the control and rule of the Federal Government when Pakatan Rakyat is able to win the next General Election?

Therefore, it is very important for Pakatan Rakyat to come out on time with some kinds of good offer to the existing top public servants in order to ensure that the whole system function of the Federal Government will not be paralysed and be made dysfunctional by the possible sabotage from the Umnoputras if Pakatan Rakyat is able to win the majority votes in the next General Election.

It may be easy for Pakatan Rakyat to win over the majority of Parliamentary seats by next General Election. However, it may not be so easy for Pakatan Rakyat to be able to uphold the ruling power for too long a period of time if Pakatan Rakyat does not choose to buy over the cooperation from the million counts of public servants. When the public servants choose the incooperation by way of work-to-rule when confronting Pakatan Rakyat, the Malaysian people will stand to lose due to droping in the productivity of the public servants. The people will then turn to put blame on Pakatan Rakyat when it is not able to secure full cooperation from the public servants.

Therefore it is important for Pakatan Rakyat to give offer to some top public servants now in order to win over their support in favour of Pakatan Rakyat. At the time when the public servants start to love Pakatan Rakyat, that will be the end to the first phase history of Barisan Nasional’s rule of Malaysia. That will the watershed mark for the beginning of the Pakatan Rakyat regime in Malaysia. That will also be the best time for Pakatan Rakyat to effectively take over the rule of the Federal Government from Barisan Nasional!

By: boh-liao

boh-liao — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 08:18:02 +0000

Good riddance 2 Ahmad Said Hamdan
He was d one who insisted that TBH committed suicide
Did he know something that we don’t know prior 2 d release of d 2nd autopsy rpt
Did Porntip give tip 2 ASH
Or, did he act in response to LKS’s call: ASH should resign over the country’s worst single-year plunge in the latest Transparency International Corruption Perception Index ranking (Nov 18, 2009)
Will NR make ASH an ambassador 2 Mongolia

By: superstar48

superstar48 — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 07:58:07 +0000

If the govn. of the day doesn’t interfere in the daily business of the public sector everything be it macc,police,judiciary and all govn. related departments will function 1st. class. I quote one fine example during Apanama,s period of PM’s rule.All the giant plantations in the country were doing very well- period during the 90′s or so Kumpluan Guthrie under the CEO Dato Ibrahim Khalid made a neat profit of about RM400 million.Why? because hard work from top managers’ to the bottom linesweeper.Work ethics from all the races,malays chinese indians were strictly followed and respected.Though in return the downline got only pittance but the satisfaction was there for everyone.But on the other hand Felda. Felcra, Risda and the list goes on,was fully subsidized and spoon fed by the Govn,with a few hundred million dollars losses every year in an out.The same apanama commented, how come private sectors can perform better whereas spoon fed govn.are otherwise.The Bn goons will always put smart one as replacement but along the line the sincere smart one has to become corrupt and do all the bad things.What to do,the new macc chief may be good but along the line he has follow orders.

By: boh-liao

boh-liao — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 04:54:44 +0000

D great success of NEP, thanks 2 MMK
Malays r rich, nay, super filthy rich n untouchable
Wealth accumulated easily for 7 generations
How many nonMalay ex-civil servants u know hv RM47 million?

By: albert308

albert308 — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 04:43:36 +0000

A late former deputy IGP pass away recently reportedly has RM47 million of cash and land to a tussle in family. This is the wealth possessed by top ranking government officers in our country in their lifetime, even after retire from government still continue obtain perks in the corporate position until death.
Will Abu Kassim give up the guaranteed wealth of a top ranking officer under Umno BN system to fight corruption in gentleman way? The big question is will Abu Kassim go against the rotten to the core of Umno BN system?

By: frankyapp

frankyapp — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 04:31:38 +0000

Grilling people to death and throwing the dead body down the building ,hey hey macc wait a moment,is this your way to say “work with me “. Once bitten twice shy.

By: boh-liao

boh-liao — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 04:04:02 +0000

Asking Abu Kassim to “prove me wrong that you are not just another lapdog of UMNO”
Ha, ha, ha, easier to b a can-or-not space visitor than 2 prove u wrong
D moment AK proves himself not 2 b a chiwawa or a lap dancer of Umno B
He will b terminated
He has 2 decide now 2 b rewarded with amazing wealth or b damned; easy choice
He said he wants everyone 2 work WITH him n NOT FOR him – how cute, sounds familiar?

By: Cinapek

Cinapek — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 03:17:49 +0000

Ahmad Said departure is no loss to anyone. Even though he stoutly denied his premature departure was due in part to the TBH case, he still defiantly bad mouth the case as ” Teoh Beng Hock’s case is nothing. It is a very small case….”. A life lost is nothing? What kind of a man and a father himself could even utter such an insensitive remark? I can only conclude that he is better gone before more “nothing” lives are lost under his watch.

Abu Kassim needs to understand only one thing in his “makeover” of the MACC. It is the substance and not the form that counts. And the substance are derived from the people within that organization. Judging from the actions and performances of those MACC officers who came under the public limelight, Abu Kassim has his work cut out for him. Can he change the culture overnight? Can he change the mindset of people who are used to torturing information out of people to try to get information in other ways? Can he defy his political masters who put him into that postion? Would he dare to? Can he last if he dares to be independent and go after the sharks?

The jury is still out.

By: yhsiew

yhsiew — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 21:39:27 +0000

or will MACC be “more of the same” as under Ahmad Said?
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As long as UMNO has its hand in the MACC, Abu Kassim’s appointment can be likened to “old wine in a new bottle”.

By: sightseeing

sightseeing — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 20:19:25 +0000

Datuk Abu Kassim Mohamed,

Prove me wrong that you are not just another lapdog of UMNO within the first 30 days of your appointment as the MACC Chief Commissioner. I want to see some actions on the following cases:

1) Reopen investigation on Lingam tape scandal
2) Investigate Bala’s accusation of being threatened by the younger brother of Najib
3) Investigate the illegal transfer of $10 million overseas by the MB of N. Sembilan
4) Investigate the abuse of power by Deputy PM in using military helicopter for UMNO’s function.
5) Investigate how Mohd Khir Toyo got the money to built the $24 million home.

By: patrickdejavu

patrickdejavu — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:54:26 +0000

When Abdullah decided to rebrand ACA to MACC,people expect a positive reforms which eliminates its previous flaws,weaknesses that will greatly uphold its integrity in executing its duties.In short,people expect improvements!!But to our disappoinment,it was merely rebranding instead of reforms.It seems that after the rebranding,MACC’s performance plunge to its deepest instead of any progress.Needless to elaborate,this is supported by various cases being reported in the media and local dailies.So,what claim is Abu Kassim trying to make when he said he will introduce measures and plans to redeem MACC’s integrity and public confidence??By making that statement,is he confessing that the reforms that was suggested by Abdullah when transforming ACA into MACC actually does not exist or not implemented?? Again,from that statement,is he trying to introduce second reform which clearly explains the failure of the first reform from ACA to MACC??Malaysians are not stupid.Malaysians are not fools that he can fooled around by simply making idiotic statement so that he can gain the people’s supports to the post of MACC’s head.No matter who becomes the MACC’s head,talks on reforms are remained just sweet talks without any realistic actions.How does the MACC fight corruption effectively when they are just the puppets of the ruling party??In another word,what is the rationale of depending on a corrupted body to fight corruption??

niamah!!!

By: frankyapp

frankyapp — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:39:16 +0000

Oh come on onlooker politic,you still don’t get it.Given Abu kassim genuine desire to tackle corruption,the best he can do is catching a few tiny ikan bliss to show the public,he got teeth,that’s all I think he can do. But when comes to umnoputras big fish,like I said,he’s not put on to the driver’s seat to do it.You got to know in malaysia,the power to catch corrupted people is not with the officer but is with the corrupted people who control the regime in power.These corrupted people will remain untouchables for as long as its regime stays in control.If you want corruption to be genuinely tackle,changing the present regime is our only hope.

By: Onlooker Politics

Onlooker Politics — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 15:43:52 +0000

“Is Abu Kassim prepared to lead the MACC as an independent and professional anti-corruption body like Hong Kong’s ICAC, not at the beck and call of the political masters of the day, or will MACC be “more of the same” as under Ahmad Said?” (YB Kit)

What Abu Kassim will turn out to be as a new MACC Chief Commissioner is very much depending on whether he has the same kind of feudalistic mentality as his predecessor had, with which the personal political interest of his political master, namely the Prime Minister, will be put above all other national interests. The feudalistic mentality has already turned many top public servants into the lapdog or the apple polisher of the Prime Minister.

Many government servants do not know about the requirement for them to serve the nation dutifully and diligently in a manner of high integrity by carrying out their duty in a fair and just manner disregard of whether the client they are to serve is coming from the Ruling Party camp or coming from the Opposition camp. If those top Government Servants do really care much to memorise what have been written in the “Rukun Negara”, it will be quite easy for them to realize that they are indeed required by the Federal Constitution to pledge their loyalty to the Yang Dipertuan Agong, who is the symbolic figurehead of Malaysia, and not to pledge loyalty simply to the Prime Minister, for the Prime Minister is just the head of one of the Three Separated and Independent Branches of the Government — the Executive Branch. In a complete and perfect system of federalism, the security forces and law enforcement units of the Government are not only required to serve the Head of the Executive Branch of the Government but they are also required to serve the Head of the Legislature as well as the Head of Judiciary. It will be very difficult for the MACC Chief Commissioner to serve in a fair, just and impartial manner without fear or favour if he is to look up for the political patronage from the Prime Minister for getting promise or assurance for a prosperous personal retirement plan.

We are yet to see whether Abu Kassim can really show us that he is a real man who does not need to perform his duty as the MACC Chief Commissioner in an unseeming manner by way of performing as the apple polisher of Najib. Abu Kassim must be daring to take on the Big Fish from among the Umnoputras if he really wants to prove that he is the genuine Untouchable Man in Malaysia!