This blog of YB Kit can be seen as a fatal shot to pinpoint the internal problem of Najib within Umno itself, that is, the helplessness of Najib in achieving an effective control on certain government statutory bodies such as Jakim which have been put under the control of Umno’s insubordinate warlords.

As a matter of fact, Jakim is still put under the control of former Prime Minister, Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, who may not be a faithful supporter of Najib’s concept of 1Malaysia due to the reason that Tun Abdullah was forced to resign from the post of Prime Minister through the sabotage plot with the joint effort of Dr. Mahathir, Najib and Muhyiddin Yassin. Immediately after the step down of Tun Abdullah from the post of Umno President and from the post of Prime Minister, the balance of power among the Umno warlords has been shifting to a subtle situation, whereby there are always direct fights between Dr. Mahathir-Muhyiddin faction and Abdullah-Ahmad Zahed-Khairy faction with Najib sitting in the middle as a balancing factor between two factions.

“Jamil Khir, Minister in the PM’s Dept should be suspended or even removed as Minister for Jakim’s open insubordination and insurrection against Najib’s 1Malaysia concept.” This call of YB Kit for suspending or removing Major General Datuk Jamil Khir Baharom from the post of Minister in charge of Islamic affairs of the Prime Minister’s Department may not be viable for Najib since Najib will most likely feel that it is politically to his disadvantage if Najib is to make such a decision to replace Major General Datuk Jamil with another man who will dare to take on Tun Abdullah who now sits as the president of Jakim. The current political situation within Umno shows that Muhyiddin Yassin as the Umno Deputy President has posed a strong threat to Najib in view of Dr. Mahathir’s keenness to replace Najib with Muhyiddin Yassin as the Prime Minister, partly due to Najib’s constantly showing disobedience to Dr. Mahathir, especially regarding the matter of removing Khairy Jamaludin from the post of Umno Youth Head through a vote of no confidence against Khairy Jamaludin in the Umno Youth Committee meeting.

The open clash between Khairy and Dr. Mahathir has escalated recently due to the former’s putting a very sarcastic remark in the later’s chedet blog citing that Dr. Mahathir, by putting all blames on the currency traders, was indeed trying to cover his incompetence as the Finance Minister in handling the problem of 1998 currency attack due to his lack of finance knowledge. Khairy pointed out that Dr Mahathir made a wrong decision by permitting some cronies in the KLSE-quoted companies to sell back their personal holding as a substantial shareholder of the company shares to the company itself using the company funds at an overstated price which was above the market price. This kind of share transfer transactions was said to be an unfair business practice since it hurt the interest of the minority shareholders. Therefore the market confidence was jeorpadised by the unfair business practice and then the stock market plunged quickly as a response to the unfair business practice. Later a massive capital flight was triggered by high interest offer made by bankers in a neighbouring country in order to attract Ringgit deposit into the foreign bank account. Khairy put the blame of such a currency crisis on the implementation of many mega government projects which caused high import of US dollar denominated heavy construction machineries which followed by high outlay of US Dollar in the national balance-of-payment and high foreign borrowing of US dollar denominated off-shore loans due to Dr. Mahathir’s failure in understanding the real problems of the economics in the midst of an overheating economy.

In view of Umno’s currently facing another round of intense internal rife, it will be to Najib’s great disadvantage to create much more troubles for himself by making a decision to sack the less politicking Major General Datuk Jamil.