When UMNO leaders defended the continuation of NEP, they say that they were poor Malays in the rural areas.

Now they say that out of the 40 richest Malaysians, the majority are not Malays. Does NEP say that it is to produce richest Malays? Does anybody need to be richest among the 26 million to live a comfortable life? If these were the intention of the government, then NEP has obviously been misused. And who would be the potential candidates for the richest among the Malays? They can’t be the rural Malays.

The poison left by TDM in his declaration that ‘NEP would have succeeded if he could make one Malay millionaire through NEP”. He might have been correct if the Malay millionaire he referred to made the money on its own ability, without using connections or licences from government regulations. But TDM obviously meant that money should be made through transferring what ought to be in public coffers to private hands. That declaration by the Malay champion silenced any Malays who dared to question the use of corrupt means to enrich Malays of TDM’s choice. He could even choose his relatives afterall they were also Malays, at least based on article 160(2). The clear examples was the AP scheme, which was established under NEP to help Malays become rich. The wealth rendered by AP scheme allowed hundreds of AP beneficiaries initially, and now perhaps in tens become multimillionaires, making the millions of car owners slave to pay higher price on their motor vehicles.

Malays who suffered at the hands of APs scheme can only complain privately, if they dare to withstand the criticism for not being loyal to UMNO. They have still kept UMNO returning to power. Are we to believe that the love they have for the Malay race make them willingly suffer at APs scheme, just so that tens of them become multimillionaires? Thus, they would even be willing to suffer more pains to make more Malays among the richest 40 in the country; or how else can they reach that position?

The Malays other than the UMNOputras as well as the non-Malays are experiencing a lower standard of living because of NEP. NEP have even made the ordinary Malays who are not even millionaires to be jealous of the Chinese who were the richest in the countries. But curiously, the ordinary non-millionaire Malays seems to accept other Malays who becoming billionaires, and to be among the richest even at their expense. It shows that UMNO has perfected the art of brain washing the Malays into believing that the ‘success’ of any Malay is their pride, and the party is their saviour. Or was it the Malays have a different psychological makeup, one wonders!