You don’t need to be a genius to tell the good from bad.

You can fool some people some time, but certainly you cannot fool all the people all the time, an adage too well known and time tested to be right.

Well guys, if ever there is any sincerity on the part of anybody, there is no need to beat about the bush; just straight thinking, straight talking and straight action would suffice. Anything else is crap and unnecessary.

Just call a spade a spade, nothing more nothing less.

At the heart of it all, just come up with as clearly defined a Bill as possible, with inputs from from all stakeholders, refined it until there are no loopholes for just anybody, including from the very top echelon to the very bottom of of the hierarchy.

If no one is above the law and all should be treated equally before the law, why should there be any immunity at all for any parties, individuals or personalities? To allow so would be making a mockery of whatever laws that are enforced in the land. And it certainly smacks of multiple standards.

Is this the kind of judiciary and legal approaches that the country is promulgating and perpetuating? I cry for Malaysia and Malaysians.

It seems that accountability is deliberately avoided and circumvented to protect those who had been entrusted with and had accepted the responsibilities to carry out duties toward the community and society.

In such a scenario the public at large would ultimately be at the receiving end of any injustices or mishaps that may ensued.

And the officers and officials and their agents, who should have been responsible, could get away scot-free without having to answer to any wrongdoings or shortcomings committed while discharging their duties. At times it was their negligence and non- compliance with their scope of duty and responsibility which resulted in calamities and tragic consequences.

Such officers and officials and their agents by right should be subjected to laws and regulations which any other individuals in all professions and jobs are subjected to.

Then and only then could it be said that there is accountability, integrity, transparency, justice, sensibility, impartiality, responsibility and equality before the law.

Immunity and unconditional protection from laws and regulations should not be practised at all and should be rejected outright and be made illegal. For NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW.

A black core remains a black core no matter what colour the exterior assumes.

A genuine intention would be genuine no matter how you look at it. If it is not, no matter how genuine one makes it out to be, it remains fake.

A spade is a spade, no matter what you call it. If it is not a spade, even if you insist that it is one, it won’t turn into one.

Reality does not bluff. Deceit does.

Quote:

(from Malaysiakini)

In a written parliamentary reply to DAP MP Liew Chin Tong, Abdullah had revealed that the government forks out RM6 million a year for rental and maintenance works for his official residence, Seri Perdana.

According to the reply, RM4,149,000 is paid as rental to Putrajaya Holdings – the master developer of the federal administrative capital – while the remaining RM1,896,616 is for maintenance works.

The government also pays RM3.4 million (RM2,273,888 for rental and RM1,129,992 for maintenance) for Seri Setia, the deputy premier’s official residence. -end quote-

The big question here is:

Why rent, and incur recurring exorbitant rentals month in month out, year in year out, when the government can buy the properties outright with ease? And save on unnecessary and avoidable charges?

It just doesn’t make economic sense. Something fishy here.

Perhaps scrutinise those properties and all other government properties for impropriety and irregularities?

The rakyat’s money has to be protected from being mismanaged and plundered.

When the rakyat suffered in all manners, government staff, from the highest echelon to the rank and file, who are ESSENTIALLY THE RAKYAT’S SERVANTS and trustees, lived in affluence and unchecked abundance and profligacy.

All at the rakyat’s expense. No wonder development funds dwindled unnoticed and even systematically, and at the expense of true developments which would benefit the rakyat directly or indirectly.

Wastages and unaccounted for expenditures in government offices continue to be a major drainage of public funds. Left unchecked, millions, perhaps billions of Ringggit would be unaccounted for (with some, perhaps substantially, getting into someone else’s pockets!).

There ought to be more stringent and strict checks and balances in government spendings and fundings. It makes no sense to urge the rakyat to save, while the government does not practise prudence in handling of public funds.

Dishing out policies is one thing, governing effectively and justly is another.

Perhaps it would be useful to arrange a MAJOR public debate on goverment spending to create awareness in the rakyat?

At the end of the day the nation’s wealth should be utilised solely for the benefit of the rakyat.