Now, even Gerakan, the political party whose President had to get into Cabinet by the backdoor of Parliament, has joined the pack of wolves in Barisan Nasional demanding for the resignation of Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil as Minister for Women, Family and Community Development.
Although couched in the sweetest of words, calling on Shahrizat to “sacrifice” for Barisan Nasional and expressing “much sympathy” for her, the Gerakan Deputy President Datuk Chang Ko Youn hoped that the Wanita UMNO chief will have the “magnanimity to vacate her position as a minister in the cabinet and focus her energy on combating this…assault on her family”.
It will not be long before Gerakan leaders themselves will be asked by their Umno counterparts to make “sacrifices” for the larger interests of UMNO and Barisan Nasional.
Be that as it may, it is clear that the Gerakan Deputy President has either not heard or believed Shahrizat protesting in the loudest of voices that she is married to the chairperson of National Feedlot Corporation (NFC) which has nothing to do with her official duties as Minister of the Cabinet.
The question is how many Ministers, Members of Parliament and Barisan Nasional leaders at all levels are of the same mind – not heard or believed Shahrizat’s protestations.
MCA President Datuk Seri Chua Soi Lek had publicly blamed Shahrizat for “poor handling” of the “cattle condo” scandal causing the public to perceive the NFC project as “real rotten”.
UMNO internal protests against Shahrizat has become like a suppressed volcano in UMNO – despite calls by the former Prime Minister Tun Mahathir, former Wanita UMNO chief, Tan Sri Rafidah Aziz and the current Wanita UMNO deputy chief Datuk Kamila Ibrahim that Shahrizat should resign as Cabinet Minister.
Would Shahrizat survive a secret ballot in the Cabinet if there is a vote whether she should just pack up her bags and resign as Minister for Women, Family and Community Development?
May be, all Members of Parliament should have a free vote when Parliament reconvenes on 12th March on whether Shahrizat should resign as Minister for Women, Family and Community Development over the RM330 million NFC “cattle condo” scandal.
Would Shahrizat agree to such a free vote as the first item of Parliamentary business next month?
Would the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak and his deputy, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yasin have any objections to let MPs decide Shahrizat’s Cabinet future?
#1 by dagen wanna "ABU" on Thursday, 9 February 2012 - 5:36 pm
Whatever jib utters from the left fork of his “W”-tongue is not the responsibility of his right fork. Nor for that matter, his brain – both left and right lobes. You see all of them – the tongue and its two forks and the two halves of the brains – just happened to share one and the same body. Be that as it may they, each and everyone of the parts are separate, different and distinct. The same body relationship is a mere co-incidence and will not change the fact the various parts therein are separate, different and distinct.
#2 by Winston on Thursday, 9 February 2012 - 5:38 pm
LKS, when we, the electorate, tells BN to quit, it won’t be
couched in such sweet terms.
#3 by Jong on Thursday, 9 February 2012 - 5:39 pm
“…..the Gerakan Deputy President Datuk Chang Ko Youn hoped that the Wanita UMNO chief will have the magnanimity to vacate her position as a minister in the cabinet and focus her energy on combating this…assault on her family ”
– “magnanimity”? At this hour, OMG shouldn’t it be “decency” Datuk Chang?
#4 by Jong on Thursday, 9 February 2012 - 5:45 pm
continued..
Another “boh-hood” like his chief in Gerakan? Sigh.
#5 by the reds on Thursday, 9 February 2012 - 7:13 pm
I strongly believe Shahrizat will resign soon… Ah Jib Gor will not let her to be a burden for UMNO………….. We shall see….
#6 by Bunch of Suckers on Thursday, 9 February 2012 - 8:06 pm
Suckers never feel shames! Shames never perceive in their minds! Otherwise, they are not suckers implicitly!!!
#7 by sheriff singh on Thursday, 9 February 2012 - 8:54 pm
She has got no where to go. How will she pay back all the money? Will she have to go to the streets?
#8 by Godfather on Thursday, 9 February 2012 - 9:07 pm
Finally they admit that they did use the public funds to buy condos. Cowgirl is going to tell everyone that it is OK to use the funds to finance the family umrah, the family trips to Disneyland, the family ski trips. After all, they are on marketing trips aren’t they ?
It is quite likely that the public funds were used to finance the trips of the UMNO bigwigs, or that the condos were used for UMNO families. Hence the quick defence from people like KJ and Moo. Kit, you should ask these UMNO guys to declare that they never benefitted from the use, direct or indirect, of the NFCorp funds.
#9 by Loh on Thursday, 9 February 2012 - 9:18 pm
/// “The issue of NFC managing its loan monies amounting to RM250 million is the company’s responsibility to administer and utilise NFC retains the prerogative to invest the funds in the best interests of the company ” Izmir said “It is not a grant or free money but a repayable loan ” he stressed He added “The loan agreement does not stipulate any expressed prohibitions on investments ”.///–MalaysianInsider
It was a soft loan for the family of chief of Wanita UMNO to make money as they see fit. Who says that there is anything to do with government project?
If it is not government project, they are entitled to use it as they see fit.
If it is a government project, why allocate the money independently of the progress in the project?
#10 by boh-liao on Thursday, 9 February 2012 - 10:31 pm
AIYO! Y want COWwitch 2 resign as Minister? D longer she remains as Minister d BETTER 4 PR! She IS an UDDERLY great punching BAG 2 win VOTES 4 PR
After ABU n PR in2 Putrajaya, PR gomen CAN then go after her n her famili + others too
#11 by boh-liao on Thursday, 9 February 2012 - 10:35 pm
COWwitch said others TOO jiak, jiak, jiak, more than her too
Don’t worry, later after GE13, she will HAPILI SING all d CROOKED ways n all her partners-in-crime in UmnoB/BN
#12 by Godfather on Thursday, 9 February 2012 - 10:48 pm
Not if all the top UMNO people had at one time or another been the beneficiaries of Cowgirl’s generosity in terms of meeting their families’ umrah expenses or Disneyland trips or shopping trips documented as “marketing expenses”.
#13 by Godfather on Thursday, 9 February 2012 - 10:53 pm
Those who have participated in the feeding frenzy won’t openly ask Cowgirl to resign. In fact, isn’t it obvious that only a few UMNOputras have asked for her resignation? The silence of the rest of UMNO is particularly telling.
#14 by Jong on Thursday, 9 February 2012 - 10:54 pm
10.55pm :
More than 5 hours and my comment sent at 5.45pm is still …..’awaiting moderation’!
The only word that’s new and not repeated on this thread I can think of, is “d*cency”. Is it a derogatory word, YB Kit? Please check, tq.
[Cleared. As confounded as you. – Admin]
#15 by dawsheng on Thursday, 9 February 2012 - 11:34 pm
I had a feeling of having already experienced the present situation.
#16 by rockdaboat on Thursday, 9 February 2012 - 11:44 pm
/// “The issue of NFC managing its loan monies amounting to RM250 million is the company’s responsibility to administer and utilise NFC retains the prerogative to invest the funds in the best interests of the company ” Izmir said “It is not a grant or free money but a repayable loan ” he stressed He added “The loan agreement does not stipulate any expressed prohibitions on investments ”.///–MalaysianInsider
By the above statement from her family, it is abundantly cleat that her family is not suitable to handle the project. I think they have no clue as to why the project was initiated!!!
#17 by sheriff singh on Friday, 10 February 2012 - 12:44 am
The just don’t have a clue as to how to generate income money to repay the loans. They feel that the money can be used for any purpose under the sun according to their whims and fancies.
These people are dangerous. How were they selected and trusted with such a large sum of public money? Why did the government feel that these people know their jobs and are experienced to carry out this national project?
This scandal is just an example of how the BN government works. I shudder to think that there may be hundreds if not thousands of scandals waiting to be exposed.
#18 by k1980 on Friday, 10 February 2012 - 3:16 am
She will end up like Penang’s infamous Chulia Street P_r_o_s
#19 by boh-liao on Friday, 10 February 2012 - 4:18 am
NO WAY d Speaker will allow any such discussion, cos d ENTIRE UmnoB/Bn gomen, led by Ah CHEAT Kor, is unashamedly n OPENLY CORRUPT
WHERE in d world can rakyat find a CORRUPT PM, using $$ fr d ppl, PROUDLY yell: GUA tolong LU, LU tolong GUA
#20 by boh-liao on Friday, 10 February 2012 - 5:20 am
Y don’t PR MPs demand d RESIGNATION of Ah CHEAT Kor 4 violating d rules of a FAIR election? 4 promoting $$$ POLITICS, BUYING votes? Go 2 an INTERNATIONAL court 4 justice
#21 by Jeffrey on Friday, 10 February 2012 - 5:40 am
‘The National Feedlot Centre NFC was a government project to turn Gemas into Malaysia’s Beef Valley and cut down foreign beef imports The company would also have met its production targets if the government had completed building an abattoir as promised NFCorp chief executive Wan Shahinur Izmir said after landing on the back foot over its role in the cattle-raising scheme The son of senior Umno minister Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil said in a media statement today that the funds awarded to the company had been put into a special account and that NFCorp had been given a free hand to manage its business so long as it repaid the two per cent interest in full “The issue of NFC managing its loan monies amounting to RM250 million is the company’s responsibility to administer and utilise NFC retains the prerogative to invest the funds in the best interests of the company ” Izmir said “It is not a grant or free money but a repayable loan ” he stressed He added “The loan agreement does not stipulate any expressed prohibitions on investments ”.’
-(Quoted from Debra Chong’s report in TheMalaysianInsider 9th Feb)
#22 by Jeffrey on Friday, 10 February 2012 - 5:55 am
This raises more issues: yes “It is not a grant or free money but a repayable loan” but since its soft govt’s loan carrying only 2% interest (as compared to higher commercial rates) – without collateral and even without clear parameters on how the loan is to be utilised, why isn’t such a ‘sweetheart’ loan given to me or rest of you but to NF Corp (so that it can also invest in safe projects like buying high yielding properties? This 1st question has yet to be answered. [This kind of response from NF Corp throws the onus squarely on the govt – and the approving authority- to answer why such a ‘sweetheart’ loan is granted to NF Corp and what special qualifications/experience NF Corp and its officers have (besides the Ministerial connection) to undertake such a project of turning “Gemas to a beef valley”].
Which of course raises the second next question for the Govt to answer, whether this object of turning “Gemas to a beef valley” for which public funding is risked is commercially viable or even common-sensically defensible or otherwise harebrained.
#23 by Loh on Friday, 10 February 2012 - 6:15 am
If the government cannot make sure that a simple objective of cutting beef import through cattle breeding, how can the government be trusted to run health care for the private sector? 1Care is an attempt by the government to run private health services with mandatory health insurance funds. The term health insurance would be a misnomer as insurance premium is based on risk of insured, but 1Care robbery is based on income, it is a surcharge on income, robbing the workers to pay the unemployed. It is robbing one for the benefit of others. It is communism in disguise. If ISA was to prevent communism why is communism allowed in the name of 1care?
#24 by Bigjoe on Friday, 10 February 2012 - 7:52 am
There is no much hope of this ever happening of course even with UMNO-Perkasa/BN being divided.
Each time the Shahrizat family open their mouth, the case turns from merely an issue of corruption of UMNO/BN to THAT of entire NEP policy itself. It started with Shahrizat saying it has nothing to do with her which is in reality impossible. The latest being the child that is the CEO saying they have a ‘right’ to invest in property. I believe he meant they have a ‘legal right’ to invest in property (which even if its true, its not legal to use it for their own ownership benefits). BUT to the UMNO-Perkasa/BN – that is the same as some natural right such as moral or birth.
The Shahrizat family lives in bubble and so do their friends, family and colleagues.
#25 by yhsiew on Friday, 10 February 2012 - 8:18 am
I believe the “cattle condo” scandal is only the tip of the iceberg. There may be many more such cases (i.e. using public funds to pay for private property) hidden from the public.
#26 by sotong on Friday, 10 February 2012 - 8:20 am
This is only the tip of the iceberg!
After 5 decades, in particular the last 2, you don’t want to know of other scandals!
We can still save what’s left…..draw a line and move on.
#27 by dagen wanna "ABU" on Friday, 10 February 2012 - 8:34 am
The perempuan mamak is still arrogant about the whole thing. Her behaviour will go down in history as a classic display of Ketuanan Umnoputra rights – the right to steal and plunder and rob with more than impunity, with the right to expect no questioning by anyone in the country. And umno’s grand effort in defending her is another classic. This period of twin classic must represent umno’s pinnacle of decay. From here on umno is way way beyond salvage and must be rejected and discarded totally.
The perempuan mamak issued a stern warning to all umnoputras to behave and not question her rights to that 250m with this question: “Which umno member is free of problems?” Would jib, who – going by that statement – must also be fraught with problems, dare to address the perempuan mamak’s potentially criminal act? Almost unlikely. Instead, the perempuan mamak will see this as an opportunity for her to bargain another deal – as a way out. I dont know what it will be eventually. So I am merely guessing. Perhaps it would be something like, “ok I resign” (with announcements like “it is for the good of the party” or maybe for “health reasons” or to “make way for fresh blood”) and in exchange she will not be prosecuted and in addition (ini dia, the deal) she would be made (wot?) ceo of some glc or something or maybe given some umno gobermen contracts.
#28 by Jeffrey on Friday, 10 February 2012 - 8:58 am
Upon justification of a national project anything could be done for govt to financially assist, for eg the soft loan not only does not require security but its given at 2% which is even blow FD rate of 3% and then it can be structured in a way that the borrower does not need to repay principal or even service the 2% interest until full drawdown, meaning one can drawdown the whole loan minus just RM1-00 (meaning loan has not been FULLY drawn down and hence need not even service 2 % interest) and could make 3% interest FD if money not otherwise used for buying properties that give over 10% yield. If not sweetheart deal, what is it? Asoft loan can by such means be turned in subtance to almost a free grant!
#29 by sheriff singh on Friday, 10 February 2012 - 9:53 am
Has all the funds and assets been frozen as per what Ah Jib Gor said? We need to urgently ensure that whatever is left of the RM 250 million or RM 350 million is not totally lost by these irresponsible idio_ts.
#30 by monsterball on Friday, 10 February 2012 - 11:12 am
Counting on the amount of MPs from both sides not happy with Shahrizat…a free vote will kick her out and that spells big problems for Najib.
No free votes by MPs …for sure.
Whenever a big fish is cornered…Najib has a job to see a tactic of ..”You help me…I help you”..applied.
That is…. Shahrizat must willingly sacrifice herself…to help safeguard UMNO B party and the crooked ring leaders…bigger fishes than she is……and she and her families will be well rewarded….through so many ways and means available.
#31 by monsterball on Friday, 10 February 2012 - 11:37 am
RPK accuses corruptions by 2 PKR in mining scandals and Home Minister…Hisham said that is serious and police must look into it.
Concerning NFC scandal with so many documents to prove corruptions clearly there…not serious to Hisham..and MACC moving like a snail.
Where in the world.. can you get a more idiotic Home Minister like Hisham?
#32 by Jeffrey on Friday, 10 February 2012 - 6:46 pm
What NFCorp chief executive Wan Shahinur Izmir said is not reasonable. Even if as he said “the loan agreement does not stipulate any expressed prohibitions on investments”, the correspondence exchanged between NF Corp & the relevant govt’s ministry will show the context/purpose by stating that the loan is intended for National Feedlot Centre project to boost the local beef production and industry – and this simply means the exclusion of any lucrative ventures or investment (in property included) for the private profit of NF Corp and not the specified national objective !