The 14th Parliament, which is to meet on July 16, must have as one of its priorities the purging of the infamy of the 13th Parliament in failing to defend Malaysia’s international reputation for being regarded as a global kleptocracy by directing the Public Accounts
Committee (PAC) to conduct a comprehensive investigation into the 1MDB scandal and to submit its report within 12 months.
I have said that the PAC of the 13th Parliament had committed one of Parliament’s greatest national disservice in six decades in allowing its 1MDB report to be distorted as exonerating the then Prime Minister-cum-Finance Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak, from any wrongdoing in the 1MDB scandal – when this was not the case.
Instead of unearthing the criminality and monstrosity of the 1MDB scandal, the PAC of the 13th Parliament sought to do a cover-up of the 1MDB scandal and refused to conduct a fuller and more comprehensive investigation when the US Department of Justice (DoJ) kleptocratic litigation suit in July 2016 to forfeit overt US$1 billion of 1MDB-linked assets made public a mountain of new information and evidence about the 1MDB scandal, which was not available when the PAC concluded its 1MDB investigations and submitted its report to Parliament in April 2016.
I am on public record as saying before the 14th General Election that although I had been a Member of Parliament for 10 terms from 1969 to 2018, except for the tenth Parliament from 1999 to 2004, spanning 45 years from 1969, I had not felt so ashamed as a MP than in the 13th Parliament.
I was suspended twice, and for six months each, basically because I demanded answers and accountability over the 1MDB scandal and why Malaysia became known as a global kleptocracy during the tenure of the 13th Parliament.
The 13th Parliament Speaker, Tan Sri Pandikar Amin Mulia owes the country and all Malaysians a public apology for the 13th Parliament’s failure to do anything to clear or purge Malaysia of the infamy, ignominy and iniquity of being regarded worldwide as a global kleptocracy – because his aiding and abetting Najib to virtually ban questions or debate on the 1MDB scandal in the 13th Parliament.
The 14th Parliament must make amends for the failure, abdication of responsibility and national disservice of the 13th Parliament, by directing the new Public Accounts Committee (PAC) to conduct a fuller and comprehensive investigation into the 1MDB scandal and submits its report within 12 months.
Najib, who is the MP for Pekan, should be summoned to appear to testify before the PAC for a “tell all” testimony on the 1MDB scandal.
(Media Statement in Gelang Patah Lim Kit Siang on Tuesday, 3rd July 2018)