Former Prime Minister and Member of Parliament for Pekan, Datuk Seri Najib Razak should be referred to the Parliamentary Committee of Privileges for tampering with the Auditor-General’s 1MDB audit report before it was presented to the last Parliament.
The Auditor-General Madinah Mohamad has confirmed that the then prime minister Najib Abdul Razak summoned her predecessor Ambrin Buang on Feb 22, 2016, and instructed certain parts of the report to be expunged.
She added that Najib’s private secretary Shukry Mohd Salleh had also instructed the mentions of businessperson Low Taek Jho, a central figure in the 1MDB scandal, to be removed.
This is a most shocking disclosure and a total abuse of power which attacks the very basis of parliamentary integrity and which must viewed most seriously by all Malaysians, in particular Members of Parliament.
Even Utusan Malaysia, until a few days ago the unthinking mouthpiece of UMNO and Najib, have said that Najib and civil servant who purported to have conspired with him are traitors if allegations they tampered with the 1MDB audit report are true.
Utusan said: “If this really happened, this is an utmost betrayal of the trust given by the people to Najib and other civil servants.”
If it is established that Najib had tampered with the former Auditor-General’s audit report on 1MDB, then it is up to the Committee of Privileges to recommend to Parliament what punitive measure should be meted out to Najib.
(Speech by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang on “Diaspora Malaysians and Nation-Building” at Hong Kong University, Hong Kong on Sunday, 26th November 2018 at 4 pm)
#1 by Bigjoe on Monday, 26 November 2018 - 9:36 am
Najib said tampering of the report was “normal”.. It was – so was stealing, power abuse, law-breaking, recklessness, betrayal and treason.
The man really know how to dig himself in a hole. In fact, if you look at his entire career, he did it multiple time, not just recently. Its just that when he got to the top job, the scale and scope reflected the incredible privillege that came with the office.
Najib was always going to jail the day he took the PM job.
#2 by winstony on Monday, 26 November 2018 - 11:41 am
Greed and corruption are perhaps the twin social ills that will eventually lead to a dictatorship.
Sooner or later, the crimes will be public knowledge and in order to protect himself, there is no other choice but to subjucate the people.
And it is very easy for a country, any country, to fall into this trap.
#3 by good coolie on Tuesday, 4 December 2018 - 7:40 pm
“Normal.” That’s because you had all the agencies in your pocket, especially the AG’s. Then, everything you said was gospel truth. You could not be charged. You thought the Rakyat were bloody fools. Or maybe you thought you were ruling by divine decree.