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Zahidi is missing the wood for the trees when he should be listing the areas in Sabah and elsewhere which will benefit from the government’s bridging the digital divide programme by the end of the year
Posted by Kit in Education, Good Governance, IT on Monday, 7 September 2020
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The Deputy Communications and Multimedia Minister, Zahidi Zainul Abidin is missing the wood for the trees when he should be listing the areas in Sabah and elsewhere which will benefit from the government’s bridging the digital divide programme by the end of the year.
Why is Zahidi flogging a dead horse, trying to justify his Thursday morning statement in the Senate accusing Veveonah Mosibin of lying that she had to spend 24 hours on a tree-top to gain internet connectivity for an online examination.
In the process, Zahidi has even tried to drag the MP for Kudat and Deputy Finance Minister, Abdul Rahim Bakri into the soup he is in. Read the rest of this entry »
PAS Minister Khairuddin symbolises one the major dereliction of the Perikatan Nasional government – violation of Rukun Negara and double standards in the country
Posted by Kit in COVID-19, Good Governance on Monday, 7 September 2020
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Plantation and Commodities Minister, Khairuddin Aman Razali from PAS now symbolises one of the major dereliction of the Perikatan Nasional government – violation of Rukun Negara and double standards in the country.
When this morning I read news about a senior police officer being among the 227 people detained in operations to check compliance with the recovery movement control order (RMCO) in Petaling Jaya earlier today, the first person who come to my mind is Khairuddin.
I believe I speak for all Malaysians wondering why Police is taking such an inordinately long time to decide on action against Khairuddin for his breach of RMCO SOPs, when everyday, actions are being taken against ordinary Malaysians for non-compliance with RMCO rules and regulations. Read the rest of this entry »
Is Muhyiddin the weakest of the eight Prime Ministers of Malaysia – weaker than Tun Abdullah Badawi?
Posted by Kit in Good Governance, Muhyiddin Yassin on Sunday, 6 September 2020
Is Tan Sri Muhyidin Yassin the weakest of the eight Prime Ministers of Malaysia – weaker than Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawai, the sixth Prime Minister of Malaysia?
This thought came to me when I read of the call by the PAS Plantation and Commodities Minister, Khairuddin Aman Razali for the permanent closure of pubs and nightclubs in Malaysia.
I do not think Khairuddin would have survived as a Cabinet Minister under any other Prime Minister in Malaysia after violating the Covid 19 quarantine SOP after his personal visit to Turkey on July 7, the lies that was told in particular about Turkey at the time was a “green zone” when it was an epicentre of the Covid 19 pandemic, and his attempt to make light his breach by claiming that he did not do anything wrong in regard to his job and that it involved only an error over the issue of the Covid-19 SOPs. Read the rest of this entry »
For the sake of the Veveonahs of Sabah, Sarawak and Malaysia to ensure that the government is serious about closing the digital divide in Malaysia, Zahidi must be referred to the Senate Committee of Privileges to determine how he could be so ignorant and incompetent as to call Veveonah a liar
Posted by Kit in Education, Good Governance, IT, Parliament on Sunday, 6 September 2020
For the sake of the Veveonahs of Sabah, Sarawak and Malaysia to ensure that the government is serious about closing the digital divide in Malaysia, the Deputy Communications and Multimedia Minister Zahidi Zainul Abidin must be referred to the Senate Committee of Privileges to determine how he could be so ignorant and incompetent as to call Veveonah Mosibin of Pitas a liar in the Senate for her YouTube of her spending a night on a treetop to get Internet connection for her examination.
Zahidi’s excuse that he had received “inaccurate information” to tell such a lie in the Senate is a most lame one.
The Senate Committee of Privileges should establish whether Zahidi was telling the truth in claiming that he had received “inaccurate information” or this is Zahidi’s second lie.
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Zahidi should be sacked for his shocking ignorance and incompetence, undercutting the Prime Minister and exposing the Muhyiddin government to national and international ridicule as a kakistocracy
Posted by Kit in Education, Good Governance, IT on Friday, 4 September 2020
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Deputy Communications and Multimedia Minister Datuk Zahidi Zainul Abidin should be sacked for his shocking ignorance and incompetence, undercutting the Prime Minister, Tan Sri Muhyddin Yassin himself, exposing the government to national and international ridicule as a kakistocracy.
Zahidi will be getting away too easily for his grave and shameful faux pas if he is just allowed to apologise and move on.
He said in the Senate yesterday morning that he had checked and found that Veveonah Mosibin of Kampung Sapatalang in Pitas, Sabah had pretended to take a university exam on a tree to popularise her YouTube channel, but later the same night, Zahidi said he would like to correct the statement that she did not sit for any exam.
Zahidi had made a grave error which is not “correctable”. Read the rest of this entry »
Why the reluctance to come clean and tell all about Khairuddin and his entourage’s trip to Turkey and breaches of Covid-19 quarantine SOP?
Posted by Kit in COVID-19, Good Governance, PAS on Wednesday, 2 September 2020
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The Health director-general Dr. Noor Hisham Abdullah had declined to respond to an accusation that the ministry was to be blamed for the failure of cabinet minister Khairuddin Aman Razali to quarantine himself after returning from Turkey.
I support Noor Hisham as this is a political question which should not be answered by any civil servant, but a question to be answered by the political leaders, which is why I had specifically ask the Health Minister, Dr. Adham Baba, to explain whether the Health Ministry was guilty as charged by PAS and whether their silence constituted an admission of guilt.
In my media statement yesterday, I had referred to the accusation levelled by the PAS spiritual leader Hashim Jasin at the PAS Muktamar in Ipoh last weekend that Khairuddin should be considered a hero even though he broke Covid-19 quarantine rules as his trip to Turkey had brought benefits to the oil palm sector. Read the rest of this entry »
Are Health Minister Dr. Adham Baba and Foreign Minister Hishamuddin Hussein pleading guilty to PAS charge that the Health Ministry and the Foreign Ministry were guilty for Khairuddin Razali’s breach of Covid 19 quarantine SOP?
Posted by Kit in COVID-19, Good Governance on Tuesday, 1 September 2020
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Are the Health Minister Dr. Adham Baba and the Foreign Minister Hishamuddin Hussein pleading guilty to PAS charge that the Health Ministry and the Foreign Ministry were guilty for Plantation and Commodities Minister Mohd Khairuddin Aman Razali’s breach of Covid 19 quarantine SOP?
Otherwise, why the silence from them so far to the charge by the PAS spiritual leader, Hashim Jasin?
At the PAS Muktarmar last weekend, the PAS spiritual leader Hashim Jasin said Khairuddin should be considered a hero even though he broke Covid-19 quarantine rules as his trip to Turkey had brought benefits to the oil palm sector. Read the rest of this entry »
Defend the independence of national institutions like Parliament, Judiciary, Police, MACC, the offices of Attorney-General and Auditor-General as a first step to uphold the principles of Rukun Negara in the war against the “Malu Apa” viral pandemic in Malaysia
Posted by Kit in Good Governance, nation building on Monday, 31 August 2020
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One question which had been haunting me for some time is whether the Malaysian Constitution adopted as the basis for the building of a Malayan and later Malaysian nation in 1957 would have been accepted and adopted if it had been presented to the highest legislature of the land today.
There are legitimate doubts that the 1957 Constitution would have been passed by the highest legislature of the land today especially as the Constitution is viewed with considerable disfavour by those who believe that while corruption is deplorable, one should support a Muslim who is corrupt and not a non-Muslim who is clean, honest and upright; or those committed to the toxic politics of race and religion to disunite and polarise Malaysia and condemn the nation to the fate of a kleptocratic, kakistocratic and a failed state. Read the rest of this entry »
Khairuddin’s ‘million apologies” totally insincere and opportunistic as he now claims he had done nothing wrong in violating the Covid 19 quarantine SOP
Posted by Kit in COVID-19, Good Governance on Saturday, 29 August 2020
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Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Khairuddin Aman Razal’s “million apologies” last Saturday is totally insincere and opportunistic as he now claims he had done nothing wrong in violating the Covid-19 quarantine SOP when he returned from Turkey on July 7.
He said: “I did not do anything wrong in regard to my job, it only involved an error over the issue of the SOPs.
“I have my own view but I let the police (to probe). The Health Ministry had also issued a statement. For me, it’s solved, although I have my own view.”
The way Khairuddin strutted about in the Slim River by-election yesterday shows his new awareness of his untouchability as a Minister whatever mistake he makes, for the simple reason that the government of Prime Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin is so fragile that it would collapse if the Prime Minister enforces the principle of no one above the law.
As a result, the Prime Minister is left with the option of paying lip-service to this principle in the face of mounting cases of double standards in the application of the law.
If he is faultless, why is Khairuddin donating his salary as a minister from May to August to the Covid-19 fund?
The awful truth is that ten days after MP for Seputeh Teresa Kok exposed his violation of the Covid 19 quarantine SOP on his return from Turkey on July 7, the whole story has yet to be told, for example: did Khairuddin have the authorisation of the Prime Minister for his Turkish visit, how large was the delegation, why none of them wore the pink wristband and quarantined for 14 days under the Covid 19 SOP, why the lies about a “special test” for Ministers at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport and that Turkey was at the relevant time a “green country zone” in the Covid-19 pandemic, when Turkey was in fact one of the epicentres of the pandemic.
(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Saturday, 29th August 2020)
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“Jutaan maaf” Khairuddin tidak ikhlas langsung, malah merupakan satu tindakan yang oportunistik, di mana beliau kini mengatakan beliau tidak berbuat apa-apa kesalahan dalam melanggar SOP kuarantin Covid-19
Permohonan “jutaan kemaafan” Menteri Perusahaan Perladangan dan Komoditi Khairuddin Aman Razali Sabtu lepas tidak kelihatan jujur langsung malah ianya kelihatan oportunistik apabila beliau kini mengatakan yang beliau tidak melakukan apa-apa kesalahan dalam melanggar SOP kuarantin Covid-19 semasa beliau pulang daripada Turki pada 7 Julai.
Beliau berkata: “ Saya tak buat salah melibatkan kerja, tetapi melibatkan kekhilafan dalam isu prosedur operasi standard (SOP).
“Sebenarnya saya tak nak buat keterangan panjang (berkenaannya) dan serahkan kepada polis, walaupun saya ada pandangan sendiri.
“Bagi saya (isu itu sudah) selesai, walaupun saya ada pandangan sendiri,” katanya kepada pemberita di Slim River hari ini.”
Gaya Khairuddin dalam kempen pilihan raya kecil Slim semalam menunjukkan yang beliau kini sedar yang beliau tidak dapat disentuh sebagai seorang menteri, tanpa mengira apa-apa kesalahan yang dibuatnya. Semuanya hanyalah kerana kerajaan Perdana Menteri Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin ini amatlah rapuh dan kerajaan ini akan tumbang jika Perdana Menteri cuba untuk mengamalkan prinsip di mana tiada sesiapa pun berada di atas sistem perundangan negara.
Akibatnya, Perdana Menteri hanya mampu mengatakan yang tiada sesiapa pun berada di luar keadilan sistem perundangan negara sedangkan seluruh rakyat Malaysia dapat melihat standard berbeza yang diamalkan oleh pemerintahan beliau.
Jika benar Khairuddin tidak ada berbuat kesilapan, mengapakah beliau mendermakan gajinya sebagai menteri kepada Tabung Dana Covid-19?
Perkara sebenarnya adalah, selepas sepuluh hari pelanggaran SOP kuarantin Covid-19 oleh Khairuddin ini didedahkan oleh Ahli Parlimen Seputeh Teresa Kok, kita masih belum dapat menerima gambaran penuh yang sebenarnya, misalnya mengenai benarkah Khairuddin mendapat kelulusan Perdana Menteri untuk membuat lawatan ini, berapa besarkah delegasi beliau, mengapa tidak ada seorang pun daripada mereka yang memakai gelang tangan merah jambu dan dikuarantin selama 14 hari, mengapa beliau menipu mengenai “ujian saringan khas” untuk para menteri dan kononnya Turki merupakan “negara zon hijau” semasa lawatan ini berlangsung, sedangkan Turki merupakan salah satu pusat penularan utama dunia sewaktu itu.
(Kenyataan Media Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Gelang Patah pada hari Sabtu 29 Ogos 2020)
Khairuddin’s image haunts Muhyiddin’s live telecast announcing the extension of RMCO as the single foremost question in the minds of Malaysians is the government’s double standards for breach of Covid-19 quarantine SOP
Posted by Kit in COVID-19, Good Governance, Muhyiddin Yassin on Saturday, 29 August 2020
Malaysians following the Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin’s live telecast tonight are interested in two things: firstly, whether the RMCO would be extended and the outcome of police investigations ten days after the DAP MP for Seputeh Teresa Kok revealed in Parliament about the flagrant breach of Covid-19 quarantine SOP by the Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Khairuddin Aman Razali on July 7.
It is no exaggeration to say that although the live image on the television screen was that of the Prime Minister, for the overwhelming majority of Malaysians, Khairuddin’s image haunts Muhyiddin’s live telecast.
But Malaysians are disappointed. There is only the hypocritical advice by the Prime Minister to Malaysians to be responsible and disciplined to follow the Covid-19 SOP, but such advice do not extend to his Cabinet Ministers. Read the rest of this entry »
It is most sad and deplorable that the Rukun Negara has become the greatest casualty during its Golden Jubilee celebrations
Posted by Kit in Good Governance, nation building on Friday, 28 August 2020
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The Parliament session that just ended yesterday showed that the Perikatan Nasional Ministers have the scantiest respect for Rukun Negara and are the greatest violators of its principles.
There is a great and urgent need to educate Malaysians about the meaning and purpose of the five Rukun Negara principles, starting first with the Cabinet Ministers and the Members of Parliament.
Will every Cabinet Minister and Member of Parliament declare support and commitment to abide by the five Rukun Negara principles?
It is no use asking students to memorise the Rukun Negara principles when every day, the people see Ministers and Members of Parliament violating the Rukun Negara principles. Read the rest of this entry »
Call for Royal Commission of Inquiry into all direct negotiation contracts in the past ten years from 2010 to 2020 covering all three Barisan Nasional, Pakatan Harapan and Perikatan Nasional governments
Posted by Kit in Financial Scandals, Good Governance on Friday, 28 August 2020
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Malaysians have to thank the Finance Minister, Tengku Zafrul Abdul Aziz for highlighting the issue of direct negotiation contracts although his intention was not so noble as it was primarily a mean political power play in Parliament aimed at the Pakatan Harapan government to suggest that it was lacking in integrity in the conduct of financial affairs.
But Tengku Zafrul’s ham-fisted strategy has returned to bite him and the Perikatan Nasional government and scoring his own goal as the list of 101 projects given through direct negotiations worth RM6.61 billion released by him had become the most powerful testimony that the 22-month Pakatan Harapan government, whatever its mistakes or shortcomings, was better than both the previous Barisan Nasional government and the present “backdoor” Perikatan Nasional government.
If Tengku Zafrul is sincere, honest and upright, he would have praised the Pakatan Harapan government for saving the country RM790 million in Phase 2 of Klang Valley double-tracking project by paring the RM5.265 billion contract signed by the Barisan Nasional government a day before Parliament was dissolved in March 2018 to RM4.475 billion.
Can Tengku Zafrul give a single instance where the Perikatan Nasional government and the Finance Ministry under him had saved the country RM790 million in reviewing the contracts signed by the Pakatan Harapan government? Read the rest of this entry »
How a Cabinet Minister became a fugitive from justice?
Posted by Kit in COVID-19, Good Governance on Thursday, 27 August 2020
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Two days ago, Senior Minister for Security Ismail Sabri Yaakob said he was unsure if Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Mohd Khairuddin Aman Razali visited Turkey alone or with other people.
“I only know about the minister. Whoever followed him, I’m not sure,” he said at a press conference.
The Minister’s ignorance is shocking news.
Didn’t Khairuddin report to the Cabinet last week after DAP MP for Seputeh Teresa Kok revealed to Parliament last Tuesday about Khairuddin and his entourage breaching the Covid 19 quarantine SOP for people leaving and returning to the country?
Even if Khairuddin had not reported to the Cabinet, didn’t he and the other Cabinet Ministers asked Khairuddin to give a report?
Or has Malaysia a dumb Cabinet where Ministers dare not mind the business of other Ministers, even if this would be most damaging for Malaysia’s reputation? Read the rest of this entry »
Call on Muhyiddin to make public the report of the Health Ministry internal investigation on Khairuddin’s violation of the Covid 19 quarantine SOP
Posted by Kit in COVID-19, Good Governance on Wednesday, 26 August 2020
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The admission by the Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah that top Ministry officials were in the dark about Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Mohd Khairuddin Aman Razali’s violation of home quarantine rules until last week is quite a shocker.
Equally astounding is that an internal investigation into the series of events following the minister’s July 7 return from Turkey has been kept as a secret from the public.
At yesterday’s press conference, Noor Hisham admitted that he, along with the ministry’s deputy director-general and head of infectious diseases, were not informed about the matter until it made the news.
He said he instructed an internal investigation to be held and he has received the full report of what happened from the ground. Read the rest of this entry »
The Khairuddin quarantine charade – Just tell the truth, no cover-ups, no make-ups and any other cock-and-bull stories
Posted by Kit in COVID-19, Good Governance on Sunday, 23 August 2020
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The time has come for the Perikatan Nasional government to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth about the Khairuddin quarantine charade – no cover-ups, no make-ups or any other cock-and-bull stories.
Start with:
– the names of those in the Khairuddin tour who visited Turkey from July 3 -7, whether in their official or private capacity;
– whether authorisation by the Prime Minister was given for the Turkish trip, why and the the nature of the authorisation;
– the full programme – both official and private – of the group in Turkey from July 3 – 7; Read the rest of this entry »
Is Muhyiddin such a weak Prime Minister that he cannot or dare not impose discipline on his own Cabinet as his Ministers have no qualm in ignoring or defying him?
Posted by Kit in COVID-19, Good Governance on Saturday, 22 August 2020
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The silence of the Prime Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin has been thunderous.
The scandal of the Cabinet Minister who defied the Covid-19 SOP by not undergoing the stipulated 14-day quarantine SOP after returning from a five-day trip to Turkey in early July raises the question whether Muhyiddin is such a weak Prime Minister that he cannot or dare not impose discipline on his own Cabinet as his Ministers have no qualm in ignoring or defying him.
Four days have passed since the DAP MP for Seputeh Teresa Kok raised in Parliament the case of a Cabinet Minister who visited Turkey for five days and returned without undergoing the stipulated 14-day quarantine.
The attitude of the defaulting Minister is akin to the posture struck by a former Prime Minister – “Malu Apa Bossku”! Read the rest of this entry »
Muhyiddin should disclose how many Ministers, Deputy Ministers and top officials had been given permission to leave the country during the MCO, CMCO and RMCO and whether the Health Ministry has devised a special Covid 19 test to enable them to skip the SOP
Posted by Kit in COVID-19, Good Governance on Friday, 21 August 2020
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We seem to have a new reason for a Cabinet Minister not undergoing the stipulated 14-day quarantine after returning from a five-day trip to Turkey in early July – that the Minister had undergone a “special test” when he returned from the trip and the results were negative.
What is this special test? “The special test was to enable the country’s leaders who go in and out of the country, including on personal matters, to undergo the test swiftly.” – Star 21.8.2020.
This is news to Malaysians. Read the rest of this entry »
Triple national celebrations this year marred by a Minister who openly shows contempt and breaches Rukunegara
Posted by Kit in COVID-19, Good Governance, Health on Thursday, 20 August 2020
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The triple national celebrations this year – the National Day, Malaysia Day and 50th anniversary of Rukunegara – are marred by a Minister who openly shows contempt and breaches the Rukunegara.
What is the lesson from the shocking episode where a Cabinet Minister did not undergo the stipulated 14-day quarantine after returning from an overseas trip?
The message from this shocking episode is that 63 years after Merdeka, 57 years after the formation of Malaysia and on the Golden Jubilee of Rukunegara, there is no rule of law as there are two classes of Malaysians – the ordinary Malaysians who must abide by the law and the VVIPs who can defy the law. Read the rest of this entry »
Public trust and confidence in Malaysia shattered by a government which is the worst offender of “politicking ” although it is camouflaged as “doing national good”
Posted by Kit in COVID-19, Good Governance, Muhyiddin Yassin, Parliament on Monday, 1 June 2020
Keyakinan dan kepercayaan awam tercalar oleh kerajaan yang kuat “berpolitik” sambil menyembunyikan perbuatan tersebut konon-kononnya demi “kepentingan negara”
Semalam, Parlimen Thailand telah meluluskan pakej sokongan ekonomi bernilai RM252 bilion untuk mengurangkan impak wabak Covid-19 kepada negara tersebut, termasuklah bantuan untuk para petani dan pekerja sektor tidak formal seperti penjaja jalanan dan mereka yang bekerja di rumah urut dan bar yang kini tidak dapat menjalankan perniagaan.
Seminggu lepas pula, Parlimen Singapura telah meluluskan belanjawan tambahan yang bernilai SGD33 bilion. Ini merupakan inisiatif khas untuk membantu para pekerja dan perniagaan yang berhadapan dengan kesan wabak Covid-19.
Belanjawan yang diperkenalkan sebagai Belanjawan Ketabahan (Fortitude Budget) ini adalah belanjawan keempat negara tersebut dalam tempoh empat bulan sejak pengumuman Belanjawan Perpaduan, Ketahanan, dan Solidariti sebelum ini, yang secara keseluruhannya berjumlah lebih daripada SGD100 bilion ataupun hampir 20 peratus KDNK Singapura — sebagai usaha membantu rakyat negara pulau tersebut dalam menghadapi wabak Covid-19. Read the rest of this entry »
Is Parliament going to be fully locked down until the Budget 2021 session in September, with all parliamentary committees completely paralysed?
Posted by Kit in Good Governance, Parliament on Tuesday, 26 May 2020
There is need for clarity from Perikatan Nasional Government, whether Parliament is going to be fully locked down until the Budget 2021 session in September, with all parliamentary committees completely paralysed?
Although the earlier Parliament calendar states that the next parliamentary meeting will be in July for 25 days from July 13 to August 25, Members of Parliament are uncertain whether this calendar will be strictly adhered to as there had been four variations to the Parliamentary calender for this year alone.
Furthermore, will all parliamentary select committees be frozen and paralysed for nine months of this year?
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