Not a word on Malaysia’s lowest TI CPI ranking or Malaysia’s ignominy as global kleptocracy because of 1MDB scandal in Najib government’s latest policy speech shows that UMNO/BN has lost its moral compass and forfeited its political legitimacy and credibility
Posted by Kit in Financial Scandals, nation building, Parliament on Tuesday, 6 March 2018, 12:41 pm
The speech by the Yang di Pertuan Agong in opening the sixth meeting of the 13th Parliament yesterday is supposed to be the Najib administration’s latest policy speech on its policy measures and specifics in the pipeline in the next 12 months.
But the second Najib administration has less than five months to go, and in fact, the 14th General Elections is expected in 70 days before mid-May, before the Pakatan Harapan’s eighth Malaysian Prime Minister-designate, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, is released from Sungai Buloh prison in early June – showing how frightened Najib is of Anwar!
The question teasing the media and all MPs is whether the present month-long parliamentary meeting starting yesterday on March 5 would be allowed to complete its month-long meeting ending on April 5 or whether it would be dissolved mid-way after the Elections Commission had rushed its report and proposals on the redelineation of parliamentary constituencies to the Prime Minister for adoption by Parliament.
This “hide-and-seek” game as to when Parliament would be dissolved, and whether the present month-long parliamentary meeting would be truncated half-way and Parliament dissolved for the holding of 14GE, is unworthy of a Prime Minister who is confident of support from the people and understand the true meaning of parliamentary democracy. Read the rest of this entry »
Is MCA preparing for a worse electoral performance in the 14GE and using Nazri as a scapegoat?
An MCA national leader said that if the Tourism Minister Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz does not takes responsibility for his mistake, Barisan Nasional may have to pay the price in the forthcoming 14th General Election.
The MCA-owned online Star headlined this story: “Barisan could pay the price if Nazri doesn’t apologise“.
The MCA national leadership cannot be more wrong, as Barisan Nasional would have to pay the price if UMNO does not apologise, as it is not just Nazri alone, but other UMNO Ministers and leaders as well who launched the malicious and savage attacks on Robert Kuok in a four-day spree, all on a false and baseless accusation that Kuok was funding the DAP to topple the Barisan Nasional government.
Why is UMNO/BN so afraid that Robert Kuok would giving donations to DAP, and isn’t this the democratic right of Robert Kuok to donate to any political party he chooses?
But what is really intriguing in this comment is whether the MCA National leadership is preparing for a worse electoral showing in the 14th general election as compared to the 13th general election, when the MCA was reduced to a 7/11 party winning only seven parliamentary and eleven state assembly seats, and was preparing the grounds for blaming a worse MCA performance in the 14th General Election on UMNO, using Nazri as a scapegoat? Read the rest of this entry »
MPs whether Pakatan Harapan or Barisan Nasional should learn the two important lessons from Robert Kuok – regain the moral compass and restore the rule of law
Posted by Kit in nation building on Monday, 5 March 2018, 11:06 am
For the first time in my decades in Parliament since 1969 (with a break in the Tenth Parliament from 1999 to 2004), I would be missing the official opening of Parliament by the Yang di Pertuan Agong because of my fall in my Gelang Patah house and the blue-black swelling around my right eye have not fully cleared.
This is the official opening of sixth meeting of the 13th Parliament, which is expected to be dissolved soon after for the 14th General Election to bd held within 70 days before mid-May.
There is no better way for MPs, whether Pakatan Harapan or Barisan Nasional, to prepare for the debate on the Motion of Thanks to the Yang di Pertuan Agong for the Royal Address at the official opening of Parliament than to read the memoir of tycoon, Robert Kuok, who was recently demonized and subject to a four-day gratuitous, baseless, malicious and savage UMNO attack over the false accusation that Robert Kuok had funded the DAP against the Barisan Nasional. Read the rest of this entry »
What credibility has Liow’s claim that MCA represents the Chinese when the top three MCA leaders have to depend on UMNO’s Malay votes to get into Parliament and Cabinet?
Although I had a fall in my Gelang Patah house, causing me five stitches on the right forehead and cancellation of my weekend programmes in Johor and Selangor – and I am not sure whether I would be able to attend tomorrow’s Parliamentary opening by the Yang di Pertuan Agong with the ugly blue-blacks around my right eye – I just cannot stand the MCA humbug, cant and hypocrisy at the 69th MCA anniversary yesterday.
MCA President and Transport Minister, Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai, should explain what credibility he possesses when claiming at the 69th MCA anniversary press conference that MCA represents the Chinese when the top three MCA leaders, i.e. the President, Deputy President and Secretary-General, depend on UMNO’s Malay votes to get into Parliament and the Cabinet? Read the rest of this entry »
Najib should end his “smoke and mirrors” game and announce formation of Royal Commission of Inquiry into the 1MDB scandal chaired by Tun Mahathir in King’s policy speech at the official opening of Parliament tomorrow
Posted by Kit in Corruption, Financial Scandals on Sunday, 4 March 2018, 9:48 am
The Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak, should end his “smoke and mirrors” game in the past few years, undermining the doctrine of separation of powers of the Executive, Parliament and the Judiciary, and announce in the King’s government policy speech at the official opening of Parliament tomorrow the formation of a Royal Commission of Inquiry into the 1MDB scandal which had given Malaysia the ignominy, infamy and iniquity of a global kleptoracy.
And to demonstrate to Malaysians and the world that the Malaysian Prime Minister has nothing to hide, that he is aboveboard and beyond reproach in the morass of 1MDB international money-laundering scandal, which had been described by the US Attorney-General as the world’s “worst kleptocracy”, and that he is open to investiglation by anyone, let him announce that the RCI into the 1MDB scandal would be headed by his new nemesis Tun Mahathir, and comprising Commissioners half of which would be nominated by Pakatan Harapan. Read the rest of this entry »
Past MCA Presidents turning in their grave or holding their heads in shame that the 69th MCA anniversary degenerating into a brawl with a middling UMNO Minister instead of speaking up for the 6.5 million Chinese in Malaysia
Past MCA Presidents must be turning in their grave, or for those still living, holding their heads in shame that the 69th MCA Anniversary had degenerated into a brawl with a middling UMNO Minister instead of speaking up for 6.5 million Chinese in Malaysia, which MCA claims to represent, or better still, the 30 million Malaysians regardless of race, religion, region or politics if the MCA leadership is conscious of its national responsibilities!
It is a sorry tale that I have to remind MCA leaders to defend the MCA’s benefactor and even saviour, Robert Kuok, when the tycoon came under unfair and unwarranted attacks – I had used the term “gratuitous, baseless, malicious and savage attacks” – by UMNO Ministers and leaders, but to turn the entire 69th MCA anniversary into an attack on a middling UMNO Minister is to desecrate the memory, services and contributions of MCA founders like Tun Tan Cheng Lock and Tun Tan Siew Sin. Read the rest of this entry »
1MDB literally “raining cats and dogs” worldwide for Najib
Posted by Kit in Corruption, Financial Scandals on Saturday, 3 March 2018, 4:32 pm
The international multi-billion dollar 1MDB money-laundering scandal has literally been “raining cats and dogs” worldwide for the Malaysian Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak and the Malaysian government since the seizure of the Bombadier jet in Singapore early February culminating in the seizure of Equanimity luxury super-yacht in Indonesia and in a CNBC special programme on “What happened to Malaysia’s 1MDB money” in the United States on March 1.
Najib must be very disappointed that he could not dictate international developments and world media coverage of the 1MDB scandal that he seemed able to do within the four corners of Malaysia, like the blacking out of news about the seizure of the billion-ringgit luxury superyacht in Bali by the Indonesian authorities. Read the rest of this entry »
Call on Najib to give assurance that there will be no contempt of the Yang di Pertuan Agong and that Parliament officially opened on Monday will not be dissolved mid-session for 14GE
Posted by Kit in Election, Elections, Parliament on Friday, 2 March 2018, 2:59 pm
The sixth meeting of the 13th Parliament will be officially opened by the Yang di Pertuan Agong on Monday with a policy address on the government policy measures in the pipeline.
The Parliamentary meeting scheduled from March 5 to April 5 is quite odd and most unprecedented as there had never been a sixth annual official opening of Parliament in the nation’s 61-year history under the first five Prime Ministers.
This is because under our political system, Parliament has a tenure of five years and it is never intended to have a sixth annual parliamentary meeting.
Furthermore, the policy address of the Yang di Pertuan Agong is meant to outline the government’s policy direction and specifics for the next 12 months
But the present Najib does not have 12 months, as its term will expire in less than six months.
As Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, who will be Malaysia’s eighth Prime Minister if Pakatan Harapan wins the 14th General Election, will be released from the Sungai Buloh prison in less than 100 days, Najib should be holding 14th General Election before Anwar can freely tour the country to campaign for Pakatan Harapan and the election of Tun Mahathir Mohamad as Malaysia’s seventh Prime Minister.
This would mean that the 14th General Election should be held in less than 75 days before mid-May.
But there are those who expect Parliament to be dissolved this month itself, after the Election Commission has rushed its report and proposals on the redelineation of parliamentary constituencies to the Prime Minister for adoption by Parliament.
I call on the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak to give an assurance that there will be no contempt of the Yang di Pertuan Agong and that Parliament officially opened on Monday will not be dissolved mid-session for the holding of the 14GE.
Otherwise, Parliament will only be a plaything in the hands of the Prime Minister, which clearly is not the intention of the nation’s founders who deliberated and agreed on the fundamental principles of the country’s Constitution.
(Speech at the Chinese New Year Open House of DAP Johore State Assemblyman for Stulang, Andrew Chen in Johor Baru on Thursday, 1st March 2018 at 7 pm)
Najib government has finally come out of the cold, openly claiming that the 1MDB scandal is “fake news”, even embracing Jho Loh becoming his defender and apologist
Posted by Kit in Fake News, Financial Scandals on Friday, 2 March 2018, 11:47 am
The Najib government has finally come out of the cold, openly claiming that the international multi-billion dollar 1MDB money-laundering scandal is “fake news”, even embracing 1MDB mastermind Jho Low becoming his defender and apologist.
The Minister for Multimedia and Communications, Datuk Seri Salleh Said Keruak has out-Jho Loh even Jho Loh himself in asserting that there is no proof that the billion-ringgit Equanimity luxury yacht seized by the Indonesian authorities in Bali on Wednesday belonged to Jho Low.
This is because Jho Low had as good as admitted to the ownership of Equanimity yacht when in his reaction to the yacht’s seizure by the Indonesian authorities in Wednesday, the 1MDB mastermind accused the United States Department of Justice (DoJ) of “global overreach”.’
Through his spokesperson, Jho Low said:
“The US Department of Justice has stayed asset forfeiture proceedings in this case and has still not taken any steps to prove that any impropriety has occurred.
“It is therefore disappointing that, rather than reflecting on the deeply flawed and politically-motivated allegations, the DOJ is continuing with its pattern of global overreach – all based on entirely unsupported claims of wrongdoing.”
The superyacht, reportedly worth US$250 million (RM1 billion), is among several assets being sought by the DOJ for allegedly being acquired using funds it says were misappropriated from Malaysian state fund 1MDB.
The DOJ believes that at least US$4.5 billion has been misappropriated from 1MDB by Malaysian government officials among others and is looking to recover around US$1.7 billion of in assets allegedly acquired using these stolen funds.
The DOJ’s involvement was in response to the funds being laundered through the US financial system.
The DOJ has temporarily filed for a stay on the forfeiture of these assets, which is through a civil suit, pending a parallel criminal case.
Salleh said the furore raised over the seizure of the yacht is yet another failed attempt by the Opposition to mislead Malaysians using fake news’.
Salleh also said there was also no proof that funds from 1Malaysia Development Bhd were used to purchase the RM1 billion vessel, the Equanimity.
He said the source of the allegations was the DoJ civil suit, which had been on hold since last August.
Salleh said: “Until today, apart from bare allegations contained in the suit, the DoJ has not shown any tangible proof that Low is the actual owner of the yacht or that it was purchased with funds from 1MDB.
“Furthermore, the DoJ has yet to prove any of its allegations in a court of law, despite nearly two years passing since its sensationalised press conference of July 2016.”
Salleh’s statement is virtually a mea culpa by the Najib administration on the 1MDB scandal, and reveals the real character of the Azalina Committee on Fake News as no more than Azalina Committee to Suppress the 1MDB Scandal as Fake News.
(Media Statement in Gelang Patah on Friday, March 2, 2018)
We must not allow fake news to steal the next general election in Malaysia
In other countries, authoritarian leaders are using fake news to explain away atrocities and human rights violations as in Syria, Venezuela and even Myanmar.
Malaysia, however, is providing the world a new example where fake news are being used to explain away corruption and abuses of power, particularly the international multi-billion dollar 1MDB money-laundering scandal, which has been described by the United States Attorney-General Jeff Sessions as the world’s worst case of kleptocracy and earned for Malaysia the infamy, ignominy and iniquity of a global kleptocracy.
Has Parliament ever discussed Malaysia’s epithet of being regarded by the world as a global kleptocracy? Read the rest of this entry »
In blacking out the seizure of the Equanimity luxury yacht in Bali yesterday, UMNO/BN printed media proven they are not newspapers but fake papers
Posted by Kit in Financial Scandals, MCA on Thursday, 1 March 2018, 4:22 pm
MCA Youth chief Chong Sin Woon is catching up on the MCA Chief Liow Tiong Lai in being quite adept in “fire cannons after the cavalry have passed by”, and this is what both are competing to do after the four-day gratuitous, baseless, malicious and savage UMNO attacks on tycoon Robert Kuok, although he is a success story for Malaysia and an inspiration for entrepreneurs.
It would be more useful for Liow to revisit his “Citizens” National Day Video and tell Malaysians whether its all just pure humbug and hypocrisy. Read the rest of this entry »
Call on Najib to give open apology for the four-day UMNO attacks on Robert Kuok and DAP and to explain why UMNO Ministers chose to believe RPK’s lies against Robert Kuok and DAP
I have met two senior Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) officers, namely the Chief Officer of Network Security and Enforcement Sector, Zulkarnan Mohd Yasin and Datuk Mohd Shafie Harun, Ketua, Bahagian Penguatkuasan dan Siasatan, to lodge complaint of violation of Communications and Multimedia Act in connection with the posting “Stop lying, Kit Siang. You got paid by Robert Kuok” which appeared on the website The Third Force (www.thethirdforce.net) on Feb. 25, 2018, which among other things said:
“1. Lim Kit Siang did receive funding from Robert Kuok
“2. The funding post GE13 was to the tune of RM100 million and handed in stages over the span of four years.
“3. The senior Lim is a closet evangelist responsible for activities by a group of radical evangelists, who, since the mid eighties, organised various activities to turn the Chinese against Muslims.
“4. For this reason and some others previously mentioned, he is positively anti-Muslim, anti-Islam, and without a doubt planning to effect a form of de facto Chinese rule in Malaysia.
“Now, assuming that Kit Siang does not respond to this article, we can take it to mean that he agrees with each and every point I’ve raised. Should he, however, deny the validity to all these claims, I dare him to trigger action pursuant to law against me, failing which we can safely conclude that he’s indeed a closet evangelist who not only received millions from Kuok, he’s positively anti-Islam and most certainly anti-Malay.
“Last but not least, I would like the ‘honourable’ Kit Siang to know that this article is being boosted to kingdom come.” Read the rest of this entry »
Call on all MPs to demand in the policy debate next week that the Malaysian Government should lay a strong claim on behalf of Malaysian people to the RM400 million 1MDB-related funds in Swiss banks and the billion-ringgit Equanimity Luxury Yacht seized by Indonesia, the RM120 million Bombardier Jet seized by Singapore and the RM120 million pink diamond necklace as they are all purchased from 1MDB-linked funds
Posted by Kit in Corruption, Financial Scandals on Thursday, 1 March 2018, 2:08 pm
I call on all MPs, whether Barisan Nasional or Pakatan Harapan, should take an united common stand in the policy debate in the Motion of Thanks for the Yang di Pertuan Agong for this policy address to demand that the Malaysian Government should lay a strong claim on behalf of the Malaysian people to the RM400 million 1MDB-related funds in Swiss banks as well as the billion-ringgit Equanimity luxury yacht seized by the Indonesian authorities yesterday, the RM120 million Bombadier jet seized by the Singapore authorities in early February and the RM120 million pink diamond necklace as they were all purchased from 1MDB-linked funds.
We are living in the era of fake news, alternative facts and post-truths where the Malaysian Government under the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak is doing its utmost to convince Malaysians that the 1MDB scandal, openly described by the US Attorney-General Jeff Sessions as the world’s worst kleptocracy, does not exist and is nothing but “fake news”.
This is the reason for the Malaysian government’s inaction over the RM400 million in 1MDB-related funds seized by the Swiss government, with the Swiss press reporting that the Swiss government is looking to pocket CHF95 million (RM400 million) from 1MDB-linked funds from several banks in Switzerland.
This is also the reason for the extraordinary reaction of the Attorney-General, Tan Sri Mohamad Apandi Ali, who said that the government would not claim 1MDB mastermind Jho Low’s luxury yacht that was seized by Indonesian authorities in a joint effort with US Federal Bureau of Investigation yesterday. Read the rest of this entry »
If no more ‘Chinese tsunami’, will the MCA’s three top leaders come out of UMNO “protectorates” to contest in constituencies where Chinese voters are least 50%?
MCA President and Transport Minister, Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai has declared that there will not be a Chinese tsunami in the 14th General Election, expected to be held within 80 days by mid-May.
In the first place, let me correct Liow as there was no “Chinese tsunami” in the 13th GE but an “urban tsunami”, where Malaysian urban voters regardless of race or colour banded together to effect a change of government in Putrajaya.
However if Liow is convinced that there is not going to be no a “Chinese tsunami” in the 14GE, will he and the three top MCA leaders come out of UMNO ‘protectorates’ and contest in constituencies where the Chinese voters represent more than 50%, since MCA claims to be a party representing the Chinese in Malaysia?
Let such an announcement be made at the 69th MCA Anniversary on Sunday, which would make the anniversary significant, as having the three top MCA leaders contesting in UMNO “protectorates” where Malay voters exceed the Chinese voters is not something MCA can be proud.
It is like the three top UMNO leaders have to get into Parliament and Cabinet by contesting in constituencies dependent on MCA’s Chinese votes! Read the rest of this entry »
The gratuitous, baseless, malicious and savage attacks on Robert Kuok by UMNO cybertroopers, Ministers and leaders in the past four days is a classic case of “If you play with fire, you get burned”
The gratuitous, baseless, malicious and savage attack on tycoon Robert Kuok by UMNO cybertroopers, Ministers and leaders in the past four days is a classic case of “If you play with fire, you get burned”.
I welcome the statement by the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak, acknowledging that Robert Kuok’s accomplishment as a success story for the country and an inspiration for other entrepreneurs to succeed.
Malaysians breathe a sigh of relief that the completely unwarranted four-day agony, trial and travail which the country’s political process and nation-building underwent had ended, but the question is why the Prime Minister had allowed the whole ugly episode to drag out for four days, with UMNO Ministers like Datuk Seri Azalina Othman, Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor, and Datuk Seri Nazri Abdul Aziz and Deputy Minister Datuk Tajuddin Abdul Rahman stoking the fires of lies, fake news and false information, with the Prime Minister himself contributing to the whole ugly incident with his own statement about Robert Kuok.
But have the UMNO/Barisan Nasional leaders really learned a lesson from the ugly episode and can Malaysians be given an assurance that the UMNO/BN leaders will not put the country’s political process and nation-building through another such an agony, trial and tribulation? Read the rest of this entry »
DAP supports appointment of Orang Asli as Deputy Minister and dissolution of JAKOA and replacement by Lembaga Wakaf Orang Asli headed by an Orang Asli to spearhead Orang Asli upliftment into mainstream of development
Posted by Kit in Orang Asli on Wednesday, 28 February 2018, 9:04 am
I have received a “Permintaan Orang Asli Daripada Pakatan Harapan (Apabila Menjadi Kerajaan)” from the Orang Asli communities at Pos Menson, Cameron Highlands on the occasion of my visit together with other DAP leaders including DAP MP for Ipoh Timor, Thomas Su, three Pahang State Assembymen Leong Ngah Ngah (Tanah Rata), Chow Yu Hui (Bilut) and Lee Chin Chen (Ketari), DAP Wanita Assistant Secretary Young Syefura Othman (Rara), Assistant National Organising Secretary Vincent Wu and DAP Pahang Deputy Chairman M. Manogaran.
“Permintaan Kedua” reads:
“Orang Asli meminta kerajaan untuk memansuhkan Jabatan Kemajuan Orang Asli (JAKOA) ini kerana banyak masaalah/perkara yang di rujuk kepada JAKOA tidak diselesaikan. Kami juga berpendapat bahawa JAKOA tidak ada kepentingan Orang Asli dalam urusan mereka. Kami mahu kerajaan menubuhkan satu Lembaga Wakaf Orang Asli (Orang Asli Endowment Board) yang dianggotai oleh perwakilan Orang Asli untuk menjaga hak-hak Orang Asli, dan juga menyelesaikan isu-is Orang Asli.”
Let me declare my full support for the demand for the abolition of JAKOA and its replacement by a body, headed by an Orang Ali, to spearhead Orang Asli upliftment to be in the mainstream of Malaysian development.
JAKOA has become the symbol of the failure of the UMNO/BN government to uplift the Orang Asli communities to be in the mainstream of development.
To date, there are very very few Orang Asli holding senior positions in JAKOA, and indeed in the entire civil service.
According to a recent parliamentary reply, out of a total 998 staffs in JAKOA, only 111 are Orang Aslis. TOnly One is in the “Management and Professional” rank, the rest are all supporting/lower rank staffs.
This is most disgraceful and shows the utter failure of JAKOA to represent a vibrant Orang Asli community.
After six decades of the country’s nationhood, at least three quarters of the JOKOA staff should be Orang Aslis, and not just a puny 11% as at present, and an Orang Asli should have been appointed as head of JOKOA in the past two decades and not just one in the management and professional rank of JAKOA
In the entire civil service, there are 1,352 Orang Asli, but only 172 of them are in the Management/Professional rank (mostly in the teaching service). Only One is in the Top Management position.
This another disgrace for the country after six decades of talking about the upliftment and development of the Orang Aslis.
This is why DAP will go one step further, and we will propose to the Pakatan Harapan, if we can capture Putrajaya in the 14th General Election, to appoint an Orang Asli as Deputy Minister who, with the Orang Asli head of the new board which will replace JAKOA, be jointly responsible to spearhead the mainstream development of the Orang Asli communities.
Yesterday I was in Gua Musang and 230 Orang Asli applied to become DAP members in a new DAP branch in Kampong Parit, Kuala Betis, Gua Musang and visited the blockade erected by the Orang Asli Temiar people in the area to protect their livelihood.
I call on the Federal Government and the Kelantan State Government to set up a joint Commission of Inquiry to ensure that there is just and equitable solution to the anti-logging grievances of the Orang Asli Temiars in Gua Musang.
The Orang Asli Temiar community must not be regarded or treated as criminals or bad people when they are only peacefully protecting their legitimate rights as Malaysian citizens.
Both the Federal and State Government should not forget that the Orang Asli, in particular the Temiars, played pivotal role in the war against communist insurgents.
Hundreds of Temiars were recruited by the British and later the Malayan government to form the Senoi Praaq force, which is a special unit in the Malaysian police tasked with tracking down Communists guerillas in the dense forest along Thai-Malaysian border.
Today, it is still common to meet with Senoi Praaq veterans among the elders in Temiar villages in Kelantan, as they are in their 60s and 70s.
What in a nutshell is the reason why there must be a change of government in Putrajaya in the next 14th General Election?
Has Malaysia fulfilled our Merdeka Dream 1957 and Malaysia Dream 1963 to be a shining example to the world of an united, successful, harmonious, democratic, progressive and prosperous plural society of diverse races, religions, languages and cultures?
We have not, as we are wracked by growing extremism, intolerance and bigotry resulting in the worst racial and religious polarization in the nation’s history and the continued marginalization of the Orang Asli community, with more and more Malaysians, particularly in Sabah and Sarawak, questioning the violations of the bedrock principles of the Malaysian constitution and nation-building.
What is worse, we have become a global kleptocracy – and this is the first time in the 14 general elections in 60 years of the nation’s history.
A Pakatran Harapan Government in Putrajaya will prove in five years that it is better than UMNO/BN government for all Malaysians, whether Malays, Chinese, Indians, Kadazans, Ibans or Orang Asli or the voters can re-elect a UMNO/BN government in 15th General Election whether in 2022 or 2023.
(Speech at a dialogue with Orang Asli at Kampong Ranau, Tanah Rata, Cameron Highlands on Tuesday, February 27, 2018 at 2 pm)
Past seven days were a week of PR disasters for Malaysia plunging our international reputation to lowest stock ever in nation’s 61-year history
Posted by Kit in nation building on Wednesday, 28 February 2018, 6:45 am
The gratuitous, baseless, malicious and savage attacks on tycoon Robert Kuok in the past four days was one of the PR disasters for Malaysia – and there were a long battery of PR disasters in the past week – which plunged Malaysia’s international reputation to the lowest stocks in the 61-year history of the nation.
Another PR disaster for Malaysia was the claim by the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak that his quinoa diet was cheaper than Tun Mahathir Mohamad’s horse feed.
His revelation last Thursday that he does not eat rice but eat quinoa made world headlines, reported worldwide, not only Singapore, Indonesia and Hong Kong, but also United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Read the rest of this entry »
The three MCA Ministers should raise the disgraceful episode of the gratuitous, baseless, malicious and savage UMNO attacks on Robert Kuok and ask the Prime Minister to tender a public apology to Kuok
Tomorrow is the weekly Cabinet meeting, where the three MCA Ministers should raise the disgraceful episode of the gratuitous, baseless, malicious and savage UMNO attacks on tycoon Robert Kuok and ask the Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razaj to tender a public apology to Kuok.
The performance of the top MCA leaders in the past three days was just a crying shame and a dismal disgrace.
I said in Batu Pahat two days ago that in my 53 years in politics, I have not received a single sen from Kuok, whether directly, through his nephew James Kuok or anyone else. Read the rest of this entry »
Top MCA leaders must speak up strongly to ask UMNO to apologise for the crescendo of gratuitous, baseless and malicious attacks on tycoon Robert Kuok and not just come out with weak and insipid statements
My media statement from Kampong Raja yesterday morning that it will be an “eternal blot” to the reputation of MCA leaders if the three MCA Ministers dare not even ask the UMNO leadership to make an open apology for the spate of gratuitous and baseless attacks on tycoon Robert Kuok has had some effect but it is not good enough.
The top MCA leaders must speak up strongly to ask UMNO to apologise for the crescendo of gratuitous, baseless and malicious attacks on Robert Kuok and not just come out with weak and insipid statements.
This is because the attacks on Robert Kuok have increased in viciousness and malice, as illustrated by one UMNO Minister who piled abuses and invectives on Robert Kuok, denouncing him as a “pondan”; “ayam betina”; “coward with no testicles”; challenged him to return to Malaysia to contest in the coming general election and even to surrender his Malaysian citizenship. Read the rest of this entry »
Is the PSD Director-General suggesting that 85% of Malaysian Chinese voters, 65% Indian voters and 40% of Malay voters who voted against UMNO/BN in 13GE are not loyal to Yang di Pertuan Agong and country?
Posted by Kit in Good Governance on Tuesday, 27 February 2018, 8:17 am
I am shocked at the mindset and mentality not only of the political establishment as demonstrated by the recent furore over “quinoa politics vs rice politics” and the flurry of gratuitous and baseless UMNO attacks on tycoon Robert Kuok but also of the top bureaucrats in the civil service, who seemed to have forgotten and deviated from the vital cardinal principle of non-partisanship of the civil service in politics and political matters.
I was utterly shocked when I read yesterday of the reminder by the Public Service Department director-general Tan Sri Zainal Rahim Seman to 1.6 million civil servants that they should discharge their responsibilities as members of the civil service with undivided support to the government and country based on the principles of the pledge of loyalty and integrity when they first joined the service. Read the rest of this entry »
