A tale of two prime ministers

This is exactly how it should be done. This is what you do if you have nothing to hide. This is undoubtedly a man of honour with impeccable integrity. He not only apologised for the conduct of others but has also called on the entire nation and all members of the Singapore parliament, irrespective of party affiliations, to examine him. - https://youtu.be/h76nx_5gRBc

Singapore must be proud of her Prime Minister who is man enough to grab the bull by its horn and face his critics, even if the critics are just siblings. 

It may be a personal issue but Lee Hsien Loong is wise enough to note that his family feud has tarnished the seat of the prime minister and the government of Singapore. Such is his respect and responsibility to the office of the Prime Minister.

His Loong's late father Mr Lee Kuan Yew would certainly be proud of his eldest son for walking in his footsteps, for standing tall with his morals intact. 

Bravo Mr Prime Minister !

Meanwhile Malaysians on this side of the causeway are hoping that Hsien Loong's counterpart would take a leaf or two from his conduct as a leader, prime minister and an elected representative of the people. 

In Malaysia the state of affairs are very different although Najib Razak the Prime Minister is embroiled in a far more serious scandal which is criminal in nature. 

1MDB's international financial scandal and the US Department of Justice (Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative unit) investigations is now world news. 

Malaysia's international image today is at its lowest ebb. Almost every international news outlets from Australia to Africa and Europe have been reporting the biggest kleptocracy scandal in the history of the USA. The root of the scandal is in Malaysia and Najib Razak is very much in the midst of it. DoJ has all the evidence.

Billions of ringgit in funds stolen from 1MDB have been laundered in the US and investigations show that RM2.6billion has made its way into Najib Razak's personal bank account. DoJ has also exposed a more than RM100 million pink diamond link to Najib's wife Rosmah.  

In Singapore the prime minister has apologised over a personal family feud and presented himself for public scrutiny but in Malaysia the embattled prime minister's lackeys are screaming at the top of their voice demanding to know who reported the crime to DoJ. 

In Singapore the prime minister has called on all Members of Parliament to scrutinise/debate the handling of his family feud and the matter's negative impact on his position and that of the government.

In Malaysia the Auditor General's report on 1MDB has been classified a secret under the Official Secrets Act although such classifications of an AG's report is unheard of and could most probably be against the constitution. 

The Speaker of Dewan Rakyat in the Malaysian parliament even threatened to quit if the 1MDB scandal was debated in the house. Any debate on the matter was later disallowed on the pretext of being subjudice. 

In Malaysia the prime minister is bending over backwards to politicise the 1MDB scandal although its is purely criminal in nature. 

The Attorney General who acts more like the prime minister's counsel has unilaterally cleared Najib Razak of any wrongdoing despite RM2.6 billion dollars making its way into Najib's personal account. 

A multi agency task force that initially investigated the 1MDB scandal was also disbanded and the then Attorney General sacked. 

Hsien Loong of Singapore too could have attempted to silence his critics and threaten to sue anybody who deliberated on his family feud on social media but he did not. Probably he didn't have anything to hide. 

The Singapore PM came out to clear the air because 'he is a public servant' but Najib has gone to court to argue that as prime minister he is not a public servant. 

In Malaysia exposing the 1MDB scandal and the theft of billions of ringgit in public funds is treated as crime. Whistle blowers and critics are taunted and hunted. 

Instead of wanting to nail the thieves who robbed the nation the ruling party's political operatives and lackeys are questioning who reported the crime. 

Whistle blowers are branded as traitors in a climate where truth is treated with contempt. 

Such is the tale of two prime ministers who are separated by a narrow body of water but a gaping difference in integrity.

p/s 

The initial heading for this post was - 

How to be a man and a Prime Minister, by Lee Hsien Loong

Nothing2Hide2 - Padang Rengas bacul ?

POLIS menolak permohonan Kumpulan Media Karangkraf untuk menganjurkan acara debat antara Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad dan Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Aziz. - Datuk Hasnan Hassan 

IPOH: Polis menolak permohonan Kumpulan Media Karangkraf untuk menganjurkan acara debat antara bekas Perdana Menteri, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad dan Menteri Pelancongan dan Kebudayaan, Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Aziz, yang dicadangkan diadakan pada Sabtu ini. - BH 

Padang Rengas pun tak selamat jugak?

Menepati jangkaan ramai, debat yang dinanti-nanti oleh sebahagian besar rakyat Malaysia ini besar kemungkinan akan dibatalkan. 

Ini kali kedua debat yang tertumpu kepada skandal 1MDB dibatalkan atas alasan keselamatan dan sebab-sebab teknikal yang lain. 

Debat #Nothing2Hide pertama di antara Dr Mahathir dan Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Razak pada 5hb Jun, 2015 dibatalkan pada minit-minit terakhir apabila Najib tidak muncul. Alasan keselamatan juga digunapakai walaupun venue debat adalah di PWTC Kuala Lumpur.

Kegagalan Najib untuk berdepan dengan Dr Mahathir dalam wacana/debat #Nothing2Hide itu masih mencerminkan kebaculan presiden Umno itu hingga ke hari ini.

Besar kemungkinan debat/wacana di Padang Rengas pada kali ini akan dibatalkan, atas alasan yang sama, melainkan Nazri berjaya meyakinkan pihak Polis untuk memberi kelulusan.

Sebenarnya halangan dari pihak berkuasa ini sudah dijangkakan dari titik permulaan lagi kerana pengalaman #Nothing2Hide pada tahun 2015. Mana mungkin ada tempat yang 'lebih selamat' dalam negara kita jika PWTC dimana ibupejabat Umno tersergam pun boleh dianggap tidak selamat untuk program wacana mengenai 1MDB. 

Halangan terhadap wacana berkenaan skandal 1MDB ini bertambah jelas apabila menteri kerajaan dan jurucakap Umno 'memutuskan' hubungan dengan Nazri. Mereka membuat kenyataan bahawa Ahli Parlimen Padang Rengas ini tidak mewakili kerajaan ataupun Umno dalam wacana/debat ini. 

Rakyat nampak akan kegusaran dipihak pendukung Najib dalam kerajaan dan pengampu tegar presiden dalam Umno. Kegusaran akan perbincangan terbuka skandal 1MDB Najib Razak amat ketara.

Namun penganalisa dan pemerhati politik menyimpan sedikit harapan apabila Nazri memberitahu media bahawa beliau telah berunding dengan Timbalan Perdana Menteri merangkap Menteri Dalam Negeri Datuk Seri Zahid Hamidi dan pihak KDN tidak mempunyai apa-apa halangan atau masalah dengan wacana/debat bersama Dr Mahathir di Padang Rengas. 

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Menurut Nazri, Datuk Seri Zahid Hamidi, yang juga menteri dalam negeri, beri jaminan akan meluluskan permohonan permit daripada pihak penganjur.

“Ya betul. Baguslah sebab saya sudah jumpa dengan TPM (Zahid) pada Khamis lepas di Parlimen.

“Jadi dia tahu tentang perbahasan ini dan dia kata dia akan bagi jaminan bahawa permit akan diberi. Sebab itu saya tidak bimbang sangat, dia sudah beritahu awal-awal akan bagi permit,” katanya kepada FMT.-

Hari ini lain pula certitanya, lebih kurang seperti #Nothing2Hide pada tahun 2015. Nampak seolah-olah janji Timbalan Perdana Menteri pun sudah tidak boleh dipegang.  

Ada rakan yang berpendapat Nazri tidak berani berdepan dengan Dr Mahathir dan telah menggunakan pihak berkuasa untuk membatalkan wacana/debat ini. Saya tidak berapa setuju dengan pendapat ini. 

Pada pendapat saya inilah perbezaan diantara Nazri Aziz dan Najib Razak. Nazri bukan bacul.

Nazri mungkin sedang cuba untuk menegakkan benang yang basah demi kelangsungan politik dan untuk menyelamatkan Najib dari dihadapkan ke muka pengadilan, tetapi Nazri Aziz yang saya kenali bukan jenis manusia bacul yang mengharapkan jurucakap seperti Salleh Said Keruak dan Rahman Dahlan untuk melindunginya.

Oleh sebab inilah saya berpendapat wacana/debat di antara Dr Mahathir dan Nazri berkenaan skandal 1MDB dan jenayah Najib boleh dan akan diteruskan dengan perancangan yang lebih baik. 

Jika Ahli Parlimen Padang Rengas tidak berjaya meyakinkan pihak Polis mungkin debat/wacana ini boleh diadakan ditempat/tarikh lain dalam keadaan yang lebih 'selamat'. 

Jika perlu kita boleh mengadakan wacana/debat ini disalah sebuah dewan didalam kawasan Ibupejabat Polis Persekutuan di Bukit Aman, Kuala Lumpur. 

Kita sewa dewan dari PDRM, soal keselamatan tidak mungkin muncul dalam kawasan Bukit Aman.

Perdana Menteri dan Presiden Umno Datuk Seri Najib Razak pun boleh turut serta dalam wacana/debat yang dicadangkan di Bukit Aman ini... jika Najib bukan bacul.  

p/s 

Yang pasti Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad sudah bersedia sejak sebelum #Nothing2Hide yang pertama pada tahun 2015. 

BMF vs 1MDB public debate - What do you think ?

I think the suggestion below is brilliant. 

Actually this would be a golden opportunity for Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Abdul Razak to come clean and prove his innocence and at the same time expose former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad and his 'links' with BMF.

As the anonymous commenter (comment published in full below) on my last posting suggests, this could be Nothing to Hide Part 2. Another chance for Najib to make up for his missed opportunity during the first Nothing to Hide.

But would Najib be man enough to face Dr Mahathir before a live audience. What do you think?

Anonymous said...

BMF vs 1MDB (Nothing to Hide Part 2)
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It is obvious Najib’s mouthpieces are working overtime trying to dig up “dirt” on Dr Mahathir’s administration.

First it was the BMF and after Dr Mahathir had explained and proved that it was handled transparently, investigations were conducted and a White Paper tabled and the perpetrators arrested, charged and jailed, Najib’s mouthpieces are moving on to another issue.

Without doubt, there were things that did not go the way Dr Mahathir planned during his administration but none of these alleged misadventures saw money ending up into Dr Mahathir’s account.

And all these so-called misdeeds were dealt with publicly and debated openly in Parliament. They were never designated Government secrets and put under the OSA.

This, as Dr Mahathir pointed out, was unlike the manner Najib handled the 1MDB case, in which he is caught lying and stealing and his reaction was to put a stop to investigations, sack those who questioned him, arrest those who reported against him and placed the Auditor-General’s report on 1MDB under the OSA etc…etc…

To put an end on this attempts to prove that Dr Mahathir had committed all these “sins” and as such Najib should not be criticised for his 1MDB scandal, it would be best that they have a public debate, similar to 2015’s “Nothing2Hide” face-off proposed by Najib’s supporters until Najib backed out in the last minute.

The face off can be titled BMF versus 1MDB and both Dr Mahathir and Najib can put forth their arguments.

The moderator should be a foreign personality of repute and to be held before live audience and aired live.

This should put an end to this case of “two wrongs making one right”.

And let the nation be the judge.

#nothing2hide2

Malaysian scandals from Australia

Australian police investigators sprung into action almost immediately when news of an alleged high level corruption ring involving locals and a few prominent Malaysians broke. 

We must salute the Australian police for their admirable professionalism and urgency in striving to nail the crooks, no matter who they are. 

This latest Australian episode gives us an inside to not only the level of professionalism but also the Australian authorities' strict adherence to the maxim 'not leaving any stone unturned in seeking truth'. 

Questions have now been raised if the Australian police had in fact notified their Malaysian counterparts before the scam was exposed by The Age newspaper. This is another affirmation that the Australian authorities are always 'on the ball'. 

I'm certain the relevant authorities on our side would be responding to the queries to avoid any allegation of attempts to sweep things under the carpet. 

Sweeping under the carpet? 

We must also take cognisance that one of our former UTK policeman who has a noose hanging over his head here for the murder of Mongolian model Altantuya Shaariibuu has been under the protection of Australian authorities since his arrest. 

It has been more than FIVE months since Sirul Azhar Umar was detained in Brisbane. In five months Sirul has met and spoke with countless Australian officers and some Malaysians.  

It was learned that the Australians have been moving the convicted murderer of Altantuya between a few detention centers and Australian intelligence units safe-houses for safety reasons, while regularly recording fresh inputs and statements. 

It seems an individual with the initial RB has been highlighted in some latest detailed statements. 

The investigators, it was learned, have also got hold of a few Statuory Declarations which were made in relation to the murder of Altantuya, including a sworn statement by a fugitive blogger that is said to have corroborated Sirul's statement. 

Legally, this is all hearsay.      

An exclusive video interview has also been recorded on Sirul's own request, says a Melbourne-based journalist who is currently pursuing the Australian culprits in the Mara-linked property scam.

Could we now expect the Australian media to come up with an expose of yet another long-running Malaysian scandal?

Lindsay Murdoch - South-East Asia correspondent for Fairfax Media

We must put an immediate stop to all such humiliation. We have #Nothing2Hide 

Guess its high time for Kuala Lumpur to put its foot down and demand Canberra to deport Sirul Azhar on the next available flight to Kuala Lumpur. 

Otherwise every convicted killer and conman would be making his/her way to Australia. 

Can you do that Mr Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak or are you too busy with the 1MDB scandal?

c.c 
Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Anifah Aman

p/s Fairfax Media investigated the Mara-linked scam for about six months before the expose and Fairfax Media's investigative journalists have been working on Sirul's case from day one of his arrest... or even before that.  

Who is the Prime Minister's IDIOT? 1MDB - Nothing2Hide

'PM's aide sabotaged Najib-Dr M dialogue'

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The Umno-linked NGO which organised the 'Nothing2Hide' dialogue on 1MDB for Najib Abdul Razak has blamed the prime minister's aide for the no-show that has turned into a major embarrassment for the prime minister.

Malaysian Volunteer Lawyers Association (Sukaguam) chairperson Khairul Anwar Rahmat said today the aide had prevented Najib from attending the event so as to prevent him from crossing paths with former premier Dr Mahathir Mohamad, who is the prime minister's fiercest critic.

"When Najib was on the way to the venue and was advised by the inspector-general of police about the situation at PWTC, the organiser still believed that Najib should attend to prove he is big-hearted and was ready to meet with Mahathir and speak on any matter.

"We were convinced that even if the programme were to be postponed on police advice, the meeting between Najib and Mahathir should still go on in a private room to prove the start of a new chapter and to calm down their respective supporters.

"Unfortunately, the aide worked to block the prime minister's attendance, conveyed inaccurate information, and made the situation worst by exaggerating the matter to the prime minister that he would supposedly be mocked if he turned up at PWTC," he said.

Khairul, who is also Johor Umno deputy youth chief, said there was never a security concern if the duo were to meet in a private room and Najib should not have been prevented from coming.

Najib's no-show turned into a major embarrassment as he was seen as 'chickening out' and this was made worse when Mahathir, who was only there as a guest, took over the stage in the prime minister's absence.

Mahathir proceeded to criticise Najib in his speech but which lasted less than 10 minutes as police blocked him from continuing, a scene captured by the media and has since gone viral on the Internet.

"Therefore, it is true when it is said that those who sully Najib's image are not outsiders but those from among his own people," said Khairul.

'Najib accepts our explantion'

He said the if the meeting had happened and photographs of Najib and Mahathir having coffee were circulated, it would have created a 'feel good' factor even if the dialogue did not go on.

"But there are some quarters that don't want to see a change in the political landscape and didn't want our plan yesterday to succeed as the continued battle between Najib and Mahathir would benefit them," he said.

Prior to the event, Khairul said the organiser had already met with Najib's aides and had prepared for various scenarios including  the one if Mahathir were to attend.

"We believe the situation would not have turned out as such if our original agenda  was not disturbed too much by the aide and his associates," he said.

As such, Khairul said it was unfair for Sukaguam and other NGOs involved in organising the event to be made scapegoats for the resulting fiasco.

Khairul added he had met Najib yesterday evening to explain the situation.

"From the prime minister's face, he appears to have taken it well and understood what I wanted to convey.

"But I hope he will take stern action against the individual responsible  as well as his associates," he said.

Khairul also warned the unnamed aide against turning Sukaguam into a scapegoat, saying that he was prepared to expose this person together with evidence.

He also clarified Sukaguam's claim that Mahathir was not invited, stating that the former premier was only supposed to be present as a guest and not a speaker.

Now this is a serious matter. 

You cannot easily identify the culprit because Najib Razak surrounds himself with one too many idiots, both local and foreign. 

Some used-to-be intelligent and straight-arrows have also turned into domesticated pussies after stepping into the Prime Minister's Office. Who could be the PM's idiot who has successfully re-branded his boss?

Maybe Najib Razak should personally lodge a police report so that the Inspector General himself could take up the case and try to identify who sabotaged the event and effectively exposed Najib as THE wimp of the nation. 

Sources say Najib's Political Secretary Datuk Khairun Aseh (pic above) was holed up in one of the rooms in PWTC, very close to the hall in which the #Nothing2Hide dialouge was held, on Friday morning. 

Maybe the IGP could take a look at all those CCTV recording in PWTC or consult the OCPD who went upstage to ask Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad to stop addressing the #Nothing2Hide crowd because maybe the OCPD did speak to the PM's aide before he was asked to stop Tun Dr M... maybe. 

Certainly idiots must be on the run after the shit has hit the ceiling. 

Khas untuk pejuang-pejuang cyber yang telah sehari suntuk berputar-putar dalam percubaan untuk memutarbelit kebaculan Perdana Menteri yang terserlah semalam, sila berhenti berputar dan cuba tolong pihak Polis mengenalpasti 'anasir' yang dikatakan telah menjatuhkan kemaluan... oops air muka Najib di mata dunia pada pagi Jumaat. 

#Nothing2Hide #BeraniKeranaBenar 

p/s Hakikatnya bermacam taktik dan teknik sedang digunakan dalam percubaan untuk mengembalikan kemaluan yang telah hilang itu. :-)