Showing posts with label transparency. Show all posts
Showing posts with label transparency. Show all posts

Thursday, 10 September 2015

Negara dan rakyat akan dibangsatkan jika kita buta hati

Dipaparkan sekali lagi rakaman Bicara Negarawan bersama Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad di Pasir Gudang, Johor pada 29hb Ogos yang lalu.

Mungkin ahli serta pemimpin Umno akarumbi mempunyai lebih masa yang terluang pada waktu ini memandangkan mesyuarat Majlis Tertinggi Umno yang dinanti-nanti dengan penuh debaran tempohari pun sudah berlalu. 

Perhimpunan Agung Tahunan Umno akan diadakan dari 8 hingga 12 haribulan Disember nanti. 

Pada waktu ini seluruh dunia terkejut dan tertanya-tanya akan berita-berita berkenaan rasuah, pengubahan dana haram, salahguna kuasa dan tuduhan penipuan yang berhubung kait dengan syarikat kerajaan Malaysia 1MDB tetapi mesyuarat induk parti yang menguasai kerajaan diberitakan sebagai telah berjalan lancar dalam suasana setiakawan. 

Ungkapan hidup dalam kepompong mungkin sesuai untuk menggambarkan kealpaan ini.

Syarikat pelaburan Abu Dhabi baru sahaja muncul dalam berita dunia berhubung ghaibnya dana bernilai lebih RM6 billion yang seharusnya merupakan bayaran dari 1MDB. 

Di Malaysia dana USD700 juta (hampir RM3 billion mengikut kadar tukaran semasa) yang tiba-tiba muncul dan kemudiannya ghaib dari akaun peribadi Presiden Umno Datuk Seri MohdNajib Tun Razak masih belum dijelaskan. 

Harus diambil maklum bahawa percubaan demi percubaan telah dibuat untuk mengalih perhatian dan memperbodohkan mereka yang ingin tahu akan dana ghaib USD700 juta dalam akaun Najib tetapi percubaan-percubaan tersebut kekal setakat percubaan kerana rakyat Malaysia masih menunggu kebenaran. 

Nyata Majlis Tertinggi Umno pun sudah tidak bermaya untuk mendesak penjelasan dari Najib kerana sebab-sebab yang diketahui umum didalam dan diluar negara. Mesyuarat MT semalam berjalan lancar. 

Mesyuarat antarabangsa badan-badan pencegah rasuah serta badan-badan bukan kerajaan yang memerangi rasuah dari seluruh dunia diadakan diPutrajaya baru-baru ini. Perdana Menteri Malaysia yang dijadualkan menyampai ucaptama tidak muncul tiba kerana dinasihatkan agar tidak menghadiri mesyuarat antarabangsa tersebut.

Mesyuarat antarabangsa anti-rasuah itu bukan setakat mencalit arang tetapi telah menjatuhkan maruah serta nama baik Malaysia dipersada dunia apabila isu wang ghaib USD700 juta dalam akaun Perdana Menteri Malaysia serta tindakan menyekat penyiasatan rasuah/salahguna kuasa oleh pentadbiran Najib ditimbulkan. Isu itu telah dilaporkan diseluruh dunia dengan pelbagai 'headline' yang amat memalukan tetapi mesyuarat MT Umno semalam berjalan lancar dalam suasana setiakawan.

Sesiapa yang menyoal Najib berhubung dana ghaib USD700 juta dan dana berjumlah lebih kurang RM40 juta dari SRC International akan pasti dibangsatkan oleh Presiden Umno serta para pencacai-nya yang kini telah dinaikkan pangkat. 

Apa yang kita, rakyat Malaysia yang cintakan negara ini, mampu lakukan dalam keadaan yang serba tidak kena tetapi tersekat dari segenap penjuru ini?

Apakah kita harus memekakkan telinga membutakan mata dan hati berdiam diri ketika petualang serta gerombolan yang terbukti kebangsatan mereka terus merompak dan mencabul negara dan masa depan kita? 

Dengar baik-baik penjelasan orang tua berumur 90-tahun dalam rakaman di-atas dan berpeganglah kepada ungkapan #beranikeranabenar dan #muafakatmembawaberkat . 

Ini bukan isu politik kepartian atau isu agama dan bangsa. Ini isu masa depan negara kita. Ini bukan politik, ini isu jenayah.

Malaysia adalah sebuah negara dimana Raja-Raja Melayu pun patuh pada Undang-Undang serta Perlembagaan Persekutuan. Tiada sesiapa pun harus dibenarkan bertindak atau meletakkan diri mereka di-atas Undang-Undang negara.

Jika si-ibu yang mencuri tepung susu untuk anak kecil yang kelaparan pun di-hukum kerana kita patuh pada undang-undang, tidak mungkin individu berpangkat yang mencuri dan merompak khazanah negara dibiarkan begitu sahaja.

Jangan kita buta hati demi kepentingan peribadi.


P.S. Nilai Ringgit Malaysia dah melepasi tahap 4.36sen bagi 1Dolar Amerika namun mesyuarat Majlis Tertinggi Umno masih berjalan lancar dalam suasana aman damai diliputi sifat setiakawan. 



Tuesday, 28 April 2015

1MDB - PRIME MINISTER going on leave?


In his Comment that appeared in the NST yesterday (Monday, April 27, 2015), Tunku Abdul Aziz says quite a lot on the subject which we know is and has been very close to his heart. Tunku Aziz, as we know, is a man with strong principles in life. It is due to such principles that the once Deputy Vice Chairman of DAP quit the party in the run up to the 2013 General Elections. 
I have had the privilege of meeting up with the man himself on a few occasions, just for brief discussions. I have not an iota of doubt of his integrity and moral values. It is with such awe and respect that I'm writing to highlight certain omissions and seek opinions from the learned man who is the founding member of the Malaysian Chapter of Transparency International.  

Firstly, taking note of the above paragraph in which Tunku Abdul Aziz calls for Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad to lodge reports with the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (of which Tunku is a board member) and the Police, I would like to inform Tunku that detailed reports to the respective agencies have been lodged. In the case of the Police, a specific report has also been lodged against Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak and two others from 1MDB

So far there has been two police reports, including the one with specific mention of Najib Razak, and another report to the MACC. More reports may follow suit if the agencies remain like a tiger chained to the pole.

I'm sure the learned Tunku Aziz was not suggesting that the respective authorities would commence some form of investigations ONLY if Dr Mahathir himself lodges reports to the trusted agencies. If that is how investigating agencies operate in our country, then I would suggest Dr Mahathir to seriously consider Tunku Aziz's suggestion.


Secondly, I also fully agree with Tunku Aziz that 'we should not short-circuit the systems and procedures that regulate the conduct of government business'. 

It is with this fear of the systems being short-circuited that I'm now seeking Tunku Abdul Aziz's opinion on a very basic issue of transparency, good governance and the likes of it. 

Dear Tunku Abdul Aziz, 

Mohd Najib bin Tun Abdul Razak who is 1MDB's Chairman of the Board of Advisors, Finance Minister and Prime Minister is someone who has been directly implicated in the 1MDB scandal. 

Najib is implicated not only in his positions/capacity as mentioned above but also due to his personal/family association with dubious characters linked to the 1MDB scandal. His wife is also very much in the picture.

Do you, as a learned person who is seen to be fighting corruption, upholding transparency, good governance and everything good that comes with it, share my opinion that Najib Razak should take leave from all Government positions until the Police, MACC, Auditor General and the Public Accounts Committee complete their probe into the 1MDB scandal? 

Give us a Yes or No.

Should the Prime Minister not go on leave to allow the respective agencies unlimited access, free hand and a free-from-intimidation environment to complete the probe?

p/s Najib's position as Umno president, though very much inter-related, is another matter and is being addressed despite overwhelming scare tactics and RM.


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Monday, 18 November 2013

Transparency in transformasi

Why?
Datuk Seri Najib Razak has brought about changes or introduced new ways of doing things both in Umno and the Government. He calls it transformation or 'transformasi'.

The good and bad of Najib Razak's 'transformasi' could be debated but we can't deny that there has been many positive outcomes. Fresh ideas has brought about better things. KR1M is good. BR1M is good although we have to be cautious of it in the long run. Empowering the MACC is good. Pemandu and NKRA is relatively funny. Abolishing the Internal Security Act is certainly not good and not very clever either. 

In Umno, the decision to transform the party to be more democratic is damn good. The idea of allowing more than a 100,000 party members to choose their top leaders is exemplary. It is the first in this country. Najib Razak's transformasi has rejuvenated Umno but implementation needs some major tweaking. 

The president and all his men may want to take note. 

When 2,000 odd delegates chose their leaders during previous Umno elections, their votes were secret. Under the new transformed Umno election process, its more transparent. 

Those who contested for the VP, Youth, Wanita and Puteri wing posts will know exactly how many and which of the 191 divisions voted for them. It is no longer  a secret.  

But it seems that the level of transparency brought about by the president's transformasi stops there.... or someone has forced it to stop there. The complete breakdown of votes received by contestants in the recent Umno elections is a secret, or so it seems. Why is it a secret?

Some are unhappy with this lack of transparency in Najib's transformasi. 

Others claim its the case of 'rumah sudah siap pahat masih berbunyi'. Is this unhappiness about the lack of transparency in Najib's transformasi unfounded? Candidates who contested in the party poll are still being denied the official detailed results from the 191 divisions? 

I hope Umno election committee chairman Tan Sri Tajol Rosli Ghazali will re-classify the details of the party poll results. If someone had classified it as TOP SECRET, you better de-classify before it hits the fan.

If it is not a secret, make it public. You don't need the president's decree to do that. Its part and puzzle of transformasi. If it is the 'little Napoleons' who stand as the stumbling block, tell them not to give Najib's transformasi a bad name.

The party HQ could take up space in Utusan/Mingguan and make the poll results public. I'm sure Najib Razak will agree. Friends in Utusan will also be happy... most certainly. 

p/s Remember the DAP's CEC election fraud? Don't give room for something similar to happen in Umno. 


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