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Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Shahbudin: The people decide game over for Najib

The transfer back of the two top MACC officers from the Prime Minister’s Department to the anti-graft body shows that when push comes to shove the people decide.
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KUALA LUMPUR: If the two top MACC officers can be transferred back to the anti-graft body from the Prime Minister’s Department by the Chief Secretary in response to demands by the people, said a political analyst, it also shows that Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak would likewise have to step down if the people step up the pressure on him. “The people want the investigations into the various scandals viz. the RM42 billion 1MDB scandal, the RM2.6 billion controversy and the probe into SRC International on a RM42 million transfer to continue.”
In keeping things in perspective, conceded Shahbudin Husin, the rise of the people’s voice in Malaysia hasn’t reached the level in Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia, or even closer at home in Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines. “However, the issue of the MACC officers shows that the voice of the people will increasingly haunt degenerate decisions made by a leadership increasingly given to debauchery.”
God aside, said Shahbudin, only the people can rise up and strive and reject the misdeeds and ugly doings of the leadership and government. “This was seen in the decision by the Chief Secretary to eventually rescind the transfer orders given to the MACC officers.”
“There are many channels for the people to speak up on issues of national importance and express their grievances. The social media with the advent of the internet is an important tool.”
The world, said the analyst, needs leaders who are brave enough to speak up and do not fear losing their positions when it comes to standing up for principles. “Sycophancy and apple-polishing are ways of the past, and no longer tolerated by the people. It’s not a culture that they can accept especially if the truth has to be sacrificed in the process.”
Shahbudin granted that there’s something to be said for loyalty to the Prime Minister and the principle of collective responsibility of the Cabinet but the intention must be noble, not to cover up wrongdoing. “It’s not difficult to decide when it comes to choosing between a leader who has done wrong and principles. Keeping quiet is not an option.”
Going along with the transfer of the MACC officers to the Prime Minister’s Department, reiterated Shahbudin, would be tantamount to covering up for a leader accused of having RM2.6 billion in his personal accounts and being unable to explain it. “The Ministers, by remaining silent, only show themselves up in all their ugly caricatures.”
In the case of the MACC officers, said Shahbudin in revisiting the issue, the fact that they could be transferred back to the anti-graft body shows that the voice of the people will haunt the leadership and ultimately prevail. “It also shows that senior Ministers, given only to apple-polishing, can only remain silent when the people speak up on an important issue like the two controversial transfers and are joined by a junior Minister like Khairy Jamaluddin.”
The analyst argued that senior Ministers should hang their heads in shame that a junior Minister like Khairy was willing to stand up and add his voice to that of the people on an important issue, the controversial transfers, which affected the MACC’s investigation of SRC International and the related 1MDB and RM2.6 billion issues. “The senior Ministers should knock their heads against the wall so that the cells in their brains could come together again and help them become leaders who are caring and concerned.”
“The senior Ministers should realize that Khairy acknowledged the people’s feelings on the matter when he added his voice of protest to theirs on the two controversial transfers, and also, the PAC issue.”
Umno Youth Chief Khairy was sometimes seen, rightly too, as an apple-polisher in the Najib Administration, noted the analyst, but of late he has taken a courageous stand on at least two issues viz. the transfer of the MACC officers to the Prime Minister’s Department and the appointment of Public Accounts Committee (PAC) members to replace the four, three from Umno and one from Upko, co-opted into the Cabinet in a reshuffle in late July.
Khairy has been in tune with Shahrir Samad, the chairman of the Barisan Nasional Backbenchers Club (BNBBC) and another noted apple-polisher, and others that Parliament be called into emergency session to appoint the new Chairman for the PAC and fill three others vacancies, added Shahbudin.
October, the next session of Parliament, was too long a wait to fill the vacancies in the PAC, Khairy, Shahrir and others feel, said the analyst. “If the appointments to the PAC can only be made in October, the hearings on the RM42 billion 1MDB scandal can only resume in 2016 and not before.”
“That would further fuel public suspicion which has already been heightened by the co-opting of the four PAC members into the Cabinet line-up and the suspension of the committee’s hearings until it has a new Chairman and its membership is complete.”

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