Najib cannot be more wrong when he claimed that the Election Court had declared that RM20  “petrol money” was bribery but even more important what  are Najib’s motives for  such a bizarre claim

Former Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak, cannot be more wrong  when he claimed that the election court had declared that RM20  “petrol money” was bribery but the  even more important questions are Najib’s motives for such a  bizarre claim.

Is it to ensure a new culture of integrity and zero tolerance for corruption in Malaysia or is it to frustrate such an effort?

One must admire Najib’s impudence and temerity for trying to use RM20 “petrol money” for Orang Asli to whitewash his RM50 billion 1MDB  corruption and money-laundering scandal and kleptocratic premiership, but faced with 39 criminal charges (undoubtedly with more criminal charges to come) and accused of siphoning off billions from 1MDB, what has Najib got to lose in adopting the most bizarre diversionary tactics?

Already, the new MCA President, Datuk Wee Ka Siong, had already fallen hook, line and sinker for this gambit as evidenced from his statement after a dialogue session with the Barisan Nasional candidate Ramli Mohd Nor in Brichang on Sunday.

Wee worked himself up  into a hysteria  over the reimbursement of RM20 each  to some 60 Orang Asli motorcylists while remaining blind and unconcerned to  the monstrous RM50 billion 1MDB corruption and money-laundering scandal of Datuk Seri Najib Razak!

Can I remind Wee that RM20 each  is legitimate reimbursement for some 60 Orang Asli motor-cyclists who came out from remote Orang Asli kampongs especially from the Jelai area  to Tanah Rata on Saturday for  Nomination, while the RM50 billion 1MDB scandal is not legitimate at all, as it is theft, corruption and daylight robbery of the people’s money!

Can I also remind  Wee that RM50 billion is 2.5 billion times more  than RM20 – a classic case of MCA blindness to kleptocracy, immorality and wrongdoing in Malaysia, the real reason why MCA was virtually wiped out  in the 14th General Election and reduced from a 7/11 political party in the 13th General Election to a mosquito party with only one MP?

Did the Election Court decide that “petrol money” was bribery?

It was fortunate that Najib did not study law or he would have failed his law examinations as he seemed unable to understand the simplest logic in legal arguments and judgements.

Deliberately or otherwise, Najib had  misquoted and distorted the judgement of  the election judge Justice Azizah Nawawi who declared the Cameron Highlands election in the 14th General Election null and void in  claiming that she had said in her  judgement that “money” whether as “duit rokok” or “duit minyak” constituted bribery.

She did not make such ruling.

In actual fact, the election judge said in her judgment:

“62. There is a pattern of giving money to the voters, during the crucial period before the election, which to me can only mean to induce the elector to vote. The money was given when the Respondent (former MP C. Sivaaajh) and the Dato’ Wan Rosdy were actively campaigning in the said areas under the BN banner.  Added to that, the evidence of PW10 and PW11 shows that they had received the money together with the voting slips with BN logo, and this was confirmed by  the Respondent’s witness, RW3 who had admitted that BN did distribute the slips. To me, it is clear that these surrounding circumstances led me to the inevitable conclusion that the money was given to induce the voter to vote.

“63. Therefore, it does not matter if the Respondent say that the money was given as ‘duit rokok’ or as travelling allowances for the Batin to attend the meeting with the Respondent and Dato’ Wan Rosdy, as these are merely to disguise the real intention for the giving of money before the election.”

What the  Election Court judge said and implied  is very clear except to Najib and his cronies.

She said that money used to induce  voters to vote for anyone political party is bribery, even if claimed to be “duit rokok” or “duit petrol”, but otherwise if used legitimately in the election campaign not meant to induce the voter to vote.

In the relevant case of the Cameron Highlands election in May 2018, Sivararrajh and Wan Rosdy visited Pos Lenjang on 6.5.2018 by a helicopter and distributed RM25,000 to the Batins to distribute to all voters in their respective villages, while each Batin received RM200.

It must have been quite a smoking session in Pos Lenjang last May – spending RM25,000 for “duit rokok”!

Why is Najib jumping into the fray in Cameron Highlands by-election with the fictitious claim that the Election Judge had ruled that RM20 petrol money is bribery?

There are three reasons:

Firstly, to  divert attention as to why the Cameron Highlands by-election was held, i.e. because of money politics and corrupt electoral practices.

Secondly, to distract attention from  current Barisan Nasional  campaign to use money politics and corrupt electoral practices to win the Cameron Highlands by-election.

Thirdly, to use the Cameron Highlands by-election as a platform to legitimise Najib’s kleptocratic rule and in particular to “whitewash” the international 1MDB scandal.

Suddenly, the Cameron Highlands by-election has taken on not only national significance but  international importance, as Najib wants the Cameron Highlands by-election to be a referendum on whether he is a thief and a kleptocrat!

Let me say that if Najib wants to make the Cameron Highlands by-election a referendum on whether he is a kleptocrat and whether the 1MDB scandal was an act of national betrayal on his part, let him first come clean on the 1MDB scandal and other 1MDB-line scandals in FELDA, Felcra, MARA and Tabung Haji.

Former MCA President, Datuk Seri Dr. Chua Soi Lek is on public record as saying that before the 13th General Election, Najib made an unprecedented pledge at  a Barisan Nasional Supreme Council meeting to fund BN component parties.

Chua said:  “I must admit, during the BN supreme council meeting approaching the May 5 general elections, he (Najib) in his capacity as prime minister and BN chairperson, did reveal that in that election, BN will support its component parties’ finances.

“I remembered clearly, I was the first to thank him.

“I said that I have joined politics for more than 20 years and gone through five general elections, (we) have never received a single sen from BN before.

“So everyone agreed and many thanked him. When the election came, he delivered – he was able to disburse some funds (to the component parties).”

Let Najib make a clean breast of how much millions he gave to each BN party  and politician for the 13th General Election.

In his Opinion piece
“A different type of ‘Operasi Lalang’?”
, Malaysiakini columnist Nathaniel Tan wrote he was
“a little disappointing to see someone with the stature and overall commitment to the integrity of Lim Kit Siang”
said he had checked with other DAP leaders present at the dialogue with Orang Aslis where PKR Senator Bob Manolan Mohd had made a controversial statement, and confirmed that there were no threats to the Batins if they do not vote for Pakatan Harapan.

PKR Vice President Tian Chua has apologised on behalf of his party for “unintended careless statements” made by PKR Senator Bob Manolan while Bob Manolan had himself apologised for “excessive” remarks.

Why did I phoned DAP leaders who were present at the dialogue, namely the MP for Raub and Deputy Water, Land and Natural Resources Minister Tengku Zulpuri Shah Raja Puji, the MP for Bentong, Wong Tak, Sabah Senator Adrian Lasimbang and Selangor State Assembly woman Young Syefura to ask on what actually happened, at the dialogue at Pos Betau and whether there was any  threat to the Tok Batins for not voting for Pakatan Harapan?

And if there were threats to the Batins, why were there applause from the Orang Asli when Bob Manolan spoke?

PKR President Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, and the DAP Secretary-General and Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng had swiftly declared that there is no coercion in democracy and that the Batins will continue to receive their salaries as there should be no threat and no intimidation in the Cameron Highlands by-election.

Manoloan could not have really threatened the Batins that they their salaries will be stopped if they do not vote for Pakatan for the simple reason that Batins are not appointed by the Federal Government but by Adat Orang Asli.

Bob made the “unintended careless” statement, not during his speech at the dialogue, but during the question-and-answer session as he was asked who paid the salaries of Batins, as they had understood from the Pahang Mentri Besar that the salaries of Batin come from the State Government and not the Federal Governhment, and they should therefore do the bidding of the State Government.

All Orang Ali voters must be able to freely vote for the party of their choice, whether Batins or ordinary villages – and what we want is to create an atmosphere where such fair, free and clean elections by the Orang Asli voters can take place.

But this is not the case in the Orang Asli kampongs, where the majority of Orang Asli voters are subjected to Barisan Nasional’s politics of fear and money – to the extent that only four out of 18 Batins turned up at the dialogue in Pos Betau with Pakatan Harapan leaders.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday, 15th January 2019)

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Kenyataan Media oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada Selasa, 15 Januari 2019:

Najib salah besar apabila mendakwa Mahkamah Pilihan Raya telah mengisytiharkan bayaran balik “duit petrol” sebanyak RM20 adalah rasuah, namun persoalan yang lebih penting adalah: apakah motif Najib membuat dakwaan pelik seumpama itu?

Bekas Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Razak salah besar apabila mendakwa Mahkamah Pilihan Raya telah mengisytiharkan bayaran balik “duit petrol” sebanyak RM20 adalah rasuah, namun persoalan yang lebih penting adalah: apakah motif di sebalik dakwaan pelik tersebut?

Adakah ia untuk mewujudkan budaya baharu berlandaskan integriti dan toleransi sifar terhadap rasuah di Malaysia atau ia sebenarnya helah untuk mengekang usaha berkenaan?

Kita harus mengagumi tindakan Najib yang cuba menutup skandal RM50 bilion 1MDB dan 39 pertuduhan jenayah yang dihadapinya dengan dakwaan bahawa bayaran balik “duit petrol” sebanyak RM20 itu kononnya adalah salah satu bentuk rasuah.

Malah, Presiden MCA, Datuk Wee Ka Siong sendiri sudah termakan umpan, seperti yang dapat dilihat dalam sesi dialog dengan calon Barisan Nasional, Ramli Mohd Nor di Brichang pada Ahad lalu.

Pada acara itu, Wee kelihatan beria-ria mengatakan yang bayaran balik sebanyak RM20 setiap seorang kepada 60 Orang Asli yang menunggang motosikal untuk ke Tanah Rata pada hari penamaan calon sebagai suatu bentuk rasuah, sedangkan beliau sendiri menutup sebelah mata terhadap skandal rasuah RM50 bilion 1MDB dan skandal pengubahan wang haram membabitkan Najib.

Ingin saya ingatkan Wee bahawa bayaran balik berjumlah RM20 kepada kira-kira 60 Orang Asli yang membuat perjalanan jauh dari kampung mereka ke Tanah Rata pada hari penamaan calon adalah sah dan tidak melanggar Akta Kesalahan Pilihan Raya, sebaliknya skandal RM50 bilion 1MDB itulah yang merupakan amalan rasuah terang-terangan!

Suka juga untuk saya beritahu Wee bahawa jumlah RM50 bilion itu adalah 2.5 bilion kali ganda daripada nilai sekeping nota RM20 – hakikat yang enggan difahami MCA sehingga menyebabkan parti itu kini menjadi parti nyamuk yang hanya mempunyai seorang wakil rakyat di Parlimen.

Benarkah Mahkamah Pilihan Raya ada memutuskan yang bayaran balik “duit minyak” merupakan suatu bentuk rasuah?

Amat malang bagi Najib kerana tidak pernah mendalami bidang undang-undang, atau jika beliau mempelajarinya sekali pun, sudah tentu beliau gagal dalam peperiksaan undang-undang ekoran gagal memahami logik mudah dalam penghakiman dan hujah undang-undang.

Najib telah salah tafsir dan memutarbelitkan penghakiman Hakim Azizah Nawawi yang mengisytiharkan keputusan pilihan raya Cameron Highlands pada Pilihan Raya Umum ke-14 yang lalu terbatal dengan mendakwa Hakim dalam penghakimannya menyatakan bahawa “duit” sama ada dalam bentuk “duit rokok” atau “duit minyak” adalah sebahagian daripada rasuah.

Hakim Azizah tidak pernah membuat penghakiman sebegitu.

Sebaliknya, beliau berkata seperti berikut dalam penghakimannya:

“62. Terdapat contoh pemberian duit kepada pengundi, semasa tempoh genting sebelum pilihan raya, yang bagi saya bermaksud untuk memujuk pengundi untuk mengundi. Duit itu diberikan semasa Responden (bekas Ahli Parlimen Cameron Highlands C. Sivarraajh) dan Dato’ Wan Rosdy sedang aktif berkempen di kawasan berkenaan di bawah bendera BN. Tambahan pula, bukti daripada PW10 dan PW11 menunjukkan yang mereka telah menerima duit bersama-sama slip undi dengan logo BN, dan ini disahkan oleh saksi Responden, RW3 yang mana mengakui bahawa BN ada mengagih-agihkan slip berkenaan. Bagi saya, adalah jelas bahawa wang tersebut diberikan untuk memujuk pengundi untuk mengundi.

“63. Justeru itu, tidak kira sama ada Responden mengatakan bahawa wang yang diberikan itu adalah ‘duit rokok’ atau elaun perjalanan untuk Tok Batin menghadiri mesyuarat dengan Responden dan Dato’ Wan Rosdy, kerana ia hanyalah cara untuk menyembunyikan niat sebenar bagi memberi duit sebelum pilihan raya.”

Apa yang dikatakan oleh Hakim berkenaan sangat jelas. Namun, Najib dan para kroninya buat-buat tidak faham.

Hakim Azizah berkata duit yang digunakan untuk memujuk pengundi untuk mengundi mana-mana parti politik adalah satu bentuk rasuah, sekalipun ia dianggap sebagai “duit rokok” atau “duit petrol”, namun begitu, ia sah jika digunakan tanpa niat untuk memujuk pengundi untuk mengundi.

Pada Mei 2018, Sivaraajh dan Wan Rosdy melawat Pos Lenjang pada 6.5.2018 dengan menaiki helikopter dan mengagihkan RM25,000 kepada Tok Batin untuk kemudiannya diagih-agihkan kepada semua pengundi di setiap kampung, sementara setiap Tok Batin menerima RM200 setiap seorang.

“Duit rokok” apa agaknya yang memakan jumlah begitu besar!

Mengapa agaknya Najib mereka-reka cerita bahawa Hakim kononnya memutuskan bahawa bayaran balik  “duit petrol” sebanyak RM20 sebagai rasuah?

Terdapat tiga sebab:

Pertama, untuk mengalihkan perhatian terhadap punca sebenar PRK Cameron Highlands diadakan. Seperti semua sedia maklum, ia diadakan kerana wujud kegiatan politik wang dan amalan rasuah.

Kedua, bagi mengalihkan perhatian pengundi daripada kempen Barisan Nasional bagi memudahkan mereka melakukan kegiatan politik wang dan rasuah untuk menang PRK Cameron Highlands.

Ketiga, untuk menjadikan PRK Cameron Highlands sebagai landasan untuk mengabsahkan pentadbiran kleptokratik Najib dan membersih skandal antarabangsa 1MDB.

Tiba-tiba, PRK Cameron Highlands bukan sahaja menjadi sesuatu yang penting di peringkat negara, malah di persada dunia, kerana Najib kini mahu menjadikan PRK Cameron Highlands sebagai satu referendum untuk menentukan sama ada beliau pencuri dan seorang kleptokrat ataupun tidak!

Ingin saya katakan di sini, jika Najib mahu menjadikan PRK Cameron Highlands sebagai referendum, adalah baik kiranya untuk beliau terlebih dahulu menjelaskan secara tuntas mengenai skandal 1MDB dan skandal serupa 1MDB yang melibatkan FELDA, Felcra, MARA dan Tabung Haji.

Bekas Presiden MCA, Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek sebelum PRU13 berkata, Najib pada mesyuarat Ahli Jawatankuasa Tertinggi Barisan Nasional memaklumkan bahawa BN akan membiayai semua parti komponennya dalam pilihan raya berkenaan.

Kata Chua:
“Saya perlu akui, semasa mesyuarat ahli jawatankuasa tertinggi BN menjelang pilihan raya umum 5 Mei, beliau (Najib) atas kapasitinya selaku Perdana Menteri dan pengerusi BN, mendedahkan bahawa dalam pilihan raya tersebut, BN akan membiayai kewangan komponen parti.

“Saya masih ingat, saya adalah orang pertama yang mengucapkan terima kasih kepada beliau.

“Saya kata saya telah berkecimpung di dunia politik selama lebih 20 tahun dan telah menempuh lima pilihan raya umum, tidak pernah sekalipun (kami) menerima sesen pun daripada BN sebelum ini.

“Jadi mereka bersetuju dan ramai yang mengucapkan terima kasih kepada beliau. Tiba hari pilihan raya, beliau tunai janji – beliau mengagihkan beberapa peruntukan (kepada parti komponen).”

Adalah wajar sekiranya Najib menjelaskan berapakah jumlah yang telah diberikan oleh beliau kepada setiap ahli politik dan parti komponen BN untuk kegunaan menghadapi PRU13.

Dalam rencana bertajuk
“A different type of ‘Operasi Lalang’?”
, kolumnis Malaysiakini Nathaniel Tan menulis yang beliau
“agak kecewa melihat seseorang berkedudukan tinggi seperti Lim Kit Siang yang berkomited terhadap nilai integrity”
berkata bahawa beliau telah bertanyakan kepada pemimpin DAP lain yang hadir pada dialog dengan Orang Asli di mana Senator PKR Bob Manolan membuat kenyataan kontroversi tersebut, dan mengesahkan bahawa tiada tindakan mengugut Tok Batin jika mereka tidak mengundi Pakatan Harapan.

Naib Presiden PKR Tian Chua sudah memohon maaf bagi pihak partinya di atas “kenyataan cuai yang tidak disengajakan” yang dibuat oleh Bon Manolan, malah Bob Manolan sendiri sudah memohon maaf atas kenyataannya yang dilihat “berlebihan”.

Mengapakah saya menghubungi pemimpin DAP yang hadir pada dialog tersebut, antaranya Ahli Parlimen Raub yang juga merupakan Timbalan Menteri Air, Tanah dan Sumber Asli Tengku Zulpuri Shah Raja Puji; Ahli Parlimen Bentong, Wong Tak; Senator Adrian Lasimbang dan Adun Ketari, Young Syefura untuk mendapat gambaran sebenar situasi tersebut?

Dan jika benar terdapat ugutan terhadap Tok Batin, mengapa hadirin yang terdiri daripada Orang Asli tepuk tangan apabila Bob Manolan berucap?

Presiden PKR Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim dan Setiausaha Agung DAP merangkap Menteri Kewangan Lim Guan Eng dengan pantasnya telah menegaskan bahawa tidak ujudnya paksaan dalam demokrasi, dan Tok Batik akan tetap menerima elaun mereka.

Bob membuat kenyataan “cuai yang tidak disengajakan itu” bukan semasa beliau memberikan ucapan, tetapi dalam sesi soal jawab ketika beliau ditanya siapa yang membayar gaji Tok Batin, kerana mereka difahamkan oleh Menteri Besar Pahang bahawa gaji Tok Batin dibayar oleh kerajaan negeri dan bukannya oleh kerajaan persekutuan, dan justeru itu mereka diminta akur kepada arahan kerajaan negeri.

Pengundi Orang Asli wajar diberikan kebebasan untuk mengundi parti yang menjadi pilihan mereka, sama ada Tok Batin atau penduduk kampung – apa yang kami mahu adalah untuk mewujudkan suasana pilihan raya yang adil, bebas dan bersih untuk Orang Asli turut serta.

Namun ia tidak berlaku, pengundi Orang Asli masih dimomokkan dengan politik wang dan ketakutan yang dimainkan oleh Barisan Nasional – sehinggakan hanya empat daripada 18 Tok Batin hadir pada acara dialog bersama-sama pemimpin Pakatan Harapan di Pos Betau.

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A new mindset is necessary if we are to learn from the 60-year failure to eradicate the poverty, backwardness and marginalisation of the Orang Asli and develop a new policy to break the back of the problem

I have a confession to make – I never expected the condition of the Orang Asli in the country in so many Orang Asli kampongs that I have visited in the past two weeks to be so dire, primitive and atrocious that all Malaysians must feel both shocked and ashamed that we have Malaysians in 2019  living in conditions denied of the most basic of fundamental human rights – no proper roads, no basic infrastructure facilities like clean water and electricity; poor education and medical services, lack of proper housing and job opportunities; and most important of all, the long-standing denial of the land rights of the Orang Asli.

A new mindset is necessary if we are to learn from the 60-year failure to eradicate the poverty, backwardness and marginalisation of the Orang Asli if we are to develop a new policy to break the back of the problem.

I want to ask the former Minister for Regional and Rural Development, Datuk Seri Ismail Sabry Yaakob how many Orang Asli kampongs he had visited in his three years as Minister in charge of Orang Asli affairs until the last general elections in May 2018 and whether he had visited the worst of the Orang Asli kampongs in the country – and whether he dared to name them.

I ask this question because no Minister had ever visited the worst Orang Asli kampongs that I had visited in the past two weeks.

Last night, when I was in Kampong Orang Asli Sungai Ubi, Tanah Rata, I asked whether the Barisan Nasional candidate who is the first Orang Asli candidate to be put up by Barisan Nasional in its history, dared to admit that the report card for the 60-year-old Barisan Nasional programme to uplift the 200,000 Orang Asli in Malaysia is a big “F”?

I just cannot imagine how a caring Government could leave the Orang Asli community in such a shocking plight, not for one, five or ten years but for over 60 years.

Are we to wait for another 60 years to find that the plight of the Orang Asli community have further deteriorated?

If Ramli dared not speak truth to power even now, would he dare to speak the truth, in particular about the plight of the Orang Asli in the country, when he is elected as MP?

The  appointment of Ramli as the first  Orang Asli parliamentary candidate of  BN and the appointment of an Orang Asli as the Director-General of the Jabatan Kemajuan Orang Asli (JAKOA) in the last eight months  are themselves the best proofs  of the failure of BN policies in over six decades to uplift the economic condition  of the Orang Aslis.

This is because after 60 years, there should be more Orang Asli occupying various high posts in the police and the civil service, and not just one Orang Asli to have served the highest post of a state director of commercial crime, and several  Orang Asli should have helmed the post of JAKOA Director-General for the past few decades.

I had welcomed Raml’s statement that  if he wins the by-election, it will not be based on bribery; and invited him to make the Cameron Highlands by-election the model for all general elections and by-elections in future with the candidates submitting a daily report of the election expenditures for each of the polling districts.

I am still waiting for Ramli’s response, including his reply to my suggestion that he publicly condemn the monstrous 1MDB scandal and Najib’s kleptocratic premiership.

(Speech by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kampong Orang Asli Simoi Baru, Betau  on Thursday, 17th January 2018 at  10 am)

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Challenge to  Barisan candidate Ramli Mohd Nor whether he dares to admit that the report card for the 60-year-old Barisan Nasional programme to uplift the Orang Asli is a big “F”

Dare the Barisan Nasional candidate for Cameron Highlands, Ramli Mohd Nor admit that the report card for the 60-year-old Barisan Nasional programme to uplift the 200,000 Orang Aslis in Malaysia is a big “F”?

During my visits to the many Orang Asli posts and kampongs in Cameron Highlands, I was shocked to see the atrocious conditions of the  Orang Asli community, where in many cases  there is no proper roads or basic infrastructure of clean water and electricity, housing, the basic facilities of education and health, and most important of all, the long-standing denial of the land rights of the Orang Asli which are under the jurisdiction of the state governments.

I just cannot imagine how a caring Government could leave the Orang Asli community in such a shocking plight, not for one, five or ten years but for over 60 years.

The solution for the problem of the Orang Asli cannot begin unless we are prepared to admit that it exists, and this is why I ask the Barisan candidate for Cameron Highlands, Ramli, whether he dared to admit that the Barisan Nasional has completely failed in its efforts to end the poverty, backwardness and marginalisation of the Orang Aslis by bringing them into the mainstream of national development.

In fact the first appointment of an Orang Asli as a BN parliamentary candidate and the appointment of an Orang Asli as the Director-General of the Jabatan Kemajuan Orang Asli (JAKOA) in the last eight months  are themselves the best proof  of the failure of BN policies in over six decades to uplift the economic condition  of the Orang Aslis.

This is because after 60 years, there should be more Orang Aslis occupying various high posts in the police and the civil service, and not just one Orang Asli to have served the highest post of a state director of commercial crime, and several  Orang Asli should have helmed the post of JAKOA Director-General for the past few decades.

(Speech by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kampong Orang Asli Sungai Ubi, Tanah Rata on Wednesday, 16th January 2018 at 9 pm)

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Najib should travel the worst “roti canai”  roads and non-roads  to the remote  Orang Asli villages in Cameron Highlands to see for himself how as sixth Prime Minister, he had failed the Orang Aslis in Camerons and Malaysia to provide the most basic of infrastructures

I just came from Kampong Orang Asli Janggap in Pos Sinderut and I find the road access to it among the worst I have travelled to Orang Asli kampongs in Cameron Highlands in the past fortnight.

I understand that former Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak will be arriving in Cameron Highlands to help the Barisan Nasional’s Cameron Highlands by-election campaign.

As he will be here for four days from Thursday to Sunday, I hope he will travel the worst “roti canai” roads and non-roads to the remote Orang Asli kampongs to see for himself how as the sixth Prime Minister, he has failed the Orang Aslis in Camerons Highland and the country to provide the most basic of infrastructures.

Among the worst roads and non-roads to Orang Asli kampongs that I had visited are trips to Kampong Janggap, Kampong Lemoi, Kampong Barehnyis and  interior Orang Asli kampongs in Pos Terisu.

Quite unforgettable during my four visits to Orang Asli kampongs in Cameron Highlands was the New Year’s Eve on Dec. 31 when I was trapped at Kampong Orang Asli Simoi Lama together with MP for Bentong Wong Tack, State Assemblyman for Tanah Rata Chiong Yoke Kong, DAP/Pakatan Harapan Candidate for Cameron Highlands M. Manogaram, where we were cut off from all access to the outside world and crossing the river at Kampong Semoi Lama by driving through it despite its strong currents to reach Orang Asli kampongs in Pos Lenyang and Pos Titom.

I was told that if my vehicle was swept away by the strong current, I would end up in Lipis!

The atrocious and terrible conditions of the Orang Asli in the remote areas have to be seen to be believed, and I would urge Najib to see for himself in the next four days how he had forgotten the Orang Aslis in the remote areas during his eight years as Prime Minister, and he should visit these remote  Orang Asli kampongs, not flying in by helicopter but by the usual means of access which had to be used by Orang Alis in ordinary life.

In Kampong Janggap, I saw several water tanks but without clean water supply;  no electricity; and the villagers, particularly children, are exposed to diseases.

Can Najib explain why despite his premiership and sixty years after Merdeka, Orang Asli are still deprived of the most basic of infrastructure services like clean water supply, electricity; proper roads;  basic education and medical needs; and most important of all, resolution of the long-standing  land rights battle of the Orang Aslis?

Although Pakatan Harapan has formed the Federal Government in Putrajaya after the 14th General Election, there is nothing it can do with regard to the land rights of the Orang Asli, as land is a state matter and the Federal Government has no jurisdiction over it whatsoever.

Pakatan Harapan, however, wants to be able deal with the land rights of the Orang Asli,  but this will have to wait until the 15th General Election when Pakatan Harapan captures the Pahang State Assembly, form Pahang State Government and appoint the Pahang Mentri Besar.

The Cameron Highlands parliamentary by-election on January 26, however, will be an important indicator whether Pakatan Harapan can win the Pahang State Government in the 15th General Elecltion so that we can resolve the long-standing injustice  of the Orang Asli over their traditional land rights.

(Speech by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kampong Orang Asli Sungai Tiang, Bertam Valley on Wednesday, 16th January 2018 at 6 pm)

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Ucapan oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Kampung Orang Asli Sungai Tiang, Lembah Bertam pada Rabu, 16 Januari 2018:

Najib, selaku Perdana Menteri keenam, harus berkempen di kampung pedalaman Orang Asli di Cameron Highlands bagi merasai sendiri pengalaman melalui jalan “roti canai” untuk sampai ke sana dan melihat sendiri bagaimana beliau telah mengabaikan kebajikan Orang Asli di Cameron Highlands apabila gagal menyediakan infrastruktur asas untuk masyarakat tersebut

Saya baru sahaja pulang dari Kampung Orang Asli Janggap di Pos Sinderut dan merasakan yang jalan untuk ke kawasan tersebut antara jalan paling teruk yang pernah saya lalui sepanjang berkempen di Cameron Highlands sejak dua minggu lalu.

Saya difahamkan bahawa bekas Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Razak akan tiba di Cameron Highlands untuk membantu kempen Barisan Nasional bagi Pilihan Raya Kecil (PRK) Cameron Highlands.

Sementara beliau berada di sini selama empat hari bermula Khamis hingga Ahad, besar harapan saya sekiranya beliau dapat berkempen sehingga ke kampung pedalaman Orang Asli menggunakan jalan “roti canai” bagi melihat sendiri bagaimana beliau, selaku Perdana Menteri Keenam, telah mengabaikan kebajikan Orang Asli di Cameron Highlands dan di seluruh negara apabila gagal menyediakan infrastruktur paling asas untuk masyarakat tersebut.

Sepanjang saya melakukan lawatan ke kampung Orang Asli, saya mendapati Kampung Janggap, Kampung Lemoi, Kampung Barehnyis dan Kampung Orang Asli di Pos Terisu adalah antara kawasan yang mempunyai jalan dan laluan yang paling teruk.

Sukar untuk saya lupakan pengalaman terperangkap di Kampung Orang Asli Simoi Lama pada ambang tahun baharu bersama-sama Ahli Parlimen Bentong, Wong Tack; Adun Tanah Rata Chiong Yoke Kong, dan calon Pakatan Harapan bagi PRK Cameron Highlands M. Manogaran, di mana kami terputus dari dunia luar dan terpaksa merentas arus deras sungai untuk sampai ke Pos Lenyang dan Pos Titom.

Secara berseloroh, saya diberitahu jika kenderaan saya dihanyutkan oleh arus sungai yang deras, tidak mustahil ia akan terus hanyut sehingga ke Lipis!

Keadaan infrastruktur yang begitu teruk di kawasan pedalaman Orang Asli harus dilihat dengan mata kepala sendiri, dan saya menyeru agar Najib turun dan melihat sendiri bagaimana beliau, sepanjang menjadi perdana menteri selama lapan tahun, telah mengabaikan kebajikan Orang Asli, dan beliau harus melawat kawasan pedalaman Orang Asli dengan menggunakan kenderaan yang digunakan seharian oleh Orang Asli, bukan dengan helikopter.

Di Kampung Janggap, saya lihat terdapat beberapa tangki air tersedia, namun tiada bekalan air bersih; apatah lagi elektrik; dan ini akan menyebabkan penduduk kampung, khususnya kanak-kanak, terdedah kepada penyakit.

Bolehkah Najib jelaskan mengapa setelah 60 tahun Merdeka, Orang Asli masih lagi tidak disediakan dengan perkhidmatan infrastruktur asas seperti bekalan air bersih; elektrik; sistem jalan yang baik; pendidikan asas serta perubatan; dan yang paling penting, berhubung penyelesaian tanah adat Orang Asli?

Walaupun Pakatan Harapan telah membentuk Kerajaan Persekutuan di Putrajaya pada Pilihan Raya Umum ke-14, tidak banyak yang boleh dilakukan oleh kami berkenaan dengan tanah adat Orang Asli kerana Kerajaan Persekutuan tidak mempunyai bidang kuasa dalam hal ehwal tanah negeri.

Pakatan Harapan, bertekad mahu menyelesaikan masalah berhubung tanah adat Orang Asli, namun harus menunggu sehingga Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15, selepas Pakatan Harapan berjaya mentadbir kerajaan negeri Pahang dan melantik Menteri Besarnya.

PRK Cameron Highlands akan menjadi ujian paling penting untuk melihat sejauh mana Pakatan Harapan berpeluang untuk menawan Kerajaan Negeri Pahang pada PRU15 nanti supaya kami dapat menyelesaikan pelbagai ketidakadilan dan masalah melibatkan Orang Asli khususnya yang membabitkan soal tanah adat.

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Najib’s five-point plan to use Cameron Highlands by-election to make a political comeback and even return as Prime Minister in the 15th General Election to  legitimise  his previous  kleptocratic premiership and 1MDB scandal

The alteration of former Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s  campaign schedule for Barisan Nasional in the Cameron Highlands by-election from a two-day stint to a four-day programme is an indication of two things:

· firstly, the supreme confidence of Barisan Nasional that it could easily win the Cameron Highlands by-election with a huge margin after the strategic nomination of the first Orang Asli parliamentary candidate by Barisan Nasional, Ramli Mohd Nor, a former top police officer; and

· secondly, the intensification of the scheme to use the Cameron Highlands  by-election to plot Najib’s political come-back and even return as Prime Minister in the 15th General Election to legitimise his kleptocratic premiership and 1MDB scandal and other 1MDB-like corruption scandals in FELDA, Felcra, MARA and Tabung Haji.

There are least five critical factors  in the plot for Najib’s political comeback, viz:

· The selection of the first Orang Asli parliamentary candidate by Barisan Nasional in the Cameron Highlands  by-election on January 26;

· The expansion of the originally scheduled two-day stint by Najib in the BN Cameron Highlands by-election on 18th and 19th to a crammed four-day programme from 17th – 20th (Thursday to Sunday).

· The commitment of MCA and MIC in the by-election campaign despite having to form an united front with PAS, and although  MCA is publicly demanding a dissolution of Barisan Nasional  and MIC has to give up its traditional parliamentary seat in Cameron Highlands, leaving it on the same level with MCA with one solitary  seat in Parliament.

· The appearance of Najib’s old war-horses in the Cameron Highlands by-election campaign like his cousin, former Defence Minister Datuk Hishamuddin Hussein, suddenly turning up in Cameron Highlands yesterday, although Hishamuddin had disappeared from the political scene, even from  UMNO politics, for the past eight months after UMNO/BN was ousted as  the federal government in the 14th General Election on May 9, 2018; and

· The support of the PAS leadership led by the PAS President, Datuk Seri Hadi Awang, who will be campaigning in Cameron Highlands on Sunday, and according to UMNO Secretary-General Tan Sri Annuar Musa, other PAS leaders who will campaign for BN in the by-election includes Mursyidul Am PAS Hashim Jasin; PAS Deputy President Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man,PAS  Vice-President and Kelantan Menteri Besar Ahmad Yakob, PAS Terengganu Menteri Besar Ahmad Samsuri Mokhtar and PAS Secretary-General Takiyuddin Hassan for “Unity of the Ummah”!

As PAS secured 14.73 per cent of the votes cast in Cameron Highlands during  the last general election, Barisan Nasional is confident that it would win  if it could get PAS’ 3,587 votes won by the PAS candidate, Wan Mahadir Wan Mahmud in a five-cornered contest in the 14th General Election on May 9, 2018.

Although Najib has been slapped with 39 criminal charges of corruption, embezzlement and abuses of power, his game plan would be to  delay any final decision of his charges including  all stages of appeal and implementation of any  custodial jail sentence until the 15th General Election in 2023.

If BN can recapture Putrajaya in the 15th General Election and Najib return as Prime Minister, then he would be able to frustrate any attempt to jail him in Sungai Buloh Prison for the 1MDB scandal and crimes of a global kleptocracy in his premiership.

The Cameron Highlands by-election will be opening shot of this new Najib plot to return as Prime Minister of Malaysia in the 15th General Election, which will  grant him immunity and impunity for the 1MDB scandal, and this is why the MCA and MIC are playing such a submissive and compliant role to be comrade-in-arms with PAS in the by-election – despite the recent pronouncement by PAS President Hadi Awang that a corrupt Muslim is anytime better than an honest and God-fearing non-Muslim!

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Brinchang on Thursday, 17th January 2019)

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Kenyataan Media oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Brinchang pada Khamis, 17 Januari 2019:

Lima rancangan Najib untuk jadikan Pilihan Raya Kecil (PRK) Cameron Highlands sebagai batu loncatan untuknya buat “comeback” politik dan kembali semula menjadi Perdana Menteri selepas Pilihan Raya Umum ke-15 (PRU15) bagi “menghalalkan” semua kesalahan membabitkan skandal 1MDB dan pentadbiran kleptokratiknya sebelum ini.

Pindaan kepada jadual kempen bekas Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Razak di Cameron Highlands dari dua hari menjadi empat hari memberi dua tanda:

Pertama: Keyakinan yang begitu tinggi di kalangan pemimpin Barisan Nasional (BN) untuk menang besar pada PRK Cameron Highlands selepas mempertaruhkan bekas pegawai kanan polis, Ramli Mohd Nor, yang merupakan calon Orang Asli pertama dalam sejarah BN.

Kedua: Rancangan terang-terangan oleh Najib untuk menjadikan PRK Cameron Highlands sebagai batu loncatan untuknya buat “comeback” politik dan kembali semula menjadi Perdana Menteri selepas PRU15 bagi “menghalalkan” skandal 1MDB dan skandal lain seperti FELDA, Felcra, MARA, dan Tabung Haji serta pentadbiran kleptokratiknya sebelum ini.

Terdapat sekurang-kurangnya lima faktor dalam rancangan Najib untuk membuat “comeback” politik, seperti berikut:

Pemilihan calon Orang Asli pertama dari BN bagi PRK Cameron Highlands yang akan berlangsung pada 26 Januari.

Jadual kempen Najib dipinda dari dua hari (18 dan 19 Januari) kepada empat hari (17 hingga 20 Januari)

Komitmen yang ditunjukkan MCA dan MIC pada PRK kali ini meskipun terpaksa bekerjasama dengan PAS, dan walaupun MCA secara terbuka meminta agar BN dibubarkan sementara MIC terpaksa melepaskan kerusi tradisinya di Cameron Highlands dan duduk sama tinggi, berdiri sama rendah dengan MCA yang mempunyai hanya seorang wakil rakyat di Parlimen.

Kemunculan orang kuat Najib dalam kempen PRK Cameron Highlands. Antaranya adalah bekas Menteri Pertahanan Datuk Hishamuddin Hussein, yang tiba-tiba muncul di Cameron Highlands semalam, setelah enam bulan memencilkan diri dari arena politik, selepas UMNO/BN tewas dalam Pilihan Raya Umum ke-14 (PRU14) pada 9 Mei 2018; dan

Sokongan yang ditunjukkan oleh kepimpinan PAS yang diketuai Datuk Seri Hadi Awang selaku presidennya, yang akan turun padang pada Ahad serta pengesahan daripada Setiausaha Agung UMNO Tan Sri Annuar Musa, bahawa pemimpin PAS lain termasuk Mursyidul Am PAS, Hashim Jasin; Timbalan Presiden PAS, Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man; Naib Presiden PAS dan Menteri Besar Kelantan, Ahmad Yakob, Menteri Besar Terengganu Ahmad Samsuri Mokhtar and Setiusaha Agung PAS Takiyuddin Hassan akan turut berkempen untuk calon BN atas dasar semangat “penyatuan ummah”!

Malah, BN dilihat begitu yakin dapat menarik 14.74 peratus atau 3,587 undi yang diperoleh PAS di Cameron Highlands pada PRU lepas.

Najib yang berhadapan dengan 39 tuduhan jenayah membabitkan kesalahan rasuah, penggelapan wang dan salah guna kuasa, sebenarnya sedang merancang untuk melambat-lambatkan pendakwaan terhadapnya dengan pelbagai peringkat rayuan sehingga PRU15 yang akan berlangsung pada tahun 2023.

Jika BN berjaya menawan semula Putrajaya pada PRU15 dan Najib kembali menjadi Perdana Menteri, maka ia akan menguburkan sama sekali peluang untuk melihat beliau meringkuk di Penjara Sungai Buloh atas skandal 1MDB dan jenayah kleptokrasi global sepanjang tempoh pentadbirannya.

PRK Cameron Highlands merupakan percubaan pertama Najib untuk kembali menjadi Perdana Menteri Malaysia selepas PRU15, yang mana akan memberikan beliau imuniti dan membebaskannya daripada skandal 1MDB, dan inilah sebab mengapa MCA dan MIC terpaksa menjadi pak turut dan berganding bahu dengan PAS dalam PRK ini – Walaupun Hadi Awang sebelum ini ada berkata yang orang Islam korup lebih baik daripada orang bukan Islam yang jujur serta patuh kepada agamanya!

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A Pakatan Harapan victory in Cameron Highlands by-election on January 26 is very difficult but not impossible, and  it will  make even  greater history than the unexpected  Pakatan Harapan win in the 14GE on May 9, 2018

Can  the Pakatan Harapan candidate, M. Manogaran, win against the Barisan Nasional’s candidate, former top police officer and the first Orang Asli parliamentary candidate in Barisan Nasional history, Ramli Mohd Nor in the Cameron Highlands by-election on January 26?

It will be very difficult and uphill. A Pakatan Harapan victory in Cameron Highlands by-election on January 26 is not impossible and will  make even  greater history than the unexpected  Pakatan Harapan win in the 14GE on May 9, 2018.

The 14th General Election result on May 9, 2018 created history for Malaysia and the world.  The overwhelming majority of Malaysians had not expected Pakatan Harapan to win that night, although they had “hoped against hope” for a victory which they had not dared to believe  would happen.

I myself had not expected a peaceful and democratic transition of power in Putrajaya from UMNO/Barisan Nasional to Pakatan Harapan, although I had hoped for such a peaceful and democratic transition of power  for over five decades.

In the 11-day campaign period of the 14th General Election, I had campaigned in 35 parliamentary constituencies, going all over the country including Sabah and Sarawak, and I was only in the Iskandar Puteri parliamentary constituency at the start and end of the election campaign.

If someone had asked me on May 9, 2018 before the votes were counted, I would not dare to predict that the Pakatan Harapan would oust Datuk Seri Najib Razak and topple the UMNO/BN coalition from power for the first time in  over six decades.

I asked the Prime Minister, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad recently whether he had expected Pakatan Harapan to win on the night of May 9, 2018, and he shook his head.

Even the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak was supremely confident of victory, even to the extent of believing that he would be able to recapture the two-thirds parliamentary majority which Barisan Nasional lost ten years ago in 2008.

But even on that night where the impossible became possible and Pakatan Harapan  replaced UMNO/Barisan Nasional as the Federal Government of Malaysia, the Pakatan Harapan was not able to win the Cameron Highlands seat.

This is a measure of how difficult and uphill for Pakatan Harapan to win the Cameron Highlands by-election, though it is not an impossible task.

I ask the voters of Cameron Highlands, whether Malays, Chinese, Orang Asli or Indians to create greater history in the by-election than the history of May 9, 2018 – for it would indeed be very historic, signalling not only a new future for Cameron Highlands for the next four years but an opening salvo of the Pakatan  Harapan’s battle-cry in the next 15th General Election to capture the Pahang state government in four years’ time by 2023.

(Speech by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang at the Pakatan Harapan Cameron  Highlands by-election in Felda Sungai Koyan on Thursday, 17th January 2019 at 10 pm)

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Ucapan oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Felda Sungai Koyan pada Khamis 17 Januari 2018:

Kemenangan Pakatan Harapan pada Pilihan Raya Kecil Cameron Highlands 26 Januari sukar untuk dibayangkan namun tidak mustahil, dan ia akan melakar sejarah yang lebih besar berbanding kemenangan luar jangka Pakatan Harapan pada Pilihan Raya Umum ke-14 9 Mei 2018

Mampukah calon Pakatan Harapan, M. Manogaran, menewaskan calon Barisan Nasional (BN), Ramli Mohd Nor, yang merupakan bekas pegawai kanan polis dan calon kerusi Parlimen Orang Asli pertama dalam sejarah BN, pada Pilihan Raya Kecil (PRK) Cameron Highlands 29 Januari nanti?

Amat sukar dan berliku untuk mencapai kemenangan tersebut. Namun begitu, kemenangan Pakatan Harapan pada PRK Cameron Highlands 26 Januari bukan sesuatu yang mustahil untuk dicapai, malah mampu mencipta sejarah yang lebih besar daripada kemenangan luar jangka Pakatan Harapan pada Pilihan Raya Umum ke-14 (PRU14) 9 Mei 2018.

Keputusan PRU14 pada 9 Mei 2018 melakar sejarah baharu buat Malaysia dan dunia. Tidak kurang rakyat Malaysia yang tidak menjangka bahawa Pakatan Harapan akan menang pada malam itu.

Saya sendiri tidak menjangka akan berlaku peralihan tampuk pemerintah secara aman di Putrajaya dari UMNO/Barisan Nasional kepada Pakatan Harapan, walaupun saya telah lama berharap perkara itu berlaku sepanjang lima dekad yang lalu.

Sepanjang 11 hari tempoh berkempen PRU14 yang lalu, saya telah melawat 35 kawasan Parlimen, menjelajah ke seluruh negeri termasuk Sabah dan Sarawak, dan hanya berada di kawasan Parlimen Iskandar Puteri pada awal dan akhir tempoh berkempen.

Jika ada yang bertanyakan kepada saya pada 9 Mei 2018 sebelum sesi pengiraan undi, Saya tidak akan berani untuk meramal bahawa Pakatan Harapan mampu menyingkirkan Datuk Seri Najib Razak serta kerajaan UMNO/BN yang dipimpinnya.

Saya bertanya kepada Perdana Menteri, Malah Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad baru-baru ini sama ada beliau ada menjangkakan kemenangan Pakatan Harapan pada malam 9 Mei 2018, soalan yang dijawab dengan hanya gelengan kepada.

Najib yang ketika itu masih Perdana Menteri, yakin kemenangan akan berpihak kepadanya, malah percaya BN akan berjaya mendapatkan semula majoriti dua pertiga yang gagal diperoleh mereka sejak 10 tahun lalu.

Meskipun perkara yang mustahil berlaku tetap berlaku, iaitu kejayaan Pakatan Harapan menggantikan UMNO/BN di Putrajaya, Pakatan Harapan masih gagal memenangi kerusi Parlimen Cameron Highlands.

Ini adalah kayu pengukur kepada tahap kesukaran yang perlu ditempuh Pakatan Harapan untuk menang pada PRK Cameron Highlands, walaupun ia tidak mustahil untuk dicapai.

Saya menyeru kepada pengundi Cameron Highlands, tidak kira Melayu, Cina, Orang Asli atau India, untuk mencipta sejarah yang lebih besar daripada peristiwa 9 Mei 2018 pada PRK 26 Januari nanti – kerana ia pasti akan melakar sejarah baru, dan bukan sahaja membuka lembaran baharu kepada masa depan baharu Cameron Highlands untuk empat tahun akan datang, malah merupakan suatu semboyan buat Pakatan Harapan untuk berjuang dan berusaha menawan kerajaan negeri Pahang pada PRU15.

Lim Kit Siang

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Cameron Highlands by-election a sign of a new Malaysia where firstly, there is restoration of the  rule of law and secondly, there are heroes who  are prepared to come forward to expose money politics and corruption

The Cameron Highlands by-election  is a sign of a new Malaysia where  firstly, there is restoration of the rule of law and secondly, there are heroes who are prepared to come forward to expose money politics and corruption.

There would be no Cameron Highlands by-election if there is no change of Federal Government in the 14th General Electionto build a new Malaysia to restore the rule of law and the doctrine  of separation of powers among the Executive, Parliament and the Judiciary.

More important, there were people’s heroes who were prepared to come forward to expose money politics and corruption, taking the case all the way as witnesses in the High Court of Kuala Lumpur, resulting in  the  Election Court declaring on Nov. 30 last year that the MIC National Vice President, C. Sivaraajh’s election as Member of Parliament of Cameron Highlands in the 14th General Election on May 9, 2018 was null and avoid  because it was tainted by corrupt election practices of vote-buying.

It was not that the Barisan Nasional did not commit  corrupt election practices in the other  78 parliamentary constituencies won by BN, but either there was no adequate evidence or there were no “heroes” who were prepared to be witnesses in election petitions to challenge the legality of General Election results.

This is why the 12 witnesses, eleven of whom were Orang Asli from Cameron Highlands, are the heroes not just of Orang Asli but all Malaysians, for they stand in the very forefront in the struggle for integrity and a clean and incorruptible  government.

I met six of these Orang Asli when I visited Kampong Orang Asli Janggap in Pos Sinderut yesterday, and they recounted how frightened and fearful they were when they went to the High Court in Kuala Lumpur and faced the lawyers during cross-examination. But although they were frightened and fearful to come out from the interior Orang Asli kampongs to the imposing Kuala Lumpur Court and faced interrogation by the lawyers of the MIC Vice President, they just told the truth of what happened during the 14th General Election.

The eleven Orang Asli heroes from Cameron Highlands have done a great national service to all Malaysians in causing this by-election, to remind Malaysians the battle for a clean and honest government must include a clean electoral process.

The Orang Asli in Cameron Highlands  have also educated Malaysians about the hypocrisy and humbug of the so-called development of the previous Barisan Nasional government,  building of “roti canai” roads, i.e. substandard roads because of poor workmanship and corruption which  rapidly deteriorate and become unroadworthy as there was only a thin film of cement on top to hide the shoddy work.

I first learnt of the term “roti canai” roads from Orang Asli when I visited Cameron Highlands, and now all Malaysians know the meaning of this term.

The father of “roti canai” roads, the former Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak, is in town as he is campaigning for the Barisan Nasional in the by-election for three days starting today.

Will he travel any of the “roti canai” roads to experience what corruption can do to the development process in Malaysia?

In the 14th General Election, only some 10 per cent of the Orang Asli voters, who comprise 22 per cent of the voters in Cameron Highlands, voted for Manogaran. If we significantly increase the support of the Orang Asli voters for Manogaram, then the chances of his victory in the by-election will be raised.

This is  the third achievement which the Orang Asli in Cameron Highlands can accomplish on January 26.

(Speech by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang at  Kampong Orang Asli Dusun Pak Senam, Tanjung Gahai, Jelai on Thursday, 17th January 2019 at 3 pm)

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Has Najib crossed the Rubicon on the 1MDB scandal without realising it?

Has former Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak, crossed the Rubicon on the 1MDB scandal without realising it?

Until today, Najib has maintained a very consistent stand that there is nothing basically wrong with 1MDB which could not be put right, but with the apology to the people of Malaysia by Goldman Sachs chief executive officer David Solomon who said Malaysia was defrauded by numerous individuals, including the highest members of the prior government, Najib has changed his tune.

Najib crossed the Rubicon when he as good as admitted that the 1MDB scandal, which caused Malaysia to be condemned by the world as a global kleptocracy, was a national catastrophe but maintained that the blame for the 1MDB scandal cannot be pinned on a single individual but was a systemic failure.

Most ironically in Cameron Highlands, where he was on a Barisan Nasional by-election campaign trail, Najib said:
“It just cannot be one man, it is a systemic failure”.

Najib blamed Goldman Sachs for failing in its task despite the exorbitant fee paid for the bank’s service.

Wasn’t it Najib who approved the “exorbitant fee” for Goldman Sachs to hide from the world the “systemic failure” which enabled the commission of the heinous and monstrous 1MDB corruption and money-laundering scandal which landed Malaysia with the infamy and ignominy of a global kleptocracy?

Although  Najib had “crossed the Rubicon” and admitted that 1MDB is a national catastrophe, I do not know whether he is going to “uncross the Rubicon” by denying that he made such an admission.

Or is he going to make a clean breast and confession about the monstrous 1MDB scandal during the Cameron Highlands by-election , sharing with Malaysians the deepest and darkest secrets of the 1MDB scandal,  together with a confession of his special relationship with the other mastermind of the 1MDB scandal, financier and fugitive from justice, Jho Low?

It is Greek justice that at Najib’s Cameron Highlands by-election outing today, where he tried to make great play over the term “kena kencing”, Najib was victim of “kena kencing” not by somebody else, but by himself.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Friday, 18th January 2019)

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Najib must be at his most contented and satisfied self since he unexpectedly lost power as Malaysia’s sixth Prime Minster eight months ago

Former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak must be at his most contented and satisfied self since unexpectedly lost power as Malaysia’s sixth Prime Minister in the 14th General Election on May 9, 2018 – which he had expected Barisan Nasional to win easily, even to recapture  two-thirds parliamentary majority which BN lost ten year ago.

This was why he asked why I am so obsessed with him as to repeatedly issue statements on him even though he is no longer the Prime Minister or UMNO President.

He posted photographs on his Facebook and  said he was in Cameron Highlands “just to buy strawberries”.

Who would believe Najib?

I am not obsessed with Najib, but I think it would be the height of folly to ignore what is planned and plotted by a person who in his tenure as the sixth Prime Minister had singly destroyed the reputation painstakingly built up by Malaysians and the founders of Malaysia, including his father Tun Abdul Razak, causing Malaysia to be condemned by the world as a global kleptocracy and Malaysians to be so ashamed as to be shy to admit they were Malaysians when overseas.

But  Najib seems to see light at the end of the tunnel, as he believes that  the Cameron Highlands parliamentary by-election could pave the way for his political come-back and even return as Prime Minister in the 15th General Election which will give him immunity and impunity from the 39 criminal charges of corruption and abuses of power in connection with the 1MDB scandal – if he could drag out the cases against him for the next four-and-a-half years  and avoid being sent to Sungai Buloh Prison before the 15th General Election.

This is why Najib is in Cameron Highlands, not to “buy strawberries” but to actively campaign for a victory for Barisan Nasional in the Cameron Highlands by-election.

There is only one person who could stitch together the intricate and complex Barisan Nasional strategy in the Cameron Highlands by-election, comprising at least five separate elements, viz:

1. The selection of the first Orang Asli parliamentary candidate but a non-member of any of the BN parties, Ramli Mohd Nor,  by Barisan Nasional in the Cameron Highlands by-election on January 26;

2. The acquiescence of MIC to give up its traditional parliamentary seat in Cameron Highlands leaving it on the same level as MCA with only a solitary seat in Parliament;

3. The commitment of MCA to give support in  the by-election  despite the MCA leadership  publicly clamouring for the dissolution of Barisan Nasional;

4. The support of the PAS leadership led by the PAS President, Datuk Seri Hadi Awang, for the Barisan Nasional campaign  in the Cameron Highlands by-election.

5. Presentation of a united front, involving MCA, MIC, UMNO and PAS in the Barisan Nasional by-eleciton campaign in Cameron Highlands, although presented as for “Unity of Ummah” for Malay and Muslim voters.

No one except Najib, because of his clout as  former Prime Minister,  could stitch together such an intricate and complex united front of political parties especially with the recent pronouncement  by  PAS President, Datuk Seri Hadi Awang, before the Cameron Highlands by-election nomination on January 12 that Muslims must discharge their sacred duty to choose a Muslim leader over any non-Muslim leader at any time, with the very clear implication  that a corrupt Muslim leader is any time better and preferable  than a clean and honest non-Muslim leader.

As Najib said at his by-election campaign trail today, a Barisan Nasional win in the Cameron Highlands by-election could be a the start of Barisan Nasional’s rise from the ashes following its defeat at the 14th General Election.

Although Najib has been slapped with 39 criminal charges of corruption, embezzlement and abuses of power, if he could   delay any final appellate decision of his charges and before implementation of  any  custodial jail sentence until the 15th General Election which must be held by 2023, he would be able to enjoy both immunity and impunity from the charges if BN can recapture Putrajaya in the 15th General Election and return as Prime Minister.

It would appear that his game plan to avoid Sungai Buloh Prison for the 1MDB scandal and crimes of a global kleptocracy during his premiership is working according to plan.

Will the Cameron Highlands by-election pave the way for the Najib game-plan to return as Prime Minister of Malaysia in the 15th General Election to secure both immunity and impunity for the 1MDB scandal, and is this the reason for the intricate and complex united front of UMNO, MCA, MIC and PAS in the Cameron Highlands  by-election?

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Habu, Cameron Highlands on Friday, 18th January 2019)

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Kenyataan Media oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Habu, Cameron Highlands pada Jumaat, 18 Januari 2019:

Najib tentu berada dalam keadaan yang begitu selesa dan bahagia sekarang sejak kehilangan kuasa sebagai Perdana Menteri keenam Malaysia secara mengejut lapan bulan lalu

Bekas Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Razak kini kelihatan begitu selesa dan bahagia sejak kehilangan kuasa sebagai Perdana Menteri Malaysia keenam secara mengejut pada Pilihan Raya Umum ke-14 (PRU14) 9 Mei 2018 – di mana beliau yakin Barisan Nasional akan memperoleh kemenangan mudah, malah optimis akan berjaya memperoleh dua pertiga majoriti Parlimen yang gagal diperolehi mereka sejak 10 lalu.

Ini adalah sebab kenapa beliau bertanya kepada saya mengapa saya begitu obses dengannya kerana kerap mengeluarkan kenyataan mengenainya walaupun kini sudah tidak lagi bergelar Perdana Menteri atau Presiden UMNO.

Beliau memuat naik gambar di Facebook dan berkata bahawa beliau di Cameron Highlands “hanya untuk membeli strawberi”.

Siapa yang akan percaya dengan Najib?

Saya tidak obses dengan Najib, namun saya fikir adalah tidak wajar untuk tidak ambil peduli terhadap rancangan seorang individu yang ketika menjawat jawatan Perdana menteri keenam, dengan tangannya sendiri, telah menghancurkan reputasi yang telah dibina oleh rakyat Malaysia serta bapa pengasas Malaysia, termasuk bapanya sendiri Tun Abdul Razak, sehingga menyebabkan Malaysia dikutuk oleh warga dunia sebagai kleptokrasi global dan rakyat Malaysia berasa begitu malu untuk mengaku mereka adalah warganegara Malaysia ketika berada di luar negara.

Namun Najib seolah-olah terjumpa cahaya di hujung terowong, kerana percaya yang PRK Cameron Highlands akan membuka laluan untuk beliau membuat “comeback” politik dan kembali menjadi Perdana Menteri pada PRU15 bagi “menghalalkan” segala kesalahannya temasuk 39 tuduhan rasuah dan salah guna kuasa membabitkan skandal 1MDB – jika beliau berjaya melambatkan-lambatkan perbicaraan terhadapnya untuk empat tahun setengah akan datang dan mengelak daripada dipenjarakan di Penjara Sungai Buloh sebelum PRU15.

Ini adalah sebab mengapa saya fikir Najib di Cameron Highlands bukan sekadar untuk membeli strawberi, tetapi sebaliknya untuk berkempen secara aktif bagi memastikan kemenangan BN pada PRK Cameron Highlands.

Hanya ada seorang individu yang mampu menganyam strategi rumit dan kompleks BN pada PRK Cameron Highlands, yang terdiri daripada lima elemen berasingan, iaitu:

Pemilihan calon Parlimen dari kalangan Orang Asli pertama dalam sejarah BN dan bukan ahli gabungan itu, Ramli Mohd Nor, untuk bertanding pada PRK Cameron Highlands 26 Januari.

MIC akur untuk lepaskan kerusi tradisi di Cameron Highlands, sekali gus mempunyai jumlah wakil rakyat yang sama dengan MCA di Parlimen, iaitu satu kerusi.

Komitmen yang diberikan MCA pada PRK Cameron Highlands walaupun kepimpinan MCA mendesak agar BN dibubarkan;

Sokongan kepimpinan PAS yang diketuai Presiden PAS, Datuk Seri Hadi Awang, untuk kempen BN pada PRK Cameron Highlands.

Kesepakatan yang ditunjukkan oleh MCA, MIC, UMNO dan PAS dalam kempen BN pada PRK Cameron Highlands, walaupun UMNO sebenarnya mahu ia dilihat sebagai “Penyatuan Ummah” untuk pengundi Melayu dan Islam.

Tidak ada seorang pun kecuali Najib, ekoran pengaruhnya sebagai bekas Perdana Menteri, mampu menyatukan parti-parti yang rumit dan kompleks itu, lebih-lebih lagi selepas pengumuman Presiden PAS, Datuk Seri Hadi Awang, sebelum hari penamaan calon PRK Cameron Highlands pada 12 Januari bahawa orang Islam yang korup lebih baik daripada orang bukan Islam yang jujur dan bersih.

Seperti yang dikatakan Najib dalam kempen di Cameron Highlands hari ini, kemenangan BN pada PRK Cameron Highlands akan menjadi permulaan untuk kebangkitan BN susulan kekalahan pada PRU14.

Walaupun Najib dikenakan 39 tuduhan rasuah, penggelapan wang dan salah guna kuasa, beliau boleh menangguhkan keputusan mahkamah dan hukuman penjara terhadapnya sehingga PRU15 yang akan berlangsung pada 2023, bagi membolehkan dirinya dibebaskan daripada segala tuduhan jika Putrajaya berjaya ditawan semula oleh BN pada PRU15 dan beliau kembali menjadi Perdana Menteri.

Nampaknya, rancangan beliau untuk mengelak daripada dipenjarakan di penjara Sungai Buloh atas skandal 1MDB dan jenayah kleptokrasi semasa pentadbirannya sedang berjalan lancar.

Adakah PRK Cameron Highlands ini akan membuka laluan untuk Najib melaksanakan rancangannya untuk kembali menduduki kuasa sebagai Perdana Menteri Malaysia pada PRU15 bagi menghalakan skandal 1MDB dan adakah ini sebabnya UMNO, MCA, MIC dan PAS bersatu dalam PRK Cameron Highlands?

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2019 should be a good year for Orang Asli in Malaysia as it  opened with another New Malaysia landmark when Attorney-General Tommy Thomas  made history with the  Federal Government acting on behalf of Temiar  Orang Asli  to sue Kelantan State Government for violating Orang Asli land rights

2019 should be a good year for Orang Asli in Malaysia as it opened with  another New Malaysia landmark when the Attorney-General Tommy Thomas made history with the Federal Government acting  on behalf of the Temiar Orang Asli to file a civil suit against the Kelantan State Government and its agencies to prevent the destruction of native land for commercial profit.

The other defendants in the suit include the Kelantan state director of Lands and Mines, the Kelantan state director of the Forestry Department, and five private entities.

Tommy Thomas had filed the suit at the High Court in Kota Baru to seek legal recognition of the Temiar Orang Asli’s native land rights in Pos Simpor and injunctions to restrain private parties from encroaching upon it.

He said the Pakatan Harapan Cabinet had resolved on the legal proceedings to reflect the government’s commitment to the Orang Asli as well as honouring one of promises in the Pakatan manifesto.

The beneficiaries of this suit are the Orang Asli, and the litigation will be cost-free to them.

This is a most welcome development, coming three days after the Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC) had agreed to waive the legal costs imposed by the High Court in Temerloh against the Orang Asli from Pos Lanai for withdrawing their suit pertaining to the Telom Dam project, acceding to the appeal of the Orang Asli activists that they could not afford to pay the amount.

In responding to the request, the AGC had  also called on Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB), which was also a defendant in the case, to “take the same position” in agreeing to waive the costs.

The court had previously ordered the activists to pay the sum of RM9,000 after they withdrew their suit against TNB, the Orang Asli Development Department (JAKOA), as well as the Pahang and federal governments in relation to the Telom Dam project.

The Orang Asli filed an injunction in 2015 to prevent TNB from starting work on the Telom Dam.

They also challenged the acquisition of the land for the dam project, arguing that it was unlawful.

They were granted an injunction by the High Court in Kuala Lumpur four months later.

However, TNB managed to obtain another injunction from the High Court in Temerloh in 2016, this time to bar the Orang Asli from entering the land in question.

Five days before the announcement of the AGC to waive the legal costs imposed on the Orang Asli in connection with the campaign against the Telom Dam, I had visited Orang Asli Pos Pantos in Jelai, where the issue of the request to the AGC to waive the legal costs was raised.

What is left to be done now is for TNB to officially announce that it will not proceed with the Telom Dam project.

Six decades after Merdeka, the long-standing fight for justice of the Orang Asli in the country is  beginning to bear fruit with the peaceful and democratic transition of power from UMNO/Barisan Nasional to Pakatan Harapan.

This is one reason why there is Cameron Highlands by-election on January 26 as there were 12 witnesses who testified about the corrupt electoral practices of money-politics and vote-buying in the 14th General Election campaign in Cameron Highlands involving both the MIC National Vice President C. Sivarraajh for the parliamentary seat and the present Pahang Mentri Besar, Wan Rosdy Wan Ismail in the Jelai state assembly seat, with  the election court declaring the Cameron Highlands election last May null and avoid and the holding of the current by-election.

Out of the 12 witnesses, 11 of them  were Orang Asli,  six of whom  are Tok Batins, namely: Batin Harun of  Kg Tual A, Pos Sinderut; Batin Yok Ek  of Kg Tual B , Pos Sinderut; Batin Norman  of Kg Sinderut, Pos Sinderut; Batin Yok Bim of Kg Janggap, Pos Sinderut; Batin Bah Lai of  Kg Rakoh, Pos Lenjang and Batin Yahya of  Kg Labu, Pos Sinderut.

The other five Orang Asli in the memorable Cameron Highlands election petition are: Zainal Kaptar of  Kg Janggap, Pos Siderut, Yok Man of Kg Janggap, Pos Sinderut; Sazali of   Kg Saweh, Pos Sinderut; Singgol of Kg Tual B, Pos Sinderut and Narbi of  Sungai Relong, Pos Mensun.

Without these 11 Orang Asli witnesses, who are undoubtedly the national heroes of truth and integrity, there would be no Cameron Highlands by-election, which must go down in Malaysian history as a landmark in the national objective to transform Malaysia  from a global kleptocracy under Najib Razak into a leading nation of integrity in the world under Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad.

I met six of the 11 Orang Asli witnesses, including Tok Batins Harun of Kg Tual A, Yok Ek of Kg Tual B, Yok Bim of Kg Janggap when I visited Kg Orang Asli Janggap three days ago on January 16.

They recounted how frightened and fearful they were when they went to the High Court in Kuala Lumpur last year  and faced the sophisticated  lawyers during cross-examination. But although they were frightened and fearful to come out from the interior Orang Asli kampongs to the imposing Kuala Lumpur Court and faced interrogation by the lawyers of the MIC Vice President, they just told the truth of what happened during the 14th General Election.

But the Pahang Mentri Besar, Wan Rosdy Wan Ismail, who is the Pahang State Assemblyman for Jelai, one of the two state assembly seats in the Cameron Highlands parliamentary seat, dared not go to the Eleciton Court to testify although the election petition proceedings was adjourned three times for Pahang Mentri Besar to do so.

Election Judge Datuk Azizah Nawawi finally held that corrupt practices had been proven to have been committed with the knowledge and consent of the Cameron Highlands MP Datuk C. Sivarraajh, and the Pahang Mentri Besar-cum-State Assemblyman for Jelai, Wan Rosdy –  namely giving of money to voters to induce them to vote for BN.

She said:

“I am of the considered opinion that the petitioner has established beyond reasonable doubt that bribery was proven, in that money was given to voters either directly by the respondent (C. Sivarraajh) or indirectly through Datuk Seri Wan Rosdy Wan Ismail (Jelai Assemblyman) or Achom (an Orang Asli who acted as an agent for Wan Rosdy) and that the money was given to the voters to induce them to vote (for BN).”

What is most intriguing is that although Sivarraajh announced immediately after the Election Court verdict on Nov. 30 that he would appeal, he failed to do so, and it is open knowledge that Sivarraajh was not allowed by Pahang UMNO to submit any such appeal.

The present Barisan Nasional candidate Ramli Mohd Nor rose to the rank of a State Commercial Crime Director. Could he investigate to find out why Wan Rosdy dared not go to Kuala Lumpur Election Court to testy in the election petition like the 11 Orang Asli from Cameron Highlands, and whether UMNO Pahang had acted fairly and correctly in prohibiting Sivarraajh from appealing against the Election Court decision?

The Cameron Highlands by-election is a very difficult and uphill battle for Pakatan Harapan to win – as even in the “miracle” of the 14th General Eleciton result on May 9, 2018, which ousted Najib and UMNO/BN from Putrajaya, Pakatan Harapan still could not win Cameron Highlands parliamentary constituency.

There would however be a chance of Pakatan Harapan winning the Cameron Highlands parliamentary constituency in the by-election if a substantial section of the Orang Asli voters support Manogaran, as only some 10 per cent of the Orang Asli voters voted for Pakatan Harapan in the 14th General Election.

Will this happen in the Cameron Highlands by-election on January 26, 2019?

2019 should be a good year for Orang Asli’s long-standing fight for justice, for there is another good news for Orang Asli recently with the three-member Court of Appeal bench deciding two days ago to uphold a Johor High Court decision ordering  a father and son lawyer team to return part of RM38.5 million in compensation given by the Johor government to Orang Asli villagers for construction of a dam on their land.

The appellate court also upheld the finding that S Kanawagi and Dinesh Kanawagi were liable for breach of their respective fiduciary and contractual duties and conspiring to defraud the Jakun Orang Asli community , viz the Jakun tribe in the Linggui Valley in Johor.

This  is because they had used part of the sum, said to be RM7 million, to purchase 27 units of condominiums in Kuala Lumpur.

The Orang Asli land was sold to Singapore for it to build a water catchment facility to supply water to the republic.

The appellate court held both lawyers liable to the breach of fiduciary duty as there were misuse, mismanagement and misappropriation of trust funds.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on  Saturday, 19th January 2019)

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Half-way mark for campaign for Cameron Highlands by-election – will Najib admit that his three greatest failures as sixth Prime Minister was 1MDB scandal, betrayal of the interests of Felda settlers and failure to bring the 200,000 Orang Aslis to the national mainstream of development?

We are now at the half-way mark in the campaign for the Cameron Highlands parliamentary by-election.

Will the former Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak, who is the main strategist behind the Barisan Nasional by-election, campaigning personally in the by-election and summoning to the electoral battle the old UMNO leaders like former Defence Minister Datuk Seri Hasimmuddin Hussein and the former Education Minister Mahdzir Khalid, the question is whether the by-election would mark  Barisan Nasional’s rise from the ashes of its defeat in the 14th General Election on May 9, 2018, and prepare for Najib’s political comeback in the 15th General Election by 2023 as the Prime Minister to save him from imprisonment in Sungai Buloh Prison.

I must confess I was quite unsure at first how to present Najib’s kleptocracy and the 1MDB scandal as among the key issues in the by-election, until the UMNO/BN strategists and cybertroopers providentially came to the rescue.

By stupidly focusing on the wholly legitimate and legal reimbursement of RM20 to some 60 Orang Asli youths who came out from the remote Orang Asli kampongs in their motor-bikes to Tanah Rata to support Pakatan Harapan on by-election’s Nomination Day, the Barisan Nasional strategists and cybertroopers had unwittingly focussed the by-election on the issues of clean and honest politics, good governance, the battle against corruption and most important of all, the 1MDB scandal.

Pakatan Harapan must thank the Barisan Nasional strategists and cybertroopers for this help and leg-up in the first few days of the campaign.

But the greatest bonanza was the public apology by the Goldman Sachs Group Inc chief executive officer David Soloman on the third day of the by-election  to the people of Malaysia for its role in the 1MDB scandal.

US prosecutors last year charged two former Goldman bankers for the theft of billions of dollars from 1MDB. Tim Leissner, a former partner for Goldman Sachs in Asia, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to launder money and violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

This completely unexpected apology from Goldman Sachs had taken Najib by surprise, and caused him to “cross the Rubicon”, admitting for the first time that the 1MDB scandal was a national catastrophe but maintaining that the blame for the 1MDB scandal cannot be pinned on him as it  was a systemic failure involving Goldman Sachs which had been  paid an “exorbitant fee”!

But Najib could not  evoke any sympathy or pity from the public as it was Najib who was himself responsible for approving Goldman Sach’s “exorbitant fees” totally US$600 million, which was completely unheard of and unprecedented!

Najib is not  a victim of the system, but  the very person responsible for the system resulting in the monstrous and heinous 1MDB scandal which became the largest kleptocratic scandal handled by the US Department of Justice and the victims were not Najib and his Minsiters but the 32 million Malaysians!

How can Najib claim innocence and a victim of a systemic failure when in the two years after the US Department of Justice filed its largest kleptocratic litigation to forfeit US$1.7 billion out of US$4.5 billion  1MDB-linked assets in the United States, the United Kingdom and Switzerland  and the criminal proceedings against several bankers in Singapore  linked to the international 1MDB corruption and money-laundering, Najib and his Cabinet Ministers as well as the political leaders of the 13-party Barisan Nasional continued to close their eyes, shut their ears and run away from the truth?

The Cameron Highlands by-election has taken on a special character – whether it could be the vehicle through which Najib could eventually escape  any imprisonment in  Sungai Buloh Prison and even return as the Prime Minister in the 15th General Election if Najib could succeed in his game-plan beginning with the Cameron Highlands by-election.

Will Najib admit that his three greatest failures as sixth Prime Minister was 1MDB scandal, betrayal of the interests of Felda settlers and failure to bring the 200,000 Orang Asli to the national mainstream of development?

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, 19th January 2019)

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Najib has achieved two “greats” in his life – made Malaysia a global kleptocracy and now  the first and only former Prime Minister to become the “king…of trolls”

Datuk Seri Najib Razak has achieved two “greats” in his life – made Malaysia a global kleptocracy and now  the first and only Prime Minister to become the

“king…of trolls”.

In his campaign for the Barisan Nasional in the Cameron Highlands by-election at

Felda Sungai Koyan, the Barisan Nasional stronghold in Jelai, the former Prime Minister boasted of his latest accomplishment on  the social media:

“I have been crowned the ‘King of Trolls’.

“What is the reason for this? It is because I fight them everyday with facts, not with lies”.

Yes, Najib does not tell ordinary lies, but only gargantuan ones.

At the 7lst UMNO General Assembly in December 2017, blatantly and brazenly resorted to gargantuan lies when he accused the DAP of being anti-Malay and anti-Islam, that “DAP yang terang terang Anti-Melayu dan Islam, sebagai tercatat dalam perlembagaan DAP, langsung tidak meyebut Islam sebagai Agama Persekutuan”.

Present at the 71st UMNO General Assembly opening were the leaders of the other 12 Barisan Nasional component parties, such as MCA, MIC, Gerakan and the Sabah and Sarawak component parties, all of whom also did not  “tercatat dalam perlembagaan, langsung tidak sebut Islam sebagai Agama Persekutuan”!

Did Najib accuse the other 12 BN component parties, and therefore the Barisan Nasional coalition, as anti-Malay and anti-Islam?

At the UMNO General Assembly in Dec. 2017, Najib resorted to the politics of fear and hatred by drumming baseless fears and hate, as when he warned that if Pakatan Harapan wins, “the Malays will be vagabonds, cursed and despised, until they ‘terbangsat’ (become bastards) in their own homeland”.

This is indeed a gargantuan lie.

This was why I commented  on Najib’s  UMNO Presidential speech on Dec. 13, 2017 and said:

“Najib should know that if Pakatan Harapan defeats the UMNOB/BN coalition in the next general election, the Pakatan Harapan Federal Government will be doing its utmost in the next five years to prove that it is better than the UMNO/BN government in protecting and promoting the rights and interests of all Malaysians, especially the Malays and Islam, and no one will be ‘terbangsat’ in their own land or it will lose the mandate to govern and be repudiated in the subsequent general election five years later in 2023.”

I believe Malaysians will not forget the UMNO lies in the last general election that I, and not Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, who will become Prime Minister if Pakatan Harapan wins the 14th General Election.

But Najib’s most gargantuan lies is undoubtedly his denial that there is anything amiss with the 1MDB  scandal, although it is the constant subject of  the international media and made Malaysia the butt of international jokes for becoming a global kleptocralcy.

Najib would have continued with such fantastic denial complex  if Goldman

Sachs Group Inc., despite an “exorbitant fee” of some US$600 million, broke ranks and apologised to the people of Malaysia for its role in the 1MDB scandal.

This completely unexpected apology from Goldman Sachs had taken Najib by surprise, and caused him to admit  for the first time that the although the 1MDB scandal was a national catastrophe, the blame for the 1MDB scandal cannot be pinned on him as it  was a systemic failure involving Goldman Sachs which had been  paid an “exorbitant fee”!

But Najib did not tell the Cameron Highlands voters, although he led the by-election Barisan Nasional campaign, why he should be acquitted of any responsibility for the monstrous and heinous 1MDB scandal, and how parties like  Goldman Sachs must bear responsibility for the “systemic failure” resulting in  Malaysia becoming a global kleptocracy.

It is still not too late for Najib to “tell all” about the 1MDB scandal as the by-election voting is only on January 26.  Is Najib prepared to do so?

I do not think Najib is capable of “telling all about the 1MDB scandal after “denying all” about it.

Najib is not a victim but the very person responsible for the system resulting in the monstrous and heinous 1MDB scandal which became the largest kleptocratic scandal handled by the US Department of Justice. The victims were not Najib and his Ministers  but the 32 million Malaysians!

How can Najib claim innocence and a victim of a systemic failure when in the two years after the US Department of Justice filed its largest kleptocratic litigation to forfeit US$1.7 billion out of US$4.5 billion  1MDB-linked assets in the United States, the United Kingdom and Switzerland  and the criminal proceedings against several bankers in Singapore  linked to the international 1MDB corruption and money-laundering, Najib and his Cabinet Ministers as well as the political leaders of the 13-party Barisan Nasional continued to close their eyes, shut their ears and run away from the truth?

I shudder to think what would be position today if UMNO/Barisan Nasional had continued to be  the Federal Government with Najib as the Prime Minister.

In the Internet age, a troll has been defined as a person who starts quarrels or upsets people on the Internet to distract and sow discord by posting inflammatory and digressive, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community (such as a newsgroup, forum, chat room, or blog) with the intent of provoking readers into displaying emotional responses, normalizing tangential discussion, whether for the troll’s amusement or a specific gain.

Media attention in recent years has equated trolling with online harassment.

Experienced participants in online forums know that the most effective way to discourage a troll is usually to ignore it, because responding tends to encourage trolls to continue disruptive posts – hence the often-seen warning: “Please do not feed the trolls”.

I do not know whether Malaysians should lament and rue that the former Prime Minister of Malaysia prides himself on becoming the “king of trolls”.

May be Najib has finally found his best vocation.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday, 20th January 2019)

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Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah and Mustafa Along have given the best answer to Hadi who asked whether the Attorney-General’s  civil suit against the Kelantan State Government was because of the Cameron Highlands by-election

Gua Musang Member of Parliament Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah and the chairperson of the Jaringan Kampong Orang Asli Kelantan Mustafa Along have given the best answer to the question by the PAS President, Datuk Seri Hadi Awang, on the timing of Putrajaya’s move to sue the Kelantan state government over encroachment into Orang Asli land.

Hadi ask why the Federal government chose to bring up this issue during the Cameron Highlands by-election, implying that it was an old and forgotten issue.

Hadi said at a press conference: “
Are they trying to campaign? Or did they really just thought it about now during the by-election, and never before this, when this is an old issue
.”

Hadi and other PAS leaders have accused the Attorney-General Tommy Thomas of a political motive in the Cameron Highlands by-election in the federal government  initiating legal proceedings on behalf of the Orang Asli in recognition of the federal government’s constitutional and legal duty to protect and promote their wellbeing and advancement.

The Kelantan Orang Asli Community rubbished Hadi’s claims that the Pakatan Harapan government was suing the Kelangtan state government to win the Cameron Highlands by-election.

Jaringan Kampung Orang Asli Kelantan chairperson, Mustafa Along, said discussions between the Temiar community in Gua Musang and the Attorney-General’s Chambers and the Malaysian Bar have been ongoing since last October.

He said: “
As such, claims that this lawsuit was purposely made due to the Cameron Highlands by-election are unfounded and unreasonable.

“This has been planned since before the Cameron Highlands by-election, and as such it should not be politicised for the interests of certain quarters as this involves the interests of the Orang Asli.”

The 12-term Member of Parliament for Gua Musang Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah regarded  the Federal government’s act of filing a civil suit against the Kelantan government as a “last resort” to resolve the long-standing  problem concerning Orang Asli land in the state.

He  said the Temiar folk in Pos Simpor have long staked a claim to their native customary land but were ignored by the Kelantan government.

He believed that the court action could open up room for the Temiar to be granted recognition as they have resided and worked the land themselves all this while.

He told reporters in Kelantan yesterday:
“I’m not an expert in land law, but I feel that the state government should address the claims made by the Orang Asli.”

Tengku Razaleigh said the state government should have paid attention to the matter a long time ago. The Orang Asli land, he said, are diminishing due to intrusion.

He said: “
They (Orang Asli) are defending their land. We should accord them the respect as they have been there for generations.

“Even if we were to weigh the situation from a land use perspective alone, they still have a right which we need to respect. We have to sympathise with them.”

Tengku Razaleigh agrees with the highlighting of the long-outstanding issue of the land rights of the Temiar in Gua Musang, Kelantan/

Will Hadi advise the PAS Kelantan State Government to recognise the Kelantan State government’s constitutional and legal duty to protect the well-being and advancement of the rights and interests of the Orang Asli in Kelantan?

(Media Statement (2) by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday, 20th January 2019)

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