Every day in first week of second year of Pakatan Harapan rule, we have been  moving strongly in the direction of a New Malaysia to restore democracy, rule of law, justice and a better life for all

A retired government servant asked me this morning whether there is hope for the future.

I replied that there would be no hope for the future if the previous UMNO/Barisan Nasional had continued to rule in Malaysia; but there is now hope with the historic decision of the 14th General Election a year ago.

But I cautioned him that it would be a herculean task to undo the corruption, abuses of power and injustices of six decades, that it would be impossible to resolve all the problems left behind by the Najib regime overnight as it is a task which will take years and even decades to complete  but  Malaysians must have stamina, perseverance  and faith in themselves to work towards a New Malaysia.

Every day in the first week of the second year of Pakatan Harapan rule, from May 9 – 15, 2019, we have been  moving strongly in the direction of a New Malaysia to restore democracy, rule of law, justice and a better life for all.

This can be seen by the following chronology:

May 9, 2019:
 The Prime Minister, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad in his first anniversary speech, gave a report card of the Pakatan Rakyat Federal government in Putrajaya and a reaffirmation of Pakatan Harapan‘s commitment to the principal PH objectives to reduce the costs of living, achieve institutional reforms, engineer economic growth, restore power to Sabah and Sarawak and to build an inclusive and moderate Malaysia.

As former top civil servant Tan Sri Ramon Navaratnam has written, Mahathir’s announcement of a new economic model of “Shared Prosperity” provide a radical breakthrough for fundamentally new socio-economic policies for the next 10 years or two socio-economic five-year plans until 2030 – to ensure sustainable and equitable growth at every level of society regardless of race, class, and location based on three objectives of

1. Tackling income and wealth disparity.

2. Creating a progressive economy, and

3. Emerging as a leading economy in Asia.

May 10, 2019:
 The announcement by the new Inspector-General of Police, Abdul Hamid  Bador that the Police have consented to the formation of the Independent Police Complaints and Misconduct Commission (IPCMC),  after a meeting to some 20 top police officers with the Governance, Integrity and Anti-Corruption Centre (GIACC) director-general Abu Kassim Mohamed in Putrajaya.

The IPCMC will serve both “the men in blue and the man on the street.”

May 11, 2019:
 The landslide DAP/PH/Warisan victory in the Sandakan parliamentary by-election, with multiple importance and significance, including:

(i) A national turnaround in political stocks of Pakatan Harapan after three by-election defeats in Cameron Highlands, Semenyih and Rantau from January to April 2019;

(ii) A  knock-out blow to the two myths that “UMNO is Malay, and the Malays are UMNO” and the invincibility of the shameless “Malu Apa Bossku” campaign of former Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak.

(iii) As a “finance twitter” article aptly describes it, Shafie won the “personal war” between him and Najib in the Sandakan by-election. Bossku in Sabah is Sabah Chief Minister Datuk Seri Shafie Apdal and not Najib.

(iv) Setback for the UMNO-PAS axis, demonstrating that PAS leadership has lost the moral high ground after associating itself with UMNO kleptocracy and the politics of lies, intolerance and extremism.

(v) Reaffirmation of the voters of Sandakan for the task of a New Malaysia, New Sabah and New Sandakan.

(vi) Need for Malaysians to redeem our international honour, prestige and dignity, for the “Apa Malu Boosku” campaign is no less a slur on our national reputation and dignity as the 1MDB scandal and the infamy, ignominy and iniquity of being condemned by the world as a global kleptocracy before Najib was thrown out of Putrajaya.

May 12, 2019:
 Warning by the Sabah Deputy Chief Minister Jaujan Sambakong that village leaders in Sabah will be stripped of their posts if they are found to be abusing their power or condoning corrupt practices.

May 13, 2019:
 The statement by the Home Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin that the bill for the Independent Police Complaints and Misconduct Commission (IPCMC) will be tabled in Parliament this year.

May 14, 2019:

1. Prime Minister Mahathir’s announcement after the eighth meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Anti-Corruption that past prime ministers and defence ministers  implicated in land swap deals as revealed by the  Defence Ministry  report that the government suffered an estimated total loss of RM515 million due to the 16 land swap deals, will be probed as no one is above the law.

2. The Kuala Lumpur  High Court today fixed 48 days, from Jan 6 next year, for the trial of former Prime Minister Najib and former Treasury secretary-general Mohd Irwan Serigar Abdullah, who are facing six counts of criminal breach of trust involving RM6.6 billion.

May 15, 2019:
 Finance Minister unveiled members of the Debt Management Office (DMO), which is intended to review the government’s debt and liabilities, including from statutory bodies and special purpose vehicles.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Thursday, 16th May 2019)

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Forthcoming Sarawak state election will decide whether  the implementation of the Pakatan Harapan “pillar-promise” of “Return Sarawak and Sabah to the status accorded in Malaysia Agreement 1963” has full support of Sarawak

The voters of Sandakan surprised themselves, Sabah and Malaysia when they gave the DAP candidate Vivian Wong a landslide victory in the Sandakan by-election on May 11, with a historic majority of 11,521 votes despite a low voter turnout of 54.4%.

Many thought that Sandakan is a constituency with predominantly Chinese voters in the 75%-80% region, but they cannot be wrong as the ethnic composition of its voter make-up is Chinese 51% and Sabah bumipuera 49%.

This makes Vivian Wong’s landslide victory all the more significant as she won all 17 polling districts in the by-election and 91 out of the 93 polling streams – making it a very representative and rounded victory.

The level of Chinese support actually increased slightly to approximately 95 percent, a level which Pakatan Harapan only achieved in 12 out of 24 parliamentary constituencies with more than 50 percent of Chinese voters in GE14.

Furthermore, the level of DAP support among the Sabah bumiputera voters also showed an approximate 10 percent increase to secure the support of the majority of the Sabah bumiputera voters in the constituency.

The landslide DAP/Pakatan Harapan/Warisan victory in the Sandakan parliamentary by-election has multiple importance and significance, including:

(i) A national turnaround in political stocks of Pakatan Harapan after three by-election defeats in Cameron Highlands, Semenyih and Rantau from January to April 2019;

(ii) A knock-out blow to the two myths that “UMNO is Malay, and the Malays are UMNO” and the invincibility of the shameless “Malu Apa Bossku” campaign of former Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak.

(iii) As a “finance twitter” article aptly describes it, Shafie won the “personal war” between him and Najib in the Sandakan by-election. Bossku in Sabah is Sabah Chief Minister Datuk Seri Shafie Apdal and not Najib.

(iv) Setback for the UMNO-PAS axis, demonstrating that PAS leadership has lost the moral high ground after associating itself with UMNO kleptocracy and the politics of lies, intolerance and extremism.

(v) Reaffirmation of the voters of Sandakan for the task of a New Malaysia, New Sabah and New Sandakan.

(vi) Redemption of our international honour, prestige and dignity, for the “Malu Apa Bossku” campaign is no less a slur on our national reputation and dignity as the 1MDB scandal and the infamy, ignominy and iniquity of being condemned by the world as a global kleptocracy before Najib was thrown out of Putrajaya.

After the Sandakan by-election, all eyes will be on the Sarawak state general elections, which should be held next year although the five-year mandate of the Sarawak state legislative assembly will only expire in mid-2021.

Just as the voters of Sandakan voted for the future in a New Malaysia and a New Sabah, I hope the voters of Sarawak will support a New Malaysia and a New Sarawak in the forthcoming state general election.

One of the five pillars of the Pakatan Harapan manifesto in the 14th General Election is “Return Sarawak and Sabah to the status accorded in Malaysia Agreement 1963”.

It is most unfortunate and regrettable that the first step taken by the Pakatan Harapan Federal Government in Putrajaya to honour this pillar was blocked and frustrated by the combined votes of the GPS, UMNO and PAS MPs which prevented the Constitution Amendment Bill on Article 1(2) of the Malaysian Constitution to be defeated for lack of the requisite two-thirds parliamentary majority, i.e. support of 148 MPs.

The amendment of Article 1(2) of the Malaysian Constitution will be the first step to carry out the pillar to “Return Sarawak and Sabah to the status accorded in Malaysia Agreement 1963”, such as:

· To ensure the prosperity of the people of Sarawak and Sabah by enhancing the states’ economic growth;

· Create more employment opportunities for Sarawakian and Sabahan youths;

· Making Sarawak and Sabah a model harmonious society;

· Improving the quality of education and health services;

· Advancing the interests of the rural and remote populations;

· Decentralisation of power to Sarawak and Sabah; and

· To return and guarantee the right of customary land of the people of Sarawak and Sabah.

The forthcoming Sarawak state general election will determine whether  the “pillar-promise” of Pakatan Harapan on “Return Sarawak and Sabah to the status accorded in Malaysia Agreement 1963” could be fully implemented, with the full  support and co-operation of the Sarawak state government.

(Speech by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang at a DAP forum on “From Sandakan to Sarawak” in Sibu on Thursday, 16th May 2019 at 8 pm)

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Hisham’s latest  statement is even more self-incriminating and as a major UMNO leader and former senior UMNO Minister, he should not hide behind any legal loophole  but set an example of accountability, transparency and integrity by revealing all about the improprieties and illegalities in the land swaps under his watch as Defence Minister

Former Defence Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein’s latest statement is even more self-incriminating and as a major UMNO leader and former senior UMNO Minister, he should not hide behind any legal loophole but set an example of accountability, transparency and integrity by revealing all about the improprieties and illegalities in the land swaps under his watch as Defence Minister.

It is all right and proper for him to expose the faults of previous Defence Ministers, as he is not only entitled but has a duty to do so, but he should not  apply double standards and spare himself from such exposure of irregularities and illegalities of land swap transactions during his tenure as Defence Minister.

Hishammuddin’s first self-incriminating statement was his cryptic advice to the Defence Minister Mohamad Sabu and Deputy Defence Minister Liew Chin Tong “if they live in glass houses, don’t throw stones”.

I for one would like to know if Mohamad Sabu or Chin Tong are alleged to be involved in corruption or malpractices as to live in “glass houses”.

The question that arises now is whether as a responsible citizen, and even more important, in memory of the great reputation for integrity of his father, Tun Hussein Onn, the third Prime Minister of Malaysia, he would volunteer all information of corruption and malpractices in the Defence Ministry whether under his watch or those of  other Ministers to the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) to start a clean-up of the Ministry of Defence as well as other Ministries so that Malaysia can be recognised as a nation of integrity in the international arena.

Hishammudin said in his latest statement that former prime ministers and ministers must take responsibility for any wrongdoing.

Why then had he kept his silence all these years about former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak and the 1MDB scandal, especially when Malaysia was condemned by the world as a global kleptocracry?

Why did Hishammuddin support Najib’s sacking of Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin and Datuk Seri Shafie Apdal from the Cabinet and Tan Sri Gani Patail as Attorney-General that infamous  week in July  2015, and when the various national institutions including Parliament were neutered to protect Najib from any fallouts of any expose of the 1MDB scandal?

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Sibu on Friday, 17th May 2019)

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DAP will not be MCA2 and MCA cannot be DAP2

A new political myth is making the rounds in Malaysia, that with the DAP in a silent mode, there’s need for a Third Force in the country.

According to this myth, as DAP has become MCA2, MCA should become DAP2.

There cannot be a greater misreading of political trends and dynamics in Malaysia as DAP will not be MCA2 and MCA cannot be DAP2.

It is akin to political imbecility to believe that MCA, after being almost eliminated in the 14th General Election, could evolve to become DAP2, when up to now, MCA dare not cut its umbilical cord with UMNO and  no MCA leader has the  conviction and temerity to denounce the 1MDB scandal and  the former Prime Minster,

Datuk Seri Najib Razak  for bringing the

country to Malaysia’s worst depths of international infamy, ignominy and iniquity by

being condemned by the world as a global kleptocracy.

Even more astounding is that in post-14GE, MCA has descended to the depths of supporting

the UMNO-PAS axis which had been dishing

out toxic and vicious politics of hate, lies, intolerance and extremism threatening to tear plural Malaysia asunder by generating baseless fears and hate of one race against another or one religion against another.

One can understand, although not condone, the desperate and bankrupt  politics of UMNO and PAS leaders who see this as the only way to save themselves, but can MCA leaders explain why it is so unprincipled and opportunistic as to support such irresponsible and dangerous politics by UMNO and PAS leaders?

MCA cannot be DAP2 for DAP is not prepared to cede the DAP principle, culture,  persona  and soul to anyone.

DAP leaders and members remain committed to the vision of a New Malaysia where everyone regards himself or herself as a Malaysian first and

his or her race, religion, region or socio-economic background second; and where there is democracy, freedom, justice, integrity, progress and prosperity for all Malaysians.

While DAP leaders and members have never given up on these ideals and objectives whether in or out of government, MCA leaders had long lost

these ideals and  objectives, if they had

them in the first place.

DAP leaders are in politics to serve the people and nation. MCA leaders are in politics to serve themselves at the expense of the people

and nation.

These are  among the reasons why DAP will never become a MCA2, and why MCA in post-14GE can never become DAP2.

Furthermore, the DAP is not in a silence mode.

Those who accuse the DAP leaders of being “more interested to just cling on to power” after realizing that they cannot initiate change of

nation-building policies cannot be  more wrong

about the DAP, although they are spot on if they are referring to the history, role and culture of MCA leaders in government before the 14th General Election.

I had declined to be in the Cabinet. Have any MCA leader declined to be appointed a Cabinet  Minister?

This myth is invented by MCA leaders thinking that DAP Ministers and leaders in government can only replicate the role of former MCA

leaders in government and Cabinet – who

have to surrender their principles and vision of a new, united, just and free Malaysia to cling to office.

I had  explained that I had kept a low publicity profile in the past year because of the monstrous lies emanating from the UMNO-PAS axis that I am the puppet master of Tun Dr.

Mahathir Mohamad and that the Cabinet Ministers were just my puppets and stooges.

Why did MCA leadership give their tacit approval to such dastardly lies and falsehoods, by giving support to the UMNO-PAS axis.

The MCA leadership was trying to do their worst in the Sandakan by-election, supporting the vicious and toxic politics of lies, hate and polarisation of the UMNO-PAS axis but to no avail.

I flew to Sandakan thrice from KLIA  during the Sandakan by-election campaign period, and in two of my three trips, a top MCA national leader was taking the same flight to Sandakan, although in the first class section as compared to my economy class status. But this top MCA

national leader never surfaced publicly in Sandakan campaign, keeping to the backroom.

Can the MCA leadership explain the reason for such surreptitious and  furtive MCA support for the UMNO-PAS axis  in the Sandakan by-election, which sponsored the PBS candidate?

The DAP is not in a silence mode.

There are those who change policies and principles once they are in power and in Government, but not the DAP.

We are now no more in Opposition but part of the Pakatan Harapan government and inevitably our modus operandi is different but our principles, ideals and vision of a New Malaysia remain unchanged.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Saturday, 18th May 2019)

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Malaysia has completed  process to start implementing the major pillars of Pakatan Harapan commitment to restore democracy,  the rule of law and to effect institutional and political reforms in the second year of PH government

I believe the second year of the Pakatan Harapan government in Putrajaya will see more reforms and changes in the democratic  governance of Malaysia, as the best part of the first year of the Pakatan Harapan Federal Government  after the historic decision

of the 14th General Election on May 9, 2018 had been spent on finding out the scope and extent of the  political, economic, educational, social, cultural and moral damages to Malaysia in heading towards the trajectory of a failed, rogue and kleptocratic state.

Two events in the last week before the “509” first anniversary on May 9, 2019 can be said to provide the final stones for the  basis for far-reaching institutional and political reforms in the next four years of the Pakatan Harapan government, namely the appointments of a new Chief Justice Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat, taking over from Richard Malanjum who had retired on April 2, and a new Inspector-General

of Police, Abdul Hamid Bador, replacing Tan Sri Mohamad Fuzi Harun.

As the Attorney-General Tommy Thomas said at the ceremonial sitting to celebrate the appointment of Chief Justice Tengku Maimum at the Palace of Justice this morning, the only way for the Malaysian judiciary to return to its “glory days” of the 1970s and 1980s was for judges to consistently endeavour to make the right decisions.

Thomas said the Malaysian judiciary enjoyed a high reputation for the first 30 years after the country’s independence.

Judges of those days such as Lord President Mohamed Suffian Mohamad Hashim and Eusoffe Abdoolcader were seen as luminaries not just in Malaysia but by their counterparts abroad as well.

The time has come for the Malaysian judiciary to produce luminaries not just in Malaysia but also in the international arena.

Tengku Maimum has started the new judicial era on a right note, declaring that the independence of the judiciary does not mean that the judiciary is immune from criticisms or accountability to the public which it serves.

She said the courts respect the right of the public to criticise judges’ performance but the criticisms must be based on facts and done responsibly as unfounded and baseless criticisms against the judiciary would weaken the administration of justice and erode the confidence of the public in the judiciary.

The new Inspector-General of Police has also made a great start, clearing the way for the establishment of the Independent Police Complaint and Misconduct Commission (IPCMC), a key proposal which had been made by the Royal Police Commission headed by former Chief Justice Tun Mohamad  Dzaiddin and longest-serving Inspector-General of Police Tun Hanif Omar, but blocked from implementation for some 14 years.

It is even more impressive that the new

Inspector-General of Police is visiting police stations in plainclothes and alone, without prior notice or his outrider escorts, to listen to the grouses of police personnel.

Malaysians do not want the country to end up as a failed, rogue and kleptocratic state, but want Malaysia to be a top  world-class nation in every field of human endeavour – a world-class police force, a world-class judiciary, a world-class nation of integrity,  a world-class education system, a world-class economy and a world-class Parliament.

Earlier, the first year of the Pakatan Harapan Government had seen important basic changes to pave the way for far-reaching institutional, political and democratic  reforms, including the appointments of:

· Datuk Mohamad Ariff bin Md Yusof as Speaker of Parliament;

· Tommy Thomas as Attorney-General;

· Tan Sri Abdul Kassim Ahmad as Director-General of National Centre for Governance, Integrity and Anti-Corruption;

· Datuk Seri Mohd Shukri Abdull as Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) Chief Commissioner;

· Datuk Nor Shamsiah Mohd Yunus as Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) Governor.

The stage is set for a greater pace to reset the nation-building process in the second year of Pakatan Harapan government in Putrajaya.

The landslide Sandakan parliamentary by-election victory for DAP, Pakatan Harapan and Warisan on May 11, 2019 provides a great fillip to the agenda in the building of a New Malaysia, for it has crushed the fantasies of those who believe that the Pakatan Harapan is at most a one-term Federal Government, if it does not crumble and disintegrate even sooner.

Furthermore, the Sandakan by-election result debunks the notions of those who believe that the UMNO-PAS axis has a future or that the “Malu Apa Bossku” campaign represents the future of Malaysia.

The Sandakan by-election result is proof that DAP/Pakatan Harapan/Warisan coalition intend to remain as the Federal Government and Sabah State Government  even after the 15th General

Election to accomplish our  agenda to build a New Malaysia, New Sabah and hopefully a New Sarawak.

(Speech by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang during visit to Rassau, Bawang Assan in Sarawak on Friday, 17th May 2019)

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“Malu Apa Bossku” campaign violates Rukunegara, a challenge to National Anti-Corruption Plan 2019-2023 and obstacle to the national mission to  transform Malaysia from a global kleptocracy into a leading nation of integrity

Kempen “Malu Apa Bossku” bertentangan dengan Rukunegara, mencabar Pelan Anti Rasuah Kebangsaan 2019-2023, dan halangan kepada misi transformasi negara daripada satu kleptokrasi global kepada negara berintegriti yang terulung

Sejak beberapa bulan sebelum pilihanraya kecil Sandakan pada 11 Mei yang lalu, cybertrooper bekas Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Razak telah bertungkus lumus menjaja satu tema baru — cukuplah bercakap mengenai skandal 1MDB dan kleptokrasi Najib, Pilihanraya ke-14 sudah selesai dan biarkan mahkamah yang tentukan sama ada Najib bersalah atau tidak, sebaliknya, mari lihat apa yang kerajaan PH telah berjaya laksanakan untuk menurunkan kos sara hidup dan mereformasikan institusi negara.

Januari tahun ini, cybertrooper Najib telah memulakan kempen “Malu Apa Bossku” tanpa sekelumit rasa malu sekalipun dan yang malang sekalinya kempen ini telah berjaya menawan sebahagian tertentu rakyat Malaysia. Lantas membolehkan gabungan UMNO-PAS, dengan sokongan belakang tabir MCA dan MIC di semenanjung Malaysia, PBS dan parti pembangkang lain di Sabah, dan GPS di Sarawak, untuk menjaringkan tiga kemenangan di pilihanraya kecil Cameron Highlands, Semenyih, dan Rantau.

Fenomena “Malu Apa Bossku” juga telah memberikan galakan kepada ahli parlimen pembangkang untuk menyekat perjalanan Rang Undang-Undang Pindaan Perlembagaan untuk Perkara 1(2) Perlembagaan Persekutuan yang merupakan langkah pertama yang penting dalam melaksanakan satu daripada lima Janji Teras Pakatan Harapan dalam PRU14 “mengembalikan status Sabah dan Sarawak kepada sepertimana yang dipersetujui dalam Perjanjian Malaysia 1963”.

Namun begitu, ribut kejayaan kempen “Malu Apa Bossku” hanya berjaya untuk berterusan selama lima bulan, kerana ia telah mati dalam pilihanraya kecil Sandakan pada 11 Mei yang lalu dan masa depannya masih kelihatan kelam selepas dimusnahkan di Sandakan.

Sebenarnya, kempen “Malu Apa Bossku” ini bertentangan dengan prinsip kelima Rukunegara, Kesopanan dan Kesusilaan, mencabar Pelan Anti Rasuah Kebangsaan 2019-2023 dan menjadi batu halangan kepada proses transformasi negara daripada sebuah kleptokrasi global kepada sebuah negara terulung yang berintegriti.

Pendedahan daripada skandal 1MDB dan penahanan Najib, isterinya Rosmah Mansor, bekas-bekas menteri seperti Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi dan Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor, orang besar UMNO seperti bekas Menteri Besar Sabah Datuk Seri Musa Aman dan Tan Sri Isa Samad, dan orang-orang kanan Najib seperti Arul Kanda Kandasamy, Tan Sri Mohd Irwan Serigar Abdullah dan Tan Sri Muhammad Shafie Abdullah adalah satu notis dan bukti keseriusan Malaysia dalam menghapuskan kejelikan dan keburukan sebuah kleptokrasi global, namun ianya masih belum mencukupi untuk menjadikan Malaysia sebagai sebuah negara berintegriti yang boleh dijadikan model — dimana Malaysia boleh bersama dengan 20 negara teratas dalam Indeks Persepsi Rasuah yang dikeluarkan oleh Transparency International.

Malaysia pernah tersenarai sebagai negara ke-23 dan menjunam ke negara ke-62 dalam masa 23 tahun Indeks Persepsi Rasuah diterbitkan, sejak 1995. (Buat masa ini, Malaysia merupakan negara yang ke-61 dengan markah 49 per 100 untuk tahun 2018.)

Beranikah kita impikan dan berusaha untuk berada di kalangan 20 negara teratas Indeks Transparency International ini dalam satu dekad yang akan datang?

(Ucapan Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Mesyuarat Agung Tahunan Cawangan-cawangan DAP Kawasan Iskandar Puteri di Skudai pada hari Sabtu 18 Mei 2019 pada jam 9 malam)

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For the past several months before the Sandakan by-election on May 11, former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s highly-funded cybertroopers had been hammering hard on one theme with the siren song – enough had been said about the 1MDB scandal and Najib’s kleptocracy, the 14th General Election is over and let the courts decide whether Najib was guilty of corruption or not, but for now, the ball is in Pakatan Harapan’s court and let’s hear what the PH government had achieved to lower the cost of living and bring about institutional reforms.

In  January this year, Najib’s cybertroopers invented the  shameless “Malu Apa Bossku” campaign which seemed to have taken certain sections of the population by storm, which enabled  the UMNO-PAS axis, with backroom support by MCA and MIC in Peninsular Malaysia and PBS and other opposition parties in Sabah and the GPS in Sarawak, to score triple victories in the Cameroln Highlands, Semenyih and Ratu by-elections.

The phenomenon of the “Malu Apa Bossku” campaign also  encouraged the Opposition MPs in Parliament to block the passage of the Constitutional Amendment Bill on Article 1(2) of the Malaysian Constitution as an important first step to implement one of the five “pillar-promies” of the Pakatan Harapan’s 14th General Election pledge to “return Sabah and Sarawak to the status accorded in Malaysia Agreement 1963”.

But the storm of success of the  “Malu Apa Bossku” campaign could only go on a rampage for five months, for it met its Waterloo in the Sandakan by-election on May 11 and only time will tell whether the “Malu Apa Bossku” campaign can find a new second life after being pulverised in Sandakan.

One important lesson for all Malaysians from the Sandakan by-election is never to forget the 1MDB scandal or Najib’s kleptocracy if Malaysia is ever to become a nation of integrity and excellence respected by the world.

In actual fact, the “Malu Apa Bossku” campaign violates the fifth principle of  Rukunegara and “Morality and Good Behaviour”, a challenge to the  National Anti-Corruption Plan 2019-2023 and obstacle to the national mission  to transform Malaysia from a global kleptocracy into a leading nation of integrity

The expose of the 1MDB scandal and the hauling of Najib, his wife Rosmah Mansor, his Ministers like Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi and Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor, UMNO bigwigs like former Sabah Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman and Tan Sri Isa Samad and Najib’s right-hand men like Arul Kanda Kandasamy, Tan Sri Mohd Irwan Serigar Abdullah and Tan Sri Muhammad Shafie Abdullah represent a clear notice to the world that Malaysia is serious about wiping out the infamy, ignominy and iniquity of a global kleptocracy but inadequate to establish Malaysia as a model nation of integrity – to be included in the Top 20 List of countries in the annual Transparency International Corruption Perception Indices.

Malaysia had ranked from 23 to 62 in 23-year series of annual Transparency International Corruption Perception Indices from 1995 to 2018 (Malaysia’s ranking was No. 61 with a score of 49 out of 100 for 2018).

Dare we dream and aim to be listed in the Top Twenty of the Transparency International Corruption Perception Index in the next decade?

(Speech by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang at the annual general meetings of DAP branches in Iskandar Puteri in Skudai on Saturday, 18th May 2019 at 9 pm)

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With the objective to ensure that PDRM is one of the top world-class police force, Parliamentary Caucus on Governance and Institutional Reforms will review the Royal Police Commission Report to study whether its 11 recommendations to improve welfare of the police had been implemented in the past 14 years

Bagi memastikan PDRM menjadi salah satu pasukan polis yang bertaraf dunia, Kaukus Reformasi Urustadbir dan Institusi Parlimen akan merujuk semula kajian Suruhanjaya Diraja Polis untuk menyemak sama ada cadangan-cadangan penambahbaikan kebajikan anggota polis yang dicadangkan telah dilaksanakan sepanjang 14 tahun yang lepas

Dengan pelantikan Hamid Bador sebagai Ketua Polis Negara yang baru, PDRM kini bersedia untuk menjadi sebuah pasukan polis yang bertaraf dunia.

Oleh itu, Kaukus Reformasi Urustadbir dan Institusi Parlimen yang dipengerusikan oleh Ahli Parlimen Port Dickson, Anwar Ibrahim, akan menyemak semula pelaksanaan cadangan-cadangan penambahbaikan kebajikan anggota polis seperti yang dicadangkan oleh Laporan Suruhanjaya Diraja tersebut.

Selain daripada cadangan utama penubuhan satu badan bebas Suruhanjaya Aduan dan Salah-laku Polis (IPCMC) — yang telah dipersetujui oleh PDRM setelah menentang penubuhannya selama 14 tahun, dengan pengumuman Menteri Dalam Negeri, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yasin bahawa rang undang-undang IPCMC akan dibentangkan ke Parlimen sebelum hujung tahun ini — Suruhanjaya Diraja Polis tersebut telah juga membuat 11 cadangan bagi menambahbaik kebajikan anggota polis.

Cadangan-cadangan tersebut adalah seperti berikut:

1. Penyusunan semula anggota PDRM ke dalam jawatan yang lebih relevan yang memerlukan skil dan kuasa polis.

2. Menyediakan elaun khas untuk anggota PDRM yang bertugas di bandar-bandar besar seperti Lembah Klang, Johor Bahru, dan Georgetown bagi mengimbangi kos sara hidup yang lebih tinggi yang dihadapi mereka.

3. Penambahbaikan Pusat Latihan Polis semasa dan menambah pelaburan dalam melatih anggota PDRM.

4. Melaksanakan perancangan kerjaya bagi semua anggota PDRM untuk meninggkatkan komitmen dan motivasi. Termasuklah penyediaan bagi jawatan-jawatan utama PDRM dan sebagai bahagian daripada pelan penggantian Ketua Polis Negara.

5. Mengatasi masalah kekurangan armada kenderaan yang serba kekurangan. Suruhanjaya tersebut telah mencadangkan supaya PDRM diberi kuasa untuk mentakrifkan dasarnya sendiri bagi memanjangkan hayat operasi kenderaan seperti yang mereka rasa perlu, dan memberi kuasa kepada PDRM untuk mengganti kenderaan mereka selepas 5 tahun melalui pasaran untuk mendapatkan harga pasaran yang optimum untuk memastikan pembaharuan yang berterusan.

6. Meningkatkan saiz armada Kenderaan Patrol Mudah Alih untuk membolehkan rondaan polis yang lebih kerap.

7. Menyediakan pembiayaan yang mencukupi untuk persenjataan, menggantikan senjata usang lama yang mahal, menambah pelaburan dalam Skuad Bom PDRM, menyediakan lebih banyak jaket kalis peluru dan senjata non-lethal, dan membina kemudahan penyimpanan senjata baru yang selamat, jauh dari tempat tinggal.

8. Kenal pasti kuarters polis yang lama dan usang dan sama ada memulihkan atau menggantikannya. Pemulihan atau penggantian perlu dilakukan mengikut piawaian perumahan semasa.

9. Mengenal pasti lokasi di mana perumahan diperlukan secara kritikal dan menyediakan perumahan kepada anggota PDRM di kawasan tersebut.

10. Di mana tanah untuk perumahan adalah terlalu mahal, kerajaan disyorkan untuk memperoleh bangunan sedia ada seperti pangsapuri untuk disewakan kepada kakitangan PDRM. Pilihan perumahan alternatif lain juga digalakkan untuk menyediakan penyelesaian perumahan terbaik kepada kakitangan PDRM.

11. Menyediakan pembiayaan yang mencukupi untuk memulihara premis polis termasuk stesen polis, kerana sesetengah premis adalah sangat tua dan serba kekurangan kelengkapan dan tidak sesuai untuk digunakan sebagai balai polis.

Saya akan mencadangkan dalam mesyuarat Kaukus Reformasi Urustadbir dan Institusi Parlimen yang akan datang supaya PDRM diminta untuk memberikan laporan kemajuan pelaksanaan cadangan-cadangan penambahbaikan kebajikan anggota ini, sebagai sebahagian daripada program dalam memastikan rakyat Malaysia dapat berbangga dengan pasukan polis yang bertaraf dunia yang dapat menyelamatkan kita semua daripada jenayah.

Ucapan oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP bagi kawasan Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang dalam Majlis Berbuka Puasa bersama anggota polis Iskandar Puteri di Hotel Holmes, Gelang Patah pada 18 Mei 2019, 7 petang:

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With the appointment of Hamid Bador as the new Inspector-General of Police, the PDRM is poised to become a top world-class police force.

With this in mind, the Parliamentary Caucus on Governance and Institutional Reforms chaired by the MP for Port Dickson, Anwar Ibrahim, will review the Royal Police Commission Report to study whether its 13 recommendations to improve the welfare of the police had been implemented in the past 14 years.

Apart from its key recommendation for the establishment of an Independent Police Complaints and Misconduct Commission (IPCMC) – which the police have now agreed after blocking its formation for the past 14 years with

the Home Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin announcing that the IPCMC Bill would be presented to Parliament at the end of the year – the Royal Police Commission which was headed by former Chief Justice Tun Mohamad Dzaiddin and former and longest-serving Inspector-General of Police, Tun Hanif Omar, made 11 recommendations to improve the welfare for the police force.

These  recommendations were:

1. Redeployment of police personnel into positions that requires police competencies on-policing, administrative roles.

2. Provide special allowance for PDRM personnel stationed in major cities, such as the Klang Valley, Johor Bahru, and Georgetown to offset the higher cost of living faced by them.

3. Improvement to current PDRM Training Institution (PULAPOL) and increasing investment in training personnel.

4. Implement career planning for all PDRM personnel to improve motivation and commitment. This includes grooming for top management post and as part of IGP’s succession plan.

5. Address inadequate and ageing vehicle fleet. The commission recommended that PDRM to define its own  policies with regard to adjusting and extending the operational lifetime of a vehicle, and for PDRM to dispose their vehicle after 5 years in the market to obtain optimum market price to ensure continuous renewal of fleet.

6. Increase the size of the Mobile Patrol Vehicle fleet to enable greater police presence and patrol.

7. Provide sufficient funding to the weaponry division, replacing old obsolete weapons that are costly to maintain, investing in the PDRM Bomb Squad procuring more bullet proof vest and non-lethal weapons, and constructing new weapon storage facility that are far from living quarters.

8. Identify old and badly maintained police housing and either restore or replace them if not economical. Restoration or replacement should be done according to current housing standards.

9. Identify locations where housing is critically needed and provide housing to PDRM personnel in those areas.

10. Where land is at a premium and building housing is too expensive, the government is recommended to acquire buildings such as apartment to be rented to PDRM personnel. Other alternative housing options are also encouraged to provide the best housing solution to PDRM personnel.

11. Provide adequate funding to maintain police premises including police stations, as some of the premises are very old and not well equipped for purpose.

I will suggest at the next meeting of the Parliamentary Caucus on Governance and Institutional Reforms that the police be asked to present a progress report on these Police Royal Commission recommendations to improve the welfare of the police personnel in the country, as part of the programme to ensure that Malaysians have a top world-class police force to keep Malaysians safe from crime.

(Speech by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang at the majlis buka puasa with police personnel in Iskandar Puteri at the Hotel Holmes, Gelang Patah on Saturday, 18th May 2019 at 7 pm)

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Daim is half-right – Pakatan Harapan should not dance to the tune of Najib but should compel Najib to dance to the tune of Pakatan Harapan narrative

Tun Daim Zainuddin is half-right – Pakatan Harapan should not dance to the tune of former Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib  Razak, but should compel Najib to dance to the tune of the Pakatan Harapan narrative.

I do not agree with Daim that Pakatan Harapan should forget about Najib, as the former Prime Minister is the de facto leader not only of UMNO-PAS axis, but the unofficial opposition combination which included MCA and MIC, but also PBS and the other Sabah other opposition parties and GPS in Sarawak.

The landslide 11,52-vote majority victory of DAP, Pakatan Harapan and Warisan in the Sandakan by-election on May 11 is not only a debacle for PBS, but of the combined Oppostion and Najib’s “Malu Apa Bossku” narrative, as PBS was only a digit of Najib’s great gameplan to ensure that the Pakatan Harapan Government would  at most be  a one-term government and that  Najib’s travails would end by the 15th General Election and he could escape life in Sungai Buloh Prison.

A commentator had described the PBS candidate Linda Tsen as a reluctant candidate and that she had political baggage. I believe that PBS was an even greater  reluctant political party to field a candidate in the Sandakan by-election as PBS had even greater political baggage after singly ruling for 10 years and as part of Barisan Nasional for 16 years.

But despite such mighty  reluctance, PBS was prepared to “play ball” with “Malu Apa Bossku” campaign.

This goes for the other opposition parties as well.

I flew to Sandakan thrice from KLIA  during the Sandakan by-election campaign period, and in two of my three trips, a top MCA national leader was taking the same flight to Sandakan, although in the first class section as compared to my economy class status.

But this top MCA national leader never surfaced publicly in Sandakan campaign, keeping to the backroom.

This unholy support and subordination to the UMNO-PAS axis and the “Malu Apa Bossku” campaign is the reason for the MCA top leader’s surreptitious and furtive support for PBS candidate  in the Sandakan by-election. Possibly, one reason for PBS’ historic defeat in Sandakan is the result of following the “surreptitious and furtive” advice of such a top MCA leader!

Najib has clearly a strategy for the next general election – to defeat Pakatan Harapan and engineer his return to power, if not as  Prime Minister but as the kingmaker, which would also end his present court travails save him from  ending his life  in Sungai Buloh Prison.

MCA, MIC and all the former parties in the Barisan Nasional are playing safe so as to get back to power on Najib’s coattails, which is why none of these former Barisan Nasional parties have spoken out loud and clear to denounce the 1MDB scandal and Najib’s legacy of a global kleptocracy.

Najib is still their insurance policy to have a life after the 14th General Election.

It is a fallacy to believe that one can forget about Najib as he is no more a force to be reckoned with.

In actual fact, Najib remains the most potent political force plotting the downfall of  the Pakatan Harapan government, as  the person who is behind the highly-funded army of cybertroopers and propagandists who are working day and night for the disintegration and collapse of the Pakatan Harapan government with their politics and social media of lies and falsehoods incite hatred,  intolerance and extremism.

This is why the Prime Minister, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, recently said it is “strange” that Najib could still act innocent during the ongoing investigation of the 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) scandal, and could even cobble together a UMNO-PAS axis and win over the PAS President, Datuk Seri Hadi Awang to  endorse Najib’s kleptocratic legacy.

In the past week, we see Najib remonstrating his innocence in the 1MDB scandal, adopting a thousand and one excuses and strategies, from denying that assets seized from the Pavilion Residences condominium units, which included more than 10,000 pieces of jewellery, were purchased by fugitive financier Jho Low’s using stolen 1MDB funds to his latest stance that he is a victim of Jho Low’s 1MDB conspiracy.

Would Najib now admit, what is now  universal knowledge with ongoing 1MDB  investigations in 10 countries in the past few years, that there is such a thing as a 1MDB scandal which ended up with  Malaysia being condemned as a global kleptocracy – putting aside for the moment whether Najib is the mastermind, co-mastermind or victim of the 1MDB scandal – or is all the talk about  1MDB scandal just one great fantasy and invention  of the Pakatan Harapan government?

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Monday, 20th May 2019)

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Instantaneous proof of new tactics in  Najib-Jho Low game-plan to cause collapse and disintegration  of Pakatan Harapan Government to enjoy immunity for the 1MDB  kleptocratic scandal

Bukti kukuh taktik baru Najib-Jho Low untuk meranapkan dan memecahbelahkan Kerajaan Pakatan Harapan bagi mendapatkan imuniti daripada skandal kleptokrasi 1MDB

Saya tidak menjangkakan hasil yang sebegitu cepat — namun sekarang adalah era internet dan media sosial, dimana maklumat dan penipuan dapat disebarkan sepantas kilat!

Lebih kurang satu jam selepas saya keluarkan kenyataan media yang memberikan amaran bahawa jentera perang psikologi Najib-Jho Low telah mempunyai idea baru untuk meranapkan dan memecahbelahkan Kerajaan Pakatan Harapan dan sekaligus menyelamatkan duo kleptokrat, Datuk Seri Najib Razak dan Jho Low daripada tanggungjawab terhadap skandal mega 1MDB dan Penjara Sungai Buloh, saya telah diberikan bukti kebenaran amaran saya.

Telah saya katakan sebelum ini, strategi Najib-Jho Low bagi memastikan mereka berjaya mendapatkan imuniti daripada skandal 1MDB telah mengguna pakai 5 taktik sejak awal tahun ini termasuklah kempen “Malu Apa Bossku” bagi memastikan Kerajaan Pakatan Harapan hanya menjadi kerajaan sepenggal, dengan harapan percutian di mahkamah untuk Najib akan berakhir, langsung membolehkan mereka bebas daripada sebarang akauntabiliti jenayah kleptokrasi mega mereka.

Lima taktik ini adalah seperti berikut:

1. Dengan tidak ada sekelumit pun rasa malu, berarak di sepelusuk negara dengan kempen “Malu Apa Bossku” bagi menghantar mesej terselindung yang mana Najib tidak ada melakukan apa-apa kesalahan sekalipun dalam skandal 1MDB, tetapi hanyalah mangsa penganiayaan Kerajaan Pakatan Harapan.

2. Mencipta satu pendapat umum yang mana kita sudah terlalu banyak bercakap mengenai skandal 1MDB dan kleptokrasi Najib, dimana Pilihanraya Umum ke-14 sudahpun selesai dan kita patut biarkan mahkamah yang menentukan sama ada Najib bersalah atau tidak. Dan pada masa yang sama, kita perlu lihat sama ada Kerajaan PH berjaya atau tidak dalam menurunkan kos sara hidup dan membawa reformasi institusi. Sekaligus dengan penciptaan pendapat umum ini, laskar siber Najib-Jho Low diberikan tugas untuk mendiamkan semua yang cuba bercakap mengenai skandal 1MDB.

Menyebarkan politik penipuan yang jelik untuk menimbulkan syak wasangka, ketidak-harmonian, dan kebencian dengan menjaja penipuan yang mana hak keistimewaan Melayu dan agama Islam adalah terancam dibawah Pakatan Harapan dan orang Melayu dan Islam mestilah bersatu untuk mempertahankannya.

3. Menyebarkan penipuan bahaya Kerajaan Pakatan Harapan sebenarnya dikawal oleh DAP untuk kepentingan kaum Cina, dimana Mahathir hanyalah pak turut kepada Lim Kit Siang. Dan pada masa yang sama, MCA dan MIC menyebarkan penipuan dimana DAP telah mengkhianati kaum Cina dan India. Kedua penipuan ini bertentangan dengan satu sama lain dan tidaklah benar sama sekali, tetapi hanya disebarkan untuk memecah-belahkan rakyat Malaysia mengikut garis perkauman dan agama.

4. Kononnya Kerajaan Pakatan Harapan telah mengkhianati janji pilihanrayanya dan telah gagal-segagalnya jika dibandingkan dengan Barisan Nasional. Atas sebab itu, kononnya Kerajaan Pakatan Harapan ini hanya akan menjadi kerajaan sepenggal, itu pun jika ia tidak berpecah-belah sebelum Pilihanraya Umum yang ke-15.

5. Lima taktik ini telah digunakan oleh jentera penipuan Najib-Jho Low sejak daripada awal tahun ini, namun telah hilang keberkesanannya sejak kemenangan Pakatan Harapan dan DAP dalam Pilihanraya Kecil Sandakan pada 11 Mei yang lalu. Kini mereka muncul dengan taktik yang ke-enam.

Taktik ke-enam ini adalah dengan mencuba untuk mewujudkan keretakan dan perbalahan diantara parti politik dan pemimpin Pakatan Harapan bagi menyebabkan berlakunya konflik yang boleh merosakkan gabungan Pakatan Harapan.

Lebih baik lagi untuk Najib-Jho Low, taktik ini boleh menyebabkan pergaduhan diantara pemimpin dari pelbagai parti Pakatan Harapan yang kemudiannya boleh dipusing dan dimanipulasi menjadi konflik perkauman dan agama.

Saya telah menerima dua paparan web yang menyiarkan penipuan yang sama, bertajuk “DAP desak Mahathir pecat Maszlee segara! dan lantik Teo Nie Ching sebagai Menteri Pendidikan” — satu daripada Daily News (dnews.fun) dan satu lagi daripada kulihatlangitbiru.com.

Kisah yang dipaparkan di kedua-dua laman web adalah sama, iaitu:

“Ahli  DAP LANCARKAN KEMPEN ‘UNDUR MASZLEE’

Ahli2 DAP sedang berusaha keras untuk sign petition supaya Mazlee Malik letak jawatan. Sehingga kini petition itu ditandatangani hampuir 60 ribu orang.

Mereka turut  memaksa Tun Mahathir memecat Maszee dengan segera.  Bagi ahli2 DAP, Mazslee dilihat gagal menjalankan tugas sebagai Menteri Pelajaran kerana dikatakan  Pro Melayu, dan beliau juga gagal menunaikan janji manifesto tol percuma Simpang Rengam.

Menurut sumber sekiranya Maszlee meletak jawatan, Timbalan beliau yang juga seorang  ahli DAP akan menggantikan tempat beliau secara automatic – Tun Carlos”

Oleh kerana tajuk dan isi kandungan kedua-dua laman web adalah sama, jelaslah yang ianya datang daripada sumber yang sama.

Tidak ada kebenaran langsung didalam artikel tersebut. DAP tidak pernah sama sekali meminta Perdana Menteri untuk menggantikan Maszlee dengan Teo Nie Ching sebagai Menteri Pendidikan dan DAP tidak ada kena mengena langsung dengan petisyen yang menuntut Maszlee untuk meletakkan jawatan — inilah contoh penipuan yang sangat buruk yang hanyalah satu permulaan kepada lebih banyak penipuan yang akan muncul dalam media sosial bagi menimbulkan ketegangan, keretakan, dan perpecahan dalam Pakatan Harapan.

Satu disiplin baru diperlukan oleh semua pihak dalam semua parti dalam Pakatan Harapan jika kita ingin melawan dan memastikan pemusnah agenda Malaysia Baharu tidak berjaya. Ini kerana kegagalan kita hanyalah akan membolehkan Najib, Jho Low dan pelbagai kecelakaan jenayah kleptokrasi untuk kembali ke tanah air kita dan akhirnya menjadikan Malaysia sebuah negara kleptokrasi yang gagal.

(Kenyataan Media oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Gelang Patah pada hari Isnin 20 Mei 2019)

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I had not expected the results to be  so instantaneous – but this is the era of Internet and  social media, where information and lies can be spread with the speed of light!

Within an hour of my media statement warning that the Najib-Jho Low Psy-War Ops Centre have decided on a new game-plan to cause the collapse and disintegration of the Pakatan Harapan Government and save the Malaysian Kleptocratic Duo, Datuk Seri Najib Razak and Jho Low, to escape from accountability for the 1MDB mega-scandal and having to spend  their remaining years in Sungai Buloh Prison, I was given evidence to prove the veracity of my warning.

I had said that the Najib-Jho Low strategy to ensure that they enjoy immunity for the 1MDB  kleptocratic scandal had used five tactics in the past year including the shameless “Malu Apa Bossku” campaign  to ensure that the Pakatan Harapan Government in Putrajaya is at longest a one-term government and will fall in the 15th General Election, which will end Najib’s court travails over the 1MDB  scandal and allow the Malaysian kleptocratic duo to escape their just deserts for their  mega crimes of kleptocracy but these five tactics had not yielded much results, and they have crafted a sixth tactic.

This is to create or magnify rifts and divisions between political parties and personalities in Pakatan Harapan to generate conflict that could  steadily deteriorate and  result in collapse and disintegration of Pakatan Harapan.

Better still, this sixth tactic  includes  stirring  up division an dissension among different personalities from different PH  parties, which could be twisted and distorted into  racial or religious conflicts.

I received  two websites posting the same lies, viz: “DAP desak Mahathir pecat Maszlee segera!  dan lantik Teo Nie Ching sebagari Menteri Pendidikan” – one from Daily News (dnews.fun)  and the other from kulihatlangitbiru.com.

The story is the same on both webites, viz:

“Ahli  DAP LANCARKAN KEMPEN ‘UNDUR MASZLEE’

Ahli2 DAP sedang berusaha keras untuk sign petition supaya Mazlee Malik letak jawatan. Sehingga kini petition itu ditandatangani hampuir 60 ribu orang.

Mereka turut  memaksa Tun Mahathir memecat Maszee dengan segera.  Bagi ahli2 DAP, Mazslee dilihat gagal menjalankan tugas sebagai Menteri Pelajaran kerana dikatakan  Pro Melayu, dan beliau juga gagal menunaikan janji manifesto tol percuma Simpang Rengam.

Menurut sumber sekiranya Maszlee meletak jawatan, Timbalan beliau yang juga seorang  ahli DAP akan menggantikan tempat beliau secara automatic – Tun Carlos.”

As the heading and text in both postings are the same, it is clear that they emanate from the same source.

There is no truth whatsoever in the postings, which are lies and falsehoods. DAP had never asked the Prime Minister to replace Mazslee by Teo Nie Ching as Education Minister and the DAP has nothing to do with any petition asking Maszlee to resign – and such a dastardly lie is only the beginning of more lies and falsehoods which will appear in the social media in the coming weeks  to cause tension, division and disintegration of Pakatan Harapan.

A new discipline is needed  by all in all the parties in the Pakatan Harapan coalition if the wreckers of the agenda of a New Malaysia are not to succeed, which can only bring back Najib, Jho Low and their string of mega kleptocratic scandals which will end up in Malaysia becoming a failed, rogue and kleptocratic state.

(Media Statement (3) by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Monday, 20th May 2019)

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The Najib-Jho Low grand strategy to escape accountability for the 1MDB mega scandal and for two  Malaysian kleptocratic duo to escape spending their remaining years in Sungai Buloh Prison

I can discern five tactics which had been used by the former Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak and his partner-in-kleptocracy, Jho Low in the past year to nullify the historic decision of the Malaysian people in the 14th General Elections on May 9, 2018 as part of grand strategy of the Malaysian kleptocratic duo, Najib Razak and Jho Low to escape accountability for  the 1MDB mega scandal and escape spending their remaining years in Sungai Buloh Prison.

The five tactics which had been deployed in the Najib-Jho Low grand strategy in the past year were:

Firstly, to unabashedly and even shamelessly parade around the country in the  “Malu Apa Bossku” campaign with the subliminal message that Najib had committed no wrong in the 1MDB  scandal and to portray him as a victim of persecution by Pakatan Harapan government.

Secondly, to create a public opinion that enough had been said about the 1MDB scandal and Najib’s kleptocracy, that the 14th General Election is over and let the courts decide whether Najib was guilty of corruption or not, but for now, the ball is in Pakatan Harapan’s court and that what the people wanted to  hear was  what the PH government had achieved to lower the cost of living and bring about institutional reforms. Tandem with the creation of this public opinion, the kleptocratic duo’s cybertroopers were entrusted with the task of dominating the media, in particular the social media, to shout down those who speak or write about 1MDB and Najib’s kleptocracy as if they had commited a some heinous crime akin to treason – when in fact, it was Najib’s kleptocracy which was the real treason.

Thirdly, to peddle the toxic and vicious politics of lies and falsehoods to create distrust, intolerance and hate shouting from the rooftops and treetops that Malay rights and Islam  are under threat and the need for Malay and Muslim unity to protect these rights and interests.

Fourthly, to peddle the lies and falsehoods that the Pakatan Harapan Government is dominated by the DAP in pursuit of “Chinese interests”, that Mahathir is a stooge of Lim Kit Siang and take orders from Lim Kit Siang. At the same time, MCA and MIC a peddle lies and falsehoods that the DAP had betrayed the Chinese and Indians to Malay interests. These lies and falsehoods, the  UMNO-PAS accusation that DAP dominates PH and the MCA-MIC accusation that DAP had betrayed the rights and interests of Chinese and Indians and non-Muslim religions, are contradictory and untrue, but they are designed the polarise Malaysians according to race and religion.

Fifthly, that Pakatan Harapan is a coalition which had betrayed its election manifesto and an utter failure as compared to Barisan Nasional, and as a result, it will be a one-term government if it does not collapse and disintegrate sooner, and will surely be driven out of power in the 15th General Election.

All these five tactics had been deployed, and although they seemed to have some success in reversing the first four by-election defeats  in Sungai Kandis, Balakong, Seri Setia and Port Dickson, by securing three by-election victories for the Opposition in Cameron Highlands, Semenyih and Rantau, the Pakatan Harapan/Warisan landslide victory in the Sandakan by-election sent the Najib-Jho Low strategists and plotters back to the drawing board as it was clear that these five tactics could not win them Putrajaya or enabled the Malaysian kleptocratic duo to escape their  just deserts for their  mega crimes of kleptocracy.

As a result, there is now a sixth tactics in the  Najib-Jho Low grand strategy for the Malaysian kleptocratic duo  to escape accountability for the 1MDB mega scandal and  to escape spending their  remaining years in Sungai Buloh Prison.

This is to create or magnify  rifts and divisions between political parties and personalities in Pakatan Harapan to generate conflict that could  steadily deteriorate and  result in collapse and disintegration of Pakatan Harapan.

Better still, this sixth tactics  includes  stirring  up division an dissension among different personalities from different PH  parties, which could be twisted and distorted into  racial or religious conflicts.

It cannot be denied that there are differences on a host of issues among the political parties and personalities in Pakatan Harapan, but PH leaders at all levels  should remain  united and committed to the five pillars of Pakatan Harapan promises in the 2018 PH Election Manifesto, whick said:

“Our ultimate promise to REBUILD THIS NATION AND FULFILL THE HOPES so that we once again become a country that is envied by all.

There are five pillars that guide our agenda, each one with its own specific steps.

PILLAR 1: Reduce the people’s burden.

PILLAR 2: Institutional and political reforms.

PILLAR 3: Spur sustainable and equitable economic growth.

PILLAR 4: Return Sabah and Sarawak to the status accorded in Malaysia Agreement 1963.

PILLAR 5: Create a Malaysia that is inclusive, moderate and respected globally.”

A precondition of  Pakatan Harapan’s survival as a sustainable coalition that can last more than one term to complete the mission to build a New Malaysia – a task that will take a decade and more –  is that all Pakatan Harapan must remain committed to these five “pillar-promises” and  the objectives and principles to reduce the costs of living, achieve institutional reforms, engineer economic growth, restore power to Sabah and Sarawak and to build an inclusive and moderate Malaysia.

Pakatan Harapan leaders at various levels from different political parties must be mindful of their every comment, speech or statement and not, wittingly or unwittingly, consciously or unconsciously, fall or get  entrapped by the new diabolical tactics of the Najib-Jho Low gameplan to escape accountability for the 1MDB scandal and the legacy of kleptocracy.

The DAP had been accused of betraying our principles and objective of a New Malaysia and had even become MCA2 alleging that  DAP leaders are only interested in clinging on to office and power.

DAP cannot and will not become MCA2 as we are not prepared to cede the DAP principle, culture,  persona  and soul to anyone.

DAP leaders and members remain committed to the vision of a New Malaysia where everyone regards himself or herself as a Malaysian first and his or her race, religion, region or socio-economic background second; and where there is democracy, freedom, justice, integrity, progress and prosperity for all Malaysians.

While DAP leaders and members have never given up on these ideals and objectives whether in or out of government, MCA leaders had long lost these ideals and  objectives, if they had them in the first place.

DAP leaders are in politics to serve the people and nation. MCA leaders are in politics to serve themselves at the expense of the people and nation.

These are  among the reasons why DAP will never become a MCA2, and why MCA in post-14GE can never become DAP2.

There are those who change policies and principles once they are in power and in  Government, but not the DAP.

We are now no more in Opposition but part of the Pakatan Harapan government and inevitably our modus operandi is different but our principles, ideals and vision of a New Malaysia remain unchanged.

It is  imperative that all Pakatan Harapan leaders and activists be aware of Najib-Jho Low’s new tactics and strategies.

(Media Statement (2) by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Monday, 20th May 2019)

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Is Najib a pathological or habitual liar? Is he prepared to debate “How Malaysia became a global kleptocracy and how we can become a leading nation of integrity”?

Adakah Najib seorang yang mempunyai penyakit suka berbohong atau sememangnya seorang kaki pembohong? Adakah dia bersedia untuk berdebat mengenai topik “Bagaimana Malaysia terjerumus menjadi sebuah kleptokrasi global dan bagaimana kita boleh kembali menjadi sebuah negara terulung yang berintegriti”?

Adakah bekas Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Razak seorang yang mempunyai penyakit suka berbohong atau sememangnya seorang kaki pembohong?

Dalam wawancara dengan Free Malaysia Today hari ini pun, tidak ada lain yang dibuatnya selain berbohong. Najib mendakwa beliau telah menjawab segala persoalan yang dibangkitkan saya dalam kenyataan media saya, yang mana adalah pembohongan yang nyata.

Adakah beliau sudah menjawab persoalan saya, antaranya yang telah dibangkitkan saya dalam kenyataan saya di Sandakan pada 8 Mei lalu mengenai sama ada lawatan kempen “Malu Apa Bossku” beliau untuk membantu kempen PBS dalam Pilihan Raya Kecil Sandakan adalah wadah terbaik untuk beliau menjelaskan mengapa beliau masih terus-menerus menafikan kewujudan skandal 1MDB, meskipun sejak empat tahun lalu, begitu banyak laporan berita mengenainya dikeluarkan oleh media antarabangsa, pelbagai buku dan filem telah diterbitkan mengenai skandal 1MDB sementara 10 negara lain telah melancarkan siasatan ke atas skandal terbabit?

Dia sepatutnya menjelaskan mengenai skandal 1MDB serta skandal rasuah mega yang lain yang berlaku di bawah pentadbirannya selaku perdana menteri sebelum ini, terutamanya tiga isu yang berbangkit sejak dua hari lalu, iaitu:

1. Ucapan ulang tahun pertama 509 oleh Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad di mana perdana menteri itu berkata beliau amat “pelik” melihat Najib masih berlagak seperti orang tidak bersalah meskipun sedang disiasat berhubung skandal 1MDB dan pihak berkuasa US dan Singapura telah memulangkan sebahagian RM1.5 billion wang yang diselewengkan dari 1MDB serta siasatan pengubahan wang haram dijalankan oleh 10 negara.

2. Pendedahan oleh bekas ahli Panel Penilaian Operasi SPRM, Datuk Lim Chee Wee bahawa Najib tidak disiasat atas kesalahan rasuah ketika beliau masih memegang jawatan perdana menteri kerana beliau memecat Tan Sri Gani Patail selaku Peguam Negara, menggantikan Gani dengan Tan Sri Mohamad Apandi Ali, yang hanya mempunyai satu utama agenda selaku Peguam Negara, iaitu untuk melindungi Najib daripada siasatan rasuah.

3. Pendedahan oleh Deepak Jaikishan dalam sebuah wawancara dengan Al Jazeera bahawa isteri Najib, Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor adalah “perdana menteri de facto” semasa Barisan Nasional masih berkuasa.

Najib tuduh saya obses dengannya. Beliau salah besar. Saya tidak berminat langsung dengan beliau jika beliau tidak melakukan kerosakan besar terhadap negara serta generasi masa kini dan akan datang dengan legasi kleptokrasi yang ditinggalkannya. Malah, beliau telah membawa malu kepada nama baik serta legasi arwah bapanya, Tun Razak.

Mengambil kira semua ini, wajarkah seseorang masuk gelanggang dan berdebat dengan seorang kleptokrat, seorang yang mempunyai penyakit suka berbohong atau seorang kaki pembohong?

Mungkin, subjek terbaik bagi sesi perdebatan tersebut adalah: “Bagaimana Malaysia terjerumus menjadi sebuah kleptokrasi global dan bagaimana kita boleh kembali menjadi sebuah negara terulung yang berintegriti”?

Giliran Najib pula untuk menjawab.

(Kenyataan Media oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Selasa, 21 Mei 2019)

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Is former Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak a pathological or a habitual liar?

Even his  Free Malaysia Today interview today is not spared of lies. He said he answered me every time I made a statement, which is a downright lie.

Had he for instance,  answered my statement in Sandakan on 8th May that his “Malu Apa Bossku” visit to help PBS in the Sandakan by-election campaign is an appropriate occasion to explain why he had continued  to deny the existence of the 1MDB scandal when for  the past four years, the world press had produced  reams of reports and days  of air time about the 1MDB scandal; books had been written and films made about it while at least 10 countries had launched investigations on the 1MDB scandal?

Or did Najib reply to my statement in Sandakan the next day that during his shameless “Malu Apa Bossku” visit to Sandakan to help the PBS campaign  in the Sandakan by-election, he should clarify about the monstrous and heinous 1MDB scandal and other mega corruption scandals under his watch as Prime Minister, in particular three things which had just cropped up in the previous two days:

· Prime Minister, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad’s 509 first anniversary speech that  it was “strange” that Najib could still act innocent during the ongoing investigation of the 1MDB scandal and despite the return of some RM1.5 billion misappropriated from 1MDB by the US and Singapore authorities and the criminal and money-laundering investigations by some 10 countries.

· Revelation by former MACC review panel member, Datuk Lim Chee Wee that Najib was not investigated for corruption when he was Prime Minister because he had sacked Tan Sri Gani Patail as Attorney-General, replacing Gani with Tan Sri Mohamad Apandi Ali,  whose single agenda as AG  was to protect Najib from any corruption investigation;

· Revelation by Deepak Jaikishan in an interview with Al Jazeera that Najib’s wife, Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor  was the “de facto prime minister” when the Barisan Nasional was still in power.

Najib accuses me of being obsessed with him. He cannot be more wrong. I would not be interested in him one bit if he had not had the dubious distinction of being the single one Malaysian who had wrought the greatest damage to Malaysia both to the present and future generations with his kleptocratic legacy. In fact, he had even brought disgrace to his father Tun Razak’s name and legacy.

In the circumstances, should one debate with a kleptocrat, a pathological or habitual liar?

Probably, the best subject for debate is: “How Malaysia became a global kleptocracy and how we can become a leading nation of integrity”.

The ball is in Najib’s court.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday, 21st May 2019)

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Shahredzan and Ahmad Faiz appointed to liaise with Najib’s officers to finalise details on the debate with Najib: “How Malaysia became a global kleptocracy and how we can become a leading nation of integrity” after Hari Raya

Syahredzan dan Ahmad Faiz telah dilantik untuk berurusan dengan pegawai Najib bagi mengaturkan sesi berdebat mengenai topik “Bagaimana Malaysia terjerumus menjadi sebuah kleptokrasi global dan bagaimanakah kita boleh menjadi sebuah negara berintegriti yang terulung” selepas Hari Raya ini

MalaysiaKini telah melaporkan yang mana bekas Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Razak telah bersetuju dengan topik yang saya cadangkan, iaitu: “Bagaimana Malaysia terjerumus menjadi sebuah kleptokrasi global dan bagaimanakah kita boleh menjadi sebuah negara berintegriti yang terulung”.

Saya tidak mempunyai sebarang bantahan terhadap perbincangan topik yang lain pada sesi debat ini. Namun begitu, tajuk utama debat ini mestilah kekal dan dimaklumkan sebagai “Bagaimana Malaysia terjerumus menjadi sebuah kleptokrasi global dan bagaimanakah kita boleh menjadi sebuah negara berintegriti yang terulung” sama ada di tempat berlangsungnya debat ini ataupun di tempat lain.

Oleh itu, saya telah melantik Setiausaha Politik saya, Syahredzan Bin Johan dan Pegawai Perhubungan Parlimen saya, Ahmad Faiz Mustafa untuk berurusan dengan pegawai Najib mengenai tempat, waktu, dan butir-butiran yang lain berkenaan dengan perdebatan ini selepas Hari Raya.

Sementara itu, saya mengalu-alukan semua rakyat Malaysia yang mempunyai sebarang pendapat atau komen mengenai topik ini untuk mengemelkan pandangan dan cadangan mereka kepada
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(Kenyataan Media Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Selasa 21 Mei 2019)

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Former Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak is reported by Malaysiakini to have agreed to the topic proposed by me, viz: “How Malaysia became a global kleptocracy and how we can become a leading nation of integrity”.

I have no objection to  other topics being discussed at  the debate, but the subject of the debate must not be changed and must be clearly publicised as “How Malaysia became a global kleptocracy and how can we become a leading nation of integrity” whether at the debate venue or elsewhere.

I am appointing Syahredzan bin Johan, my political secretary and Ahmad Faiz Mustafa, my parliamentary liaison officer, to liaise with Najib’s officers to finalise details of the debate after Hari Raya.

Meanwhile, I welcome Malaysians who have views on  the subject “How Malaysia became a global kleptocracy and how we can become a leading nation of integrity” to email their views and suggestions at
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(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday, 21st May 2019)

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Najib/UMNO Psy-War HQ’s directive to UMNO cybertroopers to target  DAP to cause collapse of  Pakatan Harapan Government and save Najib from  being sent to Sungai Buloh Prison

I have seen a secret directive sent out through WhatsApp by Najib/UMNO Psy-War HQ to UMNO cybertroopers to target DAP to cause collapse of the Pakatan Harapan government and save former Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak from being sent to Sungai Buloh Prison.

The WhatsApp secret directive reads:

“c&p

“Arahan dari HQ, sekarang pastikan setiap posting kita tumpu  pada DAP dan kalau boleh gunakan kreativiti untuk kaitkan dengan isue bangsa dan agama

“Mengikut maklumat intel, akan ada pendedahan penyelewengan pemimpin UMNO terbaru dari Kerajaan, kita akan counter dengan kaitkan dengan DAP, pastikan team focus pada isu DAP tidak kira isu apa pon”

This is further evidence to substantiate my prediction two days ago that the Najib/Jho Low/UMNO Psy-War High Command had decided on a new game-plan to cause the collapse and disintegration of the Pakatan Harapan Government and save the Malaysian Kleptocratic Duo from  accountability for the 1MDB scandal by creating or magnifying rifts and divisions between political parties and personalities in Pakatan Harapan, and distorting them into racial or religious conflicts.

I had said on Monday that the five tactics of  the Najib/UMNO strategy including the shameless “Malu Apa Bossku” campaign to ensure that the Pakatan Harapan Government in Putrajaya is at longest a one-term government and will fall in the 15th General Election had run out of steam in the Sandakan by-election on May 11  although they had some earlier  successes in the Cameron Highlands, Semenyih and Rantau by-elections.

Hence the need for a new tactics – a sixth tactics to target the DAP and distort any differences in the Pakatan Harapan as racial and religious conflicts.

Within an hour of my statement on Monday, I received two websites posting the same lies, viz: “DAP desak Mahathir pecat Maszlee segera! dan lantik Teo Nie Ching sebagari Menteri Pendidikan”

Although I immediately condemned  these postings as lies and falsehood, they subsequently appeared on the UMNO Online website.

It is noteworthy that the MCA President, Wee Ka Siong, in his facebook expressed his unhappiness that I had exposed these lies and falsehoods, which only confirmed the MCA leadership’s real  role in the UMNO-PAS axis.

All Pakatan Harapan leaders must be forewarned of this new cyberwarfare tactics of the UMNO cybertroopers so that they will not fall victim to such diabolical politics.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday, 22nd May 2019)

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Najib is the most malignant political force in the history of Malaysia – global kleptocrat, habitual liar and greatest threat to the  vision of a united, progressive  and prosperous Malaysia

Najib adalah salah satu kuasa politik yang paling merosakkan dalam sejarah Malaysia — seorang kleptokrat global, kaki penipu, dan ancaman terbesar kepada satu visi Malaysia yang bersatu, progresif, dan makmur

Apabila bekas Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Razak mencabar saya untuk berdebat dengannya di dalam satu temubual dengan Free Malaysia Today pada hari Selasa yang lepas, perkara pertama yang terlintas pada fikiran saya adalah; patutkah seseorang itu berdebat dengan seorang kleptokrat yang mempunyai penyakit suka menipu ataupun memang kaki penipu.

Saya telah menambah, sekira berlakunya perdebatan ini, topik yang terbaik adalah “Bagaimana Malaysia terjerumus menjadi sebuah kleptokrasi global dan bagaimana kita boleh kembali menjadi sebuah negara terulung yang berintegriti”.

Najib kelihatan tidak kisah dipanggil seorang kleptokrat dan kaki menipu dan bersetuju secara serta merta dengan topik tersebut, tetapi menambah secara licik: “Saya terima tajuk disarankannya tetapi seadilnya dan semoleknya kita perlu bincangkan topik-topik lain semasa debat ini.”

Menjawab cabaran ini, saya telah melantik Setiausaha Politik saya, Syahredzan bin Johan dan Ahmad Faiz Mustafa, Pegawai Perhubungan Parlimen saya untuk berurusan dengan pegawai Najib bagi memuktamadkan butir-butir perdebatan ini untuk dilangsungkan selepas Hari Raya.

Saya juga telah mengalu-alukan pandangan dan komen daripada rakyat Malaysia mengenai topik “Bagaimana Malaysia terjerumus menjadi sebuah kleptokrasi global dan bagaimana kita boleh kembali menjadi sebuah negara terulung yang berintegriti” ini untuk mengemelkan cadangan mereka kepada
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Sepanjang 48 jam yang lepas, saya telah menerima segunung nasihat melalui emel, Whatsapp dan telefon, termasuklah daripada rakyat Malaysia yang menetap di luar negara, menggesa saya untuk tidak berdebat langsung dengan Najib.

Tanpa ragu lagi, Najib memanglah satu kuasa politik yang paling merosakkan dalam sejarah Malaysia — dia bukan sahaja seorang kleptokrat dan kaki menipu, tetapi merupakan satu cabaran yang besar terhadap visi Malaysia yang bersatu, progresif, dan makmur dengan sokongan tidak bermoral dan tidak bertanggungjawab beliau terhadap politik penipuan, kebencian, dan ekstremis yang menyebabkan perpecahan perkauman dan keagamaan terburuk dalam sejarah Malaysia.

Berikut adalah beberapa contoh nasihat yang telah saya terima —

1. Daripada seorang ahli akademik melayu: “Najib tidak akan hilang apa-apa langsung dengan berdebat dengan anda. Dia tidak ada tempat untuk pergi kecuali dengan ke atas. Dengan berdebat dengan anda, dia akan mendapat sokongan kebanyakan orang Melayu. Debat ini hanya akan melibatkan anda berdua dan tak kiralah apa pun yang dibahaskan, dia akan menang perperangan politik ini. Semua ini belum dikira dari segi debat perkauman, ini semua hanyalah perangkap dia.”

2. Daripada seorang blogger melayu: “Soalnya kenapa Najib tiba-tiba cabar Lim Kit Siang berdebat? …Sebabnya cuma satu saja. Sebab Lim Kit Siang itu Cina dan mari dari parti DAP. Itu je… Maknanya Najib akan gunakan majlis debat dengan Kit Siang itu untuk membangkitkan sentimen perkauman habis-habisan… Sebab itu dia cabar Lim Kit Siang berdebat.”

3. “Kami, rakyat Malaysia tak nampak sebarang kebaikan pun daripada debat ini. Sebaliknya, anda hanya akan memanjangkan kredibiliti nama (Najib) yang sudahpun tercemar. Dia tak ada apa-apa lagi yang bernilai untuk disumbangkan kepada pembinaan negara. Tempat yang paling elok (untuk Najib) hanyalah Mahkamah Kehakiman dan itu sahaja.”

4. “Tolong jangan jalankan debat ini. Ia hanya akan mendatangkan lebih banyak keburukan daripada kebaikan. Ia takkan membuktikan apa-apa yang rakyat belum tahu. Biarkan mahkamah yang tentukan. Anda takkan boleh menyakinkan penyokong dia. Dia hanya akan menyebabkan huru-hara dalam majlis ini dan anda akan menyalahkan diri sendiri buat sepanjang hayat.”

5. Saya telah mengikuti perkembangan politik semasa negara yang tercinta ini untuk sekian lamanya. Terutamanya, saya telah berminat dan mengikuti situasi politik sejak daripada berita mengenai skandal 1MDB muncul buat pertama kalinya pada tahun 2015. Saya sentiasa mengagumi ketabahan anda sebagai seorang ketua pembangkan, integriti anda sebagai seorang individu dan cinta anda untuk negara ini. Saya menulis hari ini untuk memujuk anda untuk tidak terjerumus kedalam perangkap Najib Razak, bekas Perdana Menteri kita. Pada waktu ini, sebarang debat dengan Najib dengan situasi Najib sebagai penyumbang utama kepada kehilangan kuasa yang bersejarah di Malaysia hanya akan memberi legitimasi kepada status Najib sebagai Ketua Pembangkang de facto Debat yang dicadangkan ini hanya akan memberikan ruang awam kepada Najib untuk menyatukan penyokongnya dan menguatkan rancangannya untuk kembali memerintah. Debat ini juga mungkin sebahagian daripada dedak yang ditaburkan untuk menguatkan kontroversi isu-isu perkauman yang Najib gunakan sejak kemunculan skandal 1MDB. Akhirnya, pada pandangan saya, debat ini adalah sebahagian daripada rancangan Najib untuk membuktikan yang anda adalah “kuasa sebenar” dalam Pakatan Harapan kepada penyokongnya. Dalam percaturan politik ini, Najib mempunyai lebih sedikit risiko kerugian dari anda.”

6. “YB Lim Kit Siang, tidak ada malunya, tetapi hanya kehormatan dalam menolak cabaran berdebat dengan bekas Perdana Menteri yang telah dimalukan ini apabila menerima cabaran ini hanya akan membawa kepada lebih banyak keburukan kepada negara.”

7. “Ia tidak memberi keuntungan kepada anda mahupun Pakatan Harapan untuk berdebat dengan Najib. Ia hanya akan memberikan kelebihan kepada kepada dia dengan memberikan dia peluang untuk menghentam kerajaan dan menyatakan kesuciannya dan untuk mengatakan yang dia hanyalah seorang mangsa konspirasi politik. Sesetengah rakyat Malaysia yang mudah terpengaruh mungkin akan mempercayai penipuan ini.”

8. “Saya telah mengikuti debat Parlimen sejak PH mengambil alih kerajaan, jika dia serius dan mempunyai hati nurani, dia akan berdebat dalam sesi Parlimen semasa dicabar oleh pelbagai menteri untuk mempertahankan polisi dan dirinya mengenai 1MDB, FGV dan Tabung Haji.”

9. “Apakah kebaikannya untuk rakyat Malaysia jika NAJIB diperbodohkan dan dimalukan anda dengan anda sebagai pemenang? Di mata semua rakyat Malaysia, dia hanyalah seseorang yang hidup segan mati tak mahu, yang hanya mampu menimbulkan rasa syak wasangka dan sentimen perkauman dikalangan orang Melayu.”

10. “Saya tabik pada niat murni tuan untuk menerima cabarannya sebagai seorang yang bermaruah, tetapi lawan pihak tuan telah membuktikan yang dirinya bukanlah seorang yang bermaruah, tetapi satu makhluk yang tidak mempunyai sebarang panduan moral ataupun rasa kesal, oleh itu dengan penuh hormatnya saya berasakan bahawa ia adalah satu perbuatan yang sangatlah naif untuk menganggap yang Najib akan berubah menjadi seorang insan yang bermaruah untuk berdebat dengan taraf yang diharapkan anda.”

Sejak awal tahun ini, telah terdapat satu cubaan keji yang sistematik untuk meningkatkan ketegangan perkauman dan keagamaan di Malaysia.

Contohnya, baru-baru ini seorang ketua NGO Muslim telah mengeluarkan satu kenyataan mengenai pengeluaran setem yang memaparkan Gereja St George di Pulau Pinang oleh Pos Malaysia.

Ketua NGO Muslim ini telah menulis di Facebook yang mana setem ini merupakan salah satu daripada contoh Islam dibuli sejak Pakatan Harapan mengambil alih pemerintahan Mei lalu dan ia boleh mengelirukan orang asing untuk menganggap yang Malaysia adalah sebuah negara Kristian, sedangkan setem ini adalah sebahagian daripada satu siri setem berkenaan tempat-tempat ibadat di Malaysia, dan dikeluarkan buat pertama kalinya pada tahun 2016, dua tahun sebelum Pakatan Harapan mendapat kuasa.

Memandangkan besar kemungkinan debat “Bagaimana Malaysia terjerumus menjadi sebuah kleptokrasi global dan bagaimana kita boleh kembali menjadi sebuah negara terulung yang berintegriti” diantara Najib dan saya ini boleh dimanipulasi menjadi satu konflik Melayu vs Cina, sedangkan perang melawan rasuah, penyalah-gunaan kuasa dan jenayah seperti pengubahan wang haram bukanlah satu isu perkauman atau keagamaan tetapi satu isu nilai murni dan pentadbiran yang baik, saya telah memutuskan untuk tidak meneruskan debat dengan Najib ini.

Kini DAP adalah merupakan salah satu parti komponen Kerajaan Pakatan Harapan dan satu disiplin baru diperlukan diantara parti komponen untuk mengutamakan kepentingan pakatan ini jika kita mahu berjaya dalam visi bersama yang dijanjikan didalam Manifesto Pilihanraya Umum Pakatan Harapan untuk membina satu Malaysia yang baharu — berterasan lima objektif utama iaitu menurunkan kos sara hidup rakyat, melaksana reformasi institusi, memberdayakan perkembangan ekonomi, memulangkan kuasa kepada Sabah dan Sarawak, dan membina satu Malaysia yang inklusif dan bersederhana.

Ini bukanlah kerja seratus hari atau bulan tetapi kerja bertahun dan berdekad. Ini adalah kerja yang memerlukan komitmen untuk membawa penyatuan, kebebasan, keadilan, dan kemakmuran untuk Malaysia dan semua rakyatnya, bukanlah mendalamkan polarisasi perkauman dan keagamaan ataupun menyebakan politik penipuan, kebencian, dan ekstrimis.

Saya sedar yang keputusan saya ini akan disambut dengan pelbagai tuduhan yang saya ini adalah seorang penakut. Kerjaya politik saya selama 53 tahun adalah terbuka untuk semua rakyat menghakimi sama ada saya seorang penakut ataupun tidak dan saya sentiasa bersedia untuk menerima penghakiman daripada rakyat. Tetapi, ada satu perkara yang saya tidak akan berkompromi — kepentingan utama negara dan semua rakyat Malaysia.

(Kenyataan Media Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Gelang Patah pada hari Khamis 23 Mei 2019)

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When former Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak, challenged me to a debate in an interview with Free Malaysia Today on Tuesday, my foremost thought was whether one should debate with a kleptocrat and a pathological or habitual liar.

I had added that if there is a debate, probably the best subject is “How Malaysia became a global kleptocracy and how we can become a leading nation of integrity”.

Najib did not mind being called a kleptocrat and a pathological or habitual liar, and agreed immediately to the topic, although he added cryptically: “But in fairness, we should also discuss other topics during the debate.”

In response, I said I was appointing Syahredzan bin Johan, my political secretary and Ahmad Faiz Mustafa, my parliamentary liaison officer, to liaise with Najib’s officers to finalise details of the debate after Hari Raya.

I also welcomed  Malaysians who have views on the subject “How Malaysia became a global kleptocracy and how we can become a leading nation of integrity” to email their views and suggestions at
[email protected]
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For the past 48 hours, I had been inundated with an avalanche of advice through email, WhatsApp and even by phone, including by Malaysians from overseas, 99% of whom urged me not to debate with Najib at all.

Undoubtedly, Najib is the most malignant political force in the history of Malaysia – he is not only a global kleptocrat, a  habitual liar but also  the greatest threat to the vision of a united, progressive and prosperous Malaysia in his immoral, unconscionable and irresponsible support of the toxic and vicious politics of lies, falsehood, hate, intolerance and extremism to effect the worst racial and religious polarisation and national division in Malaysian history.

This is a sample of the advice which I have received –

1.     From a Malay academician:  “Najib has nothing to lose and everything to gain by asking you to debate. He has no where to go but up.  By debating you he would have most Malays behind him. There will be only two of you and regardless your points he will win the political war.  There is also a potential of a racial debate. This is a trap.”

2.     From a Malay blogger: “Soalnya kenapa  Najib tiba-tiba cabar Lim Kit Siang berdebat? …Sebabnya Cuma satu saja. Sebab Lim Kit Siang itu Cina dan mari dari parti DAP. Itu je…Maknanya Najib akan gunakan majlis debat dengan Kit Siang itu untuk membangkitkan sentimen perkauman habis-habisan….Sebab iu dia cabar Lim Kit Siang berdebat.”

3.     “We, the rakyat cannot see any iota of benefit from this exercise. On the contrary, you will simply be extending respectability to his tarnished image. He has nothing of value to offer toward Nation building. His rightful place is in the Courts of Justice, and nowhere else.”

4.     “Plse don’t do the debate. It has much more HARM than good. It doesn’t prove anything reasonable people know. Let the court decide. You can’t convince his supporters. He could even turn it into chaos and you’ll blame yourself the rest of your life.”

5.     “I have been following politics in my beloved country for many years. In particular, I have been especially keen and interested in the political situation since news of the 1MDB scandal broke in 2015. I have always admired your tenacity as an opposition leader , your integrity as a person and your love for our country.  I write today to implore you not to take the bait of a debate that is being dangled by our former pm Najib Razak. Any debate with Najib at this stage and in the prevailing situation of Najib being the main contributor to a historical loss of power in Malaysia, will only legitimize his undeserved status as the de facto leader of the Opposition. The proposed debate will serve to furnish Najib a public platform to rally his base and it may even strengthen his planned re entry into the powers of government. The debate may even be a fodder for the fermentation of racially divisive issues which Najib had so subtly played since the 1MDB debacle came to fore. Lastly, in my view, this debate is Najib’s attempt to portray you as the ‘real’ power behind the Pakatan government solely to rally the Malay votes to his advantage. It is a political gambit that Najib has less to lose than you.”

6.     “YB Lim Kit Siang, there is no shame but instead honour in declining a debate challenge from a disgraced ex-premier when accepting such a challenge may bring more harm than good to our nation.”

7.      “It serves neither you nor Pakatan Harapan to take Najib on in a debate. It will only benefit him by giving him the exposure and opportunity to whack the current government and protest his innocence and cry out that he is a victim of a political conspiracy. Gullible Malaysians may be persuaded to believe him.”

8.     “I have been following the Parliament Debate since PH took over, if he is serious and have conscience he  would have done it during Parliament sittings being challenged in IMDB, FGV, TH by  many ministers to defend himself and past policy.”

9.     “What good is it for the Malaysian public if NAJIB is made a fool and shamed by you and you are the overwhelming WINNER? To all Malaysians, he is just a DEADMAN walking with nothing to lose but to stir up doubts and racial sentiments among the Malays.”

10.  “I salute you for harbouring a noble wish to do as a gentleman would do, but your target opponent has proven himself to be not a gentleman but a creature devoid of any moral compass or compunction, hence with due respect it’s extremely naive on your part to attribute even a thin glimmer of hope that Najib would, Voila!, transform into a gentleman for the debate to conform to your wishful thinking.”

In the past year, there had been a systematic and unconscionable attempt to intensify and escalate racial and religious polarisation in Malaysia.

The most recent example is the statement by a Muslim NGO leader regarding Pos Malaysia issuing a stamp  featuring  St. George’s Church in Penang.

The Muslim NGO leader took to Facebook to complain that the stamp was another example of how Islam was being bullied since Pakatan Harapan rose  to power in May last  year and that it could lead foreigners to think Malaysia is a Christian state when it actual fact, the stamp was part of a series on places of worship in Malaysia, which was first issued in 2016, two years before Harapan came to power.

As there is great likelihood that the  debate on “How Malaysia became a global kleptocracy and how we can become a leading nation of integrity” between Najib and myself could be turned into a Malay vs Chinese conflict, when the battle against corruption, abuses of power and criminal conduct like money-laundering is not a racial or religious issue but an issue of good values and good governance, I have decided not to proceed with the debate with Najib.

The DAP is now a member of the  Pakatan Harapan coalition government and a new discipline is needed among the component parties  in the Pakatan Harapan coalition to also think of the interests of the coalition if we are to succeed in our common vision  spelt out in the Pakatan Harapan general  election pledge to build a New Malaysia – comprising the five pillar objectives to reduce the costs of living, achieve institutional reforms, engineer economic growth, restore power to Sabah and Sarawak and to build an inclusive and moderate Malaysia.

This is the work not of one hundred days or months but of years and decades. It calls for steadfast commitment to bring about unity, freedom, justice and prosperity to Malaysia and to all Malaysians and not deepening racial and religious polarisation or the vicious and toxic politics of lies, falsehoods, hate, intolerance and extremism.

I know my decision will be greeted with tempests of allegations that I am a coward. My 53 years of politics is an open book for Malaysians to judge whether I am a coward or not, and I am always prepared to subject myself  to the judgement of Malaysians.  However, there is one  thing I will not compromises – the higher interests of the nation and Malaysians.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Thursday, 23rd May 2019)

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Hamid Bador is doing what none of his 11 predecessors as Inspector-General of Police had  dared to do in six decades: for the Malaysian Police   be among the cleanest and most incorruptible government departments in the country and  among the cleanest and most  incorruptible police forces in the world

Datuk Seri Abdul Hamid Bador is doing what none of his  11 predecessors as Inspector-General of Police had dared to do in six decades – for the Malaysian Police to be among the cleanest and most incorruptible government departments in the country and among the cleanest and most incorruptible police forces in the world.

His warning to the “men in blue” to sever ties with criminals before it is too late for them to repent is welcomed by all Malaysians who want to see the Malaysian police force to be  among the world’s top police forces, which is efficient, professional, people-friendly and corruption-free –   symbol of a New Malaysia.

Hamid Badar said that as long as the policemen had not been nabbed, “haven’t worn the orange jumpsuit yet”,  there was time for them to disentangle themselves from the underworld.

He reminded all police personnel to remember the oath they had  taken, swearing that they will uphold the law instead of getting involved in vices.

At the Op Selamat event in conjunction with the Hari Raya Adilfiltri celebration in Kuala Lumpur, Hamid expressed confidence that corruption could be eradicated soon, adding that he had faith in his men.

He said:
“If there are 500 dirty cops, there are 125,000 more good cops, I believe my men are good.

“Basically, they are good men so we have to set a good example from the top. I will set a good example from the top.”

The developments in the Malaysian police force  in the past three weeks since the appointment of Hamid Bador as Inspector-General of Police has vindicated my expectation that the second year of the Pakatan Harapan government in Putrajaya will see more reforms and changes in the democratic  governance of Malaysia, as the best part of the first year of the Pakatan Harapan Federal Government  after the historic decision of the 14th General Election on May 9, 2018 had been spent on finding out the scope and extent of the  political, economic, educational, social, cultural and moral damages to Malaysia in heading towards the trajectory of a failed, rogue and kleptocratic state.

In the  first year of the Pakatan Harapan Government, several important developments  had taken place  to pave the way for far-reaching institutional, political and democratic  reforms n the subsequent years, such as  the appointment of  Hamid Bador as the new Inspector-General of Police and the following appointments:

· Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat as Chief Justice, taking over from Richard Malanjum who had retired on April 2,

· Datuk Mohamad Ariff bin Md Yusof as Speaker of Parliament;

· Tommy Thomas as Attorney-General;

· Azhar Azizan  Harun or better known as Art Harun as Chairman and Dr. Azmi Sharon as Deputy Chairman of Election Commission’

· Tan Sri Abdul Kassim Ahmad as Director-General of National Centre for Governance, Integrity and Anti-Corruption;

· Datuk Seri Mohd Shukri Abdull as Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) Chief Commissioner;

· Datuk Nor Shamsiah Mohd Yunus as Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) Governor.

Since his appointment as IGP, significant developments to restore public confidence in the professionalism, efficiency and trustworthiness of the Malaysian police force to reduce crime and  the fear of crime include the following:

· Police support for the establishment of an Independent Police Complaints and Misconduct Commission (IPCMC) ending 15 years of police opposition, with the IPCMC Bill to be presented o Parliament at the end of the year.

· Foiling of a  terrorist plot  by an Islamic State (IS) “wolf-pack” cell to  attack non-Muslim houses of worship and entertainment centres around Kuala Lumpur during the first week of Ramadan.

· New leads on fugitive financier and 1MDB scandal mastermind Jho Low’s whereabouts.

· Police raid of the office of Deloitte Malaysia to help in police investigations into the 1MDB case.

· Cabinet’s establishment of a special committee or task force  to reinvestigate the alleged enforced disappearance of pastor Raymond Koh and activist Amri Che Mat;

· The IGP’s personal commitment on a war against corruption in the police force.

There are still outstanding problems that have to be dealt, which include:

· Deaths in police custody.

· The death of Teoh Beng Hock.

· Location of  Prasana Diksa, who was abducted by her father Muhammad Riduan Abdullah  a decade ago as an 11-month-old child  to return her to her mother in the long-running tragedy of M. Indira Gandhi.

The Parliamentary Caucus on Governance and Institutional Reforms chaired by the MP for Port Dickson, Datuk Seri  Anwar Ibrahim, will meet in Parliament next Tuesday, and on the agenda will be the  review  of the progress of   the  125 recommendations of the Police Royal Commission chaired by former Chief Justice, Tun Mohamad Dzaiddin with the former Inspector-General of Police Tun Hanif Omar as Deputy Chairman, which include   recommendations to improve the welfare of the police such as  special allowances for PDRM personnel stationed in major cities in  Klang Valley and in  Johor Bahru to offset the higher costs of living faced by them; police motivation and commitment; police housing and adequate funding to main police premises.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Saturday, 25th May 2019)

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