UMNO has today changed its character that the first four UMNO Presidents, Onn Jaafar, Tunku Abdul Rahman, Razak Hussein and Hussein Onn will not be able to recognise or endorse

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UMNO has today changed its character that the first four UMNO Presidents, Onn Jaafar, Tunku Abdul Rahman, Razak Hussein and Hussein Onn, will not be able to recognise or endorse.

None of them will countenance Malaysia becoming a kleptocracy with it infamy world-wide, let alone “kleptocracy at its worst”.

In 1979, at the UMNO General Assembly, the then Prime Minister, Hussein Onn warned that Malaysia will be destroyed if its leaders are “dishonest, untrustworthy and corrupt” and expressed the hope that the Bank Rakyat scandal would be a “bitter lesson to other government institutions and agencies including companies and subsidiaries set up by the Government”.

But Hussein Onn’s warning were not heeded, and last week, an UMNO leader who was the sixth Prime Minister, went to jail to serve his 12-year jail sentence and RM210 million fine.

From a RM100 million Bank Rakyat scandal in 1979, we have graduated to a RM50 billion 1MDB scandal three decades later.

That Tun Razak, Najib’s father and the second Prime Minister of Malaysia, was always conscious of being correct in his role as Prime Minister and to avoid any hint of abuse of power and breach of trust has become legendary with the “swimming pool” story that Razak’s youngest son, Nazir, recalled in his book “What’s In A Name” (page 51), where Nazir wrote:

“When we were all still young my brothers and I once trooped into my father’s office with a request to make: we asked him to build a swimming pool in the grounds of Seri Taman. My eldest brother Najib was the ringleader, corralling the rest of us to make the case, standing in front of my father’s desk in his study. My father listened to our proposal carefully and then calmly dismissed it. ‘How would it look,’ he asked, eyebrows raised, ‘if the Prime Minister spent public money on building a swimming pool for his family?’”

Razak would not spend public money on building a swimming pool for his family, but Najib left behind not a world-class great country but a world-class RM50 billion 1MDB scandal.

According to the Finance Minister Tengku Zafrul Abdul Aziz, as at June 30, 2022, the 1MDB debt stands at RM32.08 billion. Between April 2017 and May 2022, the government channelled financial assistance in the form of loans or advances totalling RM10.85 billion via the Ministry of Finance (MoF) and Minister of Finance Incorporated (MoF Inc) to pay off 1MDB’s debt commitments and interest.

As at June 30, 2022, 1MDB’s total funds recovered amounted to RM19.28 billion in various foreign currencies, including the United States dollar, Singapore dollar and Australian dollar.

Najib is facing another four ongoing criminal cases related to 1MDB and corruption, which would have caused considerable grief to his father, Tun Razak if he was alive today.

Horror of horrors, the country beginning to see the unravelling of a new 1MDB scandal – the RM9 billion littoral combatant ships (LCS) scandal (which may end up costing more than RM11.145 billion to complete all six LCS as calculated by the Ambrin Report of the Investigating Committee on Procurement, Governance and Finance report on LCS).

Another area which the first four UMNO Presidents will not be able to recognise or endorse are the attacks on the rule of law and independence of the judiciary by the present UMNO leaders.

In the early decades of nationhood, Malaysia produced Lord Presidents who were juristic luminaries, like Suffian, Azlan Shah and Salleh Abas, then there was a void when the doctrine of separation of powers and the principle of independence of the judiciary came under a cloud, but the jailing of Najib last Tuesday marked a new era where the Judiciary showed that it would not be overawed from playing its independent role under Lord President Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat.

The first four UMNO Presidents would never attack the independence of the judiciary in the way it was attacked by UMNO leaders on Saturday night.

Is Zahid trying to save himself or Najib in demanding for immediate general election and a campaign to pardon Najib?

As Najib is facing another four criminal trials, is there going to be a “pardon” campaign for every conviction?

Zahid spoke of his concern about the erosion of the integrity of the judiciary and that Najib’s SRC International case would soon to referenced by Commonwealth nations as an unfair trial.

When did Zahid started to worry about Malaysia’s adverse reputation in the world whether about the independence of the judiciary or Malaysia’s kleptocracy?

For a start, if Zahid is concerned about international opinion, is he going to explain why, as Defence Minister in July 2011, he had overturned his own decision as recommended by the Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN) to contract six Dutch-made Sigma LCS and chose the Scorpene manufacturer’s six French-made Gowind LCS within three days without consulting the Navy, the end-user – the major cause of the RM9 billion LCS scandal, the new 1MDB scandal in Malaysia?

Najib and UMNO have committed four abominations in Malaysian politics which the four UMNO Presidents would never do, viz:

· The RM50 billion 1MDB scandal and other scandals in the Najib premiership;

· The Malu Apa BOSSku campaign after UMNO was toppled from power in 2018;

· The condonation of corruption like the 1MDB scandal; and

· The insidious attacks on the judiciary.

Will UMNO ever return to the nation-building principles as spelt out by the nation’s founding fathers in the Constitution and Rukun Negara, as UMNO is now neither serving the interests of Malays nor Malaysians, but only UMNO-putras?

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang on Monday, 29th August 2022)

UMNO pada hari ini telah mengubah sifatnya sehingga keempat-empat presiden UMNO yang terawal, Onn Jaafar, Tunku Abdul Rahman, Razak Hussein, dan Hussein Onn tidak akan kenal atau bersetuju dengan parti ini

UMNO pada hari ini telah mengubah sifatnya sehingga keempat-empat presiden UMNO yang terawal, Onn Jaafar, Tunku Abdul Rahman, Razak Hussein, dan Hussein Onn tidak akan kenal atau bersetuju dengan parti ini.

Tidak ada seorang pun dari kalangan mereka ini yang akan menerima Malaysia terkenal sebagai sebuah kleptokrasi di seluruh dunia, apatah lagi “kleptokrasi dalam bentuk yang terburuk”.

Pada tahun 1979, dalam Perhimpunan Agung UMNO, Perdana Menteri ketika itu, Hussein Onn, memberikan amaran yang Malaysia akan musnah sekiranya pemimpinnya “tidak jujur, tidak boleh dipercayai, dan korup” dan menyatakan harapannya agar skandal Bank Rakyat ketika itu akan menjadi satu “pengajaran pahit kepada institusi dan agensi kerajaan yang lain termasuklah syarikat dan anak syarikat yang dibentuk oleh kerajaan”.

Namun, amaran Hussein Onn ini tidak diendahkan, dan minggu lepas, seorang pemimpin UMNO yang merupakan Perdana Menteri keenam negara, ke penjara untuk menjalani hukuman penjara 12 tahun dan denda sebanyak RM210 juta.

Dari skandal Bank Rakyat yang melibatkan RM100 juta pada tahun 1979, kita telah sampai ke skandal 1MDB yang melibatkan RM50 billion tiga dekad kemudian.

Hakikat di mana Tun Razak, bapa Najib dan Perdana Menteri kedua Malaysia, sentiasa sedar untuk melakukan perkara yang betul dalam peranannya sebagai Perdana Menteri dan mengelakkan sebarang bentuk salah guna kuasa atau pecah amanah telah diketahui ramai dengan kisah “kolam renang” yang diceritakan anak bongsunya, Nazir, dalam bukunya yang bertajuk “What’s In A Name” (halaman 51) di mana Nazir menulis:

“Semasa kecil, saya bersama dengan abang-abang saya pernah ke pejabat bapa kami dengan satu permintaan: kami meminta kepadanya untuk membina sebuah kolam renang di dalam perkarangan Seri Taman. Abang sulung saya, Najib, merupakan ketua rombongan ini, mengumpulkan kami semua untuk meyakinkan bapa kami, sambil berdiri di hadapan meja bapa kami di pejabatnya. Bapa saya mendengar cadangan kami ini dengan teliti dan kemudiannya dengan tenang, menolaknya. “Bagaimanakah rupanya,” beliau bertanya, sambil mengangkat keningnya, “sekiranya Perdana Menteri membelanjakan wang rakyat untuk membina sebuah kolam renang untuk keluarganya?”

Razak tidak akan membelanjakan wang rakyat untuk membina sebuah kolam renang untuk keluarganya, tetapi Najib meninggalkan kita bukannya sebuah negara bertaraf dunia, sebaliknya sebuah skandal 1MDB yang terkenal di seluruh dunia.

Menurut Menteri Kewangan, Tengku Zafrul Abdul Aziz, setakat 30 Jun 2022, hutang 1MDB masih berbaki RM32.08 billion. Di antara April 2017 sehingga Mei 2022, kerajaan telah menyalurkan bantuan kewangan dalam bentuk pinjaman dan pendahuluan kewangan yang berjumlah RM10.85 billion melalui Kementerian Kewangan dan Minister of Finance Incorporated (MoF Inc) untuk membayar komitmen hutang dan faedah 1MDB.

Setakat 30 Jun 2022, jumlah dana 1MDB yang berjaya didapatkan semula berjumlah RM19.28 billion dalam bentuk pelbagai matawang asing, termasuklah Dolar Amerika Syarikat, Dolar Singapura, dan Dolar Australia.

Najib berhadapan dengan empat lagi kes jenayah yang sedang berlangsung yang berkaitan dengan 1MDB dan rasuah, yang pastinya akan menyebabkan kekecewaan kepada bapanya, Tun Razak, sekiranya beliau masih hidup hari ini.

Apa yang lagi menyeramkan lagi, negara kita sedang menyaksikan satu lagi skandal seperti 1MDB – skandal kapal tempur pesisir (LCS) yang melibatkan RM9 billion (yang mungkin akan memakan belanja sehingga RM11.145 billion untuk menyiapkan ke semua enam LCS, menurut pengiraan laporan JKSTUPKK Ambrin).

Satu lagi perkara yang empat presiden terawal UMNO tidak akan kenal dan bersetuju mengenai UMNO hari ini adalah serangan yang dibuat UMNO terhadap kedaulatan undang-undang dan kebebasan kehakiman.

Dalam dekad terawal negara kita, Malaysia mempunyai Presiden Mahkamah Agung yang merupakan tokoh-tokoh perundangan, seperti Suffian, Azlan Shah, dan Salleh Abas, kemudian disusuli dengan satu tempoh gelap di mana doktrin pemisahan kuasa dan prinsip kebebasan cabang kehakiman berada di bawah satu awan gelap. Pemenjaraan Najib pada hari Selasa lepas menandakan era baharu di mana cabang Kehakiman menunjukkan yang mereka tidak takut untuk memainkan peranan bebas mereka di bawah pimpinan Ketua Hakim Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat.

Empat presiden terawal UMNO tidak akan menyerang kebebasan cabang kehakiman seperti mana yang dilakukan oleh pemimpin UMNO pada malam Sabtu lepas.

Adakah Zahid cuba menyelamatkan dirinya sendiri, atau Najib, apabila dia mendesak supaya pilihan raya umum diadakan segera dan berkempen supaya Najib diampunkan?

Memandangkan Najib masih berhadapan dengan empat lagi perbicaraan jenayan, adakah akan ada kempen “pengampunan” untuk setiap sabitan Najib?

Zahid bercakap mengenai kegusarannya tentang hakisan integriti sistem kehakiman dan kes SRC International Najib ini kononnya akan dirujuk oleh negara-negara Komanwel sebagai satu contoh perbicaraan yang tidak adil.

Bilakah Zahid mula risau tentang reputasi Malaysia di peringkat dunia, sama ada mengenai kebebasan sistem kehakiman atau reputasi Malaysia sebagai sebuah kleptokrasi?

Sebagai permulaan, sekiranya Zahid peduli mengenai pandangan dunia terhadap Malaysia, adakah dia akan menjelaskan, mengapa dia sebagai Menteri Pertahanan pada tahun 2011 telah mengubah keputusannya sendiri yang dibuat mengikut cadangan pihak Tentera Laut Diraja Malaysia (TLDM) untuk menempah enam buat LCS Sigma buatan Belanda – memilih untuk menempah LCS Gowind buatan Perancis oleh syarikat pengeluar Scorpene dalam masa tiga hari tanpa merujuk dahulu perkara ini dengan pihak TLDM sebagai pengguna akhir kapal ini – yang menjadi punca utama masalah skandal LCS yang melibatkan RM9 billion ini?

Najib dan UMNO telah melakukan empat dosa besar dalam politik Malaysia yang tidak akan dilakukan oleh empat presiden terawal UMNO, iaitu:

1. Skandal 1MDB melibatkan RM50 billion dan pelbagai skandal lain semasa pemerintahan Najib;

2. Kempen Malu Apa Bossku selepas UMNO dijatuhkan dari kuasa pada tahun 2018;

3. Membiarkan rasuah seperti skandal 1MDB; dan

4. Serangan jahat terhadap pihak kehakiman.

Adakah UMNO mampu untuk kembali kepada prinsip pembinaan negara seperti yang diterapkan oleh tokoh kemerdekaan negara dalam Perlembagaan dan Rukun Negara, sedangkan UMNO hari ini tidak lagi menjaga kepentingan orang Melayu mahupun rakyat Malaysia, sebaliknya hanya mementingkan kepentingan UMNO-putra?

(Kenyataan Media oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang pada hari Isnin, 29 Ogos 2022)

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Who is the biggest “shark” in the RM9 billion LCS scandal – Najib, Zahid, Hishammuddin or Mat Sabu?

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Who is the biggest “shark” in the RM9 billion littoral combatant ships (LCS) scandal – Najib Razak who was Prime Minister and Finance Minister from April 2009 to May 2018, Zahid Hamidi who was Defence Minister from April 2009 to May 2013, Hishammuddin Hussein who was Defence Minister from May 2013 to May 2018, or Mohamad Sabu, Defence Minister from May 2018 to February 2020?

I had asked Najib whether he was prepared to take an oath that he had nothing to do with the RM9 billion LCS scandal, but there was no response from him.

He is now in jail and his being in jail did not prevent his daughter, Nooryana Najwa, from reading Najib’s special message to UMNO leaders and members at the UMNO meeting last Saturday.

Similarly, Najib could answer this question and other questions related the new 1MDB scandal – the RM9 billion LCS scandal.

Let Najib answer as to who is the “biggest shark” in the RM9 billion LCS scandal – Najib, Zahid, Hishammuddin or Mohd Sabu, or none of them.

The Ambrin report of the Special Investigation Committee on Public Governance, Procurement and Finance on the LCS (JKUSTUPKK) headed by then auditor-general Ambrin Buang, which was declassified by the Cabinet although there were over 10 pages of redaction and were completely black, referred to a meeting on the LCS project in Najib’s office on 9th October 2007 when Najib was the Defence Minister.

This is proof that the LCS project started in the time when Najib was the Defence Minister a second time from 2000 – 2008.

So far, Najib has not admitted that the LCS project was started during his time when he was the Defence Minister a second time.

Najib should be more forthcoming on his role in the RM9 billion LCS scandal.

(Media Statement (2) by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Monday, 29th August 2022)

Siapakah “jerung” terbesar dalam skandal LCS yang melibatkan RM9 billion ini – Najib, Zahid, Hishammuddin, atau Mat Sabu?

Siapakah “jerung” terbesar dalam skandal kapal tempur pesisir (LCS) yang melibatkan RM9 billion ini – Najib Razak, yang merupakan Perdana Menteri dari April 2009 sehingga Mei 2018, Zahid Hamidi yang merupakan Menteri Pertahanan dari April 2009 sehingga Mei 2013, Hishammuddin Hussein yang merupakan Menteri Pertahanan dari Mei 2013 sehingga Mei 2018, atau Mohamad Sabu, Menteri Pertahanan dari Mei 2018 sehingga Februari 2020?

Saya telah bertanya kepada Najib sama ada dia bersedia untuk bersumpah yang dia tidak mempunyai apa-apa kaitan dengan skandal LCS ini, namun tidak menerima apa-apa maklum balas darinya.

Dia kini berada dalam penjara tetapi dia berada di penjara tidak menghalau anaknya, Nooryana Najwa untuk membaca perutusan khas Najib kepada pemimpin dan ahli UMNO di taklimat khas UMNO pada hari Sabtu lepas.

Dengan cara yang sama, Najib boleh menjawab soalan ini dan juga soalan-soalan lain yang berkaitan dengan skandal LCS yang melibatkan RM9 billion ini.

Biar Najib yang jawab, siapakah “jerung terbesar” dalam skandal LCS ini – sama ada Najib, Zahid, Hishammuddin, atau Mohd Sabu, atau bukan seorang dari mereka ini.

Laporan Jawatankuasa Siasatan Tadbir Urus, Perolehan, dan Kewangan Kerajaan (JKSTUPKK) LCS yang dipengerusikan oleh ketua audit negara, Ambrin Buang, yang dinyah-rahsiakan oleh Kabinet, walaupun dengan hampir sepuluh muka surat dipadam, merujuk kepada satu mesyuarat mengenai projek LCS di pejabat Najib pada 9 Oktober 2007, semasa Najib masih menjadi Menteri Pertahanan.

Perkara ini adalah bukti yang projek LCS ini bermula seawal Najib masih menjadi Menteri Pertahanan buat kali kedua dari tahun 2000 sehingga tahun 2008.

Setakat ini, Najib tidak mengakui yang projek LCS ini bermula semasa dia menjadi Menteri Pertahanan buat kali kedua.

Najib perlu berterus terang mengenai peranannya dalam skandal LCS yang melibatkan RM9 billion ini.

(Kenyataan Media (2) oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Isnin, 29 Ogos 2022)

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A new chance for a   national reset to   return to the original  nation-building principles and policies in the Constitution and  Rukun Negara to make Malaysia  a world-class great nation

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Malaysia is 65 years old – at a critical point whether we continue to regress and lose out to more and more countries or we bestir ourselves in a national reset to become a world-class great nation.

The jailing of a former Prime Minister is heart-breaking, but it a clear sign that Malaysia can move forward to a national reset and return to the original nation-building principles and policies in the Constitution and Rukun Negara to become a world-class great nation.

Malaysians regardless of race, religion or region must not waste this new chance to come together to make Malaysia a world-class great nation based on the original nation-building principles to be found in the Constitution and Rukun Negara – constitutional monarchy, parliamentary democracy, separation of powers, rule of law, good governance, public integrity, meritocracy, respect for human rights and national unity from our multi-racial, multi-lingual, multi-religious and multi-cultural diversity where there are no first-class and second-class citizens whether based on race, religion or region.

The clear message in this National Day is that Malaysia can be saved from becoming a kleptocracy, kakistocracy, a rogue and a failed state and Malaysia must leverage on the values and virtues of the four great civilisations which meet in confluence in this land to create a world-class great nation.

There are fresh attempts to undermine the founding nation-building principles of the nation but we must not allow these new efforts to succeed.

The UMNO President, Zahid Hamidi is in the forefront of this new attempt. He should explain why he was not a witness in the Najib Razak’s SRC trial as he had said that he had met the wealthy Arab family who had donated into Najib’s personal account.

The UMNO today is not a party which the first four UMNO Presidents Onn Jaafar, Tunku Abdul Rahman, Razak Hussein and Hussein Onn can recognise or endorse.

UMNO today condones the 1MDB scandal, LCS scandal and many other scandals, and is quite proud that Malaysia in infamous worldwide as a kleptocracy – something which the first four UMNO Presidents will be extremely ashamed of.

Malaysians, regardless of race, religion or region, must save Malaysia from the UMNO of today.

(65th National Day Message by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday, 30th August 2022)

Satu peluang baharu untuk mengembalikan negara kepada prinsip dan dasar asal pembinaan negara bangsa seperti yang termaktub dalam Perlembagaan dan Rukun Negara untuk menjadikan Malaysia sebuah negara hebat bertaraf dunia

Malaysia kini berusia 65 tahun – dalam satu titik kritikal, sama ada kita terus mundur dan ditinggalkan di belakang lebih banyak negara, atau kita perbetulkan hala tuju untuk menjadi sebuah negara hebat bertaraf dunia.

Pemenjaraan seorang bekas Perdana Menteri memang menyedihkan, namun perkara ini adalah satu petanda jelas yang Malaysia boleh bergerak ke hadapan ke arah penetapan semula untuk kembali kepada prinsip dan dasar pembinaan negara seperti yang termaktub dalam Perlembagaan dan Rukun Negara untuk menjadi sebuah negara hebat bertaraf dunia.

Rakyat Malaysia, tanpa mengira kaum, agama, atau kawasan, tidak boleh membazirkan peluang untuk bersama menjadikan Malaysia sebuah negara hebat bertaraf dunia berasaskan kepada prinsip-prinsip pembinaan negara yang termaktub dalam Perlembagaan dan Rukun Negara – raja berperlembagaan, demokrasi berparlimen, pemisahan kuasa, kedaulatan undang-undang, tadbir urus baik, integriti awam, meritokrasi, hormat kepada hak asasi manusia, dan perpaduan kebangsaan dari masyarakat pelbagai kaum, bahasa, agama, dan budaya kita, di mana tidak ada perbezaan rakyat kelas pertama atau kelas kedua sama ada mengikut acuan kaum, agama, atau kawasan.

Mesej yang jelas pada Hari Merdeka ini adalah bahawa Malaysia boleh diselamatkan dari menjadi sebuah kleptokrasi, kakistokrasi, atau sebuah negara gagal, dan rakyat Malaysia perlulah menggunakan nilai terbaik dari empat tamadun hebat yang bertemu di tanah ini untuk mewujudkan sebuah negara hebat bertaraf dunia.

Terdapat usaha untuk melemahkan prinsip asas negara ini, tetapi, kita tidak boleh biarkan usaha ini dari berjaya.

Presiden UMNO, Zahid Hamidi, berada di barisan hadapan cubaan ini. Dia patut menjelaskan mengapa dia tidak menjadi seorang saksi dalam kes SRC Najib Razak memandangkan dia telah mendakwa yang di telah berjumpa dengan keluarga Arab kaya yang menderma kepada akaun peribadi Najib.

UMNO hari ini bukanlah UMNO yang sama yang empat presiden terawal UMNO, Onn Jaafar, Tunku Abdul Rahman, Razak Hussein, dan Hussein Onn, dapat kenali atau bersetuju dengan perjuangannya.

UMNO hari ini membiarkan terjadinya skandal 1MDB, skandal LCS, dan pelbagai skandal lain lagi, malah kelihatan bangga Malaysia terkenal di seluruh dunia sebagai sebuah kleptokrasi – satu perkara yang amat memalukan kepada empat presiden terawal UMNO.

Rakyat Malaysia, tanpa mengira kaum, agama, atau kawasan, perlu menyelamatkan Malaysia dari UMNO yang ada pada hari ini.

(Perutusan Hari Kemerdekaan ke-65 Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Selasa, 30 Ogos 2022)

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Death penalty of Azilah Hadri and Sirul Azhar should be commuted to life imprisonment in exchange for their confession as to who directed them to kill Mongolian Shaariibuu Altantunyaa

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Malaysiaki journalist Hariz Mohd today in a report entitled “LCS scandal: Audit reports show ‘unusual’ deal before govt contract awarded” said two separate audit exercises on Putrajaya’s procurement of six littoral combat ships (LCS) for the Royal Malaysian Navy revealed that there may have been a deal between the main contractor and controversial shipbuilder DCNS before the government issued its contract.

This was based on a quotation issued by DCNS to Boustead Naval Shipyard (BNS) dated Dec 23, 2010, one year before the government awarded the LCS contract to BNS.

DCNS, now known as the Naval Group, is a French-based company that developed the Gowind design for navy vessels, which was the design approved by the then defence minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi in 2011 despite objection from the navy as the LCS intended user.

It is also the same company that was key in Putrajaya’s controversial purchase of two Scorpene-class submarines in 2002.

According to an audit commissioned by Boustead Heavy Industries Corporation (BHIC), the quotation issued by DCNS was “unusual” and indicated that the deal was “predetermined” between the vendor and “certain vested persons at BHIC/BNS who were at the helm of the decision-making process”.

A similar finding was also pointed out in an audit report prepared by the committee on Procurement, Governance and Finance of the LCS chaired by former auditor-general Ambrin Buang.

There should be an investigation to ascertain whether the RM9 billion LCS scandal has anything to do with the earlier Scorpene scandal and the murder of the Mongolian Shaariibuu Altantunya in Shah Alam on 18th October 2006.

The duo, Azilah Hadri and Sirui Azhar Umar, who had been convicted of Altantunya’s murder after a 159-day trial, and were sentenced to death, should have their death penalty commuted to life imprisonment in exchange for their confession as to who had instructed them to murder Altantunya.

(Media Statement (2) by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday, August 30, 2022)

Hukuman mati untuk Azilah Hadri dan Sirul Azhar patut digantikan dengan hukuman penjara seumur hidup sebagai pertukaran untuk pengakuan mereka mengenai siapa yang mengarahkan mereka membunuh warga Mongolia, Altantuyaa Shaariibuu

Wartawan Malaysiakini, Hariz Mohd, hari ini telah mengatakan dalam satu laporan yang bertajuk “LCS: Laporan audit dedah perjanjian ‘luar biasa’ sebelum kontrak diberi” bahawa dua audit berasingan yang dibuat mengenai proses perolehan enam kapal tempur pesisir (LCS) untuk pihak Tentera Laut Diraja Malaysia (TLDM) mendedahkan yang mungkin terdapat perjanjian di antara pihak kontraktor utama dan pembina kapal berkontroversi, DCNS, sebelum pihak kerajaan mengeluarkan kontrak ini.

Perkara ini dikatakan berdasarkan sebut harga yang dikeluarkan oleh pihak DCNS kepada Boustead Naval Shipyard (BNS) yang bertarikh 23 Disember 2010, setahun sebelum kerajaan menganugerahkan kontrak LCS ini kepada BNS.

DCNS, yang kini dikenali sebagai Naval Group, adalah sebuah syarikat yang berasas di Perancis yang telah membangunkan reka bentuk kapal tentera laut Gowind, yang merupakan reka bentuk yang diluluskan oleh Menteri Pertahanan ketika itu, Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, pada tahun 2011 walaupun dengan bantahan pihak TLDM yang merupakan pengguna akhir kapal ini.

Syarikat ini juga adalah syarikat utama yang sama dalam pembelian berkontroversi dua buah kapal selam kelas Scorpene oleh kerajaan pada tahun 2002.

Menurut audit yang dijalankan untuk pihak Boustead Heavy Industries Corporation (BHIC), sebut harga yang dikeluarkan oleh DCNS ini “luar biasa” dan menunjukkan yang perjanjian ini “telah disusun” di antara pihak vendor dan “sesetengah pihak berkepentingan di BHIC/BNS yang memegang kedudukan dalam proses membuat keputusan”.

Dapatan yang sama juga ditunjukkan dalam laporan audit yang disediakan oleh Jawatankuasa Siasatan Tadbir Urus, Perolehan dan Kewangan (JKSTUPKK) LCS yang dipengerusikan oleh bekas ketua audit negara, Ambrin Buang.

Perlu ada penyiasatan untuk menentukan sama ada skandal LCS yang melibatkan RM9 billion ini mempunyai apa-apa kaitan dengan skandal Scorpene atau dengan pembunuhan warga Mongolia, Shaariibuu Altantuya, di Shah Alam pada 18 Oktober 2006.

Azilah Hadri dan Sirul Azhar Umar, yang telah disabitkan bersalah kerana membunuh Altantuyaa selepas perbicaraan selama 159 hari dan dijatuhkan hukuman mati. Hukuman mati mereka patut digantikan dengan hukuman penjara seumur hidup sebagai ganti dengan pengakuan mereka mengenai siapa yang telah memberikan arahan kepada mereka untuk membunuh Altantuyaa.

(Kenyataan Media (2) Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Selasa, 30 Ogos 2022)

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Can Zahid give a single instance that Najib’s SRC International  case is cited in Commonwealth nations as an unfair trial as it is  more than one week since Najib was sent  to jail

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Can the UMNO President, Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, give a single instance that Najib Razak’s SRC International case is cited in the Commonwealth nations as an unfair trial as it is more than one week since Najib was sent to jail to begin his 12-year imprisonment sentence.

Zahid made this reference in his special address to UMNO delegates last Saturday.

It is surprising that although Najib’s jailing on his failure in his final appeal to the Federal Court was reported worldwide, a decision upheld by nine judges at all three tiers of the judiciary, none of it reported about Najib’s trial was unfair.

The Economist described Najib’s trial as not just about the fate of one man but also about the kind of country Malaysia wants to be.

Zahid, however, has still to respond to my query yesterday, why he was not a witness in Najib’s SRC trial as he had said that he had met the wealthy Arab family who had donated into Najib’s personal account.

I await Zahid’s response to these two questions.

(Media Statement (2) by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Wednesday, August 3`1, 2022)

Bolehkah Zahid berikan satu contoh di mana kes SRC International Najib dipetik sebagai satu contoh perbicaraan tidak adil dalam mana-mana negara Komanwel selepas seminggu Najib ke penjara?

Bolehkah Presiden UMNO, Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, memberikan satu contoh di mana kes SRC International Najib dipetik sebagai satu contoh perbicaraan tidak adil dalam mana-mana negara Komanwel selepas seminggu Najib ke penjara untuk menjalani hukuman penjara 12 tahunnya?

Zahid mengatakan perkara ini dalam taklimat khasnya untuk UMNO pada minggu lepas.

Agak mengejutkan apabila berita Najib dipenjarakan selepas rayuannya ditolak di Mahkamah Persekutuan — keputusan yang dikekalkan oleh sembilan orang hakim di ketiga-ketiga peringkat mahkamah — ini dilaporkan di akhbar di seluruh dunia, tidak ada satu pun yang melaporkan perbicaraan ini sebagai tidak adil.

Majalah The Economist melaporkan perbicaraan Najib ini bukan sahaja melibatkan nasib seorang individu, tetapi melibatkan hala tuju yang bakal diambil oleh Malaysia sebagai sebuah negara.

Bagaimanapun, Zahid masih belum menjawab persoalan saya semalam mengenai mengapa dia tidak menjadi saksi dalam perbicaraan SRC Najib, memandangkan dia telah mengatakan yang dia telah berjumpa dengan keluarga kaya dari Arab yang dikatakan mendermakan dana ini kepada akaun peribadi Najib.

Saya masih menunggu jawapan Zahid mengenai perkara ini.

(Kenyataan Media (2) Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Gelang Patah pada hari Rabu, 30 Ogos 2022)

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National Day in 2022 is diametrically different from National Day in the last two years of 2020 and 2021 – as there is now  hope and anticipation instead of black despair and hopelessness

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The National Day today in 2022 is diametrically different from the National Day in the last two years of 2020 and 2021 – as there is now hope and anticipation instead of black despair and a sense of hopelessness.

In 2020 was the first National Day after the greatest political betrayal in the nation’s history when the Sheraton Move political conspiracy toppled the Pakatan Harapan government and shortened its rule from a mandate for five years to 22 months.

In 2021, the National Day was also subdued with UMNO toppling the Muhyiddin government and the beginning of Ismail Sabri premiership.

In both years, the National Day celebrations took place under the cloud of the world-wide Covid-19 pandemic, with Malaysia as one of the worst performers among the countries in the world with Malaysia’s ranking in the Bloomberg Covid Resilience Index tumbling from 16th place in January 2021 to 52nd ranking in July 2021 and Malaysia falling from a world ranking of No. 85 in November 2020 among countries with the most daily number of Covid-19 cases and overtook 59 countries as we are now ranked No. 26 with nearly 5 million Covid-19 cases and over 36,000 Covid-19 deaths.

But there is now hope when for the last 30 months there was black despair that the promise of spring-time of reform when UMNO-BN political hegemony was miraculously ended in the 14th General Election on May 9, 2018 was completely wasted, and now is the time for Malaysians to hope again that Malaysia can be saved from becoming a kleptocracy, kakistocracy, a failed and rogue state and that it is possible to hope again for Malaysia to fulfil its aspiration to be a world-class great nation and to be “a beacon of light to a difficult and distracted world”.

May 9, 2018 will go down in Malaysian history as an important date but it was the first step in a long struggle for change and reform. But without May 9, 2018, it would not be possible to expose the monstrous mega RM50 billion 1MDB scandal and recently the RM9 billion littoral combatant ships (LCS) scandal.

Malaysians who had toiled from all over the world in the Malaysian Diaspora in the 14th General Election to ensure that their votes were counted in the 2018 political miracle had not toiled and sacrificed in vain, but they must dare to continue to dream the Malaysian Dream.

I recently came into possession of a declassified document which showed that DAP leaders had been consistent and loyal to their ideals and beliefs.

This was the statement I made to the police while in police custody at the Kuala Selangor Police Station lock-up under the Internal Security Act after I voluntarily flew back to Malaysia on 18th May 1969.

I was asked about my political views and this was what I told the Police as stated in this declassified document:

(a) Malaysia is a multi-racial, multi-lingual and multi-cultural society, and a viable Malaysian nation can only be formed if all the races and groups in the country are given an equal stake under the Malaysian sun.

(b) In a multi-racial society like Malaysia, violence and any ideology of force, as for instance advocated by the CPM can only lead to the disintegration of the country because it quickly degenerates into racial conflict. I therefore deplore force and violence of all forms.

(c) In a multi-racial society, if any racial group feels it is backward, either educationally, economically, culturally, linguistically, or politically, then racial antagonism will be created. Every attempt must be made to remove these imbalances between the races and groups.

(d) Poverty is not a communal problem. It is a socio-economic problem. To regard poverty as a racial problem is to increase racial antagonism in this country.

(e) Democratic socialism can close the gap between the haves and the have-nots of all races.

(f) I want a clean, honest, efficient, incorruptible and effective government.

(g) Only parliamentary democracy can prevent a racial clash. Any other form of government will only lead to racial mistrust.

(h) Communism is unconducive in a multi-racial society like Malaysia.

Fifty-three years ago in 1969, I told the police about my political plans and I have devoted over half a century of my life to the commitments to continue my political work in the DAP to help bring about a genuine nation of Malaysians where :

(a) every citizen, regardless of his race, language or religion, regards himself as a Malaysian first and his racial identity secondary;

(b) Malaysians of all races have more in common with one another than with their ‘blood brothers’ counterpart be they in China, India or Indonesia. Unless we can achieve this, Malaysia cannot be said to have become “a Nation of Malaysians”.

I pledged that inside and outside Parliament, DAP and my theme will continue to be:

i) all Malaysians must be Malaysian conscious;

ii) to work in unison to make Malaysia an united, harmonious and prosperous nation.

I have lived by these ideals and commitments since 1969.

On this challenging 2022 National Day, there are new dangers in the land.

There are desperate forces trying to prevent the country from returning to the original nation-building principles and policies as enshrined in the Constitution and Rukun Negara – constitutional monarchy, parliamentary democracy, separation of powers, rule of law, good governance, public integrity, meritocracy, respect for human rights and national unity from our multi-racial, multi-lingual, multi-religious and multi-cultural diversity where there are no first-class and second-class citizens whether based on race, religion or region.

Malaysians must endorse the joint statement of the nine former Malaysian Bar presidents in full support of the current president Karen Cheah for her defence of the independence of the judiciary at these “unprecedented times” and in defence of “brave judges for upholding their oath of office without fear or favour”.

I would advise lawyers contemplating with their plans to undermine the principle of the independence of the judiciary and the doctrine of separation of powers to cease and desist to avoid infamy.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Wednesday, August 31, 2022)

Hari Kebangsaan pada tahun 2022 berbeza sama sekali berbanding dengan Hari Kebangsaan dalam dua tahun yang lepas pada 2020 dan 2021 – kini terdapat sinar harapan dan bukannya hanya perasaan putus asa dan kekecewaan

Hari Kebangsaan pada tahun 2022 berbeza sama sekali berbanding dengan Hari Kebangsaan dalam dua tahun yang lepas pada 2020 dan 2021 – kini terdapat sinar harapan dan bukannya hanya perasaan putus asa dan kekecewaan.

2020 adalah sambutan Hari Kebangsaan pertama selepas pengkhianatan politik terbesar dalam sejarah negara, di mana konspirasi Langkah Sheraton telah menumbangkan kerajaan Pakatan Harapan dan memendekkan penggal mandatnya dari lima tahun kepada hanya 22 bulan.

Pada tahun 2021 pula, Hari Kebangsaan sekali lagi ditenggelami dengan penumbangan Muhyiddin oleh UMNO dan permulaan penggal Ismail Sabri.

Dalam kedua-dua tahun ini, sambutan Hari Kebangsaan berlangsung semasa pandemik Covid-19 di seluruh dunia, dengan Malaysia sebagai salah satu negara dengan prestasi terburuk, di mana kedudukan Malaysia dalam Carta Ketahanan Covid Bloomberg jatuh dari tempat ke-16 pada bulan Januari 2021 kepada tempat ke-52 pada Julai 2021 dan, kedudukan Malaysia melonjak 59 anak tangga dari tempat ke-85 pada bulan November 2020 dengan jumlah kes tertinggi kepada tempat ke-26 hari ini dengan hampir 5 juta kes Covid-19 dan 36,000 kematian.

Namun, kini terdapat harapan selepas 30 bulan yang suram – kerana janji-janji reformasi selepas hegemoni politik UMNO-BN berakhir dalam Pilihan Raya Umum ke-14 pada 9 Mei 2018 adalah menjadi sia-sia – dan kini adalah masa untuk rakyat Malaysia berharap sekali lagi bahawa Malaysia dapat diselamatkan daripada menjadi sebuah kleptokrasi, kakistokrasi, atau negara gagal, bahawa kini, kita mampu untuk memenuhi aspirasi Malaysia untuk menjadi sebuah negara hebat bertaraf dunia dan menjadi “sinar cahaya dalam dunia yang sukar dan terganggu”.

9 Mei 2018 akan dicatatkan dalam sejarah Malaysia sebagai tarikh yang penting tetapi ia merupakan langkah pertama dalam perjuangan panjang untuk perubahan dan pembaharuan. Tanpa 9 Mei 2018, tidak mungkin kita dapat mendedahkan skandal besar 1MDB yang melibatkan RM50 bilion dan baru-baru ini skandal kapal tempur pesisir (LCS) yang melibatkan RM9 bilion.

Rakyat Malaysia yang telah bertungkus lumus dari seluruh dunia semasa Pilihan Raya Umum Ke-14 untuk memastikan undi mereka dikira dalam keajaiban politik 2018 tidak bersusah payah dan berkorban secara sia-sia, tetapi mereka harus berani untuk terus mengimpikan Impian Malaysia.

Saya baru-baru ini menerima dokumen yang telah dinyahrahsiakan yang menunjukkan pemimpin DAP sentiasa konsisten dan setia kepada cita-cita dan kepercayaan mereka.

Dokumen ini merupakan keterangan saya semasa dalam tahanan di Balai Polis Kuala Selangor di bawah Akta Keselamatan Dalam Negeri sejurus selepas saya pulang ke Malaysia pada 18 Mei 1969.

Saya ditanyakan mengenai pandangan politik saya dan saya telah katakan perkara seperti berikut yang dicatatkan dalam dokumen ini:

(a) Malaysia adalah sebuah masyarakat pelbagai kaum, bahasa, dan budaya, dan sebuah bangsa Malaysia yang berdaya maju hanya boleh dibentuk sekiranya semua kaum dan kumpulan dalam negara ini diberikan kepentingan yang sama.

(b) bahawa dalam masyarakat pelbagai kaum seperti di Malaysia, keganasan dan sebarang ideologi paksaan, misalnya seperti yang dibawa oleh PKM, yang akan membawa kepada kemusnahan negara kerana perkara ini akan secara pantas membawa kepada konflik perkauman. Oleh itu, saya mengecam paksaan dan keganasan dalam semua bentuk.

(c) bahawa dalam masyarakat pelbagai kaum, sekiranya ada mana-mana kumpulan kaum berasa yang mereka ketinggalan, baik dari pendidikan, ekonomi, budaya, bahasa, atau politik, maka antagonisme perkauman akan wujud. Segala usaha diperlukan untuk menghapuskan ketidakseimbangan di antara kaum dan kumpulan ini.

(d) bahawa kemiskinan bukanlah masalah perkauman. Ia adalah masalah sosio-ekonomi. Untuk menganggap kemiskinan sebagai masalah perkauman hanya akan meningkatkan antagonisme perkauman di dalam negara ini.

(e) bahawa sosialisme demokratik boleh menutup jurang di antara mereka yang berada dan mereka yang tidak berada dari kalangan semua kaum.

(f) bahawa saya mahukan kerajaan yang bersih, jujur, efisien, berdaya tahan terhadap rasuah, dan berkesan.

(g) bahawa hanya demokrasi berparlimen sahaja yang boleh mengelakkan pertembungan perkauman. Sebarang bentuk kerajaan yang lain hanya akan membawa kepada syak wasangka perkauman.

(h) bahawa komunisme tidak kondusif dalam masyarakat pelbagai kaum di Malaysia.”

Lima puluh tiga tahun yang lalu pada tahun 1969, saya telah menyatakan kepada pihak polis mengenai rancangan politik saya dan saya telah mendedikasikan lebih setengah abad kehidupan saya kepada komitmen untuk meneruskan kerja politik dalam DAP untuk mewujudkan sebuah negara Malaysia yang tulen, di mana:

(a) di mana semua rakyat, tanpa mengira kaum, bahasa, atau agama, menganggap dirinya sebagai pertamanya rakyat Malaysia dan meletakkan identiti kaum di tempat kedua;

(b) di mana rakyat Malaysia dari semua kaum mempunyai lebih banyak persamaan di antara satu sama lain berbanding dengan “saudara sedarah” mereka yang mungkin berada di China Merah/Nasionalis, India, atau Indonesia. Melainkan kita berjaya mencapai matlamat ini, Malaysia tidak boleh dikatakan sebagai telah menjadi “sebuah Negara Rakyat Malaysia”.

Saya telah berjanji, di luar dan di dalam Parlimen, tema saya dan DAP adalah:

(a) bahawa semua rakyat Malaysia perlu mempunyai kesedaran Malaysia;

(b) untuk bekerjasama menjadi Malaysia sebuah negara yang bersatu padu, harmoni, dan makmur.”

Saya sentiasa berpegang kepada idealisme dan komitmen ini sejak dari tahun 1969.

Dalam Hari Kebangsaan 2022 ini, terdapat ancaman bahaya baharu dalam negara.

Ada pihak-pihak yang terdesak yang kini sedang cuba menyekat negara kita dari kembali kepada prinsip dan dasar pembinaan negara yang asas yang termaktub dalam Perlembagaan dan Rukun Negara – raja berperlembagaan, demokrasi berparlimen, pemisahan kuasa, kedaulatan undang-undang, tadbir urus baik, integriti awam, meritokrasi, hormat kepada hak asasi manusia, dan perpaduan kebangsaan dari masyarakat pelbagai kaum, bahasa, agama, dan budaya kita, di mana tidak ada perbezaan rakyat kelas pertama atau kelas kedua sama ada mengikut acuan kaum, agama, atau kawasan.

Rakyat Malaysia perlu menyokong kenyataan bersama sembilan orang bekas Presiden Majlis Peguam Malaysia yang menyata sokongan penuh terhadap presiden Majlis Peguam, Karen Cheah, atas usahanya untuk mempertahankan kebebasan sistem kehakiman dalam “masa yang tidak menentu” ini dan dalam mempertahankan “hakim-hakim yang berani kerana memenuhi sumpah jawatan mereka tanpa rasa takut atau pilih kasih”.

Saya menasihati mana-mana peguam yang berfikir untuk merendah-rendahkan prinsip kebebasan sistem kehakiman dan doktrin pemisahan kuasa untuk berhenti berbuat demikian secara serta merta untuk mengelakkan dari memalukan diri mereka sendiri.

(Kenyataan Media oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Gelang Patah pada hari Rabu, 31 Ogos 2022)

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Will the 15GE be about Najib or the nation – whether he should be pardoned and freed without expressing regret for the monstrous mega RM50 billion 1MDB scandal or whether Malaysia must break away from the trajectory of a kleptocracy to become a world-class great nation?

The Prime Minister Ismail Sabri said the decision whether  he as the Prime Minister or Finance Minister Tengku Zafrul Abdul Aziz will present the 2023 Budget to the Dewan Rakyat on Oct 7 has yet to be made.

He said he is checking whether it is allowed according to the constitution and legislation for the Prime Minister to table next year’s budget himself and waiting for the Attorney-General’s advice.

It would be most improper for the Prime Minister  who is not the Finance Minister to present the Budget, as the Finance Minister  will be seen to be nothing but a pawn.

If Ismail thinks Tengku Zafrul Abdul Aziz is useless and utterly irrelevant, he should end Tengku Zaful’s appointment as Finance Minister and himself take over as Finance Minister – which does not make the decision right and will make Malaysia quite a joke in the world.

Ismail Sabri also said the Umno supreme council meeting last Saturday was held in a cordial atmosphere, and there were no issues or threats to his position if he did not fulfil the party’s request to dissolve Parliament as soon as possible.

This did not however reduce the speculation that Ismail is succumbing to pressure  to dissolve Parliament immediately after the tabling of the 2023 budget on Oct. 7, without allowing Parliament to debate and pass the budget.

Although this  had happened once before where  the budget was  tabled but  Parliament was  dissolved before the budget was passed by Parliament, it does not mean that it was right and proper and that it should be followed by subsequent Prime Ministers.

I would advise against it as it shows that the Prime Minister has no proper respect for Parliament.

In his second Open Letter to the Prime Minister, an ex-corporate man, Yusuf Hashim, said Ismail had made “a little difference in short time you’ve been a prime minister”, but he expressed  hope that in the next ten months, if Ismail “try to undo as much of the mess that 60 years of Umno and BN’s rule that has burdened our country”, he might turn out to be the best Prime Minister Malaysia ever had.

Will Ismail, the accidental Prime Minister, become the best Prime Minister Malaysia ever had?

Not if Parliament is dissolved next year, but an open question if the 15th general election is  held next year.

What is the 15th general election all about?

Will the 15th General Election be about one man, Najib Razak, or the nation – whether Najib should be pardoned and freed without expressing regret for the monstrous mega RM50 billion 1MDB scandal or whether Malaysia breaks away from the trajectory of a kleptocracy to become a world-class great nation?

The Court of Appeal, in its judgement upholding the corruption conviction and the sentence of 12 years’ jail and RM210 million fine, quoted the “immortal words” of Raja Azlan Shah (before he became Lord President and then Sultan of Perak) when he was the  trial judge in the Harun Idris case:

“To me this hearing seems to reaffirm the vitality of the rule of law.  But to many of us, this hearing also suggests frightening decay in the integrity of some of our leaders.

“It has given horrible illustrations of Lord Acton’s aphorism ‘power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely’, and has focussed concern on the need of some avowed limitations upon political authority.”

And as the Court of Appoeal Judgement concluded:

“And some forty-five years later these words still bear relevance to the appellant, and where we as a nation find ourselves at now. The ‘frightening decay in the integrity of some of our leaders’ that Raja Azlan Shah warned us of 45 years ago is still the scourge that plagues this beautiful nation. The courts in upholding the rule of law would have to do what is necessary to ensure that this modern day plague is eradicated for the good of the nation. The law is indeed ‘no respecter of persons’. All men are equal before the law, and the courts apply the law equally to all.”

May be for the first time, Raja Azlan’s judgement will become the most important issue in the 15th general election.

Let the next general election  be  one of Rule of Law vs Corruption –  Kleptocracy vs the Malaysian Dream of Malaysia as a world-class great nation!

(Media Statement (2) by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday, 1st September 2020)

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Zahid’s failure to be a witness in Najib Razak’s SRC International trial  to testify that he had  met the Arab family who donated cash into Najib’s accounts supports the stand of nine  judges that Najib’s Arab donation defence  was “untenable” and “unsustainable”

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UMNO President Zahid Hamidi’s failure to be a witness in former Prime Minister Najib Razak’s SRC International trial to testify that he had met the Arab family who donated cash into Najib’s accounts supports the stand of nine Malaysian judges that Najib’s Arab donation defence was “untenable” and “unsustainable”.

So far, apart from Zahid, nobody has met physically the mysterious Arab donor as even the delegation the then Attorney-General, Apandi Ali sent to Riyadh in 2015 had failed to meet the mysterious and fabled Arab donor.

Zahid owes an explanation to Malaysians, particularly the supporters of the “Malu

Apa BOSSku” movement, why he did not offer himself to be a witness to clear Najib of the charge that the Arab donation defence was untenable and unsustainable?

Apandi’s shocking admission that his delegation to Riyadh in 2015 failed to meet anyone from the “fabled Arab donor” was only known in 2021 (six years after the event) from Apandi’s own testimony in his defamation suit against me, and is to be found in High Court judge, Justice Azimah binti Omar’s 100-page judgment (Paragraph 136/137), viz:

“136. Through the entire breadth of the Plaintiff’s (Apandi) testimony, the Plaintiff has failed to give any cogent reasons behind his perplexing insistence to adopt the donation narrative (while absolving Najib Razak) although he readily admitted that his Riyadh delegation has utterly failed in its mission to verify the truth behind the fabled and fantastical donation. The Plaintiff further failed to afford any sound justification behind his puzzling decision to bend the truth regarding the supposed success of the Riyadh delegation (while in truth and reality, the Riyadh delegation had failed to speak or even meet with the fabled donor).

“137. The Plaintiff also failed to explain his glaring lack of proper knowledge behind the supposed evidences and statements the Riyadh delegation collected, to the extent that the Plaintiff could not even remember the name of the fabled or the famous donor he so intently contended upon.”

Apandi took six years to admit that the Attorney-General’s delegation to Riyadh in 2015 failed in its mission because it failed to speak or even meet with the “fabled” donor.

How long will it take Zahid to admit that what he told the Sri Gading UMNO annual division meeting in August 2015 that he had met representatives of the Arab family who donated into Najib’s accounts was a tall story?

If not a tall story, Zahid should name names now.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday, 1st September 2022)

Kegagalan Zahid menjadi saksi dalam perbicaraan SRC Najib untuk memberi keterangan bahawa dia telah bertemu dengan keluarga Arab yang menderma wang tunai ke dalam akaun Najib menguatkan pendirian sembilan hakim bahawa pembelaan derma Arab Najib adalah “tidak boleh dipertahankan” dan “tidak mampan”

Kegagalan Presiden, UMNO Zahid Hamidi, untuk menjadi saksi dalam perbicaraan SRC International bekas Perdana Menteri, Najib Razak, untuk memberi keterangan bahawa dia telah bertemu dengan keluarga Arab yang menderma wang tunai ke dalam akaun Najib menguatkan pendirian sembilan hakim Malaysia bahawa pembelaan derma Arab Najib “tidak boleh dipertahankan” dan “tidak mampan”.

Setakat ini, selain Zahid, tiada ada sesiapa yang telah bertemu dengan penderma Arab yang misteri itu secara fizikal, malah delegasi yang dihantar oleh Peguam Negara ketika itu, Apandi Ali, ke Riyadh pada tahun 2015 telah gagal untuk bertemu dengan penderma Arab yang bermisteri dan dongeng itu.

Zahid perlu menjelaskan kepada rakyat Malaysia, terutamanya penyokong kempen “Malu Apa BOSSku”, kenapa dia tidak menawarkan diri untuk menjadi saksi untuk membersihkan Najib daripada tuduhan bahawa alasan pembelaan derma Arab ini tidak boleh dipertahankan dan tidak mampan?

Pengakuan mengejutkan Apandi bahawa delegasinya ke Riyadh pada tahun 2015 gagal menemui sesiapa daripada “penderma Arab dongeng” ini hanya diketahui pada tahun 2021 (enam tahun selepas peristiwa itu) daripada keterangan Apandi sendiri dalam saman fitnahnya terhadap saya, dan boleh didapati dalam penghakiman 100 mukasurat Hakim Mahkamah, Hakim Azimah binti Omar, (Perenggan 136/137), iaitu:

“136. Melalui keseluruhan keterangan Plaintif (Apandi), Plaintif telah gagal memberikan sebarang alasan kukuh di sebalik desakan membingungkan dia untuk menerima pakai naratif derma (semasa membebaskan Najib Razak) walaupun dia dengan mudah mengakui bahawa delegasi Riyadh dia telah gagal dalam misinya. untuk mengesahkan kebenaran di sebalik derma dongeng dan fantasi ini. Plaintif seterusnya gagal untuk memberikan sebarang justifikasi yang kukuh di sebalik keputusannya yang membingungkan untuk mengubah realiti mengenai kejayaan yang dikatakan oleh delegasi Riyadh (sementara dalam kebenaran dan realiti, delegasi Riyadh telah gagal bercakap atau bertemu dengan penderma dongeng).

“137. Plaintif juga gagal menjelaskan kekurangan pengetahuannya yang jelas di sebalik bukti dan kenyataan yang sepatutnya dikumpul oleh delegasi Riyadh, sehinggakan Plaintif tidak dapat mengingati nama penderma yang dongeng atau terkenal yang dia pertikaikan dengan sungguh-sungguh.”

Apandi mengambil masa enam tahun untuk mengakui bahawa delegasi Peguam Negara ke Riyadh pada 2015 gagal dalam misinya kerana gagal bercakap atau bertemu dengan penderma “dongeng” ini.

Berapa lama pulakah masa yang akan diambil Zahid untuk mengakui bahawa apa yang dia katakan dalam mesyuarat tahunan bahagian UMNO Sri Gading pada Ogos 2015 bahawa dia telah bertemu dengan wakil keluarga Arab yang menderma ke dalam akaun Najib adalah cerita dongeng juga?

Sekiranya perkara ini bukanlah satu cerita dongeng, Zahid patut mendedahkan namanya sekarang.

(Kenyataan Media oleh Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Khamis, 1 September 2022)

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Attorney-General Idrus Harun  should review the redacted sections in the two reports on the RM9 billion LCS scandal declassified by the Cabinet in order to make the redacted sections public or should give reasons for the redactions

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The Attorney-General Idrus Harun should review the redacted sections in the two reports on the RM9 billion littoral combatant ships (LCS) scandal – the Ambrin Report of the Special Investigation Committee on Public Governance, Procurement and Finance the LCS (JKUSTUPKK) and the report of the forensic audit of the LCS procurement (2011-2014) carried out by Alliance IFA (M) Sdn. Bhd.- declassified by the Cabinet in order to make the redacted sections public or he should give reasons for the redactions.

This is to illustrate that the Government is now acting in according with the norms of good governance and not acting arbitrarily, which is the cause of the latest scandal in the country – the RM9 billion LCS scandal, which is shaping up to be the new 1MDB scandal.

The Defence Minister, Hishammuddin Hussein, should present a Ministerial Statement to Parliament when it reconvenes on Oct. 3 to explain how the Defence Ministry had implemented the recommendations of these two reports on the RM9 billion LCS scandal.

Although the two reports had been severely redacted, a reading of the two reports will show that the Najib Government, which must assume full responsibility for the largest defence procurement scandal in the history of Malaysia, had been serious remiss in its duty to safeguard the interests of both servicemen and ex-servicemen and that of the nation.

We should have five LCS in the Royal Malaysian Navy to safeguard the security and safety of the nation but because of the RM9 billion LCS scandal, Malaysia had been left naked..

Even with the redactions, a reading of the sub-headings of the reports will point to the conclusion that there had been gross abuses of power and breaches of trust.

This is clear, for instance, from the subheadings of the forensic audit report on the LCS scandal, like the following:

· Delegation of Authority to the MD and Misuse of Power.

· Protecting the interest of CAD at the cost of BNS.

· Anomalies detected in the Payment Milestones for the said LOAs

· LOA in favour of IHC Metalix BV and their selection process.

· Some of the Major Red Flags Ignored

· Important Elements Indicating Purposeful Mismanagement

· An Attempt to Cover Up

Can Hishammuddin explain why no one had been held responsible for the RM9 billion LCS scandal although the forensic audit report was completed in July 2020 while the Ambrin report was completed in August 2019?

(Media Statement (2) by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Friday, 2nd September 2022)

Peguam Negara perlu menyemak semula bahagian yang disunting dalam dua laporan mengenai skandal LCS yang dinyah-rahsia oleh Kabinet untuk mendedahkan bahagian ini secara terbuka atau berikan sebab mengapa bahagian ini perlu disunting

Peguam Negara, Idrus Harun, perlu menyemak semula bahagian yang disunting dalam dua laporan mengenai skandal LCS yang melibatkan RM9 billion – Laporan Jawatankuasa Siasatan Tadbir Urus, Perolehan dan Kewangan LCS (JKSTUPKK) dan laporan audit forensik perolehan LCS (2011-2014) yang dijalankan oleh Alliance IFA (M) Sdn. Bhd. – yang telah dinyah-rahsia dan diterbitkan oleh Kabinet untuk mendedahkan bahagian yang disunting secara terbuka atau dia perlu memberikan sebab untuk suntingan tersebut.

Perkara ini perlu dibuat untuk menunjukkan yang Kerajaan kini bertindak mengikut norma tadbir urus yang baik dan tidak bertindak sewenang-wenangnya seperti sebelum ini yang telah menjadi punca skandal terbaru dalam negara – skandal LCS yang melibatkan RM9 bilion, yang kini mengambil bentuk sebagai skandal 1MDB baharu.

Menteri Pertahanan, Hishammuddin Hussein, perlu memberikan Kenyataan Menteri kepada Parlimen apabila Parlimen bersidang semula pada 3 Oktober untuk menjelaskan bagaimana Kementerian Pertahanan telah melaksanakan cadangan dalam kedua-dua laporan mengenai skandal LCS ini.

Walaupun kedua-dua laporan itu telah disunting dengan teruk, pembacaan kedua-dua laporan itu akan menunjukkan bahawa Kerajaan Najib – yang mesti bertanggungjawab sepenuhnya ke atas skandal perolehan pertahanan terbesar dalam sejarah Malaysia – telah melakukan kelalaian yang amat serius dalam tugasnya untuk menjaga kepentingan anggota dan pesara tentera dan juga kepentingan negara.

Kita sepatutnya sudah mempunyai lima buah LCS bersama dengan Tentera Laut Diraja Malaysia untuk menjaga keselamatan dan kedaulatan negara tetapi kerana skandal LCS yang melibatkan RM9 bilion ini, Malaysia telah dibiarkan terdedah.

Walaupun dengan suntingan, pembacaan sub-tajuk laporan akan menunjukkan kesimpulan bahawa terdapat penyalahgunaan kuasa dan pecah amanah yang teruk.

Perkara ini jelas, sebagai contoh, daripada tajuk kecil laporan audit forensik mengenai skandal LCS, seperti berikut:

· Perwakilan Kuasa kepada MD dan Salah Guna Kuasa.

· Melindungi kepentingan CAD pada kos BNS.

· Anomali dikesan dalam Jadual Pembayaran untuk LOA

· LOA memihak kepada IHC Metalix BV dan proses pemilihan mereka.

· Beberapa Petanda Penting Diabaikan

· Unsur Penting yang Menunjukkan Salah Urus dengan Niat

· Percubaan untuk Menyorokkan

Bolehkah Hishammuddin menjelaskan mengapa tiada siapa yang bertanggungjawab terhadap skandal LCS yang melibatkan RM9 bilion walaupun laporan audit forensik telah disiapkan pada Julai 2020 manakala laporan Ambrin telah disiapkan pada Ogos 2019?

(Kenyataan Media (2) Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Jumaat, 2 September 2022)

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Annuar Musa should not make “brave” statements about being more proactive in tacking cybercrimes  when he continues to be dumb since  the revelation a month ago that the Malaysian police are running a “troll farm”

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The Minister for Communications and Multimedia, Annuar Musa should not make “brave” statements about being more proactive in tacking cybercimes when he continues to be dumb since the revelation a month ago that the Malaysian Police are running a troll farm.

Does the police running a troll farm come within the definition of what Annuar said in Malacca yesterday that the government would take “offensive, defensive and advocacy measures” in taking the country’s cyber security issues?

Would Annuar give a report to Parliament on the issue when it resumes sitting on

Oct. 3?

The media giant Meta had implicated the Malaysian Police in attempts to manipulate public discourse by setting up a “troll farm”.

Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, has alleged in its Quarterly Adversarial Threat Report that it had removed hundreds of Facebook and Instagram accounts, pages and groups which are part of a troll farm operated by the Police aimed at social media users in Malaysia

Meta removed 596 Facebook accounts, 180 pages, 11 groups and 72 Instagram accounts targeted domestic audiences in Malaysia.

The Meta Report said:

“The individuals behind it ran a troll farm – a coordinated effort by co-located operators to corrupt or manipulate public discourse by using fake accounts and misleading people about who is behind them.

“They were active across the internet, including Facebook, TikTok, Twitter and Instagram, and posted memes in Malay in support of the current government coalition, with claims of corruption among its critics.

“On Facebook, this network managed pages, including those posing as independent news entities, and promoted police while criticising the opposition.

“We found this network after reviewing information about a small portion of this activity initially suspected to have originated in China by researchers at Clemson University. Although the people behind it attempted to conceal their identity and coordination, our investigation found links to the Royal Malaysian Police.”

Apart from a weak and unconvincing denial by the Police, with a promise to get more information about the matter, there had been thunderous silence on the issue for close to a month.

Can Annuar respond?

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Friday, 2nd September 2022)

Annuar Musa tidak sepatutnya membuat kenyataan “berani” mengenai menjadi lebih proaktif dalam menangani jenayah siber apabila dia sendiri terus berpura-pura bodoh mengenai dakwaan yang pihak polis menjalankan “ladang toyol internet” yang didedahkan sebulan lepas

Menteri Komunikasi dan Multimedia, Annuar Musa tidak sepatutnya membuat kenyataan “berani” mengenai menjadi lebih proaktif dalam menangani jenayah siber apabila dia sendiri terus berpura-pura bodoh mengenai dakwaan yang pihak polis menjalankan “ladang toyol internet” yang didedahkan sebulan lepas.

Adakah aktiviti ladang toyol internet pihak polis ini termasuk dalam definisi apa yang Annuar katakan di Melaka semalam sebagai “langkah-langkah ofensif, defensif dan advokasi” oleh kerajaan dalam isu keselamatan siber negara?

Adakah Annuar akan memberikan laporan kepada Parlimen mengenai isu ini apabila Parlimen bersidang semula pada 3 Oktober?

Gergasi media, Meta, telah mendakwa yang Polis Diraja Malaysia terlibat dalam usaha memanipulasi perbincangan awam dengan membentuk “ladang toyol internet”.

Meta, yang memiliki laman media sosial Facebook dan Instagram, mendakwa dalam Laporan Ancaman Jahat (Adversarial Threat Report) yang diterbitkan setiap suku tahun yang syarikat tersebut telah membuang ratusan akaun, laman, dan kumpulan di Facebook dan Instagram, yang didakwa merupakan sebagai sebahagian daripada ladang toyol internet yang dikendalikan pihak Polis yang menyasarkan pengguna media sosial di Malaysia.

Meta membuang 596 akaun, 180 laman muka, dan 11 kumpulan dari Facebook, dan 72 akaun dari Instagram yang menyasarkan pengguna domestik di Malaysia.

Laporan Meta tersebut mengatakan:

“Individu di sebalik rancangan ini mengusahakan satu “ladang toyol internet” (troll farm) – satu usaha tersusun oleh operator yang berada di tempat yang berbeza untuk mencemarkan dan memanipulasikan perbahasan awam dengan menggunakan akaun palsu dan mengelirukan orang ramai mengenai siapa di sebalik akaun-akaun ini.

“Mereka aktif di seluruh internet, termasuklah di Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, dan Instagram, dengan menyiarkan meme dalam bahasa Melayu dan menunjukkan sokongan terhadap gabungan kerajaan sedia ada sambil menuduh terdapat korupsi dalam kalangan pengkritiknya.

“Di Facebook, jaringan ini menguruskan laman-laman, termasuklah sesetengah yang berpura-pura sebagai entiti berita bebas, dan mempromosikan dasar sambil mengkritik pihak pembangkang.

“Kami menemui rangkaian ini selepas meneliti maklumat dari sebahagian kecil aktiviti ini – yang pada mulanya disyaki berasal dari China – yang ditemui oleh penyelidik di Clemson University. Walaupun dalang di sebalik operasi ini cuba untuk menyembunyikan identiti dan usaha mereka, penyiasatan kami mendapati kaitan dengan pihak Polis Diraja Malaysia.”

Selain daripada penafian yang lemah dan tidak meyakinkan oleh pihak Polis, dengan janji untuk mendapatkan maklumat lanjut mengenai perkara itu, tidak ada apa-apa jawapan kukuh mengenai isu ini selama hampir sebulan.

Bolehkah Annuar menjawab mengenai perkara ini?

(Kenyataan Media Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Kuala Lumpur pada hari Jumaat, 2 September 2022)

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Attorney-General Idrus Harun should clarify whether  the redacted sections in the two declassified reports on the RM9 billion LCS scandal had nothing to do with defence secrets but protect the “Big Shark”  in the LCS scandal and  hide the connection of  the  Scorpene submarine  with the LCS procurements

The Attorney-General  Idrus Harun should clarify whether  the redacted sections in the two declassified reports on the RM9 billion littoral combatant ships (LCS) scandal had nothing to do with defence secrets but protect the “Big Shark”  in the LCS scandal and hide the connection of  the  Scorpene submarine  with the LCS procurements.

The Cabinet next Wednesday should summon the Attorney-General to appear before it and explain the reasons for the redactions in the two reports on the RM9 billion LSC scandal – the Ambrin Report of the Special Investigation Committee on Public Governance, Procurement and Finance the LCS (JKUSTUPKK) and the report of the forensic audit of the LCS procurement (2011-2014) carried out by Alliance IFA (M) Sdn. Bhd..

If there are no defence secrets in the redacted sections in the two reports, and the redactions  were meant purely to hide the identity of the  mastermind behind the  RM9 billion LCS scandal and the connection of the Scorpene submarine and LCS procurements, the Cabinet should overrule the Attorney-General and order the  redacted sections of the two reports which contain no defence secrets to be declassified and made available to the public.

It is completely ridiculous that even the list of abbreviations in the forensic audit report had been redacted in the case of  one abbreviation.

Anyone who visit the Sarawak Report website and read the forensic audit report can make an intelligent  guess as to what abbreviation had been redacted.

If it is so easy to guess what is the abbreviation in the forensic audit  report’s abbreviation list  which had been redacted, what is the purpose of the redaction?

In fact, the clumsy redaction has only raised more questions!

I had asked Zahid Hamidi, the UMNO President who was Defence Minister at the relevant time of the LCS procurement from 2009 to 2013 why on July 11, 2011, he had overturned his own decision as recommended by the Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN) to contract six Dutch-made Sigma LCS and chose the Scorpene manufacturer’s six French-made Gowind LCS without consulting the Navy, the end-user.

In fact, the RM9 billion LCS was so contractor-centric instead of end user-driven, that the Navy never knew that the decision to pprocure Sigma LCS had been overturned until informed by the contractor.

No wonder the then head of Royal Malaysian Navy, Admiral Abdul Aziz Jaafar said in one of his 10 letters of protest – five to the Defence Minister and two to the Prime Minister which were all ignored – that “there is no precedent of the design being decided by the main contractor and not the end-user”.

Abdul Aziz said “something was gravely wrong” as the navy and not the contractor should be setting the terms of the LCS contract but the Royal Malaysian Navy was “fighting a losing battle”.

Idrus Harun should explain whether the redacted sections of the two reports would provide an answer to this question which I had repeatedly asked Zahid and which Zahid had repeatedly avoided.

Has abuses of power, breaches of trust, malpractices and corruption become defence secrets in Malaysia?

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Saturday, 3rd September 2022)

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With Rosmah’s conviction and jail sentence, there is more light at the tunnel but the big battle will be the 15th General Election as even the UMNO Secretary-General has agreed that it will be a battle of Rule of Law versus Corruption

With Rosmah Mansor conviction and jail sentence for corruption,  a week after Federal Court’s  unanimous dismissal of the former Prime Minister’s appeal on Najib’s first corruption trial, there is more light at the end of the tunnel.

There is no guarantee that the “more light at the end of the tunnel” will represent the final victory of the return of the original nation-building principles and policies as stated in the Malaysian Constitution and Rukun Negara, as there is a big battle looming ahead  – the 15th General Election.

The UMNO Secretary-General Ahmad Maslan had said that Umno and BN must win big in the 15th general election so that Najib Razak’s “sacrifice” for the party will not be futile.

The Umno secretary-general wants the former prime minister’s “Bossku” spirit to be continued by BN.

There is no word of regret for the 1MDB mega scandal, no word of remorse for Malaysia’s world-wide infamy of being a kleptocracy, no word of contrition at the other 1MDB scandals like the recently-exposed RM9 billion littoral combatant ships (LCS) scandal.

The 15th General Election will be a battle between the Rule of Law versus Corruption.

Will the former win and bring “more light at the end of the tunnel”?

Maslan’s statement is virtually saying that the 15th General Election will be a battle of the Rule of Law versus Corruption.

There is no surety beforehand  that Najib will be jailed or Rosmah found guilty.  The fact Najib is now serving his jail sentence and Rosmah pronounced guilty of corruption marked an important milestone in a national  reset to return to the original nation-building principles and policies of the country – constitutional monarchy, parliamentary democracy, separation of powers, rule of law, good governance, public integrity, meritocracy, respect for human rights and national unity from our multi-racial, multi-lingual, multi-religious and multi-cultural diversity where there are no first-class and second-class citizens whether based on race, religion or region.

UMNO and BN want to turn the 15th General Election into a vote for Najib and Rosmah and against the nine judges who had unanimously adjudged Najib guilty of corruption and the High Court judge who found Rosmah also guilty of corruption on Thursday.

In the next general election, a vote for UMNO and BN will be a vote for  Najib and for corruption against the Rule of Law.

Rais Hussin, the CEO of  Emir Research, is right when he wrote: “The signs of UMNO trying to re-dominate the judiciary are already clear”.

To Rais Hussin, UMNO wants to “put a lease on the future attorney-general should UMNO/BN come to power”.

Former Bersih 2.0 chairperson Maria Chin Abdullah, former  Bersih 2.0 secretariat manager Mandeep Singh and steering  committee members Toh Kin Woon and Jay Jay Denis are right, when in their joint statement they said that the struggle against graft by Malaysians who took to the streets in the Bersih rallies has borne fruit in the conviction and sentencing of former premier Najib Abdul Razak and his wife, Rosmah Mansor.

They thanked Malaysians for taking to the streets to protest despite the various threats and challenges lobbed against them by the then government.

In retrospect, the Bersih rallies and the “political miracle” of the 14th General Election of May 9, 2018 were just the first  steps in the long struggle  lasting decades and spanning  several General Elections for a national reset to return to the original nation-building principles and policies embedded in the Malaysian Constitution and Rukun Negara and Malaysians must be prepared for the long haul in the battle to save Malaysia as an united, harmonious and prosperous nation  and to become a world-class great nation.

(Media Statement (2) by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Saturday, 3rd September 2022)

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Agree with Muhyiddin there is no need to debate Hadi’s “root of corruption” remarks as it is as clear as day that they are  unMalaysian, irrational, extremist, without any theoretical, theological  or factual basis

I agree with Perikatan Nasional Chief Muhyddin Yassin that there is no need to debate the “root cause of corruption” remarks of the PAS President, Abdul Hadi Awang, as it is as clear as day that the remarks are unMalaysian, irrational,   extremist, without any theoretical, theological or factual basis.

Islam is one of the great religions of the world and teaches human being to be good, but Hadi has no problem in condoning corruption and working with Najib Razak, one of the masterminds of the monstrous mega 1MDB financial scandal.

Islam does not differentiate  among the  races but Hadi keeps spouting irrational, extremist and racist views. There are some 1.8 billion Muslims in the world as of 2015 – roughly 24% of the global population – and the majority of Muslims globally (62%) live in the Asia-Pacific region like Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Iran and Turkey while only about 20% of the world’s Muslims live in Middle East-North Africa region where the religion originated in the seventh century.

Corruption is not a racial or nationality  problem but Hadi continues to identify corruption with race or nationality.  There is not a single Muslim-majority among the top 10 countries regarded as least corrupt, while three Muslim-majority countries are among 10 countries regarded as the most corrupt in the world.

When the Transparency International started its annual Corruption Perception Index in 1995, Malaysia was way ahead of India,  China and Indonesia  which were respectively ranked No. 35 with 2.78 points (India), 40 with 2.16 points (China) and  41 with 1.94 points (Indonesia)  out of 41 countries surveyed. Malaysia was in 1995 ranked No. 23 and scored 5.28 out of 10 points.

After 27 years, in the TI CPI 2021, Malaysia is ranked No. 62 out of 180 nations with a score of 48 out of 100 points as compared to China which is ranked No. 66 with a score of 45 points,  India ranked No. 85 with a score of 40 points while Indonesia ranked No. 96 with a score of  38 points.

All the three countries of China, India and Indonesia have  made great strides in fighting corruption, particularly Indonesia which has improved its score from 1.94 points out  of 10 to 38 points out of 100, but Malaysia is among the few countries which  had regressed to the extent that a former Prime Minister had just been jailed for a monstrous mega financial scandal which would have been covered up if there had not been a change of government in the 14th General Election in 2018.

Instead of  spearheading the battle against worsening corruption in Malaysia, Hadi has come out with a perverted version to give racial twist to the problem of corruption in Malaysia – something the voters of Malaysia must not forget when they go to the polls in the 15th General Election, whether this year or next year.

Hadi has only confirmed that the 15th General Election will, among others things, be a contest between the Rule of Law versus Corruption.

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday, 4th September 2022)

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Three examples of “toxic politics”

Jeffrey Cheah, the founder and chairman of Sunway Group,  is right.

In his National Day Open Letter to fellow Malaysian, he wrote:

“We must all do what we can to clean up the toxicity that influence our conversations on race, religion and culture.”

Malaysia must clean up the toxicity that poisons Malaysia and condemns the country to a rogue and failed state.

Three such toxicity in recent years come to mind.

The most recent of the three examples of toxic politics  is by the PAS President, Hadi Abdul Awang, who said he would answer in court about his recent  statement accusing non-Muslims and non-Bumiputeras of being at the root of corruption in Malaysia.

There is no need for the courts to pass judgment as the court of public opinion have already convicted Hadi as a bigot and extremist, who is not prepared to be a Malaysian, seeing all things through extremist racist and extremist religious lens.

When the Transparency International (TI)  started its annual Corruption Perception Index (CPI)  in 1995, Malaysia was way ahead of India,  China and Indonesia  which were respectively ranked No. 35 with 2.78 points (India), 40 with 2.16 points (China) and  41 with 1.94 points (Indonesia)  out of 41 countries surveyed. Malaysia was in 1995 ranked No. 23 and scored 5.28 out of 10 points.

After 27 years, in the TI CPI 2021, Malaysia is ranked No. 62 out of 180 nations with a score of 48 out of 100 points as compared to China which is ranked No. 66 with a score of 45 points,  India ranked No. 85 with a score of 40 points while Indonesia ranked No. 96 with a score of  38 points.

All  three countries of China, India and Indonesia have  made great strides in fighting corruption while Malaysia had been falling behind and ranked and scored worse than in 1995.

Malaysia expects worse results in the TI CPI 2022.

China is likely to  overtake Malaysia before the end of this decade while Indonesia and India might do so by this decade or the next.

What this illustrates is that Hadi’s remarks were completely irrational, bigoted, without any theological or factual basis.

As a leader of a political party aspiring for power, Hadi should be spearheading  a campaign to fight corruption instead of justifying corruption by extremist and bigoted theories.

Instead Hadi has done the opposite and  will disagree with Jeffrey Cheah with this statement in his National Day Open Letter:

“The recent decisions by the courts on corruption cases have sparked hope. The judiciary’s upholding of its institutional  integrity is a huge step forward in this war against corruption.”

The second incident happened at the end of 2018.

I had repeatedly asked the Foreign Minister, Saifuddin Abdullah to admit that the 2018 International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) fiasco was solely his own making as  he was Foreign Minister in Pakatan Harapan Government and that DAP knew nothing about the proposed ICERD ratification although DAP was the target of demonization for being anti-Malay, anti-Islam and anti-Royalty.

We are still living with the consequences of such toxic politics of lies, hatred, race and religion, so deftly mobilised during the ICERD fiasco in 2018 by among others, Hadi of PAS.

The third toxic event was the Sheraton political conspiracy in February 2020, which unconstitutionally, illegally and undemocratically toppled the Pakatan Harapan Government in 22 months.

As Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, who was Prime Minister of the 22-month Pakatan Harapan Government wrote in his recent book “Capturing Hope”, the Sheraton Move conspirators played the toxic politics of promoting a “Malay-Muslim government” by falsely alleging that “the Chinese-dominated DAP was in control of the country” to justifry  the toppling of the Pakatan Harapan government.

This has led to the formation of two back-door governments and black despair among the people who wanted an united, fair,  just and prosperous Malaysia which could live up to its potential to be a world-class great nation.

Until August 23, 2022 for which social critic Zan Azlee pen an article entitled: “Malaysia has done the unimaginable, and we can do more”

But will Hadi end his toxic politics in Malaysia and demonstrate that he is a leader who is Malaysian first?

(Media Statement (2) by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday, 4th September 2022)

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Hadi himself is the reason why the PAS Non-Muslim wing cannot get Chinese support

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Yesterday, the PAS President Hadi Awang asked why the PAS Non-Muslim wing cannot get Chinese support and said there is no reason the party should fail to garner support from non-Muslims, pointing to DAP’s record of electing Indian MPs in Chinese-majority seats.

In asking this question, Hadi had only exposed a major defect in his political leadership for Hadi himself is the reason why the PAS Non-Muslim wing and PAS cannot win Chinese or non-Muslim support.

How can PAS get Chinese or non-Muslim support with Hadi’s extremist, bigoted and irrational statements like the recent one accusing non-Muslims and non-Bumiputeras of being at the root of corruption in Malaysia.

What is worse, the PAS Non-Muslim Supporters Wing (DHPP)) is led by people who do not have the courage to disagree with Hadi’s extremist and bigoted views.

Even thinking Muslims are repelled by Hadi’s extremist and bigoted views.

Transparency International-Malaysia (TI-M) President, Mohammad Mohan has censured Hadi for having a narrow myopic view of corruption.

He said corruption is colour blind and such comments made in a multiracial, multiethnic and multifaith democracy were “deplorable, racist, slanderous and potentially seditious”.

He said Hadi’s remarks smack of a narrow, myopic view on corruption and provokes feelings which are in direct antithesis with the prime minister’s concept of ‘Keluarga Malaysia’ and that in the month of Merdeka, it was sad and shameful to hear such baseless and provocative comments on eradicating corruption.

Hadi is in the unique position of being the Special Envoy to the Prime Minister to the Middle East but who is banned from visiting the most important Middle East country. Saudi Arabia.

Can Hadi explain how he could be the Prime Minister’s Special Envoy to the Middle East when his is banned from visiting the most important Middle East country, Saudi Arabia? Furthermore, is it true that Saudi Arabia is not the only Middle East country he is banned from visiting?

Would’nt a self-respecting political leader resign his appointment under these circumstances or is he more attracted to the emoluments and perks of the appointment without having to do any work?

If Hadi wants PAS to penetrate non-Muslim areas, then Hadi must give up his extremist and bigoted views.

Is he prepared to emulate the DAP to be Malaysian First and all ethnic, religious and cultural identities and ties second?

Hadi is behind time and continues to spout irrational, extremist and even racist views.

He does not realise that Islam does not differentiate among the races, religions, cultures or nationalities on the question of corruption.

There are some 1.8 billion Muslims in the world as of 2015 – roughly 24% of the global population – and the majority of Muslims globally (62%) live in the Asia-Pacific region like Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Iran and Turkey while only about 20% of the world’s Muslims live in Middle East-North Africa region where the religion originated in the seventh century.

There is not a single Muslim-majority among the top 10 countries regarded as least corrupt, while three Muslim-majority countries are among 10 countries regarded as the most corrupt in the world.

There is no need for the courts to pass judgment as the court of public opinion have already convicted Hadi as a bigot and extremist, who is not prepared to be a Malaysian, seeing all things through extremist racist and extremist religious lens.

When the Transparency International (TI) started its annual Corruption Perception Index (CPI) in 1995, Malaysia was way ahead of India, China and Indonesia which were respectively ranked No. 35 with 2.78 points (India), 40 with 2.16 points (China) and 41 with 1.94 points (Indonesia) out of 41 countries surveyed. Malaysia was in 1995 ranked No. 23 and scored 5.28 out of 10 points.

After 27 years, in the TI CPI 2021, Malaysia is ranked No. 62 out of 180 nations with a score of 48 out of 100 points as compared to China which is ranked No. 66 with a score of 45 points, India ranked No. 85 with a score of 40 points while Indonesia ranked No. 96 with a score of 38 points.

All three countries of China, India and Indonesia have made great strides in fighting corruption while Malaysia had been falling behind and ranked and scored worse than in 1995.

Can Hadi explain this phenomenon through his irrational and extremist logic?

(Media Statement by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siagj in Penang on Monday September 5, 2022)

Hadi sendirilah punca mengapa sayap bukan-Islam PAS gagal mendapatkan sokongan orang Cina

Semalam, presiden PAS, Hadi Awang, bertanya mengapa sayap bukan-Islam PAS gagal untuk mendapatkan sokongan orang Cina dan mengatakan tidak ada sebab untuk parti tersebut gagal mendapatkan sokongan golongan bukan-Islam dengan menunjukkan rekod DAP yang berjaya mendapatkan undian untuk Ahli Parlimen India di kerusi majoriti Cina.

Dalam bertanya persoalan ini, Hadi hanya mendedahkan satu kelemahan besar kepimpinan politiknya, kerana Hadi sendirilah punca mengapa sayap bukan-Islam PAS dan juga PAS sendiri gagal untuk memenangi sokongan orang Cina atau sokongan dari golongan bukan-Islam.

Bagaimanakah mungkin untuk PAS mendapatkan sokongan orang Cina atau golongan bukan-Islam dengan pandangan Hadi yang bersifat ekstremis, taksub, dan tidak rasional, seperti kenyataannya baru-baru ini yang menuduh orang bukan-Islam dan bukan-Bumiputera sebagai punca kepada rasuah di Malaysia.

Apa yang lagi teruk, Dewan Himpunan Penyokong PAS (DHPP) ini diketuai oleh orang yang tidak mempunyai keberanian untuk tidak bersetuju dengan pandangan ekstrem Hadi.

Malah, orang Islam yang berfikir sendiri pun tertolak dengan pandangan ekstrem Hadi.

Presiden Transparency International Malaysia (TI-M), Mohammad Mohan, telah menyelar Hadi kerana mempunyai pandangan mengenai rasuah yang sebegitu sempit.

Dia mengatakan, rasuah tidak mengambil kira warna kulit, dan komen sebegini yang dibuat dalam demokrasi yang terdiri daripada pelbagai kaum, etnik, dan kepercayaan merupakan satu perkara yang “terkutuk, rasis, memfitnah, dan menghasut”.

Dia mengatakan, kenyataan Hadi ini menunjukkan pandangan terhadap rasuah yang bersifat sempit dan membangkitkan perasaan yang bertentangan dengan konsep Keluarga Malaysia Perdana Menteri, dan amatlah menyedihkan dan memalukan untuk mendengari komen yang tidak berasas dan provokatif sebegini dalam bulan Kemerdekaan.

Hadi berada dalam kedudukan yang unik sebagai Duta Khas Perdana Menteri ke Timur Tengah tapi pada masa yang sama diharamkan dari melawat salah satu negara Timur Tengah yang paling penting, Arab Saudi.

Bolehkah Hadi menjelaskan bagaimana dia boleh menjadi Duta Khas Perdana Menteri ke Timur Tengah sedangkan dia diharamkan daripada melawat salah satu negara Timur Tengah yang paling penting, Arab Saudi? Tambahan lagi, benarkah Arab Saudi bukan satu-satunya negara Timur Tengah yang melarang Hadi dari melawati negara mereka?

Bukankah sepatutnya seorang pemimpin politik yang bermaruah meletakkan jawatan lantikannya dalam keadaan sebegini? Atau adakah dia lebih tertarik dengan emolumen dan manfaat daripada pelantikan ini tanpa perlu melakukan apa-apa tugasnya?

Sekiranya Hadi ingin PAS untuk mula menembusi kawasan bukan-Islam, Hadi perlu mengetepikan pandangan taksub dan ekstremisnya.

Adakah dia bersedia untuk mencontohi DAP untuk mengutamakan identitinya sebagai rakyat Malaysia, sebelum lain-lain identiti kaum, agama, atau budaya?

Hadi sudah ditinggalkan zaman namun masih terus mengeluarkan pendapat yang tidak rasional, bersifat ekstreme, malah rasis.

Dia tidak sedar yang Islam tidak melihat perbezaan di antara kaum, agama, budaya, atau kewarganegaraan apabila berhadapan dengan isu rasuah.

Terdapat kira-kira 1.8 billion orang Islam di seluruh dunia setakat tahun 2015 – kira 24% populasi dunia – dan majoriti orang Islam ini (62%) berada di kawasan serantau Asia Pasifik seperti Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Iran, dan Turki, manakala hanya kira-kira 20% berada di kawasan Timur Tengah-Afrika Utara, di mana agama ini bermula pada abad ketujuh.

Tidak ada satu pun negara majoriti Islam dalam kalangan 10 negara yang dianggap paling tidak korup, manakala tiga pula negara majoriti Islam berada dalam kalangan 10 negara yang dianggap sebagai paling korup di dunia.

Tidak ada keperluan untuk menghukum memandangkan orang awam sudah pun melihat Hadi sebagai seorang pentaksub dan ekstremis yang tidak bersedia untuk menjadi seorang rakyat Malaysia, sebaliknya melihat segalanya melalui kaca mata yang amat rasis dan bersifat pelampau keagamaan.

Semasa Transparency International (TI) mula menerbitkan Indeks Persepsi Rasuah (CPI) pada tahun 1995, Malaysia berada jauh di hadapan India, China, dan Indonesia, yang masing-masing berada di tempat ke-35 dengan 2.78 mata (India), tempat ke-40 dengan 2.16 mata (China), dan tempat ke-41 dengan 1.94 mata (Indonesia) dari 41 negara yang ditinjau. Malaysia berada di tempat ke-23 dengan 5.28 mata dari 10 mata.

Selepas 27 tahun, dalam TI CPI 2021, Malaysia berada di tempat ke-62 dari 180 buah negara, dengan markah 48/100 mata, berbanding dengan China yang kini berada di tempat ke-66 dengan 45 mata, India di tempat ke-85 dengan 40 mata, dan Indonesia di tempat ke-96 dengan 38 mata.

Semua ketiga-tiga negara China, India, dan Indonesia telah mencapai peningkatan dalam usaha memerangi rasuah, manakala Malaysia pula ketinggalan di belakang dan berada dalam kedudukan yang lebih buruk berbanding dengan semasa tahun 1995.

Bolehkah Hadi menjelaskan fenomena ini melalui logik tidak rasional dan ekstremisnya?

(Kenyataan Media Ahli Parlimen DAP Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang di Pulau Pinang pada hari Isnin, 5 September 2022)

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