Malaysians- forget about Wikileaks

Wikileaks's revelation about how Singaporean leaders view PM Najib is only the proverbial tip of the iceberg. Simply put, you can't immediately erase conditioned thinking quickly. Malaysian leaders in general, and not just PM Najib alone, are regarded as 'deficient' in many aspects. So, as BG Yeo, Singapore's foreign minister said- let's not take this out of context. Perhaps, this general patronizing impression on Malaysia's leaders is making its rounds as cocktail circuit bitchy talks only.

Our diplomats and the well-heeled are making the same bitchy remarks about the PM and his wife. So what is new?

I shall leave out some of the more damaging remarks Singapore leaders placed on PM Najib. My source is not Wikileaks but from some source that is well connected to Singapore leaders themselves on a first hand basis. It's better than Wikileaks.

Singapore's rather condescending assessment on PM Najib must have accentuated at the time about the way Malaysia handles the issue of KTM land and related matters some time ago. Earlier on of course, the way we handle Batu Puteh more or less confirmed Singapore's belief that Malaysian leaders from the Information Minster to the 3^rd class honors AG are mentally deficient.

But at this moment, the story of the hour is, Malaysians are more interested in accepting as true, what Wikileaks reported on Anwar Ibrahim. Anwar Ibrahim did it, but did it because he was entrapped. If there is any possible means at damaging control, it lies in the spin that can be manufactured around the term 'entrapment'.

Anwar Ibrahim and his people will of course take the revelations as lies and conspiracies and allegations which are not true. Well, if they say what Wikileaks say about Anwar is not true, THEN they will also have to say the assessment on Najib is also not true. PKR people can't say that said about Anwar isn't true but then insist what Wikileaks said about Najib is true, can they?

But Anwar's people can also say, if what Wikileaks said about Najib is not true, THEN, what it said about Anwar is also not true. Wikileaks's revelations about the two leaders cancel each other out then.

But I think, PM Najib's worries about being assessed unfavorably cannot be as disquieting as having him being more worried about whether his NEM and his economic initiatives will succeed. If he isn't focused there, his NEM could easily turn out to be his NAM (American GIs slang for Vietnam). This could be his Waterloo.

Quite apart from the perception of Singapore's leaders in him, the perception of OUR people of his various economic initiatives is even more important. So let's forget about what Singapore thinks of us, forget about Wikileaks and instead let's concentrate on what OUR people think of his policies.

So far, the talks that are making their rounds are that PM has only been announcing this and that. None has been implemented yet. Meanwhile, corporate maneuverings facilitated by dubious interference and manipulation by people close to the PM are creating deep disproval from people. People are not shaken off from this mistrust that all his economic initiatives are just means whereby some privileged and well-connected groups of individuals are making a killing.

The owner of Pavilion for example has been awarded a RM 1.8 billion deal to supply coaches to KTM commuter services. The project has been stalled for over a year when they found that the coaches couldn't run on our tracks. Why did KTM abandon its tender exercise calling for the supply of the coaches halfway and then, suddenly, the owner of Pavilion who has no experience in railway line was given the sweetheart deal? How much is the loss at KTM?

As another example, how could YTL Communications be so brazen as to announce that it has been given the 700 MHz spectrum? The talks going around are that YTL got an endorsement from one of the Malay rulers who then passed the proposal to PM Najib. Najib's minuted remarks on that proposal were misconstrued as approval. YTL was absolute confident, given the endorsement from a Malay king and the eventual written remarks from the PM probably open ended as usual , convinced YTL it had the 700 MHz in the bag.

First and foremost, PM Najib should ignore the snide asides from Singaporeans and concentrate on the number 1 scourge of corruption that has reached endemic levels.

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Willy-nilly leadership.

 

Many of you are familiar with this tale.

There are two crab vendors selling the crustaceans from a basket. You will quickly notice the baskets. The Malay seller has an open basket. The Chinese covers his basket with a lid.

The Malay crab seller has no worries about his crabs escaping. So he sells his crabs from an open basket. The Chinese seller on the other hand, worries if he doesn't cover his basket with a lid, his crabs will escape.

Why the difference, you ask? Well, the crabs in the Malay basket will never be able to escape. Because at any time any crab wants to climb up, the crabs below will pull it down. The Chinese on the other hand continues to worry. Because if anyone crab wants to climb over, the crabs below it will help push it up.

I find this comparison most apt to describe the leadership pattern in UMNO. My friend Aspan Alias wrote another interesting piece. He describes the ascension of leadership in UMNO as being the luck of the coconut husk or the luck of the stone. The husk floats, the stone submerges.

Picture this. Rumors that Khairy Jamaludin is to be appointed as deputy finance minister have created some sort of panic among UMNO circles. Here is an UMNO fellow- leader of an organization within UMNO whose any development affecting him is met with hostilities. And they come from the crabby UMNO people. We are talking about 1 Malaysia where we can't even achieved 1 UMNO. Those were just rumors, we can't imagine if it actually takes place.

UMNO is still caught up with its own internal politicking. And I doubt seriously, if this places UMNO in a state of readiness to do battle in GE13.

UMNO has never been great at nurturing leadership. We don't have a system. Our leaders rise up because of fortuitous events. The most common being, you are the sons and daughters of previous leaders. Accidental you may say.

UMNO is caught in the conventional wisdom of expecting good men coming forward willy-nilly, shashaying down the catwalk. Maybe this is why we do have some aw aw leaders. In other words, we expect good leaders to emerge naturally.

We don't replicate the old ecosystem anymore. Nationalism, the quest of independence, social awareness of the old days nurtures natural leaders. We can't replicate them.

We have seen the outcome too. Most of these leaders fell on the way side letting the trappings of power overwhelmed them. Thus we have leaders who encases his leadership with material decadence, cars, mansions, phalanx of bodyguards, trophy wives etc.

So it's a sad day, when a true blue UMNO like Aspan asks the question. If we were to replace people like Mat Hassan in Negeri Sembilan, Adnan Yaakob in Pahang, any other UMNO leader at state and national levels, he asked- who can we find to replace them?

Is there a famine in UMNO?

Is UMNO thinking, in the next 10 years, how do we allow a new generation of leaders to take over? There are those who belonged to the school of leaders being born kind of thinking. That is just a rehashed version of leaving it to chance. Or choosing leaders by bloodline on the basis of who they are NOT on the basis of what they can do.

What will UMNO have then? It will have a system that is self-perpetuating. A political cloning exercise. Hence DR Mahathir can't tolerate leaders after him who don't share his thinking and feelings. We don't need this kind of system. We need a self-continuing not a self-perpetuating so that, in the event of the exit of a previous leader, the system is intact to allow the country to continue. UMNO is choosing its leaders on the basis of I like this fellow, so I will groom him.

We wait for leaders to be born and accept unquestioningly that scions of previous leaders are so obvious candidates as future leader, that their shortcomings are often overlooked. Hishamudin Husein Onn's qualifications appear to be that he is the son of a former PM. His performance this far has been lackluster but no one will contemplate removing him, because he is assumed to carry the genes of leadership. We have so many in the UMNO line up.

Right now, UMNO attracts the second careerists- those better and able don't want to join UMNO. They can't rise to the top because of the Malay crab mentality. So unless, this leadership assumed an enlightened role, it will have to promote the deserving people through a system. We can't leave it to chance and hoping willy-nilly somebody, born from well to do families will emerge as leaders.

A careerist does not make a good leader. What he has, is the professionalism of a politician. Now, a politician's main vocation is how to get over his next rival. That often involves intrigues and plots here and there. He lacks the vision of how to propel the country forward.

We have an acute problem here. Most of the leaders now have no past to fall back on- I mean, the first generation leaders had idealism of nationalism urging them on. Leaders emerge through a process of natural selection. Those with profound feelings of nationalism, naturally rise up.

We don't have that ecosystem anymore. The challenge is to create the ecosystem. The components of that system will be (a) identify those potential leaders and (b) attract them into government.

Is the UMNO leadership thinking along these lines?

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Fighting corruption is a serious undertaking

In august 2010, Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah wrote the following. As I am now writing articles about corruption, I find it apposite to remind readers of that article. It's about asking ministers to declare their assets.

This is important in order for the public to gauge the integrity of ministers who possess wide discretionary powers. Ministers are given powers by Parliament to become the final arbiters on certain decisions. To waive strict compliance on certain matters. To allow leeway in others.

We give Ministers the powers to make decisions involving vast sums of public money. Those decisions have too often led to bloated or stalled projects, questionable awards of tenders, and inflated contract values. Meanwhile some Ministers" lifestyles suggest incomes far beyond what they could possibly afford on their salaries. Ministers' assets are not a private matter to be discussed cozily behind closed doors with the Prime Minister. It is not the Prime Minister's money that we are talking about.

Corruption has become institutionalized in our political system. It is ruining this country. This is not just my private belief. Malaysians from all walks of life believe that corruption has become a way of life and know that many of their leaders are corrupt. They know that corruption is so widespread that it has been normalized. They know it deprives them of what is rightfully theirs in the present and stunts their children's future.

The MACC has a huge task in overcoming corruption. They have had to overcome the perception that they are not serious about pursuing corruption wherever it is found. They would have a lot more credibility with the public if their chief commissioner's call for transparency of Minister's assets were heeded.

Nobody is going to believe that members of the cabinet are above corruption, let alone serious about addressing the problem, if they refuse to declare their assets.

In the same measure the assets of former Ministers should also be made public.

But beyond just calls to stem corruption, the calls must surely be followed through by serious attentiveness. The recent case involving Khir Toyo is a case in point. If we are not careful, which indicators appear to show so, this case may come back to haunt the government. The public will say, the case isn't strong at all and that it's only put up as show.

If we are to make a charge, we must also ensure that the charge sticks. Otherwise, we are going to be opened to charges of unprofessionalism. Can the charge on Khir Toyo stick? It's not a crime if a seller wishes to part with his property and a loss. Stupidity is not a crime.

Sometime people have to sell their property at forced sale prices. Hence if I bought this house a few years ago at RM 6 million, it's my damn bloody business I now want to sell the house at RM 3 million. That is not corruption.

Hence to frame a charge on such a weak foundation will certainly suggest a profound lack of seriousness.

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UMNO and corruption- 2

 

My most recent article is the stand of UMNO on corruption. The easy linking up of UMNO and corruption is too simplistic. It can't be true that UMNO people are devoid of a sense of probity. If you see the comments following that article, no one, including UMNO people are condoning corruption. No one wants it.

And I find it mischievous to suggest that UMNO does not want integrity in its dealings.

The stand is: UMNO like any other political parties does not condone and tolerate corruption. But proving corruption will not be easy. Despite that, the difficulty to prove it is not an excuse not to do the necessary actions.

Since we cannot discuss the specific matter that Khir Toyo is facing before the court, we will highlight other things which Khir Toyo did which are cause for concerns. Or reasons for our misgivings.

We shall speak instead about the politics of the case. How should be UMNO's political stand?

I have said, it would be grave mistake to treat Khir's case as that of UMNO's. Let's not make khir a martyr. Secondly, khir toyo is not indispensable. His likes are a dime a dozen. So many others can do the job Khir did. It was only a set of accidental events that catapulted him into the MBship of Selangor. Anyone with above average intelligence can become an MB. He was just a mechanic doing his thing on molars, premolars and other tooth types.

The message then, no one in UMNO is indispensable. In the coming weeks, I shall be exposing the goings on at another ministry which is a custodian of large scale projects. We shall see how public office is manipulated so as to drain the resources from this county. I promise you, it will be explosive. It shall be a tale of how project costs are inflated exorbitantly to shameless proportions. The worst thing, is the minister in charge of the ministry, knowingly supported a particular project which could be gotten as a much lower cause.

How shall UMNO treat these leaders even if they are MBs or ministers? PM Najib must let them go. Retire these people so that good men, winnable candidates and personalities can take over. No one person is indispensable and no one person can be so clever to the extent they cannot be replaced.

Let's get back to khir Toyo. He has come up with the disingenuous alibi as to how he has become rich. By selling the nutritious tempe.

Among the strange things Khir did in his capacity as MB:-

Approving land applications to 4 people between 2000-2001 who are known to have substantive relationship to either himself or to his polsec. Each of the 4 people who were given land of 100 acres each which was valued at RM 200k an acre were

1.    Ahmad Tarmizi Tajjeury,

2.    A.Rahman Mokhtar,

3.    Suzilawani Mustaphin and

4.    Ali Nordin.

A stranger case involving his executive position to grant land to some 20 year olds land of 50 acres each to

1.    Ahmad Azmir,

2.    Noor Ashikin

3.    Mardhiah

4.    Azril Yusri.

And one of them is the son to the DO of Kuala Langat.

Some of these wet behind the ears disco and club friendly 20 year olds didn't even know the land were given out in their names. Some of them were appointed 40 days as company directors prior to the companies submitting the land applications. It was also found out; some of the companies had the same shareholders.

The list is a long one. I don't have the enthusiasm to lay them down. It's so depressing.

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UMNO and Corruption

1. Corruption is caused as well as increased because of the change in the value system and ethical qualities of men who administer. The old ideals of morality, service and honesty are regarded as an anachronism.
   
2. Tolerance of people towards corruption, complete lack of intense public outcry against corruption and the absence of strong public forum to oppose corruption allow corruption to reign over people.
   

The stupidest mistake UMNO can make now is turning Khir Toyo's purely legal problem into a political one. That will mean making out UMNO as a victim of some sinister plot targeting its leaders. Of course it's targeting its leaders- the corrupt ones. We don't have to have pity on these. If we do, then we have confused our values system.

It's time we face the reality, that some crook UMNO leaders have become rich on their ill-gotten gains. Ordinary UMNO members are certainly interested to know the value of Khir's House. Dr Mahathir once said, even his house which is far modest than this dentist's already cost the value Khir used to advertise around. Dr Mahathir's house costs the same as the price Khir bought his land.

Its time leaders like Khir Toyo share the feelings of being given the usual unsolicited talk-down advice of "there's nothing to fear if you have done nothing wrong".

UMNO should not be apologetic if these things happen to its leaders. PM Najib wants to do house cleaning and he does embark on it seriously, his tasks are like cleaning the Augean Stables. But he must do it, as elections loom nearer. He needs support not apologetic pleadings.

I am ready to commend PM Najib when he takes a 'doing right' position. And it's here that I can explain something to the knuckleheads out there.

A political adversary asked me- why are you hitting at PM Najib at every chance you get? Weren't you his ADUN before and served as divisional committee member for a number of years and was also his information chief in UMNO Pekan? Let me state unequivocally here: I am an UMNO man. I hadn't abandoned the party. I support PM Najib. But I am critical of him and his policies. There are so many obsequious supporters around him that may prevent him from getting a reality check. So don't begrudge me from being my critical self. There are enough of you out there who can balance my trenchant criticisms.

I can say these things: - no one can say PM Najib hasn't got a good work ethics. This I personally know. He is a workaholic. He is also a personable fellow. Despite these endearing qualities, I would be remiss in my self-assumed duty if I were to hold back from giving honest criticisms. I have seen the near disastrous effects of people around him giving ear pleasing disinformation to Najib. In the 1999 GE, Najib won the Pekan seat with a majority of 241 votes. This was caused mainly by people around him giving lulling disinformation which created a false sense of invincibility. He has learnt an important lesson- that victory has to be won over and over again. And he must never trust those Malay-Greeks bringing gifts.

At the same time, there are also many good things he has done and will do.

He also has those qualities that aren't so good. Trying to be all things to all people, is one of them. Limiting himself from taking decisive and at times surgical measures is another. Mistaking loyalty for competence is another. The list is long. So I try to point these out in my style.

Now he has allowed the law to take its course on one leading UMNO leader. He has shown his resolve too when Anwar Ibrahim met up with him. You know Anwar Ibrahim- he still thinks Najib as his deputy as last time and spoke down on Najib. I don't have to elaborate on the subject of the conversation between Anwar and Najib. What Najib said must have jolted Anwar. That he doesn't control the judiciary and Anwar would have to allow the due process of law to take place. We have seen how Anwar has exploited every avenues permitted by law to beat the system.

Now, he has shown his resolve once again. Khir was MB for Selangor for a number of years. He is a leader of UMNO Selangor. But he is not getting any favorable treatment in the present case. And PM Najib has said this is a normal judicial process.

How do we treat Khir's case? First, avoid turning khir into a martyr. He is not. If he has gotten his wealth though ill-gotten means, he must suffer the punishment. As this case is expected to take up some time, his political career is dismal. If there is a taint of corruption, he will certainly not be fielded as candidate in the next election.

Khir's case can't be among the 18 high profile cases declared pompously by Rais Yatim a few years ago? It also can't be one of those hidden in the many boxes announced by Senator Ezam Mohd Noor some time ago. This case postdates whatever said by the two.

Yesterday we saw Khir Toyo, the former MB of Selangor being charged in court. He will answer charges of corruption. He has bought two pieces of land at half the value for which they were bought by the first vendor. The first vendor is a successful Malay contractor who cut his teeth since the time of Tan Sri Mohd Taib. He must have been very charitable.

The original price was over RM 6 million. Khir bought it at over 3 million. We will soon know why the vendor was willing to sell the land at such a big loss or discount. We will also know perhaps, the cost of the house. How was it possible for Khir to procure the land at such a huge discount? Is the seller a mental retard or was he charmed by some Javanese voodoo incantations that compelled him to underpriced his sale? Khir Toyo must have conjured something from his tempe. Maybe Khir can write a business manual, how to sell tempe and build a mansion.

In Singapore a few years ago, the sale of a number of units of upscale condominiums to Lee Kuan Yew and his family members caused such uproar and the person alleging improprieties subjected to defamation actions. If Khir is innocent he can sue the pants off his enemies.

Khir's case has validated our practical definition of corruption- it's the abuse of public office by holders of that office for personal and private gains. In general, there is always the possibility that any person placed in charge of sources of power, rules, regulations are in position to abuse them for personal gain. Those people in MCMC for example, having wide discretionary power to issue mobile phone licenses or air space or whatever they are called are able to manipulate the rules and regulations for personal gains.

As a general rule too, retired top civil servants now living beyond their means, aged 55 and above, driving around in the most expensive of cars have accumulated huge amounts of money through corruption. They weren't doing business and government pay wasn't large.

The next credibility making step PM Najib can take is to sanction charges on some recently retired top civil servant. In South Africa its former IGP was charged and found guilty of corruption. Here in Malaysia, in order to put to rest those wild accusations against former IGP Musa Hassan, the son of a venerable religious personality, allow MACC to investigate him.

That is why I say, Najib has an Augean Stable to clean.

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Give MCA the boot.

 

My blogger friend Aspan Alias has written a very penetrating article. See here. If we can characterize the speech given by the BN chairman, we can likely say it's a speech with all the gegak gempita and goga. With all the pomp and aplomb and browbeating.

The problem here is: the people voting for us are not only those in the dewan. Those in the dewan number a miniscule portion of the voting masses. The voting masses are those who have to incur rising commodity prices and petrol and those who are revolted and repulsed by the cancerous corruption that has permeated all levels of our country's governance.

If there's value in the speech, it is because it meant more for the mosquito BN parties- the parties who have nothing. They'd better sing to the tune of Shirley Bassey's famous hit.

The Gerakans, the PPP, the MIC. For them, the speech may be uplifting. These are hoping for the crumbs for having something is better than nothing. The PPP's Kaveas wants only a ministerial post. That would be his personal fin-de siècle. (End of his life chapter, the climax of his climaxes). Koh Tsu Koon will be eternally grateful if he can have a safe seat. His loss of Penang has exposed the emptiness of his rule over Penang those years. These are the people who get wet dreams during daytime.

Meanwhile, the mother to the Penang Gerakan Youth Head in Penang is a fan of Anwar Ibrahim. She never misses the Permatang Pauh feller sodomy charges notwithstanding. What can we do if some people derive pleasure from pain? What do you call this? Sadomasochism? One person derives pleasure from giving pain to the public; the public gets high from being pained by that person. How can Gerakan even win Penang again?

So Najib's spirited talk can only bring cheers to the mosquito parties.

The MCA would have none of that. They don't want UMNO to big-brother them. They want to decide equally. Chua Soi Lek's MCA flails against anything UMNO these days. Decision making at UMNO Supreme Council, the 30% wealth owned by Malays, but never on who owns the 70% wealth. Indeed with everything UMNO has accomplished, does and will do.

So why do we keep MCA around anymore? Send it to pasture and let's see what those MCA ministers without office and governmental power can do. Let's see what Ng Yen Yen can do in Raub or Leow the unhealthy health minister can do. By the way, why hasn't he been given the big stick for allowing dengue fever to reach epidemic levels and he hasn't come out openly about it. What happens to the millions of Ringgit purchases for H1N1 antidote when the disease is under control? Why did he insist H1N1 is still around as if to justify the millions of Ringgit spent to purchase the medicine?

Since the MCA cannot deliver anything to the BN, it should be let loose. Probably its time for UMNO and BN to cultivate allegiance with other Chinese centric parties. Or from the Chinese directly. They are a practical and pragmatic lot. Just show and implement what they want and MCA is irrelevant.

The bigger problem is with Najib himself. Is he made of sterner constitution to have that fortitude to tell MCA, go and fly kite? He says different things to different audience. To the Malays there is no one who loves the Malay more than he does. To the nons- he is the quintessential liberal, accommodating and inclusive.

He wants to be all things to all people. I don't know what term people use to describe such a personality. But the term that is widespread now is ihelpyouyouhelpme personality. Maybe they should add this to the Psychology lexicon.

The UMNO president can remain to be the benevolent father figure. But let him be surrounded by people with sterner stuff who are not afraid to do battle with the likes of Chua Soi Lek.

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The scourge of corruption

I read somewhere; people are saying that FDI is avoiding Malaysia because of overt Malay supremacist tendencies. Politicians are quick to apportion blame to insignificant NGOs like Perkasa. Well, if the blame game is to be played fairly, then it should also be apportioned to Chinese based NGOs. Many of the same politicians who are quick draw McGraw when it comes to Malay NGOs are slothful when it comes to Chinese based NGOs.

The same duplicitous tendency is reflected in discussing wealth ownership in this country. We are over eager to discuss the ownership of 65% of this country's population of the elusive 30% wealth of this country; but we are dreadfully silent and seemed hesitant to debate the ownership of 70% of the wealth of this country by 35% of the people underscored with our readiness to ignore their ethnic origins. I am advocating we damn the 35% without caring whether there are Malays, Chinese or Indians. They are our common enemy NOT the 65% eking out a meaningful life.

But it's not this shameless duplicity that I want to debate at the moment. I only wish to point out that the more sinister cause for the plight of FDI is corruption. Corruption is like a plague; everyone dreads it, knows the danger but AVOID going into serious discussion as to the causes behind corruption.

In the Asia Sentinel, there was an interesting article about the rising scourge of corruption. Among the cases that were the object of public scorn are:-

1. The Commonwealth Games sporting extravaganza brought to light the murky dealings of politicians and sports officials who had forged papers, bought equipment and materials at inflated prices and generally cooked the books. The budget eventually ballooned to around US$6 billion, even as it was hit by delayed venues and organizational problems.
   
2. Another scam has been the most mind-boggling of the lot. In this, the Telecommunications Minister Andimuthu Raja, who was recently forced to resign, undersold 2G spectrum mobile licenses to 85-odd global firms at a throw-away price, losing the exchequer Rs1.76 trillion. Wags point out that the number of suitcases Raja would have needed to fill that loot, if laid end-to-end, would reach from Delhi to the southern city to Chennai (a distance of 2,177 km).
   

Using the two cases above, we note the following:-

1. Corruption occurs when people in authority are vested with powers to make purchases or who are able to commit funds.
   
2. Two, corruption is most often associated with people holding public office and who inhabit officious positions.
   

It is also interesting to see a detailed breakdown of the major players of corruption. For instance in India, the main players in corruption are found to be categorised as follows:-
The bulk of the corruption cases involved government officials and leaders. The greatest sources of bribe demands were from national level Government officials (33%), the police (30%), state/provincial officials and employees (16%), and city officials (10%) respectively.

This leads us to ask the question, why is it, the public sector is the sector most prone to corruption?

These observations also lead us to evolve a practical definition of corruption. Essentially it is the misuse of public office positions for private gain.

Hence, from the standpoint of public perception, corruption almost always involved those holding public positions- government positions, politicians and all those holding any levers of power, rules and regulations.

As a general rule, corruption usually involves some sort of link between bureaucracy, politics and criminals. If we are not careful Malaysia will not only be considered a soft state, but is slowly becoming a consideration state where everything can be had for a consideration. Soft state in the sense, even the PM appears powerless to stop the rot and is therefore sucked into the whirlpool of complicity. I have written elsewhere that in order to acquire credibility, the PM must have his Voltaire moment. 'Execute' some admirals so that other admirals fall into line. Translation: prosecute 2-3 ministers for corruption.

Today, the number of ministers with an honest image can be counted on fingers. At one time, bribe was paid for getting wrong things done but now bribe is paid for getting right things done at right time.

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