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| Time to put non-Bumiputera rights on firm footing, say academics |
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Posted by: superadmin - 03-08-2022, 07:45 AM - Forum: Stop Racism and Religious Bigotry
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PETALING JAYA: Academics say there is a need to include ethnic minorities in public and social spheres in Malaysia, given the dwindling non-Bumiputera population size.
Lee Hwok Aun of the Singapore-based ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute said with the shrinking number of Chinese and Indians in Malaysia, their voices and rights as minorities needed to be institutionalised.
“Public institutions, the education system and society must purposefully ensure that minority identities and contributions are acknowledged, celebrated, and fair opportunities be given to them,” he told FMT.
“This is important to ensure social cohesion and democratic integrity,” he added.
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| Imagine if Najib is still PM: Muhyiddin |
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Posted by: superadmin - 03-07-2022, 08:12 PM - Forum: Politics
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KUALA LUMPUR – Datuk Seri Najib Razak (Pekan-BN) continues to be a favourite political target over his involvement in the 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) scandal.
The latest attacker appears to be former prime minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin (Pagoh-Bersatu), who seems to have no qualms taking his coalition ally to task.
Muhyiddin said it is fortunate that Barisan Nasional (BN) lost in the last general election, suggesting that the situation involving one of the world’s greatest financial scandals would not have been resolved had Najib remained in power.
The Bersatu president said after BN’s historic fall in 2018, the then government had set up a special task force to recover money and assets lost through 1MDB.
He said this was continued when he later became the prime minister in March 2020, after the fall of Pakatan Harapan.
“I understand that as of today, over RM20 billion in 1MDB funds and assets have been seized by the government and placed in a trust fund which will be used to service the 1MDB debts,” he said when debating the royal address in the Dewan Rakyat today.
“Imagine if Pekan is still the prime minister. I don’t think he would have established the special task force to recover the stolen money and assets, because the one stealing them was him.
“The country will be damaged if leaders don’t hold on to the principle of integrity. What more when a case is globally known as the biggest scandal of the century, involving the plundering idiot who is described as a national embarrassment?”
Najib has been on the receiving end of brickbats of late after several allegations made by former Goldman Sachs banker Tim Leissner in an ongoing US trial surfaced.
He has already been found guilty of corruption and sentenced to a 12-year jail term and fined RM210 million over his role in former 1MDB subsidiary ARX International Sdn Bhd, but has yet to serve his sentence pending appeal.
Amid heavy criticism, Najib had, during a debate in Parliament on March 2, said not a single sen of public funds was used to repay the principal amount of 1MDB debt.
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| After PN, now DAP volunteer assaulted on campaign trail |
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Posted by: superadmin - 03-07-2022, 07:41 PM - Forum: Politics
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PETALING JAYA: A volunteer helping out DAP in the Johor state elections was allegedly assaulted while on the campaign trail, according to the party’s candidate for the Bekok seat, Kanan M.
This comes just a day after a member of Perikatan Nasional’s (PN) election machinery was also assaulted while putting up party flags in Kampung Tebing Runtuh, Gelang Patah.
Kanan said the incident occurred in Chaah town in Segamat, with the volunteer sustaining injuries to his head before being admitted to Segamat Hospital.
Kanan said they were waiting for a CT scan to be conducted on the volunteer as the injury was “bad”.
“The motive for the attack is still being investigated,” he said, adding that more details would be provided when available.
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| Johor polls necessary due to ‘untenable’ situation in assembly: Nur Jazlan |
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Posted by: superadmin - 03-07-2022, 02:23 PM - Forum: Politics
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KUALA LUMPUR – Staving off claims that the imminent Johor election was a route to force a general election (GE15), one of Johor Umno’s prominent voices, Datuk Nur Jazlan Mohamed, reiterated that the previous political arrangement in Johor had become “untenable” and that political “stability” was crucial to inducing economic recovery and bringing Johor out of the pandemic.
“It was just that it was untenable, in a situation of 28 versus 28, to have the state speaker deciding on important government policy. Because it arrived at a stage where it was his vote in the state assembly that would determine things.”
In an expansive exclusive interview with The Vibes, former deputy home minister Nur Jazlan dwelled on the present national political “malaise”, stressing that the previous political “experiment” of 2018 had “failed” and that elements of sobriety and realism in setting the future course of the nation post-pandemic was essential.
“Now is the time to be sober, not a time to experiment: the experiment has been done, it has failed, and the experiment has cost money.”
Nur Jazlan is emphatic that the opposition’s claim – principally those of former prime ministers Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad and Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin – that the Johor polls were engineered by the “court cluster” is an attempt to “confuse the people,” and he stands by his support of former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s presence on the Johor campaign trail as “what the people want”.
“I simply follow the people,” Nur Jazlan said.
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| Pak Lah received RM70 mil in gifts as ‘golden handshake’: Dr Mahathir |
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Posted by: superadmin - 03-07-2022, 02:19 PM - Forum: Politics
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KUALA LUMPUR – After recently targeting Datuk Seri Najib Razak over the latter’s purported request for a multi-million ringgit house and piece of land from the government, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad today trained his guns at another former prime minister, Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.
The Langkawi MP alleged that Abdullah, who succeeded him as the country’s prime minister in 2003, had received RM70 million worth of gifts from the government as a token of appreciation for his service to the nation.
Speaking in the Dewan Rakyat, Dr Mahathir, 96, said that while the practice of a “golden handshake” is not uncommon in the private sector, it usually amounts to the cost of a Rolex watch – far less than the millions of ringgit given to ex-prime ministers today.
“This is unlike the practice during the times of Tunku Abdul Rahman, Tun Abdul Razak Hussein, and Tun Hussein Onn. In those times, only an old house was given as a gift.
“But when it (the prime minister’s seat) reached Abdullah, I was informed he received a gift worth RM70 million. This is a huge amount, many times more than his salary as a prime minister,” he said when debating the royal address in the House.
Dr Mahathir said this was done without referring first to the lower House or any other legislation to determine the amount deemed appropriate as a gift, as was the case with Najib.
Najib received brickbats in November last year after it was revealed that he had requested for a plot of land and house valued at RM100 million under the Members of Parliament (Remuneration) Act 1980, after Barisan Nasional lost power in the 14th general election in 2018.
Following public denouncement, the Pekan MP announced on November 19 that he would not continue his application, and proposed that this special privilege also be cancelled for all future prime ministers.
Incidentally, Najib had taken over from Abdullah when the latter stepped down from the office in 2009.
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| Najib sues Shamsul for defamation over 1MDB case |
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Posted by: superadmin - 03-07-2022, 12:10 PM - Forum: Politics
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PETALING JAYA: Former prime minister Najib Razak has sued PKR information chief Shamsul Iskandar Mohd Akin for defamation following his failure to retract, correct, and apologise for claiming that Najib had stolen RM2.6 billion in 1MDB funds to support his lifestyle.
On Feb 23, Shamsul, who is the Hang Tuah MP, also accused former Goldman Sachs banker Tim Leissner and fugitive businessman Low Taek Jho, or Jho Low, of using the public’s money to support their lifestyles in a Facebook post.
“The Hang Tuah Jaya MP and PKR information chief has failed to respond to my lawyer’s letter of demand.
“With this, I have instructed my lawyer to file a defamation suit against Shamsul in court,” Najib wrote on Facebook today.
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