ADUN SPEAKS | Najib's follies: Imagined impunity, miscalculations

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ADUN SPEAKS | When history is finally written, former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak will be remembered as Malaysia’s worst self-serving kleptocrat with an insatiable appetite for luxurious enjoyment.

He was once at the apex, but he has his own foolishness to thank for the downfall and imprisonment he is now going through.

I was first elected to Parliament in March 2008. In June that year, deputy prime minister Najib, who was also defence minister, was waiting for his turn to speak at the Shangri-la Dialogue in Singapore.

I went up to him and had my only conversation ever with him. I introduced myself as “Bukit Bendera”, the name of my then constituency.

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