YOURSAY | Corruption is why we get ‘F’ in human trafficking report

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PW Cheng: Malaysia will be languishing in Tier 3 of the US Trafficking in Persons report indefinitely.

Our leaders think the world is their oyster and Malaysia is the only country in it. They don't care a damn what other countries think of us. They just do what benefits them most even when the country is skidding dangerously off-course. 

For the past two years, everything reported about Malaysia has been negative - from the never-ending 1MDB kleptocracy to the Sulu sultan's descendants' claim of RM64 billion and the confiscation of Malaysian assets overseas.

There was also the confiscation of Malaysian goods by US Customs and Borders Protection because of labour issues mainly connected to forced labour.

The country’s ranking dropped to 62 in the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2021.

With the perfect combination of corruption and human trafficking, we got ourselves entrenched in Tier 3 in the Trafficking in Persons report. And yet we are oblivious to all this.

They even got the cheek to tell Indonesia that the Maid Online System (MOS) issue is not part of the MOU (memorandum of understanding) that we signed with them.

In doing so, they had implied that Malaysia would condone human trafficking. It looks like MOS brings plenty of benefits to our authorities and they will defend it at all costs.

At the other end of the spectrum, we have boundless energy and take great efforts to crack down on the comedy club Crackhouse when, in fact, the police should go after the crackpot leaders who are leading the country.

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