BLOATED AND KETUANAN MELAYU POWER PLAY
POLITICAL GREED AND MORE GREED political leadership suffers from extreme bouts of unpatriotism, greed, selfishness, unquenchable thirst for wealth and the protection of ill-gotten gains. Does MALAYSIA need such leadership?
Greed and selfishness to blame for the Cabinet-making crisis
Story by GHOST TAXIDRIVER
It is gratifying to note that the once vibrant lobby groups are back in the streets over a critical national issue, and the teargassing of the demonstrators confirms that police will never be anything else other than a machinery of violence.
But the activists need to conduct an indepth analysis of the Cabinet know the root cause.
HIDDEN DRAMAS HOURS BEFORE NAJIB’S SWEARING-IN?
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Monday, 13 April 2009 11:50
By Kim Quek
Unusual occurrences on the day before Najib Razak’s swearing-in as prime minister have raised questions on the royal consent to his appointment.
From the time Najib left the palace ground at 1215 hrs on April 2, after an audience with the King, the nation was kept in darkness for seven hours as to whether the King had given his consent to Najib’s premiership.
It was not until 1938 hrs that the first newsbreak came from Bernama stating that Chief Secretary to the Government Mohd Sidek Hassan announced that the King had given his consent to Najib’s appointment and that Najib would swear-in at 1000 hrs the next day – which was the time previously circulated by the government. Was it not most extra-ordinary that the nation was kept in suspense for so many hours when the ceremony was only hours away? What was the reason for this big delay in announcement? Was there any problem with the royal consent?
That something was amiss was apparent in the morning of April 2 when then Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi went alone to meet the King, contradicting Najib’s disclosure on the preceding day (April 1) that he was invited by Abdullah to accompany the latter to meet the King for the royal consent to Abdullah’s resignation and Najib’s appointment.
Abdullah arrived at the palace at 1000 hrs for an audience with the King to express his intention to relinquish his premiership. After an hour-long meeting with the King, he uttered only these words to the official media allowed into the palace: “It’s a matter for Tuanku to decide”. He drove through the main gate at 1100 hrs without talking to some 70 reporters gathered there.
Minutes later, Najib’s official car and police escort drove past the palace and arrived at Abdullah’s residence at Jalan Bellamy (located near the palace), where the two leaders met for 10 minutes.
Najib, who was called to the palace, arrived at 1130 hrs to have an audience with the King. He left through the main gate at 1215 hrs and waved to the anxiously waiting reporters through his open window and said “Thank you”, without stopping to talk to them.
STRANGE SILENCE
Thereafter, complete silence – without a word from either the palace or the government on the outcome of the morning’s royal audience given to these two leaders, until Bernama’s statement in the evening.
Observing the above events, we can deduce that
It must have been at the King’s request that Abdullah went to see the King alone – without Najib. Obviously, the King wanted to talk to Abdullah privately, and the hour long audience indicated that much was discussed about the proposed transfer of power.
When Abdullah left the palace at 1100 hrs, he gave the impression that the King had yet to decide on his proposed resignation and perhaps also his recommendation of Najib to take over the premiership.
The lack of positive indications from both leaders after their royal audience and the long silence thereafter indicated that royal consent was unlikely to have been given during the audience. Otherwise, the government would have wasted no time to announce such consent, judging from its impatience to fix the swearing-in time and date, as reflected in several such premature announcements previously.
Then, when was royal consent given, if at all it was given? What transpired between 1215 hrs (when Najib left the palace) and 1938 hrs (when Bernama reported the royal consent) on April 2?
For a better understanding of what actually transpired on April 2, we have to take note of two important events that took place on April 1.
One, Chief Secretary Sidek Hassan announced through Bernama that before the Cabinet meeting in the morning, Abdullah had an audience with the King, whereby the King consented to Najib swearing-in as prime minister at 1000 hrs on April 3 and the King also agreed to grant an audience to both leaders at 1000 hrs the next day, April 2, for this proposed power transfer. However, at 1954 hrs, Bernama issued another statement saying the Chief Secretary had said his earlier announcement on the swearing-in was premature, and asked for the story to be ignored.
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