PKR leaders Zuraida Kamaruddin and Rafizi Ramli confirmed that they will be calling as witnesses all those who have issued statements on the RM250mil NFC corruption scandal, if Umno Women’s minister Shahrizat Jalil proceeded with her RM100 million defamation suit filed against them last month.
“Rafizi and I have discussed in depth our defence strategy should Shahrizat’s suit proceed after the court hears our submission on Friday,” Zuraida, who is the PKR Women’s chief, told a press conference on Friday.
No choice given the ever increasing complexity
Indeed, given the increasingly murky convolutions thrown up in the corruption case, the PKR duo would be left with no choice if they wanted to clarify their own accusations against the numerous rebuttals and counter-claims made by Shahrizat, her family and Umno colleagues including Prime Minister Najib Razah, his deputy Muhyiddin Yassin, Agriculture minister Noh Omar, Umno Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin and former premier Abdullah Badawi.
Both Zuraida and Rafizi, the strategy director, have led the slew of graft and mismanagement revelations against the NFC, a national cattle breeding project awarded to Shahrizat’s husband and children to oversee in 2006.
However, as Rafizi and Zuraida have alleged, the Shahrizats abused their power and corruptly made use of a RM250mil government soft loan granted to develop NFC to buy personal and luxury properties.
Defamation case bound to rivet national attention
The case has stunned Malaysians with its depth and breadth of wrongdoings, and the defiant stance of Salleh Ismail, the NFC chief and Shahrizat’s husband, have added to the public’s anger.
Nonetheless, it appears that Malaysians can expect to be further titillated when the Shahrizat defamation suit begins. As Zuraida pointed out, Shahrizat would not only be called as a witness, she would have to reveal how much time she has personally spent time in the luxury condos allegedly bought by her family in Bangsar and Singapore.
“This raises the question on whether she truly does not know her family had abused public funds to purchase properties for personal use, as she mentioned in her statement of claim. I am confidant Malaysians are eager for this case to go to trial so that all senior BNleaders can be dragged in to give their statement,” Zuraida said.
Husband and wife team-work?
The PKR pair were ordered by the High Court on February 17 to respond to Shahrizat’s suit, filed against them on January 19 for alleging she misused a federal loan meant for the cattle-raising scheme.
Just today, at the same press conference, the PKR leaders also revealed how Shahrizat’s family had leveraged off a RM250 million government soft loan to buy 8 shop-lots at the controversial KL Eco City in Bangsar worth RM12million based on current market value.
PKR vice president and current Lembah Pantai MP Nurul Izzah has challenged Shahrizat to come clean on whether she had used her influence to get the development off the ground in 2007. At that point in time, Shahrizat had been the Lembah Pantai MP.
“Firstly, the act of a husband and children to a senior minister, who is also an MP for the constituency in question, of purchasing such properties, raises the question of ‘conflict of interest’ between her duty as an MP and the personal needs of her family,” PKR vice president and current MP for Lembah Pantai Nurul Izzah Anwar told a press conference on Wednesday.
“With this latest expose, Shahrizat should explain to the people if she had played any role in influencing the decision to relocate the low-income villagers of Kampung Abdullah Hukum.”
there were disagreements about virtually every element o fUMNO reform. But everyone,UMNOand BARISAN, agreed that the Malaysian taxpayer should never again have to bail out UMNO Cronies because it was “too big to fail”– so large and so intricately a part of our financial system that if it wasn’t bailed out it could cause another economic meltdown.
1. PKFZ RM12bill
2. Submarine commission RM500mil.
3. Sime Darby RM964mil.
4. Paya Indah Westland RM88mil.
5. Posmalaysia (transmile) RM230mil lost.
6. Eurocopter deal RM1bil wasted?
7. Terengganu Stadium Collapsed RM292mil.
8. MRR2 repair cost RM70mil.
9. Maybank Overpaid BII RM4bil.
10. Tourism -NYY kickback RM10mil.
11. 3 paintings bought by MAS—————– RM 1.5M.
12. Overpayment by Sport Ministry————- RM 8.4M.
13. London ‘s white elephant sports complex —- RM 70M.
14. MATRADE repairs ————————– RM 120M.
15. Cost of new plane used by PM————– RM 200M.
16. InventQ irrecoverable debt —————- RM 228M.
17. Compensation for killing crooked bridge —– RM 257M.
18. Lost in selling Augusta ——————— RM 510M.
19. Worth of AP given out in a year ———— RM 1.8B.
20. Submarines (future Muzium Negara artifacts)- RM 4.1B.
21. PSC Naval dockyard ———————— RM 6.75B.
22. The Bank Bumiputra twin scandals in the early 1980s saw US$1 billion loss (RM3.2 billion in 2008 ringgit).
23. The Maminco attempt to corner the world tin market in the 1980s is believed to have cost some US$500 million. (RM1.6 billion)
24. Betting in foreign exchange futures cost Bank Negara Malaysia RM30 billion in the 1990s.
25. Perwaja Steel resulted in losses of US$800 million (RM2.56 billion).
26. Use of RM10 billion public funds in the Valuecap Sdn Bhd operation to shore up the stock market.
27. Banking scandal of RM700 million losses in Bank Islam.
28. The sale of M.V. Agusta by Proton for one Euro making a loss of €75.99 million (RM 348 million) Same as No:20?
29. Wang Ehsan from oil royalty on Terengganu RM7.4 billion from 2004 – 2007.
30. For the past 10 years since Philharmonic Orchestra was established, this orchestra has swallowed a total of RM500 million.Hiring a kwai-lo CEO with salary of more than RM1 M per annum!
citizen reports
The countdown begins
The fading vote-catching ability of UMNO,, carries long-term implications for UMNO politics. If the TUN RAZAK family that pioneered dynastic politics in the 1970s by endorsing rather than reforming MALAYSIA’s feudal society is increasingly sidelined by a changing, modernising MALAYSIA, 2013 could mark the beginning of a new political era. The underlying problem, however, is that the UMNO remains a fundamentally flawed political organisation with a medieval “high command” culture. According to the Peter Principle, people in an organisation tend to rise to their level of incompetence. In the UMNO, ministers and MPs rise to the level of incompetence of the party’s feudal leadership. The spectacle of fawningumno men and women trying to ingratiate themselves with the family symbolises all that is wrong with not only the umno but all dynastic political parties: sycophancy, mediocrity, nepotism, incompetence, corruption
The umno’s current predicament is largely self-inflicted.Najib does not have the absolute executive freedom the Constitution guarantees a prime minister. The vacuum of leadership in UMNO has allowed allies like the MCA AND TAIB MOHD to hold the government to ransom on crucial policy issues. While the UMNO has several talented MPs and ministers, they are doomed forever to serve in a party where the top job – with unfettered political authority – will never be theirs.Few self-respecting professionals can thrive in a political organisation where the path to the top is permanently blocked. The talented professionals who do stay in the UMNO comfort themselves with ministerships, governorships and parliamentary perks rather than pursue the intellectual challenge of policymaking and nation-building without fear of being vetoed by the party’s feudal hierarchyThe Muslim vote can no longer be taken for granted. Muslims today want education, not appeasement. Promises of reservations will not do unless they are backed up by genuinely secular politics and not a communal brand of politics masquerading as secularism which marginalises Muslims rather than treating them as UMNOPUTRA first.
Four days after the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak extended an apology for past Barisan Nasional (BN) mistakes resulting in its loss of several states and electoral seats in the last general elections, it remains a mystery and state secret what were the mistakes Najib was apologizing for.
Nobody knew what past BN mistakes Najib was confessing and apologizing, allowing the Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yasin to immediately dismiss the need to find out what these “mistakes” were arguing that “the crucial thing now was to look ahead” and the UMNO Information chief Datuk Ahmad Maslan to make nonsense of Najib’s “apology” by declaring that “UMNO needs mandate to fix its mistakes”!
Does Najib himself know what past BN mistakes he was confessing and apologising for in Kedah last Saturday or was it a meaningless political rhetoric just to win votes?
While Najib mull over and decide what were the past BN mistakes which he is prepared to confess and apologise, let him apologise for his own mistakes first, especially those committed during his 35-month premiership.
PKR leaders Zuraida Kamaruddin and Rafizi Ramli confirmed that they will be calling as witnesses all those who have issued statements on the RM250mil NFC corruption scandal, if Umno Women’s minister Shahrizat Jalil proceeded with her RM100 million defamation suit filed against them last month.
“Rafizi and I have discussed in depth our defence strategy should Shahrizat’s suit proceed after the court hears our submission on Friday,” Zuraida, who is the PKR Women’s chief, told a press conference on Friday.
No choice given the ever increasing complexity
Indeed, given the increasingly murky convolutions thrown up in the corruption case, the PKR duo would be left with no choice if they wanted to clarify their own accusations against the numerous rebuttals and counter-claims made by Shahrizat, her family and Umno colleagues including Prime Minister Najib Razah, his deputy Muhyiddin Yassin, Agriculture minister Noh Omar, Umno Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin and former premier Abdullah Badawi.
Both Zuraida and Rafizi, the strategy director, have led the slew of graft and mismanagement revelations against the NFC, a national cattle breeding project awarded to Shahrizat’s husband and children to oversee in 2006.
However, as Rafizi and Zuraida have alleged, the Shahrizats abused their power and corruptly made use of a RM250mil government soft loan granted to develop NFC to buy personal and luxury properties.
Defamation case bound to rivet national attention
The case has stunned Malaysians with its depth and breadth of wrongdoings, and the defiant stance of Salleh Ismail, the NFC chief and Shahrizat’s husband, have added to the public’s anger.
Nonetheless, it appears that Malaysians can expect to be further titillated when the Shahrizat defamation suit begins. As Zuraida pointed out, Shahrizat would not only be called as a witness, she would have to reveal how much time she has personally spent time in the luxury condos allegedly bought by her family in Bangsar and Singapore.
“This raises the question on whether she truly does not know her family had abused public funds to purchase properties for personal use, as she mentioned in her statement of claim. I am confidant Malaysians are eager for this case to go to trial so that all senior BNleaders can be dragged in to give their statement,” Zuraida said.
Husband and wife team-work?
The PKR pair were ordered by the High Court on February 17 to respond to Shahrizat’s suit, filed against them on January 19 for alleging she misused a federal loan meant for the cattle-raising scheme.
Just today, at the same press conference, the PKR leaders also revealed how Shahrizat’s family had leveraged off a RM250 million government soft loan to buy 8 shop-lots at the controversial KL Eco City in Bangsar worth RM12million based on current market value.
PKR vice president and current Lembah Pantai MP Nurul Izzah has challenged Shahrizat to come clean on whether she had used her influence to get the development off the ground in 2007. At that point in time, Shahrizat had been the Lembah Pantai MP.
“Firstly, the act of a husband and children to a senior minister, who is also an MP for the constituency in question, of purchasing such properties, raises the question of ‘conflict of interest’ between her duty as an MP and the personal needs of her family,” PKR vice president and current MP for Lembah Pantai Nurul Izzah Anwar told a press conference on Wednesday.
“With this latest expose, Shahrizat should explain to the people if she had played any role in influencing the decision to relocate the low-income villagers of Kampung Abdullah Hukum.”
there were disagreements about virtually every element o fUMNO reform. But everyone,UMNOand BARISAN, agreed that the Malaysian taxpayer should never again have to bail out UMNO Cronies because it was “too big to fail”– so large and so intricately a part of our financial system that if it wasn’t bailed out it could cause another economic meltdown.
1. PKFZ RM12bill
2. Submarine commission RM500mil.
3. Sime Darby RM964mil.
4. Paya Indah Westland RM88mil.
5. Posmalaysia (transmile) RM230mil lost.
6. Eurocopter deal RM1bil wasted?
7. Terengganu Stadium Collapsed RM292mil.
8. MRR2 repair cost RM70mil.
9. Maybank Overpaid BII RM4bil.
10. Tourism -NYY kickback RM10mil.
11. 3 paintings bought by MAS—————– RM 1.5M.
12. Overpayment by Sport Ministry————- RM 8.4M.
13. London ‘s white elephant sports complex —- RM 70M.
14. MATRADE repairs ————————– RM 120M.
15. Cost of new plane used by PM————– RM 200M.
16. InventQ irrecoverable debt —————- RM 228M.
17. Compensation for killing crooked bridge —– RM 257M.
18. Lost in selling Augusta ——————— RM 510M.
19. Worth of AP given out in a year ———— RM 1.8B.
20. Submarines (future Muzium Negara artifacts)- RM 4.1B.
21. PSC Naval dockyard ———————— RM 6.75B.
22. The Bank Bumiputra twin scandals in the early 1980s saw US$1 billion loss (RM3.2 billion in 2008 ringgit).
23. The Maminco attempt to corner the world tin market in the 1980s is believed to have cost some US$500 million. (RM1.6 billion)
24. Betting in foreign exchange futures cost Bank Negara Malaysia RM30 billion in the 1990s.
25. Perwaja Steel resulted in losses of US$800 million (RM2.56 billion).
26. Use of RM10 billion public funds in the Valuecap Sdn Bhd operation to shore up the stock market.
27. Banking scandal of RM700 million losses in Bank Islam.
28. The sale of M.V. Agusta by Proton for one Euro making a loss of €75.99 million (RM 348 million) Same as No:20?
29. Wang Ehsan from oil royalty on Terengganu RM7.4 billion from 2004 – 2007.
30. For the past 10 years since Philharmonic Orchestra was established, this orchestra has swallowed a total of RM500 million.Hiring a kwai-lo CEO with salary of more than RM1 M per annum!
citizen reports
The countdown begins
The fading vote-catching ability of UMNO,, carries long-term implications for UMNO politics. If the TUN RAZAK family that pioneered dynastic politics in the 1970s by endorsing rather than reforming MALAYSIA’s feudal society is increasingly sidelined by a changing, modernising MALAYSIA, 2013 could mark the beginning of a new political era. The underlying problem, however, is that the UMNO remains a fundamentally flawed political organisation with a medieval “high command” culture. According to the Peter Principle, people in an organisation tend to rise to their level of incompetence. In the UMNO, ministers and MPs rise to the level of incompetence of the party’s feudal leadership. The spectacle of fawningumno men and women trying to ingratiate themselves with the family symbolises all that is wrong with not only the umno but all dynastic political parties: sycophancy, mediocrity, nepotism, incompetence, corruption
The umno’s current predicament is largely self-inflicted.Najib does not have the absolute executive freedom the Constitution guarantees a prime minister. The vacuum of leadership in UMNO has allowed allies like the MCA AND TAIB MOHD to hold the government to ransom on crucial policy issues. While the UMNO has several talented MPs and ministers, they are doomed forever to serve in a party where the top job – with unfettered political authority – will never be theirs.Few self-respecting professionals can thrive in a political organisation where the path to the top is permanently blocked. The talented professionals who do stay in the UMNO comfort themselves with ministerships, governorships and parliamentary perks rather than pursue the intellectual challenge of policymaking and nation-building without fear of being vetoed by the party’s feudal hierarchyThe Muslim vote can no longer be taken for granted. Muslims today want education, not appeasement. Promises of reservations will not do unless they are backed up by genuinely secular politics and not a communal brand of politics masquerading as secularism which marginalises Muslims rather than treating them as UMNOPUTRA first.
Four days after the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak extended an apology for past Barisan Nasional (BN) mistakes resulting in its loss of several states and electoral seats in the last general elections, it remains a mystery and state secret what were the mistakes Najib was apologizing for.
Nobody knew what past BN mistakes Najib was confessing and apologizing, allowing the Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yasin to immediately dismiss the need to find out what these “mistakes” were arguing that “the crucial thing now was to look ahead” and the UMNO Information chief Datuk Ahmad Maslan to make nonsense of Najib’s “apology” by declaring that “UMNO needs mandate to fix its mistakes”!
Does Najib himself know what past BN mistakes he was confessing and apologising for in Kedah last Saturday or was it a meaningless political rhetoric just to win votes?
While Najib mull over and decide what were the past BN mistakes which he is prepared to confess and apologise, let him apologise for his own mistakes first, especially those committed during his 35-month premiership.
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