There's a formula to get answers in leadership change, it's like maths

Where do we stand as a nation at international political arena of late? With all certainties many of us feel that we are not positioned like we used to be.  We used to be observed upon as the most progressing nation with fast and speedy development that was managed by astute leaders of yester years who did nothing more than just to see the nation keeping abreast with other developed or developing nations of the world. We were ahead of Korea and many other nations in the region as well as many others in the world but sadly in just over two decades we were far trailing behind Korea in all traits and facets of a truly well managed nation.

We are even trailing behind new emerging nations like Vietnam and to some hints that we were slowly overtaken by Myanmar and few other nations within the vicinity of the region. We were led by astute leaders with strong cabinet lineup who did not compromise their dignity with the love for money and wealth that were ill gotten. Leaders of those years were fully geared to see the nation was managed appropriately and they were all out sacrificing their souls for the nation right from the day we achieved our independence.

There was less rhetoric those days with highly charged slogans. As far as we can reminisce we only had a slogan, MUHIBBAH as national unity was the sole and ultimate eventual that were focused to arrive at. However since the eighties were impregnated endlessly with high sounded slogan which in the end did not materialize organic results for the nation and its people. We have been stuffed with unyielding slogans while the country was managed from already bad to an unacceptable level.

Corruptions become the culture and way of life of leaders with hefty slogans. Leaders with too much slogans are found out to be leaders with weak attributes just to cover-up their serious leadership deficiencies. While the clean and amazing slogans were heavily publicized through mainstream media, leaders were actively doing the opposite practices for their personal recompenses through huge ill-gotten money in unbelievable sum from tax payer’s money without qualms or guilt.

We know that leaders with the culture of corruption and abused of power will never make proper decisions and obviously we are deep in it currently. As I have said in my previous posting ousting Najib is one thing but to get proper replacement is another crucial issue that we are going to face. This blog have emphasized with strong assertions that changing leadership with the ones who was in the system and culture will never do any change but just prolonging the ungainly culture that has been ingrained in them. This is a natural consequence and if that happens we will be in perpetual problems with evil and harmful leaders for a long while that follow after that.

We can now smell that there are efforts by some parties to replace Najib with leaders that have been working hand-in-glove with the kinds with Najib for many years and still believe in changing leadership from within the UMNO highest body, the Supreme Council. They believe it is sufficient to change Najib with the ones who are within them and this will help us to have another unexceptional mediocre to lead us. That formula of leadership change has proven to be faulty and has never given us good answer. Problems persist through and true and we have to be drastic by having another formula of leadership exchange this time around.

This blog has said uninterruptedly that only a leader who is not within the current system and culture will give a good and correct answer to all the glitches that the nation has faced for past decades.

Like mathematics correct answers to the leadership problems can only be found with correct formula…and it’s nothing less.  

Let's alternate Najib's leadership carefully and will have peace and security

Malaysians are just like any other nation’s nationality. They want life of peace and security and to secure that life the governing leaders must be of high dignity and free from ungainly perceptions from the public both national and internationally. Politic is a game of perception and any leader who loses the good and high propriety the nation he leads will normally tumbles eventually.

The nation with leaders of upright dignity will give good impulse for the nation to grow in all turfs and arenas.  We can assertively take words of dignified leader as a bond without many queries and one will be easy to deal with this kind or leaders as they are normally a gentleman and place his self-possession high above other things in life.

That was why we are now grasped in the situation that we are now facing with peculiarities for a democratic nation as we often claim. We have been fed with leaders oblivious of democratic morals and conned characters that put the country into a fertile ground for corruptions and misused of power to prosper unhindered. Who to be blamed for this to happen? Was it the mode and the manner selection of the PM that we usually practiced are already out-dated? Or what?

Since we achieved independence UMNO president has been the automatic choice of the PM and that creates heavy competition in the race to be the leaders of UMNO. As time passes the money politics became too overpowering as a result UMMO was laden with leaders who move up in the party’s hierarchy through money politics and that has gone unchecked until we face the current height of problems and if not checked it will bring the nation to kaput. UMNO has failed to produce leaders of self-respect and as such they become too questionable and doubted when he comes to power. 

Most of them were not there because of his or her dignified qualities but because of money politics and sycophantic moves to the top. If the self-dignity has been the consideration of leadership choices many would believe that Abdullah Badawi and especially the current sitting PM would not have been there in the first place. The culture of apple polishing and money politics compounded by personal inferiority complex feelings of the top leadership put away all the budding leaders to stay within the party’s top leadership echelon for the past almost three decades. In UMNO remains the sanctuary for uncouth and confused leaders spending all the time they have to create the culture of apple polishing for the top leadership.

This has been going on for decades and now the group of weak and deluded minded leaders are the once to inherit leadership of this country.

Now the question is will the ousting of Najib solves all the problems we now face? If Najib is alternated by wrong choice of leaders again, than we are on the way to another long haul of leadership problems that we are now fed up with. The choice of the alternative leadership of the country is accurately crucial material and issue.

As this blog have emphasized for a long while, alternating leaders by the manner and mode that we used to practice will in the end resulting in we getting another more mediocre to lead us. As it is we are now facing with the current most meritocratic PM that we have in our independent history.

Dr Mahathir has expressed regrets over his relentless efforts to put up the current sitting PM to the position he holds now. The question now, was his choice to put up Najib was the proper and appropriate move? Was his effort to put up Najib then was truly for the sake of the nation? Certainly it was not. So did his choice to put up Najib’s predecessor Abdullah Badawi.

The grand public knew that these two personalities do not hold the cut to lead the nation to face the current competitive world. It’s only Dr Mahathir who can answer this question even though we knew why he needed these two leaders to inherit his leadership.

We do hope that we especially Dr Mahathir now realized that a weak successor will only bring him disappointments and disillusions to him. But let’s us forget and be assured that our decision is not based on vengeance and revenge. Let us put aside our personal taste but instead get the feel of the public’s taste and flavor. Dr Mahathir knows the best person to lead the nation and he needs to own up his mistakes and be what a Malay fond of saying, ‘jadilah seorang yang berjiwa besar, hargai negara dahulu dari menghargai diri sendiri yang berlebihan’.

Then he will sleep well and die in peace. We will then sleep well too, and die to leave this country in peace and security for next generations to come. 

Ultimately we will know who is the actual enemy of the state, Khairudin or Najib

To act responsibly for the nation does not mean you are good in the eyes of irresponsible leaders. That was exactly what has happened to Khairuddin Abu Hassan, the former Vice Chairman of Batu Kawan UMNO. He was arrested yesterday evening at his house in Mont Kiara after being barred from leaving for New York at 10.30 am yesterday. He was supposed to leave for New York to follow through on his report on the alleged money laundering committed by our PM Najib. The duo had made similar report in England, France, Switzerland, Hong Kong and Singapore in the past months and weeks.

Khairuddin was arrested for alleged attempt to topple the government and that was not able to be digested to a right minded persons who follow all the sequences of Khairuddin's move in his attempt to get to the bottom of the truth that surrounds the 1MDB issues since a year ago. In actuality it's a political move taken by the Malaysian police and has been perceived widely as an attempt to circumvent Dr Mahathir in his attempt to get Najib removed from his premiership. The police is just focusing on protecting Najib from falling. 

Khairuddin and Matthias Chang have been trotting half the globe to make police reports as many perceive Khairuddin as a person who has in possessions all the documents that may prove Najib's involvements in massive financial scandal for the country, the worst in the nation's independent history. The total money involved is in tens of billions ringgit. If the allegations finally prove right at home or abroad, Najib is in real trouble as that will amount to committing treason  to the nation. He will then becomes the enemy of the state and not Khairuddin or Dr Mahathir. If there are proves to all or at least part of the allegations, then the whole line of Cabinet that support Najib are automatically the enemy of the state. 

To allege Khairudin to topple the government is too uncalled for. This former UMNO leader was trying hard to get to the bottom of the allegations against our Prime Minister and that is a noble act as it's an act of protecting the nation's wealth from continuously looted and plundered. In this issue it's much too easy to believe in Khairuddin than believing Najib. Najib has not come out with reasonable answers to all the allegations levelled against him. 

No one can digest all the answers given by many of his (Najib's) supporters especially on the RM 2.6 billion 'political donations' that was deposited in his personal account locally here. Big portion of the RM 2.6 billions were transferred to Singapore only to get it frozen by the Monetary Authority of the Island State. How could a clean and good money be frozened? Why was that money not deposited in the party's account? 

In the process of all these suspiciously dubious acts of corruptible activities it involves banks and financial institutions across the globe. That was why Khiruddin have been trotting the globe in search for the truth to what has happened to 1MDB. Arresting Khairuddin does not help to conceal all these dubious and debauched acts of Najib.

The truth will ultimately prevail. It will surface sooner or later. We will in the end know who is the real enemy of the state, Khairudin or Najib.  

UMNO kehilangan identiti, Najib tak mungkin mampu mengembalikannya

Ralli baju Merah yang diadakan dua hari lepas sudah berlalu. Seramai 80,000 orang Melayu telah berhimpun dan masing-masing pemimpin berucap dalam nada perkauman yang menebal. Perhimpunan itu kononnya ialah reaksi terhadap ralli Bersih 4 yang diadakan pada 29hb dan 30 Ogos yang lalu. Jika ia benar merupakan reaksi terhadap perhimpunan Bersih 4 baru-baru ini, maka perhimpunan baju merah itu hanyalah untuk mempertahankan Najib yang kini berhadapan dengan tuntutan rakyat supaya Najib berundur dari jawatan yang beliau amat sayangi itu. 

Perhimpunan Baju Merah adalah perhimpunan orang Melayu sedangkan perhimpunan Bersih 4 ialah perhimpunan berbilang kaum bagi menuntut Najib berundur dari memimpin negara. Apapun sebabnya persoalan yang timbul sekarang adalah apakah faedah-faedah yang didapati dari perhimpunan orang Melayu yang dianjurkan dari belakang oleh UMNO itu? Ia membawa lebih banyak keburukan dari kebaikan. 

Yang terbaik ialah jika ada apa-apa tuntutan dari rakyat ia wajar diwakili oleh rakyat berbilang kaum kerana kumpulan yang berbilang kaum itu adalah elemen penting  bagi menampakkan yang rakyat berbilang kaum itu bersatu dan berpadu serta selenggang dan sehayun dalam apa sahaja yang dituntut itu. Elemen itu nampak jelas dalam perhimpunan Bersih 4 dan perhimpunan Bersih yang sebelumnya. Himpunan Baju Merah dua hari lepas yang menggambarkan orang Melayu sahaja yang bermasalah dan masalah yang ditampilkan tidak lain dari permainan isu perkauman yang menebal seolah-olah kaum Melayu itu boleh hidup tanpa adanya kaum lain di negara ini. 

Slogan dan kain rentang yang menyuburkan perasaan benci membenci di antara kaum sangat jelas di lihat dalam perhimpunan Melayu baju merah itu. Telah menjadi pengetahuan umum perhimpunan itu adalah perhimpunan anjuran UMNO dan diberikan bantuan kewangan dari UMNO. Perhimpunan anjuran UMNO itu amat mahal harganya kerana ramai-ramai yang datang itu dibayar elaun dan perjalanan percuma. Selain dari itu makan dan minum serta baju T percuma dan berbagai-bagai 'hand-outs' yang lain.

Tetapi sedarkah pemimpin-pemimpin UMNO ini yang perlakuan mereka ini telah menghilangkan kewibawaan mereka sebagai pemimpin parti yang memerintah? Tindakan mereka ini telah menghilangkan identiti UMNO itu sendiri serta kewibawaan pemimpin yang memimpin parti itu?

Hilang segala imej dan keyakinan ramai yang UMNO itu adalah parti yang memimpin semua kaum. UMNO kini hanya memimpin orang Melayu dan sifatnya kini hanyalah parti yang dipimpin oleh mereka yang chauvinis. Semakin terhakis kepercayaan rakyat yang UMNO tidak seperti dulu di mana parti itu adalah parti orang Melayu tetapi ia adalah juga parti yang menjaga semua rakyat yang lain.

Itulah sebab utama kenapa berlakunya perhimpunan Bersih 4. Bersih 4 itu kalau kita tinjau dari sudut yang betul, tidak ada siapa yang boleh menafikan yang ianya berlaku kerana mereka mahukan pimpinan yang memerintah bersifat pemimpin untuk semua kaum. Kalau kita ambil secara positif ianya adalah kumpulan yang bukan hendak membuang atau mengenepikan UMNO tetapi mereka mahukan pimpinan UMNO yang boleh diterima oleh semua masyarakat negara ini. Ia bermakna mereka tidak mahu pimpinan UMNO dibawah Najib kerana masalah ini tetapi mereka mahu pimpinan dari parti yang sama yang lebih diterima oleh semua kaum.

Itu sebabnya ramai dikalangan pemimpin UMNO yang sedar tentang keadaan ini mahukan Najib berundur bagi mengelak dari UMNO itu terbuang kerana pemimpin yang tidak baik dan kotor sedang menempel pada batang tubuh parti itu dan tidak mahu bercerai dari memimpinnya. Justeru itu seandainya pemimpin hari ini diganti dan dianjakkan kepada pemimpin Melayu yang diyakini oleh semua kaum, maka keadaan sekarang akan menjadi lebih baik bagi orang Melayu dan semua kaum di negara ini.

Rakyat tidak mahu lagi diminta untuk bersatu tetapi kesatuan kita di bawah ini diperguna untuk mereka melakukan kerja rasuah tanpa halangan dan tidak terbatas. Kita tidak mahu bersatu di bawah kepimpinan yang tidak jujur. Bagaimana kita untuk katakan pemimpin kita terutamanya yang dipucuk kepimpinan sekarang ini yang sarat dengan isu-isu rasuah dan keji ini. Bagaimana rakyat mahu mempertahankan kepimpinan yang tidak berjaya menjaga imej yang baik dan sentiasa dalam keadaan defensif dalam semua isu yang menakutkan rakyat itu? UMNO di bawah Najib tidak akan berjaya untuk mencapai matlamat UMNO yang 'ultimate' iaitu membentuk negara yang bersatu padu yang selalu disebut sebagai 'national unity' itu. Sesungguhnya UMNO sudah hilang segala identitinya.

Imej yang ada kepada mereka yang memimpin kerajaan pada hari ini bukannya imej UMNO yang sebenarnya. Kita rakyat yang ramai ini sentiasa cuba diperbodohkan setiap masa dan mereka menganggapkan yang rakyat ramai ini tidak mempunyai otak, sebaliknya penuh dengan pasir dalam kepala kami. Najib tidak boleh hidup tanpa berbohong dalam semua isu terhadap beliau. Seorang Perdana Menteri yang 'average' tidak akan berhadapan dengan isu panas seperti beliau.

Jika wang yang beliau simpan sebanyak RM 2billion di Singapura boleh dibekukan oleh 'monetary authority of Singapore' apa kah ini masih melayakkan beliau terus memimpin kita? Dari segi moral dan etikanya beliau sudah tidak layak untuk memimpin lagi. Di negara-negara maju orang seperti Najib ini sudah lama berhenti dan berehat dan buat kerja lain untuk membantu membina negara. Jika Najib benar-benar jujur mahu melihat negaranya maju beliau perlu berkorban dan bersara sahaja. 

Telah disebut oleh blog ini acapkali, ada pemimpin boleh menyumbang terhadap negara dengan memegang jawatan dan ada pemimpin hanya boleh menyumbang terhadap negara dengan meletakkan jawatan. Masing-masing ada cara dan peranan masing-masing untuk menyumbang kepada negara. Bagi Najib sumbangan beliau kepada negara ialah dengan melepaskan semua jawatan beliau dalam kerajaan dan parti dan bersara. Nescaya rakyat akhirnya akan menerima tindakan beliau itu sebagai sumbangan besar beliau kepada negara kita ini.

Najib patut sedar yang tidak ada tempat awam yang kita tidak mendengar soalan di antara satu dengan lain yang berbunyi, 'bila si Najib ini hendak berhenti hah?'. Bagaimanakah Najib hendak mendapatkan keberkatan dari kepimpinannya jika semua rakyat jelas tidak mahu beliau berada di tempatnya lagi? Yang tinggal menyokongnya hanya mereka yang menjaga kepentingan diri dan mereka adalah dari kumpulan elit UMNO itu sahaja. 

Di mana-mana rakyat sedang menunggu beliau bersara dan elok jika beliau memahami keadaan ini dan penuhi kehendak rakyat itu. Tidak berguna beliau mundar mandir ke Sabah dan Sarawak untuk mendapatkan sokongan dengan memberikan janji yang berbagai yang semua orang tahu beliau tidak akan mampu menguruskan nya. Tindakan membeli masa ini akan akhirnya menjatuhkan beliau sendiri. 

Janji-janji terhadap Sabah dan Sarawak itu dibuat di waktu yang genting, bak kata orang 'sudah hendak berak baru menggali lubang.'.