Just a little comment on Kadir Jasin's issue of Marriage of Convenience of PAS and UMNO

Datuk Kadir Jasin claims that PAS-UMNO relationship is relationship of convenience to suit each other in the current political situation. I am not trying to deny that crude fact he mentioned in Sungai Besar parliamentary by-election but every coalition is a marriage of convenience. Not only for PAS and UMNO initiative to help each other but also the coalition of Pakatan Harapan where there is an obvious marriage of convenience between DAP and Parti Amanah Negara (PAN) and PKR. DAP needs Amanah and PKR and all members of the loose coalition need each other in facing any election.

PAS, PKR and DAP used to work together for the same purpose of marriage of convenience in facing the last two general elections. PAS and DAP knew that they were not in tandem in their struggles and in the end both parties divorced themselves from each other and now PAS is not with the defunct Pakatan Rakyat any longer. DAP and PKR now work to form Pakatan Harapan with the rejected leaders from PAS who formed Parti Amanah Negara (PAN) and name their coalition as Pakatan Harapan. It was not unpredictable to witness the temporary good relationship between PAN and DAP as well as PKR as they need to survive for their political presence. It is not surprising that these parties in Pakatan Harapan will again change partners in the near future.

It is always natural for DAP to support Amanah as that was the opportunity for them to duck and submerge PAS politically. However PAS has gone through all the mills of political cataclysms since its inception over sixty years ago. The formation of a new coalition, Pakatan Harapan is just another marriage of convenience like the relationship between PAS and UMNO currently. This ‘Marriage of Convenience’ is always normal and realistic political attribute of this country. The first of such ‘Marriage of Convenience’ was the formation of PERIKATAN which subsequently called Barisan Nasional with extended numbers of parties in the coalitions to fourteen altogether.  

Mahathir was an arch rival of DAP but with his DEKLERASI RAKYAT working with DAP and the rest of the oppositions is just another ‘Marriage of Convenience’ with the oppositions to dislodge the current unscrupulous and deceitful Prime Minister Najib who is still loitering in Putrajaya busy plundering the country to vestiges. Mahathir like me and many others feel that the longer Najib stays in power the country will be in disaster and we will be left with relics and left-overs by the time he eventually leaves his positions.

Mahathir has to initiate that ‘Marriage of Convenience’ with DAP and other oppositions to expel our common enemy that is Najib and his gang of the nation’s plunderers and pillagers from power.  The current leadership is milking the country dry without any qualm or guilt. AND there is nothing so unusual for individual like Dr Mahathir and political parties to change partners. The dynamics of Malaysian politics is just like that and we have to ‘berpijak di bumi yang nyata’.

So Datuk, what is so strange about marriage of convenience between PAS and UMNO. It has happened to other parties all along since independence. I am not disagreeing with Datuk Kadir’s opinion, but what I am just trying to say is that ‘Marriage of Convenience’ is not relevant issue to the current active Malaysian political dynamics at all.

It’s non-issue actually. I am in tandem with the struggle of the DEKLERASI RAKYAT personally, and that is also another ‘Marriage of Convenience’ as I have never been in agreement with Mahathir’s policies and his political goings-on while he was in power. We have to have that ‘Marriage of Convenience’ as Najib’s sins to the country are much bigger than the sins committed by previous leaders put together.

The country is in actuality in need of another 'Marriage of Convenience' where all the ruling and the opposition parties and leaders to have one magnanimous leader to start the nation anew as I have persistently mentioned in my articles and write ups all the while.

Kita sudah jemu dengan pemimpin-pemimpin curang

Kita tentunya tidak pernah menyangka yang negara kita akan menghadapi masalah yang berbagai yang sebegini besar seperti yang kita sedang hadapi sekarang ini. Walaupun tanda-tanda kerosakan sudah dapat ditelaah sejak tiga dekat yang lalu, tetapi kita tidak menyangka ianya menjangkau situasi yang begitu kusut seperti hari ini.

Masalah ketidak bertanggungjawapan pemimpin sekarang ini terlalu besar yang tidak dapat diukur dari kemampuan manusia rasional berfikir dan ia telah menyebabkan keruntuhan struktur sebuah kerajaan dan negara.  Kesannya terhadap negara begitu besar dan negara kita tidak akan mampu di perbaiki oleh mana-mana pemimpin dan kumpulan pemimpin yang sedang menduduki dan menguasai kerajaan pada hari ini.

‘Absurdity’ dan ‘enigma’ yang kita lihat berlaku dalam kerajaan dan kepimpinan sudah tidak dapat diterima dan ditanggung lagi oleh rakyat. Rakyat pula seolah-olah tidak lagi mampu berfikir dan membuat penilaian yang betul dalam semua hal kerana sistem penguasaan kerajaan dan kuasa yang telah dipunahkan oleh kepimpinan hari ini.

Sekarang ini sudah jelas dan nyata yang negara tidak boleh ditadbir oleh manusia secara individu kerana seseorang manusia dan pemimpin itu tidak akan berkemampuan untuk mentadbir negara yang mempunyai rakyat yang berbilang kaum dan cara hidup mereka. Seharusnya negara amat perlu ditadbir oleh sistem yang betul dan kuat dengan dasar-dasarnya yang mencakupi semua keperluan dan kehendak rakyat bersesuaian dengan waktu dan zamannya.

Sudah berdekad lamanya kita ditadbir oleh manusia pemimpin mengikut nafsu dan shahwat individu yang memimpin dan tidak menghormati etika dan sistem yang digunapakai oleh setiap negara maju dan moden. Nasib negara terlalu bergantung kepada moral dan cara seseorang yang memimpin tanpa mempunyai sistem  yang bersesuaian dengan kehendak rakyat dan negara.

Kalau sesebuah negara ini mantap dan kuat sistem pentadbiran dan etikanya, negara akan terselamat dari segala kerosakan seperti yang kita alami di negara ini sekarang. Kita semua sudah mula merasakan yang keadaan ini akan sampai pada bila-bila masa sesudah pengasingan kuasa dalam sebuah negara demokrasi telah dicabuli sejak penghujung tahun 1980an dahulu. Tiada siapa boleh dan berdaya untuk mempertahankan sistem pengasingan kuasa itu dan kuasa penentu dalam kerajaan dan negara kita hanya bulat tertumpu ditangan seorang pemimpin tertinggi negara sahaja .

Disinilah mulanya negara kita beransur-ansur menuju kerosakan dan pada hari ini ia sudah menular begitu jauh sehinggakan kita sudah tidak lagi mengenali apa itu negara dan apa itu demokrasi dan kepimpinan yang berwibawa yang berjiwa besar untuk melindungi rakyat serta harta benda negara. Rakyat negara sudah merasakan tidak selamat lagi hidup dalam keadaan aman makmur seperti yang kita pernah alami dahulu. Keadaan negara bergantung kepada individu yang memimpin negara dan bukannya lagi bergantung kepada sistem bernegara yang betul seperti yang diamalkan dimana-mana negara yang sudah maju.

Suatu ketika dalam tahun 1990an negara Jepun pernah berkrisis dalam kepimpinan dan negara itu pernah bertukar Perdana Menteri sebanyak tiga kali dalam setahun itu. Semua Perdana Menteri yang diberhentikan itu dibersarakan oleh partinya sendiri iaitu parti pemerintah kerana kelemahan dan skandal-skandal yang tidak sebesar skandal yang dilakukan oleh pimpinan kita sekarang.

Mereka digugurkan oleh ahli-ahli legislatif mereka tetapi negara itu tetap tidak kecuh dan kerajaan negara itu tetap utuh kerana yang memerintah dan mentadbir itu ialah sistem kerajaan yang kuat. Pemimpin datang dan pergi tetapi sistem berkerajaan itu tetap wujud dan mengelakan negara itu dari terjerumus kekancah kekecuhan seperti yang kita alami disini. Tidak sesiapa yang boleh melanggar sistem yang digunapakai walaupun oleh seorang Perdana Menteri mereka.

Perdana menteri dan ahli-ahli legislatif mereka hanya duduk dalam kerajaan semata-mata untuk memantau yang kerajaan dan sistemnya berjalan tanpa halangan waimma dari Perdana Menteri atau mana-mana pemimpin yang mempunyai kuasa politik. Dengan sistem itu tidak ada mana pemimpin setinggi mana sekali kedudukan mereka boleh dan berani melakukan onar terhadap negara dan rakyat yang mereka pimpin. Semua agensi-agensi kerajaan mempunyai bidang kuasa yang bebas dan tidak akan diganggu gugat oleh pemimpin politik dan kerajaan.

Pengarah Urusan Monetary Authority Singapura (MAS), Ravi Menon telah memutuskan yang Cawangan BSI Singapura ditutup operasinya dinegara itu. Bank itu telah melaku kecurangan dan terbabit dalam membenarkan kecurangan pemimpin kita dan 1MDB melalui bank dari Switzerland itu. Perdana Menteri Singapura atau isterinya tidak masuk campur dalam urusan MAS itu.

Undang-undang adalah undang-undang dan tidak boleh dipengaruhi oleh mana-mana pihak dalam semua tindakan dan keputusannya. Monetary Authority Singapura boleh melaksanakan urusan mereka tanpa campur tangan Perdana menteri atau isteri Perdana Menteri Singapura. Sistem mereka lah yang menyebabkan negara kecil itu tidak berlaku rasuah seperti yang berlaku disini.

Itu sebabnya saya berserta dengan ramai rakyat yang lain mengimpikan keadaan itu berlaku dinegara kita. Tetapi kita terpaksa melakukannya dengan menamatkan perkhidmatan pimpinan kita yang menjadi penghalang kepada pembentukan sistem  yang pernah kita laksanakan pada tahun-tahun sebelum lapan puluhan dahulu.

Seperti yang saya selalu sebutkan, ‘we need total structural changes and restart this nation anew’.

BSI shut down, Najib's 1MDB causes pain to the international financial fraternity.

Ravi Menon, the Managing Director of Singapore Monetary Authority (MAS) is taking tough actions against BSI the Lugano based private banking in Singapore and ordered the branch to be shut down for serious breaches on money-laundering rules in its dealings with our Malaysian sovereign wealth fund, 1MDB the brainchild of our PM Najib Razak. Swiss financial regulators announced on Tuesday that they have agreed to take over the desolation of Singapore BSI Bank which has been encroaching severely on money-laundering acts. Prime Minister Najib Razak has been in the heart of the 1MDB financial scandals which was rated to be the biggest in the history of the world.

The Swiss financial regulators have approved the takeover of the merchant bank by EFG International on one condition that BSI is integrated and dissolved within twelve months from now on. The Singapore and Swiss authorities are working together and have decided to seize the 95 million Swiss francs on illegal profits and now probing on at least on 2 former top managers of the bank.

The office of Switzerland Attorney General  had early  yesterday opened the criminal proceedings against BSI based on the information revealed by the criminal proceedings on 1MDB.  Ravi Menon the MD of Singapore Monetary Authority the wrong doings of BSI in dealing with 1MDB as the worst case of control lapses and gross misconduct that we have ever seen in the history of Singapore financial sector.

BSI CEO Stelano Coduri resigned abruptly yesterday as the dealings on the troubled 1MDB reverberate throughout the banks (BSI) international operations. It’s now obvious that 1MDB has brought down the international financial sector seriously and the infections that 1MDB is contracting is too contagious to the extent that any bank or party that deals with the Malaysian State sovereign funds will eventually faces predicaments and distress.  

The question now is why Najib is keeping mum on the issue swirling 1MDB and the serious consequences faced by many individuals in the banking system internationally when dealing with 1MDB? Doesn’t one agree that Najib’s 1MDB has been seriously putting the international banking system in jeopardy? In most cases it spins around the money that was transferred in his personal account which in the end was transferred to Singapore bank.

Najib has been denying that he has done no wrongdoing while everyone that put the 1MDB deals through are now under serious investigation and many have even been fired from the banks and referred to the investigation authorities in five advanced nation. The heinous 1MDB issue has gone global and why Najib is still loitering in power without shame and embarrassment?   Najib’s 1MDB dealings have been putting the nation to shame and it’s very important that Najib quits his job immediately.

Sooner or later Najib is going to face the litigations at global courts and we cannot afford to stomach a leader who is perceived like criminal to the international community especially within the financial fraternity. Najib is seen as an orphanage leader among the leaders of the world and he still acts with his poker face to the world leaders, even though all leaders that he meets have such low impressions and regards towards him. Najib is truly the man of the world but for negative imageries and we just don’t understand how the Cabinet members can withstand with their positions in the Cabinet without qualms and guilt.

Najib is not a deserving leader for us and he should instead find ways and means to leave with some reasonable face saving devices and leave the nation to be managed by someone who is in the capacity to institute structural and institutional changes and that kind of aptitude is not in the leaders of the current line of Najib’s Cabinet lineup.

As I have said it umpteen of times changing the leadership from within the Cabinet lineup is not a change. To change it through alternating it with political parties is also not a change. The nation needs a leader who has the experience and with high magnanimity to take on the mantle. Usually with the current bad culture of the ruling and the oppositions a true leader of that attribute stays outside the Cabinet and the party lineup.

The ordinary Malaysians are just too impatient to wait for the moment of change, a real change.  

Stop resting your laurels on Sarawak Elections victory, Najib should leave

It has been two months that I have not touched this writing machine for reason personal to me. There were lots of happenings politically that need to be mitigated with full accountability and assurances; some need true sacrifices by those people in power to get the nation back on proper and appropriate track of democratic nation. We are in slaking and in thirst of living in a nation that is decorously managed like we used to experience in the seventies.

We have been living in a wrongly cultured nation in almost every turf and arena and that has become the norms of the day. Corruptions have been the culture in our multiracial society and this practice seems to be accepted as part of live in the country for more than two long decades. Any attempt by like minded and leaders to address this dangerous culture will be deemed as anti-national. Saying a right thing is forbidden and those who were openly in support of the struggle for change were apprehended and not a small number have been unfairly be brought to courts of justice.

Some have been sacked and fired from their jobs and taken over by the hunger sycophants around the leadership for their personal monetary and social prominence. This situation is very normal for any distraught and distress of government and leadership. Najib has destroyed all democratic institutions and to rebuild all these institutions is needed as instantaneously as possible.  

Today will be another day that is interesting to observe. We want to see whether there will be a second default of payment of the coupon on the $ 1.7 billion bonds on 1MDB. This is a very crucial observation and if it’s going for another default any logical mind will conclude that we are on the fast track to devastation. 1MDB is the brainchild of Najib the PM, an investment arm for the Ministry of Finance that Najib leads with initial paid-up capital of RM1 million with initial amount RM42 billion loans and debts of various forms.

Now the amount has climbed up to RM52 billion with 5.99 percent coupon rate for today’s scheduled repayment. We were made to believe that the amount will be no less than $52.24 million as the bond is traded with higher yield these days. Whether IPIC will pay as agreed in the back to back agreement with 1MDB is yet to be seen today and by next week all of us will be able to know the whole story line on this issue.

Somehow by the end of the day the government is put at a great risk of bailing out the whole loan and debts in various forms that we have in hands. While Najib is resting his laurels on the Sarawak State election victory everyone knows that he was just riding on the popularity of the Chief Minister Adnan Satem. It was Adnan Satem’s marvelous presentation that it has very little contribution from Najib for the big win.

Najib must own up the fact that he has done too much debauchery compared to all mistakes and misadventures of all previous PMs lumped together. He has to quit without delay as he is able to untie all his misadventures that will ultimately bring Malaysians to disaster.

We have to be conclusive in our opinion that Najib has proven to be too undeserving to lead the nation any longer. He has momentously failed as a leader of our grand nation noticeably. He has been destroying the country to an unimaginable magnitude to an extend that his misappropriation of public funds is now under global investigations.