Mengingati kembali nasihat Majlis Raja-Raja Melayu tentang 1MDB

From Malaysiakini, written by Lawyer Puthan Peramal:

Conference of Rulers’ advice on 1MDB issue not to be forgotten

The Conference of Rulers plays a very important and unifying role in the ever-diversified multi-cultural and multi-religious society in Malaysia.

Article 38(2) of the federal constitution authorises the Conference of Rulers to, amongst others, deliberate on questions of national policy (for example changes in immigration policy) and  any other matter that it thinks fit.

Article 38(3) of the federal constitution states that when the conference deliberates on matters of national policy , the Yang di-Pertuan Agong is accompanied by the prime minister and the rulers and governors are accompanied by their menteris besar and chief ministers, respectively.

This  means that when the conference is deliberating on ‘any other matter that it thinks fit’ (as stated in Article 38(2)), they can do so on their own and in their wisdom.

The words ‘any  other  matter  that  it  thinks  fit’ suggest that the conference is empowered to look into a myriad of circumstances which in their wisdom seems  important to the country as a whole. These myriad of circumstances are never closed.

The Conference of  Rulers issued a  statement after its 239th meeting on Oct 7, 2015, which is reproduced below:

KENYATAAN YANG DIKELUARKAN OLEH PENYIMPAN MOHOR BESAR RAJA-RAJA BERKENAAN DENGAN MESYUARAT MAJLIS RAJA-RAJA YANG KE-239

Mesyuarat Majlis Raja-raja Yang Ke-239 telah diadakan di Istana Negara, Kuala Lumpur pada 7 Oktober 2015, dan telah dipengerusikan oleh Duli Yang Maha Mulia Raja Perlis. Semua Duli Yang Maha Mulia Raja-raja dan Tuan-tuan Yang Terutama Yang di-Pertua Negeri telah berangkat hadir kecuali Kebawah Duli Yang Maha Mulia Sultan Pahang, diwakili oleh Kebawah Duli Yang Maha Mulia Tengku Abdullah Al-Haj Ibni Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah Al-Musta’in Billah, Pemangku Raja Pahang dan Duli Yang Maha Mulia Sultan Johor, diwakili oleh Yang Amat Mulia Tunku Abdul Jalil Ibni Sultan Ibrahim, Tengku Laksamana Johor.

2. Perkara-perkara mengenai pelantikan Hakim-hakim Mahkamah Atasan, pelantikan Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya dan jadual Mesyuarat Majlis Raja-raja tahun 2016 turut dibincangkan.

Pejabat Penyimpan Mohor Besar Raja-Raja Malaysia,
Majlis Raja-Raja,
KUALA LUMPUR

7 Oktober 2015

KENYATAAN RAJA-RAJA MELAYU

Berikutan mesyuarat Pre-Council Raja-raja yang diadakan di Istana Negara pada hari ini, Penyimpan Mohor Besar Raja-raja mengeluarkan kenyataan berikut:

1. Raja-raja Melayu amat prihatin terhadap rasa resah dan kebimbangan yang telah disembah maklum oleh rakyat menyentuh kritikan terhadap kredibiliti dan integriti Kerajaan dalam melaksanakan amanah rakyat mentadbir negara. Budi bicara Duli-duli Yang Maha Mulia Raja-raja Melayu telah dipohon untuk membantu menyelesaikan masalah yang sedang melanda negara ketika ini.

2. Sesungguhnya Duli-duli Yang Maha Mulia Raja-raja Melayu ada tanggungjawab fardu kifayah untuk memastikan keamanan dan kemakmuran negara dapat berlangsung dalam suasana politik yang stabil dan rakyatnya hidup dalam harmoni. Justeru itu, Raja-raja Melayu setelah berbincang bersama, merasa bertanggungjawab untuk mengeluarkan satu kenyataan berkaitan dengan persoalan dan kontroversi yang sedang melanda negara ketika ini, iaitu isu 1MDB. Raja-raja Melayu maklum bahawa Kerajaan pada ketika ini sedang melakukan siasatan. Baginda sekalian menegaskan perlunya pihak Kerajaan menyelesaikan dengan secepat mungkin penyiasatan yang sedang berjalan. Jika terbukti terdapat sebarang perbuatan yang menyalahi undang-undang, maka Kerajaan hendaklah mengambil tindakan tegas yang sewajarnya terhadap pihak-pihak yang terlibat. Semua pihak adalah bertanggungjawab untuk memberikan kerjasama yang sebenar dan jujur agar usaha dan maksud siasatan tersebut mencapai kejayaan.

3. Penemuan siasatan ini hendaklah dilaporkan secara lengkap dan telus supaya rakyat dapat diyakinkan akan keikhlasan Kerajaan yang sama sekali tidak akan melindungkan fakta dan kebenaran. Kegagalan memberikan penjelasan dan jawapan yang meyakinkan, dikhuatiri telah mengakibatkan berlakunya krisis keyakinan. Akibatnya rakyat percaya sama ada dengan realiti mahupun secara persepsi, bahawa ia turut menjadi antara sebab yang telah mempengaruhi kejatuhan nilai mata wang Ringgit Malaysia secara mendadak, sehingga memberikan impak negatif ke atas pasaran kewangan dan iklim ekonomi negara dan sekali gus telah menjejaskan pandangan dunia terhadap Malaysia.

4. Raja-raja Melayu bimbang jika isu ini tidak ditangani secara bijak, apatah lagi jika berlarutan dan memakan masa terlalu lama, ia berpotensi menjejaskan keadaan ekonomi negara dan memudaratkan kehidupan rakyat jelata yang dikhuatiri berkemungkinan pula menjejaskan ketenteraman awam serta keselamatan negara.

5. Raja-raja Melayu dengan ini, mengingatkan semua pemimpin agar pada setiap masa mendukung prinsip-prinsip Keluhuran Perlembagaan dan Kedaulatan Undang-undang menurut yang termaktub di dalam Rukun Negara. Demi memastikan Kerajaan mendapat kepercayaan, pemimpin dihormati, kestabilan politik terus terjamin dan ekonomi negara terus berkembang, semua pemimpin wajib pada setiap masa memastikan keadilan dilaksanakan secara saksama lagi telus berpaksikan undang-undang. Untuk itu badan-badan penguatkuasaan serta institusi-institusi kawal selia seperti Polis Diraja Malaysia, Suruhanjaya Pencegah Rasuah, Bank Negara, Jabatan Peguam Negara dan Badan Kehakiman, begitu juga badan-badan serta institusi-institusi Kerajaan yang berkaitan hendaklah menyempurnakan amanah ILAHI dan kepercayaan rakyat secara telus, berkredibiliti dan berintegriti. Pemimpin-pemimpin hendaklah senantiasa mengutamakan faktor-faktor keselamatan, ketenteraman, keamanan dan keharmonian serta meletakkan kepentingan Negara dan rakyat mengatasi kepentingan peribadi.

6. Raja-raja Melayu memandang berat isu-isu menyentuh kaum dan agama dan dengan ini mengingatkan para pemimpin parti-parti politik dan badan-badan bukan kerajaan agar tidak mensensasikan isu perkauman dan isu agama dalam hasrat meraih sokongan rakyat terhadap parti atau pihak masing-masing. Raja-raja Melayu menzahirkan peringatan bahawa hubungan harmoni dan perpaduan antara kaum dan antara agama yang terjalin baik selama hari ini telah berperanan penting sebagai tunggak utama kepada kestabilan sebuah negara Malaysia yang merdeka, aman, maju dan makmur. Oleh itu hubungan harmoni dan perpaduan rakyat wajib dipelihara pada setiap masa dan tidak boleh sama sekali dikorbankan kerana matlamat politik yang cetek.

Dikeluarkan oleh

Dato Sri Syed Danial bin Syed Ahmad, Penyimpan Mohor Besar Raja-Raja Melayu pada 6 Oktober 2015.

Going by what has been advised in paragraph 3 in particular... “Penemuan siasatan ini hendaklah dilaporkan secara lengkap dan telus supaya rakyat dapat diyakinkan akan keikhlasan Kerajaan yang sama sekali tidak akan melindungkan fakta dan kebenaran”, it would seem to appear that the refusal to de-classify the Auditor-General’s Report on 1MDB tabled in Parliament recently does not seem to be in line with the advice of the Conference of Rulers.

Neither is the refusal by Bank Negara Malaysia to disclose the amount of compound received for 1MDB’s failure to bring back US$1.83 billion.

In the circumstances, and in light of the recent domestic and international investigations on this 1MDB issue, perhaps it would be wise for the cabinet to advise the Yang  di-Pertuan  Agong  to  issue  a commission pursuant to the powers granted under Section 2 of the Commissions  of  Enquiry Act 1950, to look into this 1MBD matter; which is clearly of considerable public  importance. Failing to do so would definitely cast doubt on the credibility of the cabinet itself.

PUTHAN PERUMAL is an advocate and solicitor of the High Court of Malaya.

I sincerely hope that good sense prevail, these are trying times for the country and its people.

I would just hope that the parties contesting the election will field honest and competent candidates

The coming by-elections in Perak and Selangor will not be a game changer, it is only 2 years away from the real deal which is the PRU14. So who wins or who loses will not make the balance of power in our Parlimen to change. 

I would just hope that the parties contesting the election will field honest and competent candidates it matters not their gender or colour. I am sick and tired of watching politicians become YBs hold office and then do totally opposite of the things that took them forward thus far.

No need to talk about Hudud lah atau apa kalau perangai dan kehidupan pun tak nampak Islamic nya.

bila nak dekat Election yg Pas nak tanding ada je keluar cerita hudud. tapi 1st things 1st baik Pas letak calon yg amanah & berkaliber dulu.

— eddydaud. (@eddydaud) May 28, 2016

Talking about YBs who showed some Islamic nature please read on:

YB Kit Siang who by the way is non Muslim says:

The Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak himself announced after the Umno supreme council meeting yesterday, that the new Bank Negara governor Muhammad Ibrahim had lodged a police report against The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) under the Official Secrets Act (OSA) for revealing a letter purportedly from Bank Negara to Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chairperson Hasan Ariffin.

Najib did not explain whether the Bank Negara governor had lodged the police report against WSJ on his instructions, but it would be very sad day in the history of Bank Negara Malaysia indeed if the greatest concern of the new BNM governor is not the global investigation and crackdown on 1MDB money-laundering and corruption allegations, but whether WSJ had committed an offence under the OSA.

He has lost the moral compass to be premier when he is not concerned whether Good Star Limited was the genesis of the RM55 billion 1MDB global financial scandal and fraud against Malaysia and 30 million Malaysians, but only whether WSJ had committed an OSA offence in revealing Good Star Limited was in fact owned by Penang billionaire Jho Low.

I was shocked a few days ago when Malaysia gained new international notoriety and the 1MDB financial scandal was described by a leading world news agency, Bloomberg, as one of the “world’s biggest financial scandals”.

I have been a Member of Parliament since 1969, but I have never felt so ashamed as a Malaysian when I read of such a Bloomberg reference four days ago mentioning Malaysia in the same breath as “the world’s biggest financial scandals”.

Where should Malaysians hide their faces?

Shouldn’t Najib, the cabinet and Parliament be mortally ashamed and humiliated for the country to be referred in such a derogatory and contemptible manner, because we have allowed the 1MDB scandal to mushroom in a matter of six years to become one of the “world’s biggest financial scandals”?

What is worse, at least six countries are investigating money laundering and corruption allegations connected with 1MDB, with the Singapore and Swiss authorities already launching a crackdown against institutions and individuals implicated with 1MDB.

Yesterday, for instance, the former wealth manager of troubled Swiss private bank BSI was denied bail by the Singapore High Court and will await his trial in prison for two of the nine charges that are part of the city-state’s investigations into money laundering related to illicit money transfers linked to 1MDB.

The Malaysian government and the Malaysian regulatory authorities, in particular Bank Negara Malaysia, are however blissfully ignorant or unconcerned about the chips about the 1MDB global scandal falling into place as a result of such foreign investigations and crackdowns.

Is Malaysia an integral part of the global society of finance and instant information or have we walled ourselves into a “hermit state” which could ignore international perceptions, opinions and expectations?

The Good Star Limited is a test case whether Malaysia is prepared to be a responsible member of the global community or trying to be a “hermit state” to cut off the country from the international flow of events.

The question whether WSJ has committed an offence under the OSA in revealing a Bank Negara Malaysia letter to the PAC Chairman confirming that Good Star Limited was owned by tycoon Low Taek Jho, better known as Jho Low, must not be allowed to overshadow an even greater public interest issue.

The issue being that the government had lied to Malaysians when it continued to pretend that Good Star Ltd, which has since been dissolved, belonged to former 1MDB joint-venture partner PetroSaudi International when in fact it belonged to Jho Low.

The status of Good Star's ownership is important because it will determine whether 1MDB's funds had been siphoned away or that it was indeed used for investment.

1MDB had sent US$1.83 billion abroad for its joint-venture activities with PetroSaudi but US$1.03 billion of this sum was diverted to Good Star.

The diversion would not be an issue if Good Star was owned by 1MDB's joint-venture partner PetroSaudi, as claimed by the government, but would raise serious concerns if it is owned by individuals or entities unrelated to the joint-venture - in this case, Jho Low, as claimed by WSJ.

If the WSJ revelation is true, that Bank Negara had confirmed that US$1.03 billion (RM4.06 billion) in 1MDB funds had been transferred to an offshore company owned by a close associate of Najib, Jho Low, it would have tallied with the money-laundering and corruption investigations and crackdowns launched by six countries on 1MDB, and why 1MDB had catapulted Malaysia into the stratosphere of corrupt global nations with one of the “world’s biggest financial scandals”.

In these circumstances, Malaysians are entitled to demand a reset of national priorities and that the Najib government should give top priority to render full and satisfactory accountability and responsibility for the 1MDB scandal over all other concerns, including whether WSJ has committed an offence under the OSA.

LIM KIT SIANG is DAP parliamentary leader and MP for Gelang Patah.

Read more here.

Yup some non muslims are way islamic than some muslims lah, YB Kit Siang pun ada rasa malu bila malapetaka 1MDB ini melanda negara..

....and yes if the opposition finally get their act together and win the next election they should repeal the OSA and ganti with a National Defence Document Act where only military documents can be embargoed from public view.

Interesting facts about undersea internet cables

The world...the information world is getting smaller and all these through large network of undersea cables, From the Singapore Straits Times:

Microsoft and Facebook to build new sub-sea cable: 6 interesting facts about undersea Internet cables

A map from 2006, showing how much capacity the world has in terms of undersea cables that carry Internet traffic and voice calls.PHOTO: PRIMETRICA

On Thursday (May 26), Microsoft and Facebook announced that they will be building a high-speed Internet sub-sea cable that will connect the United States and southern Europe across the Atlantic, in order to meet growing demands for faster and more reliable services.

Microsoft's cloud services such as Skype, Xbox Live, Office 365, search engine Bing and its cloud computing platform Azure will benefit from the construction of this cable.

This 6,600km cable network, also known as the Marea cable, has an estimated capacity of 160 terabytes of data per second and is expected to be constructed in August and completed by October 2017.

Marea is Spanish for "tide" and this cable that stretches from Northern Virginia to Bilbao, Spain, will be operated by Telxius, a telecommunications infrastructure company owned by Spanish company, Telefonica.

When completed, the Marea cable will be one of many connecting the world.

Here are six interesting facts about the Internet's undersea backbone:

1. SINGAPORE IS KNOWN TO BE ONE OF THE WORLD'S TOP SUBMARINE CABLE HUBS

Singapore is an air hub, a sea hub, and a data hub.

Even before the 1900s, Singapore was a landing point for submarine telegraph cables carrying messages between Britain and Asia.

Today, many modern submarine cable systems land in Singapore, connecting it to countries in every continent but Antarctica.

The country is a node in as many as 16 submarine cables for international telecommunications and networks, as of October 2015.

These amount to a data transmission capacity of more than 114 terabytes per second.

2. THE LIFE EXPECTANCY OF AN UNDERSEA CABLE IS APPROXIMATELY 25 YEARS

TeleGeography's submarine cable map, updated for 2016, listed 293 active and 28 planned cable systems. Planned cable systems refer to those that are currently being constructed or are expected to be fully-funded by the end of this year.

Once these cables are active, they are expected to have a life expectancy of 25 years before they are required to undergo replacement and repairs.

Special repair ships are dispatched to perform these repairs.

If the damaged part of the cable is less than 6,500 feet down, a robot is used to bring the cable to the surface. However, if the depth of the cable is too deep, a grapnel is used instead to haul the cable up for repair.

3. INSTALLING CABLES IS AN EXPENSIVE AND ARDUOUS PROCESS

If you have trouble installing a television or a computer, just imagine how challenging it would be to install an entire network of cables under the sea.

The process of laying undersea cables is often a tedious one which requires long hours and ample manpower.

Huge modified ships lay these cables along the ocean floor and they have to ensure that these cables are buried properly, while trying to avoid coral reefs and other forms of ocean life on the sea bed.

Cable ships can lay around 100-200km of cable per day.

4. THEIR WIDTHS VARY ACCORDING TO WHERE THEY ARE PLACED IN THE OCEAN

Undersea cables are more vulnerable to threats - such as sharks and ships - in shallow waters and hence tend to be thicker in width, approximately the width of a soda can.

However, at a deeper level, they are usually thinner, around 17 millimetres wide.

These cables are often covered in a protective layer and have a core comprising optic fibres and wires.

They can be found even at a depth of 8,000 metres, which is about the height of Mount Everest.

5. CABLES ARE OFTEN DAMAGED BY EXTERNAL SOURCES AND ARE SUSCEPTIBLE TO ATTACKS BY SPIES AND SABOTEURS

Sharks too, enjoy biting these undersea cables and the reasons behind this strange phenomenon is unclear.

There had already been cases of sharks exhibiting an "inexplicable taste for the new fibre-optic cables that are being strung along the ocean floor", said a 1987 New York Times report.

These shark attacks have forced companies such as Google to protect their underwater fibre cables by wrapping them with Kevlar.

Aside from sharks, external threats to these cables also include natural disasters, ship anchors and trawling by fishing boats.

They are also the vulnerable targets of spies and saboteurs.

During the Cold War period (1945 - 1991), the US National Security Agency conducted an operation titled "Ivy Bells" which used submarines and underwater recording pods to gather transmissions from an undersea cable connecting two of USSR's major naval bases.

In 2013, three scuba divers were apprehended by Egyptian authorities for attempting to cut through an undersea cable off the port of Alexandria.

The cable that these saboteurs targeted was the SeaWeMe-4 (South-east Asia-Middle East-Western Europe-4) cable which provided a third of Egypt's and Europe's internet capacity.

6. THEY ARE CHEAPER AND MORE EFFECTIVE THAN SATELLITES

News network CNN reported in 2015 that over 99% of our international communications are still transmitted by undersea cables, even with the creation of satellites.

Satellites are known to be less effective, as it takes a longer time to transmit information to and from space compared to the data transfer speed that optical fibres in undersea cables are capable of.

Researchers have developed optical fibres that can transmit information at 99.7% the speed of light, extremetech.com states.

Also, undersea cables are cheaper than satellites - which are also limited in capacity.

Sources: The Daily Mail Online, Infocomm Development Authority, Economic Development Board, atlantic-cable.com, CNN, extremetech.com

'There is no general discretionary power to restrict a citizen’s right to travel in and out of Malaysia' - Bar Council President

unless u r a bankrupt or dont pay ur study loans or owe lhdn money, then u shd be allowed to travel outside the country without restriction

— eddydaud. (@eddydaud) May 19, 2016

'There is no general discretionary power to restrict a citizen’s right to travel in and out of Malaysia. 

There is a limited power to restrict a citizen’s right to travel, but only under specific legislation such as Section 104 of the Income Tax Act 1967 and Section 38A(1) of the Bankruptcy Act 1967.

There is no express provision to bar travel under the Immigration Act 1959/63.

A travel ban violates the right to life or personal liberty that is guaranteed in Article 5(1) of the Federal Constitution, which extends to the right to travel.'

Steven Thiru - Bar Council President

Putrajaya's unrestrained power to bar M'sians from travelling is a myth

20th May 2016

The Malaysian Bar deplores the growing trend of the federal and state governments imposing travel bans on Malaysian citizens seeking to move within and without Malaysia. 

These appear to be done either by misconstruing existing legal provisions or, worse still, in the absence of any legal basis whatsoever.

The recent ban imposed on Bersih chairperson Maria Chin Abdullah, is a deeply troubling example. 

The immigration authorities prevented her from boarding her flight to South Korea at the KL International Airport on May 15, 2016. 

She was on her way to accept the Gwangju Prize for Human Rights 2016 on behalf of Bersih.

It has been reported that Maria Chin had not been given any prior warning or notice by the immigration authorities that she had been barred from leaving the country.

Indeed, it has also been reported that she had travelled overseas as recently as December 2015 without any hindrance. 

The immigration authorities have also inexplicably refused to provide her with any written document and, in fact, any reason whatsoever for her travel ban, merely saying that it was on the “instructions of Putrajaya”.

Deputy Home Minister Nur Jazlan Mohamed (photo) was then quoted as saying that the government has “… the power to bar anybody from leaving the country… It’s the power given to the immigration; we don’t need to explain why".

The Malaysian Bar respectfully disagrees with the deputy home minister. 

There is no general discretionary power to restrict a citizen’s right to travel in and out of Malaysia.

Unrestrained discretion in the hands of the government is a myth.

There is a limited power to restrict a citizen’s right to travel, but only under specific legislation such as Section 104 of the Income Tax Act 1967 and Section 38A(1) of the Bankruptcy Act 1967.

There is no express provision to bar travel under the Immigration Act 1959/63.

Further, a travel ban violates the right to life or personal liberty that is guaranteed in Article 5(1) of the Federal Constitution, which extends to the right to travel.

It is also untenable for the immigration authorities to restrict an individual’s right to travel without giving any written reasons.

There is a duty to give reasons in law when a fundamental right is denied.

'No basis for travel ban'

The immigration authorities therefore have a legal obligation to provide the justification for imposing a travel ban on a particular individual.

The failure to specify the basis for barring travel would imply that none in fact exists, and that the decision is simply a capricious exercise of discretion by the immigration authorities to restrict freedom of movement of selected persons.

It gives rise to a perception of abuse of power. 

This and other incidents of travel bans being imposed will also invariably be viewed as a blatant attempt to intimidate and silence those who seek to exercise their freedom of movement and expression to expose wrongdoing within the corridors of power.

In properly upholding the rule of law and administration of justice, there must be accountability and transparency in decision-making by law enforcement authorities.

Power must not be wantonly accumulated and wrongfully exercised. 

It should not be forgotten that Parliament has approved amendments to the Sedition Act 1948 to allow for criticism of government, which the government has refused thus far to bring into force. 

Travel bans must not be used to perpetuate that which has, in principle, been abolished.  

The Malaysian Bar urges the Malaysian government to immediately rescind the overseas travel ban that the authorities have imposed on Maria Chin and others, and to cease and desist from resorting to any illegitimate means of wrongfully silencing its critics.

The government must also take concrete measures to promote open and constructive criticism of itself by others, safeguard each citizen’s right to unimpeded freedom of movement and freedom of expression, and adhere to basic principles of the rule of law and natural justice.

STEVEN THIRU is the Malaysian Bar president.

I hope the BN Gomen come to their senses lah.

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Gambaran Salah Oleh Jawatankuasa Kira-Kira Wang Negara -Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah

Dari blog Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah Ahli Parlimen Umno Gua Musang:

Gambaran Salah Oleh Jawatankuasa Kira-Kira Wang Negara

Adalah dilaporkan bahawa kenyataan tertentu di dalam Laporan Jawatankuasa Kira-Kira Wang Negara (PAC) untuk dibentangkan dalam Parlimen telah dipadam. Ini merupakan perkara penting yang penuh kontroversi. Ia juga berkaitan dengan pemindahan wang yang kononnya dipinjam daripada peminjam antarabangsa dengan cara di luar batasan undang-undang.

2. Saya risau mengenai perkara ini kerana kita semestinya mempertahankan integriti dan kedudukan Dewan Rakyat sebagai sebuah badan di mana Ahli-Ahli Dewan seharusnya bertindak dengan penuh tanggungjawab dan jujur tanpa mengelirukan rakyat.

3. Dengan adanya pemadaman ini, saya risau sama ada Laporan yang akan dibawa ke Dewan Rakyat itu merupakan laporan yang boleh dipertahankan memandangkan ia berkaitan dengan pinjaman wang oleh 1MDB yang kononnya dibuat bagi pihak negara. Pemadaman tersebut sebenarnya bukan sahaja di luar batasan undang-undang tetapi merupakan juga pemesongan serius terhadap Seksyen 9(i), (j) dan (n)(iii) Akta Majlis Parlimen (Keistimewaan dan Kuasa) 1952.

4. Akta Majlis Parlimen (Keistimewaan dan Kuasa) 1952 adalah bermaksud untuk melindungi dan mempertahankan integriti serta nama baik Dewan Rakyat demi memastikan keyakinan rakyat terhadap Parlimen sebagai badan perlembagaan untuk menjamin kepentingan mereka. Pemesongan terhadap Seksyen di dalam Akta yang saya sebutkan itu merangkumi pengubahan, salah pembentangan dan penipuan terhadap dokumen yang dibentang di Dewan Rakyat. Ini merupakan kesalahan mengikut peruntukan di dalam Akta ini. Ini juga bermakna apa jua pemadaman yang dibuat boleh mendatangkan keraguan di kalangan rakyat mengenai sama ada Laporan tersebut mencerminkan atau tidak akan kebenaran keseluruhan kenyataan mengenai isu 1MDB.

5. Oleh itu, atas sebab-sebab yang disebut saya sekali lagi menyeru agar Laporan Ketua Audit Negara, yang diklasifikasi sebagai “Rahsia Rasmi”, diubah kepada “untuk tatapan umum”. Saya juga membuat seruan ini kerana mengikut Perlembagaan, Ahli-Ahli Dewan Rakyat sebenarnya berhak mendapat Laporan Ketua Audit Negara sebelum Parlimen bersidang pada 16hb Mei, 2016. Isu-isu yang dibangkitkan itu amat penting kepada rakyat dan tidak ada sebab kenapa Laporan Ketua Audit Negara diklasifikasikan sebagai rahsia rasmi. Saya mengulangi juga keputusan yang dibuat oleh Perdana Menteri, Y.A.B. Dato’ Sri Najib supaya Ketua Audit Negara menyiasat isu 1MDB dan menyerahkan hasil penyiasatan tersebut sebagai laporan untuk pertimbangan Dewan Rakyat. Dalam membuat keputusan tersebut, Y.A.B. Perdana Menteri memberi gambaran bahawa tidak ada apa yang hendak diselindungkan.

Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah
Ahli Parlimen Gua Musang
Kuala Lumpur,
14 Mei 2016 bersamaan
7 Syaaban 1437H

World Economic Forum: 'Why are oil prices so low?'

Something that I feel must be shared for all...yup I agree we have not seen the bottom of the oil price yet........From the World Economic Forum:

Why are oil prices so low?

Just a few years ago, the world couldn’t get enough of it. Now, everyone talks of a glut. The oil price is well and truly in the doldrums.

Since 2014, the price of oil has been on a downward trajectory which has taken the industry into territory not seen for decades.

What, on the face of it, seems like great news for the consumer is already having serious knock-on effects in the world economy. Some are positive, some are not.

How does the price compare to recent years?

In early 2016, the price of crude oil was more than 70% lower than in 2014. If you look back to the pre-financial crisis peak of 2008 the drop is even steeper.

The days when the talk was of a crisis caused by high oil prices seem to belong to a different era.

Crude oil ($ barrel)

Image: Reuters

Why have prices dropped so much?

On one level the answer could not be simpler: supply and demand. There is not enough demand for all the oil that is being produced.

Why? Well, there are many factors at play in the global market but several major issues are particularly relevant.

On the supply side, the United States has nearly doubled its domestic production over the last few years. The growth in shale oil means the foreign oil it no longer needs to import has to find a buyer elsewhere.

Weekly US field production of oil

Image: U.S Energy Information Administration

Canadian and Iraqi oil production and exports are also rising year after year andIran’s return to the international oil market after sanctions were lifted in January is also starting to have an impact.

OPEC has not been cutting production to shore up prices, something it used to do all the time. And Russia, despite its economic problems, is managing to keep pumping at record levels.

On the demand side, the economies of Europe and developing countries are weak, China’s growth has slowed and around the world vehicles are becoming more energy-efficient.

All of which helps to explain why, despite demand continuing to rise, supply has risen even faster.

Balance of supply and demand

Image: New York Times

Why is OPEC behaving differently?

Iran, Venezuela, Ecuador and Algeria have all pressed OPEC to cut production to firm up prices.

At a meeting in Doha, Qatar in April, major oil producers including OPEC members and Russia met as part of efforts to agree to an output freeze, but the talks ended with no deal. Saudi Arabia had called for Iran to be part of the agreement, but Tehran refused.

Agreement given such differing national interests seems unlikely in the near future.

With increased competition Saudi Arabia may be happy to keep prices low for a while to make it uneconomical for other countries to develop further oil production.

Some analysts think OPEC will never return to its production-cutting ways.

How long will this go on for?

There seems to be little belief that prices will rise significantly in the near future.

A number of potential catalysts could drive oil yet lower. Some analysts have said that $10 a barrel is now not out of the question. Others expect to see a moderate recovery over the next few years.

However, most analysts think it will be years before oil returns to $90 or $100 a barrel, a price that was seen as the norm over the last decade.

With lower oil prices, many new oil projects are being cancelled or postponed, which is likely to reduce some of the over-production as older and more expensive projects close down.

The effect of this may be counter-balanced in the short term by the massive amount of surplus oil which is currently being stored around the world. This effectively adds even more supply to the future market.

Who are the winners?

The most obvious beneficiaries are drivers paying far lower petrol prices. Diesel, heating oil and natural gas prices have also fallen sharply around the world.

Consumer goods are also becoming cheaper as manufacturing and transport costs fall. And oil importing nations benefit from having to spend less fulfilling their energy needs.

Who are the losers?

Oil-producing countries are the biggest losers.

Venezuela, Nigeria, Ecuador, Brazil and Russia are just a few petro-states that are suffering economic turbulence.

Gulf states have also come under strain, with Saudi Arabia unveiling a record budget deficit of 367bn riyals (£67bn) for last year.

The oil companies are experiencing tough times. Chevron, Royal Dutch Shell andBP have all announced cuts to their payrolls to save cash. Exxon has reportedrecord low quarterly profits, and was recently stripped of its top AAA credit rating.

Many smaller independent oil and gas producers are going out of business altogether.

If oil prices drop further there are likely to be much deeper cutbacks in production as oil companies pull out of existing projects and cancel more future construction. The impact on the long-term oil market is likely to be significant.

Written by

Keith Breene, Senior Writer, Formative Content

An ex-military officer's 12 rules to be an effective leader

Got this article from World Economic Forum:

A retired Navy SEAL commander’s 12 rules for being an effective leader

Source from here World Economic Forum

Good lessons to be learned. Enjoy.

Apa nak jadi dengan orang Melayu diMalaysia ini?

Apa nak jadi dengan orang Melayu diMalaysia ini?

Berhentilah menyalahkan kaum lain atau jadi kan mereka sebagai boogeyman...

DrM's blogpost pasal 1MDB:

Saga 1MDB (Bahagian 1)
4 May 2016 | 1MDB

1. 1MDB bukanlah dana kekayaan sepertimana yang diwarwarkan. Selain daripada RM1.0 juta yang disumbangkan oleh Kerajaan, yang lain daripada RM 42,000,000,000 (42,000 juta) itu adalah wang yang dipinjam. Wang yang dipinjam tidak boleh dianggap atau diklasifikasikan sebagai kekayaan. Ianya adalah liabiliti yang dikenakan ke atas 1MDB dan jika ianya gagal Kerajaan perlu membayar balik faedah dan pokok pinjaman. Jumlahnya adalah begitu besar dan jika Kerajaan tidak mampu membayarnya Kerajaan boleh jatuh bankrap. Ini adalah apa yang telah berlaku kepada Greece.

2. Kemungkinan ini berlaku membebankan pengurusan 1MDB dengan tanggungjawab yang berat dan menunjukkan kecuaian pengawasan oleh pihak Kerajaan. Dan dengan pantas sekali telah jelas kelihatan bahawa eksekutif dan lembaga 1MDB tidak menjalankan tanggungjawab mereka secara serius.

3. Shahrol, Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif 1MDB meminjam RM5.0 bilion daripada bank-bank tanpa pengetahuan dan kelulusan Lembaga Pengarah.

4. Pinjaman dikenakan kadar faedah yang tinggi. Dalam satu kes Goldman Sachs telah dibayar komisen 10% untuk mendapatkan pinjaman dengan faedah 5.9%. Ini bermakna bahawa 1MDB hanya mendapat 90% daripada pinjaman tetapi perlu membayar faedah ke atas 100%. Ia adalah sama juga untuk pokok pinjaman.

5. Wang ini kononnya digunakan untuk membeli loji janakuasa dengan harga lebih tinggi daripada harga pasaran. Lesen-lesen untuk beberapa loji janakuasa ini hampir akan tamat. Jika pembelian telah ditangguhkan sehingga tamat tempoh lesen, harga pembelian akan menjadi kurang daripada harga pasaran.

6. Tetapi pengurusan seolah-olah tidak kisah untuk mendapatkan harga yang terbaik. Akibatnya apabila loji janakuasa ini dijual kepada orang Cina, 1MDB mengalami kerugian lebih daripada RM1.0 bilion.

7. Terdapat dua kes yang lain di mana Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif Shahrol telah bertindak tanpa kelulusan pengarah 1MDB. Dia telah memeterai usaha sama (JV) dengan Petro Saudi sebelum dilakukan “due diligence” yang intensif dan wajar. Kemudian dia melabur USD1.0 bilion dalam JV tersebut, juga tanpa kelulusan Lembaga.

8. Pelaburannya begitu besar dan ia memerlukan kajian “due diligence” yang menyeluruh dan perinci sebelum ianya dapat dibentang untuk mendapat kelulusan Lembaga Pengarah. Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif sebenarnya tidak mempunyai kuasa untuk melabur jumlah wang yang begitu besar. Tetapi ini adalah apa yang dia lakukan.

9. Tidak dapat dibayangkan bahawa dalam tiga ketika Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif, Shahrol, akan bertindak tanpa mengikuti peraturan syarikat. Dalam Memorandum Syarikat Seksyen 117 dinyatakan bahawa semua hal ehwal syarikat itu mesti diluluskan oleh Penasihat 1MDB, iaitu oleh Dato Sri Najib, Perdana Menteri dan juga Menteri Kewangan.

10. Walaupun Shahrol mungkin cukup berani untuk bertindak tanpa kelulusan pihak Lembaga, tidak dapat dibayangkan bahawa beliau akan bertindak tanpa kelulusan Najib. Tanggungjawab bagi tiga tindakan yang dilakukan oleh Shahrol sudah semestinya telah dibuat selepas, atau atas arahan Najib, Penasihat syarikat. Jika tidak, dia akan telah dimarahi dan mungkin dipecat oleh Najib.

11. 1MDB tidak dapat membayar faedah sejumlah RM2.0 bilion bagi pinjaman. Ia terpaksa meminjam untuk membayar. Pinjaman kini telah meningkat kepada RM50 bilion mungkin kerana pinjaman berikutan. Peningkatan dalam jumlah pinjaman ini dicatitkan dalam laporan PAC.

12. Kemudiannya dilaporkan bahawa Najib mempunyai USD681,000,000, bersamaan dengan RM2.6 bilion Malaysia di dalam akaun peribadi rahsia beliau di Ambank. Tiada Perdana Menteri Malaysia harus mempunyai wang begitu banyak di dalam akaun peribadi. Beliau harus menolak sebarang pemberian sedemikian. Jika sekiranya ia bukan suatu jenayah, ianya adalah salah dari segi moral.

13. Pada mulanya Dato Sri Najib telah menyangkal kebenaran laporan itu. Beliau berkata beliau tidaklah begitu bodoh sehingga sanggup meletakkan wang di dalam akaun peribadinya. Tali barut beliau semuanya melaung-laung kata-katanya.

14. Kemudiannya beliau mengakui bahawa beliau memang mempunyai RM2.6 bilion dalam akaun beliau, tetapi ianya adalah hadiah. Kemudian beliau menjelaskan bahawa ianya adalah sumbangan dari Arab oleh kerana tindakan beliau terhadap I.S. dan minat beliau terhadap Islam.

15. Kemudiannya Arab tersebut menjadi seorang putera dan seterusnya Allahyarham Raja Saudi.

16. Tiada satu pun penjelasan beliau boleh dipercayai. Tiada siapa yang akan memberi jumlah wang sebesar ini kepada sesiapa pun walaupun beliau pernah melakukan sesuatu untuk Islam atau bagi perjuangan-perjuangan yang lain. Apa yang dipercayai adalah wang ini datangnya dari 1MDB, satu-satunya sumber wang begitu banyak yang boleh diakses oleh Najib. Sudah semestinya beliau menafikannya tetapi beliau tidak mempunyai sebarang bukti berdokumen untuk membuktikan bahawa wang itu tidak daripada 1MDB.

17. Kemudiannya IPIC yang telah dilantik sebagai penjamin bagi pinjaman untuk 1MDB membuat kenyataan kepada pihak berkuasa di London bahawa wang sejumlah USD1.7 bilion yang patut diterimanya tidak dibayar oleh 1MDB. Oleh sebab itu, mereka enggan membayar faedah berjumlah USD50 juta yang perlu dibayar ke atas pinjaman yang diambil oleh 1MDB.

18. 1MDB berkata ia telah pun membayar wang itu kepada anak syarikat IPIC bernama Aabar PJS Ltd (British Virgin Islands).

19. IPIC menyatakan bahawa Aabar PJS(BVI) bukanlah sebuah syarikat kumpulan IPIC walaupun ia mempunyai sebuah syarikat dengan nama yang hampir sama, iaitu Aabar PJS Ltd. Syarikat ini tidak menerima sebarang bayaran daripada 1MDB. IPIC membayangkan bahawa syarikat yang dibayar oleh 1MDB mungkin adalah sebuah syarikat palsu.

20. Terdapat saranan bahawa telah berlaku penipuan, dan Arul, Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif 1MDB mengakui bahawa mungkin wang telah dibayar kepada syarikat yang salah. Tetapi 1MDB menegaskan bahawa IPIC perlu membayar faedah USD50 juta itu kerana ia adalah penjamin pinjaman. 1MDB tidak akan membayar.

21. Seseorang penjamin boleh dibertanggungjawabkan untuk membayar jika 1MDB adalah benar-benar tidak mampu membayar. Tetapi penjamin tidak diwajibkan untuk membayar hanya kerana 1MDB enggan membayar. Selain itu, IPIC sebagai penjamin tidak dibayar wang sejumlah USD1.7 bilion yang perlu dibayar.

22. Oleh sebab 1MDB dan IPIC tidak akan membayar faedah ke atas pinjaman, akan terjadi kemungkiran. Ini akan menyebabkan kemungkiran bertalian (cross default) bagi pinjaman-pinjaman lain yang diambil oleh 1MDB. Oleh sebab 1MDB ialah syarikat milik penuh Kerajaan, kemungkiran akan menjejaskan status kredit Kerajaan. Kerajaan mungkin tidak lagi dapat meminjam di pasaran.

23. Kerajaan akan mengalami defisit kewangan yang boleh membawa kepada kebankrapan jika pinjaman tidak diservis dan pokok pinjaman dibayar.

24. Dalam pada itu RM2.6 bilion dalam akaun Najib dikatakan telah dipindahkan ke bank Singapura. Singapura dikatakan telah membeku akaun beberapa orang sementara menunggu siasatan pengubahan wang haram (money laundering). Walaupun tidak disebutkan bahawa akaun-akaun yang dibekukan itu adalah kepunyaan Najib, Singapore, sebagai pusat kewangan, tidak boleh dilihat sebagai menutup satu kes yang jelas melibatkan pengubahan wang haram.


25. Bank Negara telah membuat laporan kepada Peguam Negara, barangkali mengenai wang Najib di Ambank. Tetapi Peguam Negara menolak laporan itu, dengan dakwaan tidak ada kesalahan yang dilakukan oleh Perdana Menteri. Begitu juga laporan oleh SPRM turut ditolak oleh Peguam Negara. Isi kandungan laporan tersebut telah diisytiharkan sebagai rahsia rasmi untuk mengelakkan penelitian awam. Tetapi OSA tidaklah bertujuan untuk menutup kemungkinan berlaku jenayah.

Saga 1MDB (Bahagian II)

1. 1MDB, kemungkinan atas nasihat penasihat syarikat it, iaitu Perdana Menteri telah membeli tanah Kerajaan di Kuala Lumpur pada harga RM60 setiap kaki persegi di kawasan mana tanah telah dijual pada harga mencecah RM7,000 setiap kaki persegi. Najib yang juga Menteri Kewangan sepatutnya menjual tanah Kerajaan pada harga hampir harga pasaran. Dengan menjual pada kadar RM60 setiap kaki persegi, Kerajaan telah kehilangan banyak wang.

2. Jelas terdapat konflik kepentingan apabila Menteri Kewangan adalah juga penasihat kepada 1MDB. Jika bukannya Najib yang meluluskan penjualan ini, maka siapakah yang melakukannya? Pegawai yang meluluskan penjualan ini harus didakwa atas kehilangan wang Kerajaan.

3. Tanah ini telah dinilai semula ke atas supaya nilai aset 1MDB meningkat menjadi RM50 bilion.

4. Begitu juga tanah lapangan terbang Sungai Besi telah dijual kepada 1MDB. Harga jualan tidak diketahui tetapi pada hakikatnya 1MDB sudah pun memiliki tanah ini dan telah membuat persiapan untuk memindah pangkalan TUDM ke Subang. Dengan menilai semula tanah ini nilai aset 1MDB akan sekali lagi meningkat. Sekali lagi Kerajaan kerugian banyak wang.

5. 1MDB kemudian menjual sebahagian daripada tanah di Jalan Tun Razak kepada Tabung Haji dengan harga RM 3,500 setiap kaki persegi. Ini bermakna dana yang disumbangkan oleh bakal jemaah Haji telah digunakan untuk membayar balik pinjaman 1MDB. Ini adalah tidak adil kepada bakal jemaah yang sebahagian besarnya terdiri daripada mereka yang miskin.

6. Tanah juga telah dibeli di Pulau Pinang dengan harga lebih tinggi daripada harga pasaran. Tanah ini diduduki oleh hampir seribu orang setinggan. Selain daripada itu Pulau Pinang diperintah oleh parti pembangkang. Tidak mungkin rancangan pembangunan untuk tanah ini akan diluluskan.

7. 1MDB menghadapi kemungkinan kehilangan lebih banyak wang kerana pembelian ini.

8. Semua 1MDB pelaburan yang lain hampir tidak menghasilkan sebarang keuntungan. 1MDB tidak boleh membayar balik RM42 bilion yang ia telah pinjam. Terdapat bukti penipuan dan kehilangan wang yang tidak dapat diterangkan. Dakwaan bahawa wang telah dilaburkan dengan sempurna dan akan memberi keuntungan tidak dapat disahkan. Tiada terdapat bukti dokumentari yang boleh menunjukkan di mana jumlah wang yang banyak itu disimpan.

9. Kepercayaan bahawa RM2.6 bilion dalam akaun peribadi Najib adalah dari 1MDB tidak disangkal dengan sempurna dan kebolehpercayaan.

10. Hakikat Najib tidak menyaman Wall Street Journal kerana mendedahkan banyak kesalahan yang dilakukan oleh 1MDB dan Najib sendiri seolah-olah membuktikan bahawa apa yang akhbar itu laporkan tidak dapat disangkal. Begitu juga kegagalan untuk mendakwa Sarawak Report mengenai 1MDB dan USD681 juta dalam akaun peribadi Najib.


11. Ini hanya sebahagian daripada cerita 1MDB. Terdapat lebih banyak skandal yang melibatkan 1MDB daripada mana-mana lain dana dalam sejarah Malaysia. Ini adalah sebahagian daripada sebab mengapa Najib perlu berhenti menjadi PM Malaysia.

Baca dan lihat...yang terlibat secara terus dengan skandal penipuan wang paling besar dalam sejarah Malaysia tu siapa? yang terlibat untuk cuba tutup skandal ni siapa? semua Melayu kan.

Baca:

Game over for 1MDB and Najib?

excerpts:

Numbers cannot be hidden

1MDB did a dirty sneaky trick when it allowed others to make an estimated RM6 billion by deliberately mispricing some of its key bonds. By flipping these bonds at higher prices once they are traded in the market, those who got first bite made billions. Meantime 1MDB and the nation pays higher interest rates.

And then there was the overpayment for their advisers, Goldman Sachs, by about RM2 billion for the various bonds they arranged - a loss of RM2 billion to the nation.

Add these up (RM3 billion + RM6 billion + RM2 billion), and they amount to RM11 billion. Add this to the RM33 billion in bond proceeds and investments that may never get recovered, and you get that RM44 billion. The final figure may well exceed that!

Those numbers cannot be hidden or hushed up. You can’t hide the movement of such large sums of money across international borders forever. Eventually the international authorities will get to the bottom of it and all will be revealed. The amount of fraud committed will become obvious and it will become impossible to deny it.

All the land that 1MDB has now is not worth that much - it’s not enough to cover the losses. The black hole that is 1MDB is already very obvious and soon more and more losses will crystallise while investigators across the globe tighten their noose on the miscreants - it’s a matter of time before they are nailed.

That means game over for 1MDB with losses of at least RM44 billion or more, and by extension for Najib Razak, the prime minister and 1MDB sponsor whose reign at the top continues to prolong the agony and prevent investigation to bring this to closure, among the saddest, longest chapters of our country’s history.

P GUNASEGARAM has no doubts that history will judge the perpetrators of the 1MDB fiasco, the worst ever financial scandal in Malaysia and probably the world, harshly. For Malaysia’s sake, he hopes they will be brought to account in their own country well within their lifetimes.

Read also:

1MDB sells power assets to China’s CGN for RM9.83b
Where's that RM14 billion, 1MDB?

The RM7 bil PetroSaudi caper

How 1MDB overpaid for its power assets

How 1MDB lost RM6 bil through bond mispricing

How 1MDB overpaid Goldman Sachs

Yes the architect of the 1MDB fiasco are Malays and they have done serious damage to the credibility and integrity of the Malays in Malaysia now and for many years to come. 

I hope they, and those who aid in covering the 1MDB crime will pay for what they have done..if not in my lifetime then in my children or grandchildren lifetime.

Siapa cakap dulu masaalah 1MDB tidak melibatkan rakyat?

From TheSunDaily:

IPIC to claim US$50.3m from MoF, 1MDB
Posted on 2 May 2016 - 05:37am

PETALING JAYA: International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC) is claiming the US$50.3 million in interest payment it paid for a US$1.75 billion 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) bond it guaranteed from 1MDB.

1MDB last Monday announced that it had defaulted on the US$1.75 billion 1MDB Energy (Langat) bond following a dispute with IPIC, triggering cross-defaults for RM7.4 billion in other bonds.

IPIC told the London Stock Exchange (LSE) it will make a written demand of the joint indemnity for repayment of the interest payment from Minister of Finance Inc Malaysia (MoF) and 1MDB in keeping with the terms of the binding term sheet.

On April 18, 2016, IPIC told the LSE that it had terminated the May 28, 2015 binding term sheet between IPIC, MoF and 1MDB after 1MDB and MOF failed to perform certain payment and other obligations owed to the IPIC group, including the obligation to pay to IPIC US$1.1 billion plus interest accrued. IPIC had then said it had performed all its obligations under the binding term sheet.

The binding term sheet was to have seen IPIC take over US$3.5 billion of 1MDB debt for the equivalent of transfer of undisclosed 1MDB assets.

Siapa cakap dulu masaalah 1mdb tidak melibatkan rakyat? Sila terjun jambatan. https://t.co/JlFbF57I7h

— eddydaud. (@eddydaud) May 2, 2016

IPIC To Claim US$50.3m From MoF, 1MDB https://t.co/HaqA9lDe3V

first USD3.51B went to fake Aabar BVI, add to our misery IPIC ask MOF to pay?

— eddydaud. (@eddydaud) May 2, 2016

 

Pathetic leaders will do what any pathetic person does

Biar twitter berbicara:

kalau betul lah pengiring PDRM ex PM kita DrM di tarik balik-sesiapa yg arahkan penarikan itu - u guys r pathetic. pic.twitter.com/KWG6ALjJYf

— eddydaud. (@eddydaud) May 2, 2016

The nazri fella who can't stop kissing and slurping the then Prime Minister Dr Mahathir's hands has done it again:

Henti polis pengiring Mahathir tindakan tepat - Nazri

The following is a copy paste from OutSyed The Box blog:

'I find it amusing that Nazri wants "a match" with a 91 year old man, who has been retired for 13 years now, whose outriders have been removed, who is not allowed to appear on propaganda TV, who is the target of criticism by the entire gomen propaganda machinery, who is being investigated by the Police and so much more.'

Monday, May 2, 2016

It is not appropriate to withdraw Dr Mahathir’s police escort

• Appropriate to withdraw Dr Mahathir’s police escort, says Nazri
• move to withdraw police escort for Dr Mahathir is appropriate, says Nazri 
• Minister added that the security privilege should have been terminated long ago.
• out of place to provide him with escorts when he is moving around only to condemn the Government that gave him the privilege.
• we hope he realises that what he has been doing was not in the best interest of the country,” he said.
• should Dr Mahathir put himself at risk, Government not responsible
• If he wants a fighting match, we’re game. I am prepared to have a match with him anytime,” 

My comments : Nazri suffers serious lack of intelligence. It is really not worth anyone's effort to rebut him. You can take the peasant out of the village but you cannot take the village out of the peasant.

The question is whether retired prime ministers like Tun Dr Mahathir are entitled to the outriders.  If it is an entitlement (like your pension) then the gomen has no right to withdraw an entitlement.  Retired senior civil servants (above a certain rank) only paid half the airfare to fly on MAS. They were entitled to it. I dont know if they still enjoy this entitlement or it has been removed.

Tunku Abdul Rahman and Tun Hussein Onn were alive during Dr Mahathir's tenure as PM. After their retirement both the Tunku and Tun Hussein were strong critics of the government. Yet they were never denied their security personnel or outriders. 

Your pension as a retired civil servant is not a privilege. You are entitled to it.  You have already earned it.  I assume all the prime ministers, no matter how stupid some of them were or still are, have already earned whatever entitlements which have been agreed upon for them.

If the gomen withdraws these entitlements it simply means the gomen's word is as good as used toilet paper. In the case of the present gomen this has been proven many times already.

Someone should tell Nazri that the gomen of which he is part, is not acting in the best interests of the country. Nazri should also differentiate his best interests and the country's best interests - they may not be the same.

Another thing about retired heads of state is that they still carry with them a huge number of state secrets. This is why the United States Secret Service provides escort duty to retired presidents as long as they are alive. They fear someone may kidnap a retired president and interrogate him to extract sensitive information.

The same applies for any retired head of state. Police outriders are part of the security escort. It is not a "privilege".

I find it amusing that Nazri wants "a match" with a 91 year old man, who has been retired for 13 years now, whose outriders have been removed, who is not allowed to appear on propaganda TV,  who is the target of  criticism by the entire gomen propaganda machinery, who is being investigated by the Police and so much more.

All these handcuffs on Dr Mahathir are necessary before Nazri feels brave enough to demand a 'match' with him. (If he wants a fighting match, we’re game. I am prepared to have a match with him anytime)  

If these "handcuffs" are removed will Nazri still feel brave ? Or will he piss in his pants? There is an urban legend floating around about something like that. 

Nazri's bosses are corrupted. The last round they garnered only 48% of the votes. They are in the minority. It is not likely that they will do better in the next round.  Lets see how Nazri will survive without his "privileges".

Read in full here.

https://t.co/L5MD1fNsxy

chief nazri umno nak 'match' dgn org pencen umur 91 tahun? hebat2 belaka panglima2 unmo skg ni ye. tunggu pru14 ok

— eddydaud. (@eddydaud) May 2, 2016