Sad day for the PDRM in Kuantan today, good lessons to be learnt though

updated 1 Oct 2010:

IGP: Thorough probe on police misconduct in drug case

September 30, 2010

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 30 — Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Ismail Omar assured that a thorough investigation will be conducted on the misconduct of 10 policemen involved in the confiscation of drugs worth RM254 million from a lorry in Rompin, Pahang, in May last year.

He said an internal probe would be carried out in detail and action would  be taken on those involved.

“Investigations are ongoing and we do not want such incidents to recur,” he told a news conference at Bukit Aman (federal police headquarters) here today.

He was asked to comment on the case of 48-year-old lorry driver, Lee Yong Toe, who was acquitted by the Kuantan High Court yesterday of trafficking 753 kilogrammes of Syabu worth RM254 million.

Judicial Commissioner Datuk Akhtar Tahir said the prosecutor failed to prove the drugs seized belonged to the accused.

Akhtar said the court was also informed of a false report made by the complainant, as well as admissions by several policemen who had stolen some 40kg of the drugs, which were exhibits assigned for safeguarding.

Bukit Aman Acting Narcotics Crimes Investigation Department director, Datuk Othman Harun, verified that disciplinary action had been taken on 10 personnel, including an officer, regarding the case.

Meanwhile, Ismail urged the police force to practice the 4Ps (Protective, Performance, Pro-Active and People-Oriented) in serving the public.

“We protect the people under our laws so they feel comfortable and safe regardless of their status, and we want them to have confidence in the police. We want them to feel secure when they see our patrolmen and our logo,” he said. — Bernama

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The Malay Mail have this article today:

Court orders 9 cops to be investigated for theft
FRANKIE D'CRUZ
Wednesday, September 29th, 2010 13:31:00 (The Malay Mail)


KUANTAN: The case of the infamous RM200 million syabu bust ended in high drama this morning when the accused was acquitted while nine policemen were ordered to be investigated for theft of part of the seized drugs.


Lorry driver Lee Yong Toe, 48, from Johor Baru, who was facing the death penalty under the Dangerous Drugs Act, was however re-arrested outside the court after his acquittal.


He was charged with trafficking in 753,359kg of syabu with another man still at large in Jalan Chenderawasih here at 6.45am on May 2 last year.


But it was the nine cops who took centre stage in the case of the biggest syabu haul in the country.


High Court Judicial Commissioner Datuk Akhtar Tahir ordered deputy public prosecutor Jamil Aripin to investigate and take criminal action against the policemen for theft of four plastic packages of syabu weighing between one and two kilos each.


The policemen, all members of the raiding team, had admitted taking the packages as “reward for their hard work”.


Three of them were witnesses.They are expected to be suspended pending investigations.


Before the trial began last month, disciplinary action had been taken against some of them for being dishonest and untruthful when they were investigating the case.


Lead defence counsel Datuk V. Sithambaram had in his submission on Sept 15 questioned the credibility and integrity of the cops.


Jamil had in his submission said the packets of syabu taken by the policemen would not interfere or affect the quality and identity of the drugs seized.


He had said the credibility of the witness was the prerogative of the court to decide “but that does not mean all their statements need to be rejected”.


The defence had also contended that the prosecution failed to call two important witnesses, who were also detained, to testify in court.


The duo, including the brother of Lee, had offered a policeman RM500,000 to release Lee and the drugs.


Read the rest here.

What would have been great very positive publicity for the PDRM in busting a huge Syabu Drug supply ring because of the honesty of good cops in May 2009 was turned into a horrible nightmare for the Police force and the DPP when the Judge acquitted the accused [who stands to be hanged for his crime if found guilty], with the Judge also ordering the DPP to investigate and start criminal proceedings against the police officers who had admitted to stealing a few kilos of the syabu evidence.


The new IGP, Tan Sri Ismail Omar, definitely has his work cut out for him, the mass murders in Banting and now this the stealing of evidence by not one but a group of dirty cops in Kuantan. 


I hope that the PDRM will be rid of these bad cops now and future, otherwise all the great work and sacrifice done by the men and women of the PDRM for the safety and security of this country all this while will be lessened.


I have a suggestion, maybe already done and maybe all police recruits in future should be subjected to personality profiling and aptitude tests as well before they even qualify to be interviewed by the Police Commission. Just a thought.

Profit making PLUS to be sold by the Government?

Very exciting post/scoop from blogger Salvatore_Dali recently, one that would light up the hearts of many us Malaysians, I hope the BN Government would do the right thing:

EPF To Buy PLUS Expressways?


Is this a scoop? THis was reported in an exciting newish blog named Taikuns & Taikors. It now looks like sensibility has won the day with EPF entering the fray to buy PLUS Expressways. I can so no better solution to that. This toll system is too ingrained to be in private hands. At least now, all profits will accrue to EPF holders.


Some twelve million EPF members are in for a windfall as the huge profit stream from Plus will directly boost yearly interest payout to exceed the current average of five percent, though earlier MMC Corp and Asas Serba proposals to buyout Plus are rejected.


The government has given the nod for the Employees Provided Fund to acquire Malaysia's largest tolled highway operator, Plus Expressways Bhd, putting an end to the attempts of two private companies to take over the Khazanah-owned entity.


EPF’s late-entry acquisition pips the proposals made separately by Tan Sri Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary’s MMC Corporation Bhd and Tan Sri Halim Saad’s Asas Serba Sdn Bhd to buyout Plus through Khazanah Nasional Bhd, which directly owns 16.74% of Plus and has an indirect stake of 38.51% via UEM Group.


Raising the roughly RM11 to RM12 billion to pay for the 55% of Plus shares now in Khazanah’s hands is considered as “loose change” as EPF has RM402 billion in total asset allocation as at March this year and would not require the pension fund to resort to the debt market.

read more here.

Salvatore_Dali's post was dated 25 September 2010 and today's news from Bernama looks encouraging:

Muhyiddin: Government yet to decide on sale of PLUS Expressways

Kalau tidak ada angin masakan pokok bergoyang kan, anyway I hope the Government will really give the nod to KWSP/EPF to acquire PLUS instead of giving it to individual owned entitities such as Asas Serba or MMC or the like. With KWSP/EPF, 12 million of its Malaysian Members will benefit directly plus many more members of their immediate family.


It will be Good for Malaysians, Great for the BN Government.

Richard Branson must stay out of the Judicial Affairs of Malaysia

Just read in the MI a report  about the UK multi billionaire Richard Branson call to our PM Najib to stop the ongoing Anwar sodomy trial:


The MI...Branson urges Najib to halt Sodomy II trial


If the reports are true than I have this to say to the UK multi-billionare:


Malaysia is a democratic sovereign country with it own Laws for its citizens, please butt out of the Judicial affairs of our country.


Let the Anwar Ibrahim Sodomy trial determine its own course, the truth will prevail.


Just stick to what you do best..making money from your great ideas, risk takings  and adventure spirit.


Thank You.

Finally a true translation of Ketuanan Melayu in English and its not Malay Supremacy

Dato' Ahirudin in his latest posting tells us what really is the English Translation of Ketuanan Melayu:


Read his excellent post here.....Its Malay Empowerment, Stupid.


Definitely it is not Malay Supremacy.

Lim Kit Siang:PR will move urgent motion on 1st day of Parliament Oct 11 if no satisfactory action taken against two school principals

DAP supreme Leader and defacto Opposition head by virtue of DAP's majority seat in the loose Pakatan Coalition has issued an ultimatum in his latest blog posting here.

At the end of his post YB Kit Siang wrote this:

"Let me serve notice that if no satisfactory action to honour Najib’s declaration of “Zero tolerance for racism” is taken, particularly in the public service with commensurate penalty meted out to the two school principals who made racist slurs, Pakatan Rakyat will move an urgent motion in the first day of Parliament when it reconvenes on Oct. 11 for the 2011 budget session to demand a full debate."

I hope that the BN Government is prepared to face the DAP head on with this challenge in Parliament, the details of the PSD disciplinary Commission findings and the Police Investigation report should also be revealed to find out what was really said and what was really reported and once and for all find a equitable final solution to resolve these innuendoes created by stories  from the media and politicians. 


I have full confidence that the Government main point man in Parliament, Minister Nazri Aziz supported by other MPs could engage in a civil debate on this very sensitive matter. 


Failure to take up the challenge will only embolden the DAP, the BN has not much option. Let our YBs engage these allegations head on and may the truth, common sense and sanity prevail. 

John Teo (NST): The architects of Sarawak Bumiputera Unity

A very good article from the NST by John Teo, superb food for thought:

The architects of Sarawak Bumiputera unity


2010/09/24 (NST)
By John Teo


FOUR surviving outstanding Malaysians were recognised at the inaugural official celebrations of Malaysia Day on Sept 16 in Kota Kinabalu.


The recognition given to Sarawak's third chief minister, Tun Abdul Rahman Ya'kub, who went on to become its fourth Yang Dipertua Negeri, highlights how the increasingly frail 83-year-old and his 74-year-old nephew, current Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud, tower over Sarawak in all of the state's 47 years of contemporary Malaysian history.


Rahman was chief minister from 1970 to 1981 whereupon Taib took over. But even under the rather hapless Tan Sri Stephen Kalong Ningkan, Sarawak's first chief minister from 1963 to 1966, and Datuk Tawi Sli who followed from 1966 to 1970, the uncle and nephew tandem loomed large as a political force.




The fractured nature of Sarawak politics reflects its rather nightmarish mishmash of ethnicities, where no single group commands anything close to a numerical majority. The larger groups are the Ibans and the Chinese with each comprising about a third of the state's population. But these two groups are, in turn, divided by regional loyalties and, in the case of the Chinese, also by dialect sub-groups and divisions between the urban entrepreneurial and rural farming classes.


The Sarawak Malays make up about a quarter of the state's population. Two dozens of smaller groups make up the rest, with the Bidayuhs (again split among a handful of dialect sub-groups) and the Melanaus (further split three ways among Muslims, Christians and animists) being the most prominent.


Whereas the Malays of Peninsular Malaysia can claim to be the obvious rulers of the country by virtue of their clear numerical majority, cobbling together a coherent ruling majority from Sarawak's disparate Bumiputera communities was a challenge from the first days of self-government.


The Sarawak Malays have traditionally been the most unified group with clear lines of authority wielded by the aristocratic Datus that could be traced back to the days of the Brooke Raj and beyond.


The political genius of Rahman and Taib had been their ability to parley intellectual heft as overseas-trained lawyers into political capital and prestige to unify first the Malays and the Melanaus under their Parti Bumiputra and later to orchestrate the merger between their party and that of the Ibans controlled by the late Tun Temenggong Jugah: the Parti Pesaka.


Such an achievement in forging a semblance of Bumiputera unity in Sarawak is all the more remarkable for the fact that Rahman and Taib are both Muslim Melanaus.


Even more startling has been the fact that despite a spectacular public falling-out between uncle and nephew through much of the nephew's tenure as chief minister (in fact, both were again seen publicly together only within the past two years), Taib was able to come out of the shadows of the charismatic Rahman and go from strength to strength politically.


As Malay unity in the peninsula has seemingly fractured in recent years, the almost indispensable glue that the uncle-nephew tandem manages to hold together Bumiputeras in Sarawak must increasingly look like the envy of the entire nation.


As if to remind the state -- and increasingly the nation -- about his continued indispensability, Taib's recent hint at withdrawing from the political scene was pure vintage. Not only was there a very public reaffirmation of support for him from many quarters in the state but even the prime minister was moved to weigh in.


The message couldn't have been clearer: Taib, despite a spot of recent bother about his own health and some personal tragedies, remains almost an indispensable force to the state and, increasingly, also the nation.


With political uncertainties clouding all across the nation, the void that Taib's sudden withdrawal from the political scene would have caused is almost the last thing that the political powers-that-be would want to contemplate.


For here, in a state that uncle and nephew almost willed into their desired image, Bumiputera unity remains seemingly solid. And even as no less than Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad agonises over how best for Umno and Barisan Nasional to retain Malay allegiance without alienating non-Malay support, Taib is showing that in Sarawak, there simply isn't any such angst because non-Bumiputera support is no longer even relevant to the state's power equation.


read the full article here.

PKR do not need a reformasi, it really needs a transformasi

Is PKR a truly democratic party when its Supreme leader/Ketua Umum refused to be nominated for the Post of President which is the highest executive position in the party.


Wouldn't those who fight and compete for positions and those who voted the candidates to executive positions feel cheated when their Supreme Leader refused to be subjected to the Party's Constitution.


PKR stands for Parti Keadilan Rakyat so where is the justice and the reformasi message in all these? PKR leaders should walk the talk starting from the very top:

Anwar needs baptism of legitimacy
THU, 23 SEP 2010 12:22 (Free Malaysia Today)
By Athi Shankar


GEORGE TOWN: While everyone jostles for positions, Anwar Ibrahim stands alone as supremo without a mandate, contented with being the power behind his wife's throne, said a political scientist.In view of this, Prof Sivamurugan Pandian said the opposition leader must contest for the PKR president post and legitimise his role.


Otherwise, he said, Anwar would be a politically unlawful leader and it would be unethical and morally wrong for him to continue as such.“If he does not want to contest, then Anwar should declare to party members that he is not the PKR supremo,” he said, adding there were no provisions in the party constitution that recognise the title.


Calling on Anwar to walk the talk that PKR stood for reform, democracy and accountability, he said it was pertinent that the supremo obtained the members' mandate.“Or the public should see him only as an ordinary member, who does not have the moral authority to be called supremo,” added the deputy dean of Universiti Sains Malaysia’s School of Social Sciences.


Undermining status of other leaders


Being an “illegitimate de facto leader”, Sivamurugan said Anwar’s participation in the decision making process with regards to policies and actions was politically unconstitutional and unconventional. Even his media statements could be considered politically invalid, he added.


Furthermore, he said Anwar’s position as a non-mandated supremo would also severely undermine the status of other elected leaders, including his wife and president Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail. The professor pointed out that PKR's acceptance of Anwar's “unconstitutional, unelected and undemocratic” position meant that the reformist party was subscribing to undemocratic priciples.


Sivamurugan also said that by refusing to contest and insisting on being the unelected force behind PKR, Anwar was suggesting that the president was only a ceremonial position.


Sudden change in political attitude


The academic also expressed surprise with the change in Anwar's political attitude within two years.


In 2008, he said, Anwar was in a rush to return as an elected representative to Parliament and forced his wife to vacate the Permatang Pauh seat to push for a by-election.“Why is he not emulating his own example now? He should lead by example,” he added.


Wan Azizah has received some 70 divisional nominations as of yesterday to re-contest the president post in the coming party national polls to be held between October and November.Anwar has received eight nominations but this was because he had announced his decision not to contest.


In 2007, Anwar, who had spent six years in prison, was named as PKR's de facto leader by the national congress.Back then, he was advised not to contest for the president's post and avoid putting the party’s registration in jeopardy since he was still legally banned from holding any positions in a political party due to his conviction. Commenting on this, Sivamurugan said the the congress' mandate was for the 2007-2010 term and not forever.


He said Anwar’s legal status was different now due to his elected public offices as Permatang Pauh MP and opposition leader.


“To end the argument, Anwar must get elected as president. Whether he gets elected opposed or unopposed is immaterial. The crucial issue is Anwar must get the members’ mandate,” he added.


read the whole article here.

And here is a gem from PKR Timbalan Presiden nominee, Zaid Ibrahim:

Hormatilah presiden dan perlembagaan parti


Sep 20, 2010


Pencalonan bagi pemilihan langsung Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) telah pun berlangsung di seluruh negara, dan saya diberitahu ada beberapa cabang parti telah mencalonkan saya sebagai Timbalan Presiden.


Dengan ini saya telah memenuhi syarat untuk menawarkan diri kepada ahli-ahli Keadilan membuat pilihan pada 29hb Oktober nanti. Beberapa Cabang yang saya tak pernah temui seperti Padang Rengas, Tampin, Jerantut dan lain-lain, terus juga memberi pencalonan mereka.


Saya ingin mengucapkan ribuan terima kasih dan penghargaan terhadap keyakinan mereka. Selepas ini saya akan ke seluruh negara untuk bertemu dengan para ahli parti. Saya akan menjelaskan beberapa perkara pokok di pertemuan ini.


Dalam utusan blog hari ini, saya ingin menulis mengenai perkara yang selalu di bibir penganalisa politik. Adalah tanggungjawab Timbalan Presiden untuk memberi sokongan dan bantuan sepenuhnya kepada Presiden sesebuah parti. Bagi Timbalan pula, kesetian kepada parti bererti taat setia kepada Presiden dan menolong beliau dalam menjalankan tugas-tugasnya. Timbalan Presiden mesti mengimbangi atau ‘complement’ kekuatan Presiden. Hanya dengan cara itu prestasi dan imej parti kita akan jadi lebih baik.


Kita tidak boleh membiarkan Presiden kita dianggap oleh sesetengah pihak hanya sebagai lambang. Terlalu kerap saya dengar bisikan mengenai kononnya Datin Seri Wan Azizah bukan ketua sebenar. Malah ada pula yang berkata beliau tidak ada kuasa. Keadaan ini berlaku kerana ada di kalangan kepimpinan parti yang kurang menghormati jawatan Presiden. Kepimpinan parti lebih selesa memberi kepercayaan sepenuhnya kepada Ketua Umum, iaitu Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim. Saya juga memberi kepercayaan dan sokongan penuh kepada Anwar Ibrahim, kerana dia pengasas parti dan juga Ketua Pembangkang tetapi dari segi struktur parti buat masa ini beliau hanya ahli biasa.


Kalau saya menang, saya akan membantu Presiden memenuhi tanggungjawab beliau. Presiden parti tidak akan dianggap sebagai lambang semata-mata. Kalau kita dari parti Keadilan tidak hormati jawatan Presiden kita yang sah kerana kita berpuas hati Presiden itu hanya lah lambang (walaupun dia berkuasa penuh mengikut Perlembagaan parti); apa jaminan kita akan menghormati Perlembagaan Negara bila kita berkuasa nanti?


Pemilihan ini adalah peluang bagi ahli-ahli Keadilan untuk membuat keputusan berikut: Siapakah antara calon yang lebih berkebolehan, lebih mampu menolong dan menghormati Presiden parti Keadilan.


Datin Seri Wan Azizah telah banyak membuat pengorbanan termasuklah meletakkan jawatan beliau sebagai ahli Parlimen demi keperluan suaminya dan PKR. Pengorbanan ini adalah pengetahuan umum. Sebagai ahli PKR, saya percaya dengan kepimpinan dan kebolehan Presiden parti; dan sebagai calon untuk jawatan Timbalan Presiden saya ingin menyokong beliau dalam usaha beliau dan dengan ikhlasnya meneruskan dan mengukuhkan dasar reformis parti untuk menunjukkan bahawa PKR mampu memenuhi perubahan yang dinanti-nantikan ahli-ahli parti dan rakyat Malaysia.


read the whole article here.

I think Zaid Ibrahim understands the PKR party Constitution better than many leader who founded the party even, best of luck to him.

PKR do not need reformasi it really needs a transformasi to be a viable political party in the future. Definitely not these kind of speeches from the Ketua Umum blaming its woes on UMNO read here.

Timely and Important Reminder to UMNO leadership by UMNO member

This is a good article from the NST, which is also a timely remember by an UMNO member to all UMNO leadership.


I like Tengku Putra's parting statement best "Let's be nice to our own as we are to the rest". Basically sums up the feelings of many Malays in Malaysia.

Don't antagonise Umno supporters


2010/09/24 (NST)
By Tengku Putra Haron Aminurrashid Jumat


SYAWAL is a time for the Malays to forgive and, in turn, seek forgiveness physically and spiritually, reconcile differences and renew relationships. But where politics is concerned, condemnation seemed to be the order of the month.
It was with much regret that I had to read comments made by Umno secretary-general Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor and supreme council member Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz, both in their positions in the party by appointment only, against Pertubuhan Pribumi Perkasa Malaysia (Perkasa).


When Perkasa spread its wings to Johor, I saw up close the interest it created among the Malays, especially among Umno branch leaders and members.


One reason why they joined was because while being a member of the party, they needed a Malay non-governmental organisation (NGO) which was in a safe position to be more aggressive in defending the rights and privileges of the Malays as enshrined in the Constitution.


More directly said, they see Umno as having lost the guts to defend the affirmative action policies whenever it comes under attack by the other leaders, who continue to question Malay rights.


Prime Minister and Umno president Datuk Seri Najib Razak is making inroads and much effort in uniting the people with his 1Malaysia concept. I dare say that he is doing this almost single-handedly.


At the very least, Umno leaders should, in turn, maintain and nurture the little support that the party has left remaining from the Malays. What they should not do altogether is antagonise the NGO that is not only vocal but also generally in support of Umno.


Perkasa may be extreme in its demands, but we were not at any time held hostage or at ransom by it. I do not think Datuk Ibrahim Ali can influence Umno members within Perkasa to do that either.


However, saying that Perkasa is made up of "rejects" and declaring that Umno does not support them have severely hurt the feelings of the party's supporters.


I dreaded having to deal with this issue while making my Hari Raya Aidilfitri rounds with Umno branch leaders in the Pulai and Johor Baru divisions.


Instead of basking in the celebrations, we were bombarded with remarks and questions regarding the reckless statements made, which I dare say was not the official stand of the party.


Most of the Umno members in Perkasa are actually members of the Umno machinery, the engine of Barisan Nasional, during elections. Most of them are branch leaders and several others are those who lost by small margins in the divisional elections two years ago. Their continued contributions to the party and nation should be embraced and welcomed, not mocked.


If we take the effort to check, we will discover that a good number of them won in the last delegates' meeting to represent their divisions in the Umno general assembly in October last year.


Are we to imply that these leaders in their own right have absolutely no influence or significance at all to Umno in their respective divisions? Can the party even afford to be that arrogant with those who strongly support our struggle?


If Johor, Sabah and Sarawak are termed as BN's fixed deposits, then these Umno leaders, current or otherwise, with much influence are our bond. Should we be discrediting them at all?


Umno leaders should help the president and his deputy and not handicap them with unnecessary statements at the most ridiculous of times making us, the grassroots, having to work even harder than the party has to by moving a few steps backwards just to clean up the mess made by the top officials.


A political observer said Perkasa was playing the role of Umno Youth. He is partly right, for if the wing played its role of pressure group instead of the diplomat in Umno, Perkasa wouldn't even have to exist.


We have to reach out to the other races but, at the same time, preserve the feelings of the Malays, especially the ones we have secured as our loyal supporters. Observe the Malay proverb, yang dikejar tak dapat, yang dikendung berciciran.


Bumiputera NGOs can either unite or divide the Malays. If winning the next general election is our greatest concern, then Umno should nurture and preserve the already secured votes while reaching out for the rest, not antagonise the former while overstretching the latter.


I trust the Johor Umno Liaison Committee will bring this matter up in its next convention prior to the general assembly.


Malay unity is close to the heart of this state, the bastion of BN. Let's be nice to our own as we are to the rest.


Read the article in full here.

The writer is the vice-chief of the Pulai Umno division.


I believe Perkasa would not be a threat to UMNO, and leaders in UMNO tak payah nak jolok sarang tebuan lah. The bees can be helpful if you are nice to them, but may sting if feel threatened.

Adik Syafiah's murderer to be hung for his crime

Justice has been served yesterday 22nd September 2010,  when the High Court found the killer of Adik Syafiah Humaira guilty and sentenced him to be hung by the neck until he dies.

Read the Malay Mail here..Death by hanging for murdering toddler.

God is Great.

The political enigma that is YB Nazri Aziz

Minister Nazri Aziz is surely a most misunderstood man. He has been criticised and lambasted by people from both sides of the political divide thru'out his political career, he gives as good as he gets though. As a Cabinet Minister he is loyal to the Prime Minister of the day and is not shy to defend his current Boss even against the criticism of his former Boss, qualities that I admire..Loyalty for better or for worse. 


I think his Cabinet position in Parliament suits him well, his combative character hides a witty person who can give the Opposition a run for the money during debates and Question Times. At the moment I do not know of any BN MPs who can display  cool demeanour when crossing swords with the Opposition as incisively as Nazri Aziz. UMNO/BN needs this man for sure.


Nazri is never short of controversies though and the latest one being his spat with the Utusan:


The spat started with Utusan's Awang Selamat critique.....Alahai Nazri


Which must have touched a raw nerve and drew an unusually lengthy response from the Minister....Surat Terbuka Nazri Kepada Awang the end statement where Nazri stated that he is Malaysian First and Malay next drew a deliriously happy response  from Lim Kit Siang and even Tsu Koon. I am not sure what they are so excited about as Nazri said he is "Malaysian First and Malay next" he did not say "Malay second", I could be wrong but I think that is a distinct difference.


Anyway this ridiculous debate about being "Malaysian First and any race second" should  stop already as it does not benefit anybody and especially so if people who claim that they are Malaysian First and Race Second are also the same people defending the vernacular schools and refuse to entertain the Satu Sekolah Untuk Semua initiative.


Back to Nazri Aziz, love him or hate him he remains an enigma in Malaysian politics but he will be there when Parliament is in session all ready to defend the BN parliamentary line against the Opposition. Expect more and not less news from Nazri Aziz in the near future.