In the Altantuya Shaariibuu murder case, there wereundisputed records of the mobile phone communication Najib had with the single of the initially accused, Abdul Razak Baginda (left), in which the afterwards emissary prime apportion had urged Razak Baginda to stay cold in the teeth of an ongoing military investigation into the Mongolian woman's murder.The advice was offered just as Najib was starting to keep an appointment with the inspector-general of police.
Still, the courts did not find it required to call Najib to testify, conjunction his mother despite members of her confidence detail ! eventual ly being charged as well as found guilty of the murder.
'Cool' is the word that's right away in vogue, since the PM's campaign to win over Malaysia's young voters - reputedly creation up twenty-five percent of the benefaction twelve million electorate - to the BN's side.
'Cool' is not unequivocally cold if it seeks to evade pressure. "Grace under pressure," was Hemingway's famously purposeful definition of courage. Tweak the description - "Unperturbed in duress" - as well as you would get an accurate, if less limpid, clarity of what is 'cool' is.
The public is right away familiar with the PM's affinity for what's in vogue, similar to liberalising measures towards electoral reform, participatory democracy, as well as competition share removals! .
But it is not certain if he is unequivocally knows both text as well as hardness of what he considers to be in vogue.
DPM Musa testified in Merdeka Uni case
Certainly, he is not similar to the authoritarian Humpty Dumpty - "A word is anything we say it means"; but he could make use of an understanding of the definition of some Hemingway advice for the friend: "Don't upset transformation with action."
The PM's moves towards creating the "best democracy" are in danger of becoming merely feints in which direction rather than full-blown forays if he omits to go the distance, similar to submitting to sworn statement in the box to which he is linked.
If he does he will turn usually the third sitting PM, or DPM, or former PM, to submit to due process of law.The initial example was when emissary prime apportion Musa Hitam (right) appeared in justice in the box Chinese educationists brought against the government in the Merdeka University controversy in 1982.
Musa, afterwards the DPM, was called to attest since he was the preparation apportion when the pierce by Chinese educationists to apply to to set up the private university where Mandarin would be the categorical middle of direction was deserted by the government.
In which case, Musa testified with aplomb, submitting to examination by Michael Beloff, the Queen's Counsel hired by the Chinese preparation transformation to ratify their brief.
Mahathir's mental recall lapses
The second example of when the top political personage submitted to due process was when former PM Dr Mahathir Mohamed agreed to attest before the stately elect in the VK Lingam videotape affair.
It was not the bone-fide justice hearing but stately commissions are close to ! justice proceedings since witnesses called to attest do so under oath.
In typically combative style, Mahathir (left) conveyed by his counsel which he was willing to submit to questions, inside of or outside the RC's conditions of reference, as well as afterwards proceeded, upon testifying, to humour mental recall lapses when responding to questions which incommoded him. But at least, he submitted to testimony.
Nobody expects Najib to submit to sworn statement in Sodomy II the approach Musa Hitam did with panache in 1982 in the Merdeka University case.
But at least, he could do 'a Mahathir' vis--vis the stately elect upon the Lingam fasten as well as which would equate as "action" which would not be merely "movement" in the Hemingway sense.
For Najib, it's not enough to be merely in vogue. In sequence to lead from the front, the single contingency be in earnest.
TERENCE NETTO has been the journalist for close upon 4 decades. He likes the function since it puts him in hit with the eminent but being under the prerequisite to admire them. It is the ideal function for the temperament which finds power erotically appealing as well as its exercise abhorrent.
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