Although we do not know Tunku Aziz personally, we have friends who have known him for many years, with the few which know him really well. This research of Tunku Aziz is formed partly upon my discussions with them as good as my research of the events which have unfolded since his abdication from the DAP. It is additionally formed upon various statements which have been done by Tunku Aziz as good as alternative stake players in this domestic drama which has rapt many Malaysians for apart as good long.
It is important to note which Tunku Aziz has regularly been the conservative as good as the pro-establishment figure right from his early days. He is the apart partial of of the Kedah stately family. According to Wikipedia, his father was an officer in the Kedah military during the British colonial administration who rose to become Officer in Charge of Police District (OCPD), Alor Setar.
After completing his university studies in England as good as Australia (possibly upon government scholarships) he worked for Guthrie Corporation prior to joining Bank Negara as an advisor. He in the future returned to the private sector, as good as was appointed the group director of Sime Darby. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunku_Abdul_Aziz_Ibrahim)
His anti-corruption record
Much has been done by Tunku Aziz of his prolonged station anti-corruption credentials. My end is which he has done the second career out of the means of anti-corruption which has served him well. Firstly it is important to note his high in front of in the corporate universe as an insider who ha! s helped to promote the wheels of business during the highest levels. He was during the single time or an additional the partial of of the Council of the Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers, the Malaysian National Shippers Council, the Asean Business Council, the Asean-US Business Council, as good as the Asian-EU Business Council. He served for multiform years upon the Employers' Panel of the Industrial Court. All of these appointments could not have been done by someone who did not receive the stamp of capitulation by the Barisan Nasional government.
Secondly, he jumped upon the anti-corruption bandwagon really late. Despite the issue's carcenogenic expansion generally since the early days of the New Economic Policy in the 1970's, it was not until some-more than twenty years later in 1998 which Tunku Aziz founded, together with others, the Malaysian chapter of Transparency International known locally as The Kuala Lumpur, as good as right away the Malaysian Society for Transparency & Integrity. He was not the owner usually co-founder.
According to his central curriculum vitae, "Tunku Aziz devoted the total of his time to Transparency International upon the intentional basis from 1995-2004." (http://dapmalaysia.org/newenglish/biodata_tunku_aziz.htm). That is probably loyal though it is important to note which the in front of supposing him in addition to sponsored travel as good as sponsored high form bearing - the basis for his local as good as subsequently general prominence. That belated "voluntary basis" work put him upon the general NGO circuit as good as helped to embellish his resume.
It additionally supposing him with an inflated clarity of his domestic clout as good as expected fed his ego. In actuality when we am comparing him with alternative local total who have sacrificed many some-more for their ideology as good as principles, we feel which Tunku Aziz's work has since him an unjustifiable repute as an activist. An arm chair critic - yes; tho! ugh an a ctivist - no.
Returning to the Barisan fold
Given his credentials as good as career, it is not startling which Tunku Aziz has right away returned to the Barisan Nasional fold. His repute for station up for principles as good as for coherence has right away been unprotected as undeserved.
Some readers in the internet have asked either Tunku Aziz was in actuality the government mole. we do not consider so. In my mind, what happened was the reprove by Lim Guan Eng over his primary Bersih comments. It was the open sauce down by the DAP arch which no person, generally the single with the clever clarity of his station in society, could be expected to stomach.
This was compounded by the DAP preference not to replenish his senatorship. If this preference was conveyed or signalled to Tunku Aziz good prior to his Bersih comments, it is expected which it would have been the critical blow to his clarity of self-respect as good as would have supposing fact to him for taking the line of evidence which he did when he criticized the Bersih assembly.
What pushed Tunku Aziz to the indicate of no return in his attribute with the DAP were the some-more politically unapt attempts to provide him with the senior fellowship in front of during the Penang Institute as compensation. The Institute functions as the state government's consider tank as good as would have paid him $ 50,000 in terms of emoluments. As Tunku Aziz remarked, "Are they mad?"
On the last point, we agree with Tunku Aziz upon the domestic immaturity of the little DAP leaders as the wayang kulit unfolded. This has been an occasion which has not usually been the distraction though has additionally shown the celebration shooting itself in the foot.
Another frog
But what we as good as many Malaysians find completely unacceptable, outrageous as good as outrageous is Tunku Aziz's mutation from bei! ng the V ice Chairman of the largest opposition celebration to being Prime Minister Najib's cheerleader.
He has right away left upon record to say which "What the budding apportion has done right away is the right thing as good as we need to support him". He has additionally pronounced which Najib's mutation process for change as good as mending the democratic process would positively take time. Earlier, Tunku Aziz was the single of those who pronounced which some-more than sufficient time had already been since to the Barisan as good as Najib in ruling the country. Now, he has altered his tune.
To my thoughts this domestic somersault is unprecedented in the annals of Malaysian domestic history, as good as presumably anywhere in the world. It is tantamount to saying "Vote for the BN" despite all the corruption as good as abuses of human rights as good as democracy from someone who claimed which he was anti-Barisan. No consternation Najib, Muhyiddin as good as Mahathir are praising him to the sky as good as regulating him as partial of their anti-DAP as good as anti-Chinese rhetoric. However, since which these same Barisan leaders as good as media have condemned him so strongly in the past, Malaysians can see through the stand in speak as good as pomposity of the BN as good as Tunku Aziz.
It is time for everyone to move on. Tunku Aziz can lend towards to his elaborate fish. And the Malaysian open should concentration upon the many critical problems which plague the multitude as good as which in my opinion, Tunku Aziz warrants usually the small footnote during many when the last inform comes in.
Koon Yew Yin is the prominent civil multitude personality as good as corporate captain
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