Najib is too proud to bow before the people

Hell would solidify over prior to a budding apportion would apologise for his wrongdoings.

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Last July, a New York Times (NYT) carried a report upon a reparation by a outgoing South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, for a assorted crime scandals pronounced to have undermined his government. Several tighten colleagues as good as kin of a boss had been prosecuted as good as jailed. Many of them had influenced a workings of a government.

In new weeks, Malaysians have beheld a period of people who have come forward to implicate Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak, his mother Rosmah Mansor, his brother Nazim Abdul Razak as good as those in positions of responsibility, such as Attorney-General Abdul Gani Patail as good as Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein.

These people, whose reputations have been tarnished, crop up to have no enterprise to transparent their names, nor deny a allegations. Have they complete negligence for a rakyat?

Was it pure fluke which Rosmah has voiced a publication of her biography, which she as good as her "publishing adviser", Deputy Minister in a Prime Minister's Department, Ahmad Maslan, explain will residence a assorted allegations done against her? Had she been rebuilt for a day of revelations by discontented former associates?

The pre-launch is most unusual. JK Rowling did not have a pre-launch for her books. Most authors launch their books with a promotional tour.

What is significant about boss Lee's degrading reparation as good as a NYT explain which "he could frequency lift his face", was which when he came to office, Lee described his supervision as "morally! perfect ".

During his television appearance, Lee said, "The more we think about it, a more it crushes my heart. But whom can we censure now? It's all since of my negligence. we bow prior to a people in apology".

Hours after Lee concluded his nationwide apology, dual of his colleagues were arrested for corruption. In all, 3 of Lee's relatives, four senior presidential aides as good as multiform former senior officials in a Cabinet as good as government-run companies had been implicated.

Corruption menace

Malaysian leaders don't apologise as good as ruin would solidify over prior to Najib would bow prior to a rakyat as good as apologise for his wrongdoings or a assorted scandals which have strike his government.

In Sep 2010, a year as good as a half after apropos budding minister, Najib told Malaysians which "combating crime is not only a dignified imperative though a prerequisite for national survival".

In a speech which was delivered by his deputy, Muhyiddin Yassin, at a Asian Development Bank/Organisation for Economic Cooperation as good as Development (ADB/OECD) Anti-Corruption Initiative for Middle East as good as a Pacific's 10th Regional Seminar: Criminalisation of Bribery, Najib pronounced which 3 organisations would quarrel a crime menace a military for investigating a criminal acts, a Attorney-General's Chambers for traffic with prosecutions as good as a Prime Minister's Department for "crafting a preventive eco-system".

Najib stressed which "prevention as good as education should be since next to courtesy alongside enforcement in a quarrel against corruption".

He praised a Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) for receiving an increased volume of report from a open which led to investigations, arrests as good as prosecutions. This, Najib concluded, was a thoughtfulness of a public's certainty in a government.

Despite a new revelations by carpet merch! ant Deep ak Jaikishan as good as former inspector-general of military Musa Hassan, a rakyat has nonetheless to see an review being instituted by a military or a MACC. The Attorney-General's Chambers has additionally remained silent.

In 2010, Najib claimed which "studies exhibit which corruptors lend towards to hide themselves or their ill-gotten gains in unfamiliar jurisdictions. The rejection of a protected haven for corruptors as good as their proceeds of crime is critical in any plan to combat corruption".

Dirty money
Recently, a Washington-based Global Financial Integrity (GFI) reported which around RM200 billion of unlawful outflows had been available by Malaysia in 2010, a top volume for a period 2001 to 2010. The revised figures for 2009 have been estimated at RM93 billion.

According to a GFI, 20% of a unwashed income have been a "proceeds of corruption, temptation burglary as good as kickbacks" as good as which Malaysia was ranked third in a world, behind China as good as Mexico.

If both Najib as good as Bank Negara have been concerned, what stairs have been they taking to residence a issue? Will a stairs be sufficient to allay our fears?

Last year, Najib, who is additionally a financial minister, pronounced which Bank Negara would examine a unlawful outflows, though to date, a reasons of a unlawful capital flight have not been done public.

Our supervision wants to emulate a South Korean work ethic as good as development, though there is so much more we could sense from them, as good as which is to be magnanimous as good as to be humble, like President Lee.

Two weeks after Lee's elder brother, Lee Sang-deuk, had been arrested for receiving bribes from dual bankers, a boss apologised to a South Korean nation.

Two weeks after Deepak, a carpet-man, concerned Najib's brother Nazim in perverting a course of justice, Najib carries upon as normal without a hint of a rej! ection o r an apology.

MACC chief Abu Kassim Mohamed, who addressed a ADB/OECD Seminar in 2010, pronounced which reliable care as good as firmness would assistance combat corruption.

In general, this would be true, though reliable care as good as firmness have been not to be found in Malaysia, as good as he should have combined which corrupt Malaysian leaders have been implicitly bankrupt.

Mariam Mokhtar is a FMT columnist.

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