I refer to the Malaysiakini report Inquiry wanted on cash Maika boss spent on actress.

I have always wondered what the MIC leaders have been talking about when they kept ‘boasting’ that the Indian community in Malaysia have progressed impressively since Merdeka and especially since 1979 after S Samy Vellu became the MIC president.

I suppose whatever ‘facts and figures’ compiled by the MIC leaders to support their claims had also included Maika’s ‘extraordinary’ performance since its inception about 25 years ago and the ‘employer extraordinaire’ status enjoyed by its current CEO, Vell Paari.

I wish I am an employee of Maika to enjoy some ‘exceptional’ perks and benefits and I don’t have to be bothered even if Maika does not have a penny in its bank account to meet its obligations to the shareholders!

The Indian community has remained and continues to remain at the lower rung of the country’s economic scale and the MIC (the so-called ‘champion’ of the Indian Malaysian community) continues with its memorandum after memorandum to the government asking for handouts.

And here we have the chief of Maika Holdings, Vell Paari, who can afford to spend thousands of ringgit on his personal secretary, Sujatha.

The irony of it all is that Maika Holdings was founded by the MIC with the sole objective of increasing the Indian community’s corporate wealth in the country to a significant and meaningful level (about 5%)!.

More than RM100 million was invested in Maika by a cross-section of people from the Indian community through an aggressive campaign carried out by Samy Vellu and the MIC leaders.

What is the chairperson and the board of directors of Maika doing about all the alleged improprieties of its CEO, Vell Paari?

Don’t they have any ‘voice’ at all? If they had any decency, they should issue a ‘show cause’ letter to Vell Paari asking to explain why they should not dismiss him as their CEO with immediate effect.

Is it not a shame that all the ‘educated professionals’ in the MIC’s central working committee, the governing body of the party, choose to keep quiet and do nothing about Vell Paari’s involvement in Maika?

What about his recent appointment to head some special committee in the party and that this appointment was made by none other than Samy Vellu himself?

Is it also not a rude shock that MIC members have again chosen Samy Vellu with an overwhelming majority to lead the party for another three years?

The opposition politicians can go on with their complaints about MIC leaders and Maika Holdings. Enough reports have already been lodged with the law enforcement agencies and authorities.

They can continue to lodge more reports. I doubt anything will change and anything meaningful will be done to ‘save’ the Indian community.