COMMENT Once in a blue moon, an explanation comes along that makes something inscrutable suddenly become clear as day.

Some of us use the term Kajanggate. This obviously references the Watergate scandal, which resulted in Richard Nixon becoming the only president of the United States to resign while in office. ‘All the President’s Men’, a movie about how the scandal broke, apparently popularised the phrase “Follow the money.”

This is invariably good advice when trying to understand politics.

Let me open with a number of very simple questions regarding an important and very much overlooked factor in Kajanggate: the Selangor water industry...