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The corrupt play cops when they’re the criminals

YOURSAY ‘Najib can run 1,000km in the anti-graft campaign. It won't impress us...’

Najib joins 3km anti-graft run

Negarawan: "Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak today led about 3,000 people in a three-kilometre run here (in Kuala Lumpur) as a demonstration of the people's commitment to have a corruption-free nation," said the Bernama report.

The people are committed, but is Najib committed? Najib, you can run 3km or even 30km, but don't run away from your responsibilities.

Year in and year out, the audit reports submitted by the auditor-general represent a black mark for the Umno government. You have done nothing about the corruption and excesses by your government - and that of your beloved wife.

Odin: Wanita Gerakan chief and organiser of the run, Tan Lian Hoe, being a politician, you must know that when news came out that Abdullah Ahmad Badawi would be taking over from Dr Mahathir Mohamad, the most popular newspaper published in English (at that time) proclaimed that Abdullah was highly suitable for the job as he was 'Mr Clean'.

Taking over from Abdullah was a cleaner (more clean) person, no? They get better and better, don't they?

Since Mr Cleaner has launched your run and taken part in it, all the citizens of your country must surely have been impressed and so have taken to heart the message that you were trying to impart (through your run) - and, one fondly hopes, will do the right thing in future.

I presume you know the other, most well-known meaning of 'cleaner', madam. There is also the well-known idiom 'to take someone to the cleaners' to give you an idea of what I am talking about.

                                    

1Mockery: Najib can run 1,000km in the anti-graft campaign. It won't impress us as he himself embroiled in corruption. Remember the Scorpene commission?

Pahatian: Who are those 3,000 people who took part in the run? Are they so naive as to not know who the greatest corrupter and the rest of his gang are? It beats me to see him leading the run.

SteveOh: If the government is that serious about arresting corruption, it should be running after the corrupt.

Some high-profile cases have been reported to the MACC (Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission) and publicised in the medi,a but what has the government done?

Now. it is as if the blame for corruption is shifted to the giver. But who will give a bribe if there is no demand for a kickback that gives birth to corruption?

It seems to me that these people are running away from the real problem. All these detracting sideshows will not stop corruption when the corrupt are pretending to play cops when they are in reality the criminals.

Mushiro: Emulate the late Karpal Singh. All the money that he earned was through honest and hard work.

On top of that, he gave free legal service to many poor, genuine and deserving cases. This is considered in Islam as ‘zakat’ and the money that he earned was thus ‘halal’.

Can we say the same of the many Umno and BN leaders?

The Observer: The PM should have been at Karpal Singh's funeral rather than being at this run.

Swipenter: Starting from Dr Mahathir Mohamad, right until the present-day PM, all they do is give lip service to fighting corruption.

How many big fishes have been charged and found guilty of corruption from these three administrations to date? One? Two?

In fact, the reality is that this culture of corruption started from the Mahathir administration and has got worse and more blatant over the years.

Corruption is not what it used to be, involving tens or a few hundred thousands of ringgit. Such sums are chicken feed today. Nowadays  we see sums of tens, even hundreds of millions involved.

If there is no political will to combat corruption, you can organise and run a 3km against corruption every day and nothing will change.

How many would want to give and dare to take when things can be done transparently and efficiently with effective and no nonsense enforcement against corruption?

The whole government system is set up in order for corruption to flourish and is conducive to the practice.

HC: Najib must have been on his happy pills that day. Anti-corruption? It doesn't exist in Malaysia.

Apa Ini?: I suggest Gerakan gets serious and organises 'anti-corruption' runs regularly - every week, year round leading all the way to GE14.

Raising awareness takes more than one little run. Get on the road with this in all the towns and villages and you might recover some credibility as a party.

Hello: What a farce! What hypocrites! These political parties that organised this event are perceived by the public to be practising rent-seeking, cronyism and corruption. And the one seen gracing this event is the worst of the lot.

Onyourtoes: Yes what a baloney; fighting corruption is now reduced to running 3km and with that, hopefully, the most severe of all problems we face today will be all forgotten.

Gerakan, once the party that governed Penang, is now reduced to organising an anti-graft run - at the date and time when one of Penang’s most illustrious sons was being sent off after that fateful accident.

Gerakan, you have no respect for Penang and Karpal Singh.  

                                        

Billster: Just jail everyone there at the run - corruption will reduce by 80 percent this year.


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