COMMENT | I want to tell you a story.

In a land far away, people of different races live under the same roof. A quiet calm is in the air: a watershed event is about to happen and it could change the course of history.

Since the prime minister came into office, the people had not been happy. They know about how 1MDB had depleted the national coffers. The harvest in the land is turning scarce and oil is running out.

1MDB is faced with a debt of RM42 billion. No one knows where the money went. Someone in the US said the money was spent on luxurious penthouses, holidays, jewellery, and everything shiny and expensive. But they didn’t say who took the money. They just said it was “MO1”...