COMMENT | The cabinet’s response to serious allegations of corruption made in a detailed Bloomberg investigation against the MACC can only be described as pathetic, ineffectual, and nothing more than yet another attempt to excuse its chief commissioner, Azam Baki.

If a serious investigation from the government is to be respected, it must involve a crime/graft buster of experience and reputation who is publicly given a mandate to investigate without fear or favour, not the chief secretary to the government, who is already beholden to the prime minister. That means police involvement.

Concomitant with that should be the appointment of a body independent of government and the prime minister.

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