COMMENT | Never in the annals of our civil service has someone so high up retired under such a cloud of ignominy, walking out thumping his chest in jubilation after three extensions.

While clerks and junior officers are marched in handcuffs to the black maria en route to prison for misfeasance in office, there was none for outgoing MACC chief Azam Baki, who departed on Tuesday with little more than bruised headlines - and a chorus of self-praise.

Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim lauded his “courage against powerful individuals”.

Yet this is the same man who meekly claimed to have met Najib Abdul Razak’s...