Joshua YC Kong

LETTER | Many senior civil servants are never bestowed such high titles even after years of service.

LETTER | These settlements have accumulated to trillions of ringgit for Sabah and Sarawak.

Let a RCI decide on the status of 1MDB.

The Eastern Sabah Security Command (Esscom) was established for the Eastern Sabah Security Zone (Esszone), a Malaysian security area that covers 1,400km of the east coast of Sabah from Kudat to Tawau.

Malaysians, especially Sabahans, must be alerted to this coming “devastation” if the Tanjung Aru Eco Development (TAED) project is carried out by the state body Tanjung Aru Eco Development Sdn Bhd.

With the latest development of the questioned reasonableness of fairness or justice arising from the end of extended 14 days or less remand of four suspects in the Sabah Water Department who were held in the so-called biggest bust by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) for investigation, it would give the impression that it can be the biggest disgrace or dangerous precedent on the legal front when the bail (deposited or otherwise) of a total of RM1,550,000 cum sureties for such a mega theft of any dimension in the context of alleged criminal breach of trust (CBT), misappropriation, embezzlement, corruption, money-laundering, graft, briberies, frauds, abuses of power, etc while holding high offices.

The Daily Express’s Sunday edition front page headline screamed ‘Impossible Shafie didn’t know’ (Oct 9, 2016). Maybe former minister Shafie Apdal knows but he is not telling at this point in time. So if he really did not know, then ask Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak who would know because there was a Bernama press report entitled ‘New Water Supply Development Project to cost RM52 billion - Samy’ dated Feb 20, 2004 for peninsula Malaysia for 2000-2050.

I believe the conventional taxis have served us for so many decades and there are pros and cons of their existence in the cyber-age.

Can we accept what the PM Najib Abdul Razak said recently: “National Security Council Act 2016 for national security, not personal design” (Aug 27, 2016). Can this defence be true and justified if we go through the NSC and the ‘junta’ of five persons especially the PM who is also the chairperson can control everything so-called ‘National Security’ bypassing the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, a Ruler or Yang di-Pertua Negeri according to the NSC section 23 (2)a.

Are we concerned about certain headlines in the press and mass media of late?

In the Philippines press, four Malaysians were reportedly abducted in Sabah, Malaysia on June15, 2016 on Wednesday night, according to Senior Supt Joselito Salido, the provincial police director of Tawi-Tawi.

What is 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) in the context of management and accounting/auditing? Is it a public company aka sovereign fund owned by the government/Finance Ministry or owned by others including the prime minister/finance minister and others including private individuals?