When we lie, we will eventually be caught. And that’s because we flip-flop on our fake stories.

It’s worse when a group of people, who do not know the head or tail of a story, try outwitting each other with lies.

Umno men win the race for one too many lies just to make the Prime Minister, Najib Abdul Razak, look innocent of the 1MDB scandal.

A whopping RM42 billion has simply vanished from the state-owned sovereign fund, the brainchild of Najib.

He is yet to spill the beans on what happened to the cash. Najib has also not come up with a plausible story for the RM2.6 billion, which found its way into the premier’s personal bank account.

But his comrades have. And the stories are rather colourful.

Deputy Transport Minister Abdul Aziz Kaprawi said that the RM2.6 billion was to stop a DAP- Jewish plot.

New Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, says that Middle East donors gave the money to ensure Malaysia stays Sunni.

He even vouched to have met them and that the money was forked out to commend Malaysia’s efforts in fighting militant group IS.

Initially those who jumped on the ‘Support Najib’ bandwagon alluded to the fact that the money was transferred for party use and that’s it’s perfectly okay for it to land in Najib’s account.

Then they said the RM2.6 billion was used for the last general election, where Najib’s power was hanging on a slim thread.

A recent article in Sarawak Report said a huge chunk of the money was sent to Singapore after the polls.

Another exposé by the whistleblower website detailed Najib’s extravagant shopping spree.

One thing is certain- Najib’s goons in Umno can’t get the story straight.

The problem is that when people lie, they can never get their stories to tally.

CHARLES SANTIAGO is Member of Parliament, Klang.