There are numerous issues and problems facing the country today, some very real and imminent. But are we getting closer to finding the truth or solving any of them?

Has it ever occurred to us that politicians and the ‘powers-that-be’ are pulling wool over our eyes? They diverted attention, caused confusion and made us focus on insignificant and irrelevant things.

There are many allegations levelled against 1MDB. So we directed the Public Account Committee (PAC) and the auditor-general to help us to find the truth. But what did we get - a PAC report that is neither here nor there and a final audit report that is now an official secret, at least for now?

The PAC report, tabled at the last day of the current Parliamentary sitting, will now only be debated on at the coming Dewan Rakyat meeting from May 16, 2016. I guess a day’s delay is a day victorious for someone and a day more precarious for Malaysia.

Depending on which side we are on, the PAC report has paradoxically implicated and at the same time exonerated those culpable. Read my lips, for the next few weeks there will be more meaningless innuendoes thrown at each other to cause even more confusion among us. No truth will ever be uncovered. Only more half-baked polemics will emerge.

Before this, I remember we have numerous investigations launched against 1MDBs and its related parties. The argument at that time was to keep the investigations confidential so that the reputation and positions of those under investigation would not be unfairly jeopardised. Hence, we hardly knew who and what were being investigated and the status of each of these investigations. We just patiently waited for the outcome.

When investigations were completed, we were told there was no case to answer by those who were investigated. With that, we lost our focus again. We argued endlessly in whose hand the power of prosecution laid, not whether or not the power of prosecution has been constitutionally and justly exercised.

We asked the auditor general to audit 1MDB. We waited with bated breath for the interim and now the final reports. Now the ‘powers-that-be’ told us that these reports are official secrets. I am quite sure the next focus of our national debate will be on official secret, its scope and meaning, the punishment against violators, and the national interests the Official Secrets Act (OSA) is supposed to protect.

We will largely forget about the right to know, the fair and decent laws we yearned for, the protection of public interests, the rights and sacrifice of whistle-blowers and most important of all, the truth in 1MDB.

When the Pandan MP was arrested, we discussed whether or not he was handcuffed during and after the arrest and whether or not he was arrested within the vicinity of the Parliament. Maybe there are some symbolic meanings to these, but quite frankly what significant difference would the handcuff or the vicinity of the Parliament make? We have largely forgotten why Rafizi Ramli did what he did. Why was he prepared to be arrested?

Are we a nation of lambs to the slaughter?