The sobering fact about the Dr Terence Edmund Gomez saga is that with his secondment to the UN agency, he would have to be promoted on his return and his superiors at UM would certainly not have that.

So the safest bet is to prevent him from going.

Frankly, these superiors at UM are not there because of their credentials. They are there because of their bumiputera status.

If meritocracy was used as a yardstick, most of them would be out of their jobs.