LETTER | Yang di-Pertuan Agong Sultan Ibrahim Sultan Iskandar’s call to end corruption and focus on education excellence cannot be given mere lip service.

All politicians, MPs, and top civil servants need to buck up.

Sultan Ibrahim’s statement must reverberate throughout the nation - in every vein, nook, and corner of society.

It is now or never. Our fight against corruption in every form must become a top priority if we are to rescue our nation's future.

Likewise, in wisdom and hindsight, Sultan Ibrahim demanded that our education system to be revamped.

Quick fixes, make-belief facades, and political gimmicks to seemingly reform our education system have now expired with His Majesty's stern message to all politicians, especially the current leadership.

Work together

Both the government and opposition blocs must converge to translate the king's ultimatum into real action.

Meanwhile, the business community must cease its long-held practice of enshrouding trade-offs, which is the root of corruption.

Civil servants should also feel the shiver of being punished for not delivering in the best interest of the nation.

Hence, the king's call for the set-up of a special court to tackle corruption must be expedited without excuses.

Let’s march together with our king and courageous media to transform and liberate our beloved nation from the entrenched culture of corruption and the lack of will to rebirth our education standards.

Otherwise, we shall sink in the whirlpool of international disgrace as a nation of failures.

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