YOURSAY 'Najib, why lodge a graft report to an institution which has thoroughly lost all respect in the eyes of Malaysians?'

Najib defends Bafia charge against Rafizi

Podeh: PM Najib Razak said, "It does not mean that we condone corruption or money laundering because you can always reveal this information to the appropriate authorities."

Reading between the lines, it means you condone corruption ‘within your special circle'.

Powerful people in Malaysia are all about siphoning the country's wealth and resources, and parking them elsewhere outside the country where it is easily within reach when we, as a country, fails.

There are many examples in history if you bother to look them up. Trying to punish PKR strategic director Rafizi Ramli and former Public Bank clerk Johari Mohamad is but the flimsiest of excuses and it makes Malaysia a laughing stock worldwide.

As Malaysians, we carry the shame with us wherever we go.

Pro Bono: Report to MACC (Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission)? I reported a matter to the MACC recently. I was told that it was a "civil case".

Being a lawyer, when I insisted that it involved corruption under the wide definition of that term in the MACC Act, the officer told me to report to the police.

The same treatment was accorded me by the Enforcement Agency Integrity Commission (EAIC) when I reported a matter of corruption in the Land Office. When I persisted, they finally told me to report the matter to the same department that I was accusing of corruption!

Kgen: Why report to an institution which has thoroughly lost all respect in the eyes of Malaysians?

The MACC springs into action over unproven allegations against opposition politicians which are 17 years old, but pretends it is helpless to act against documented corruption against BN cronies.

The MACC's statement that the Cowgate abuse of public money is not corruption still rings in our ears.

Tidakboleh: PM, you have taken the rakyat for fools for a long time. With the MACC and all other enforcement agencies being mere extensions of the regime, your suggestion provides perfect camouflage for cover-ups of corruption, misuse and abuse of power by your regime.

Lin Wenquan: If not for Rafizi's expose, this Umno-BN swindle of our money would have been hidden from the public knowledge like the rest of the opaque government-crony deals.

Using Bafia (Banking and Financial Institutions Act) to persecute Rafizi for revealing a massive con job by a crony can be translated into protecting and condoning corruption by the Umno-BNputras - an action which mocks BN's own well-worn cliché and hypocritical slogan of transparency and the fight against corruption.

Now that Rafizi has further uncloaked the George Kent LRT award saga, he will be harassed for sure.

Unwittingly, this will further enhance Rafizi's image as the peoples' hero for stripping bare the antics of a corrupt regime, which is bent on robbing the nation's kitty to enrich its warlords and cronies.

Justice Kini: Najib, just read what former MACC adviser speaks of the AG (attorney-general), the man who have the sole power to take action but nothing happen.

Files are pilling up in MACC and no action is taken against the big fish despite all the evidence and documents obtained by the commission.

Cantabrigian: MACC's fax machine is attached directly to the shredder machine.

Bootsie: Malaysians are imbeciles - the MACC is a highly efficient and honest to goodness organisation.

They would have sprung into action if Rafizi had revealed all to them and the culprits will be arrested, hancuffed and charged in court with the consent of the impeccable and remarkable AG.

Phang says AG a stumbling block for BN

Odin: In all my comments so far, I have never preceded the names of certain parties with their titles, not because I meant to be disrespectful but that they are (or were as the case may be) completely unworthy of the titles as well as have devalued them to minus zero by their despicable actions.

Attorney-general Abdul Gani Patail is one such. Asking PM Najib Razak to remove him is a futile act. It will never happen. Would a pickpocket cut off his own right arm?

And they all don't care what we think of them. The massive wealth that they have - it goes without saying, wealth acquired by foul means - and the power in their hands, have enabled them to view us with disdain, to treat us as fools.

These masses of filth must go. But there is a problem. Many of the Malays, who happen to form the majority of the population, seem oblivious to all this and continue to support the same garbage.

We can only vote for an alternative - and I don't necessarily mean Pakatan Rakyat - at the GE13, and hope that some kind of a miracle will happen.

James1067: The noose is getting tighter around the AG's neck and he knows it. It's a matter of time before he cannot manipulate the situation any longer.

No doubt, he have the files of the most powerful in his hands and he knows that he is untouchable but as the elections draw nearer, he has become a liability that will cost the ruling party a lot of votes.

Lim Chong Leong: And don't forget his Sabah connections too. His dealings and close association with Chief Minister Musa Aman has risen many eyebrows.

Vijay47: Former MACC advisory panel member Robert Phang, nobody will dispute your call for the AG to be suspended, sacked, charged, or whatever. But I am perplexed about the rationale for your demand.

You keep repeating that action against Abdul Gani is very necessary "since BN is trying to get the best goal in the upcoming general election". Are you suggesting that if the elections were not due soon, the AG could be allowed to continue ruling the roost as he does now?

The issue is much simpler. The AG holds the highest position in law enforcement in a country and cannot be party to anything that brings his position and authority into disrepute and in Abdul Gani's case, there is far too much smoke for the presence of fire to be denied.

Up2U: He may be a liability but he has too much of other peoples' baggage in his closet. Who would dare to remove him?

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