VOXPOP 'The money or the commission for the targeted private company is passed through a legitimate NGO, an association of former police staff.'

Shady kickbacks involving senior politician, MACC told

vox populi small thumbnail Unspin: This could be the tip of the iceberg. How many government-linked NGOs are receiving similar grants with kickbacks or commissions? This cozy arrangement is most likely an attempt to kill two birds with one stone:

1) Give money to the recipients to buy their loyalty and votes.

2) The kickbacks become political funds to buy more votes from Ahmad, Ah Chong and Arumugam.

Ferdtan: This is a pure case of money laundering. The money or commission for the targeted private company is passed through a legitimate NGO, an association of former police staff.

A few top heads of the society are obviously accomplice-in-crime along with the federal leaders, but thanks to some conscientious member/members, the secret is leaked out to the public.

This shows that many, including the former police staff, are not blindly supporting the corruption by the BN government. This is good as more people are less afraid of becoming the eyes of the public to expose and fight corruption.

Jiminy Qrikert: Now that Umno-BN have this down to a science, they are not too bothered to even cover up their transgression. And PM Najib Razak is clearly setting the trend and pace in blatantly proceeding with deals that the rakyat have questioned and want investigated.

So, if Najib can just brush aside objections from the rakyat and defy the wishes of the rakyat, what's putting down in writing the wayward deals initiated by Umno-BN political leaders?

Nowadays, since Pakatan Rakyat will investigate crooked deals and succeed in digging up the dirt anyway, so why take the trouble to hide? Just apply the SOP (standard operating procedure) and ignore the accusations.

After all, the PDRM (Royal Malaysian Police) and MACC (Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission) are party to the SOP implementation. And Najib just needs to continue throwing money at the rakyat so as to deflect attention from the whole issue.

Absalom: Since an allegation of some serious wrongdoing has been made, the authorities will now get down to action.

Investigations will be promptly carried out by all relevant authorities, raids will be made, documents will be seized and you can be sure that some charge in court will be forthcoming in no time ... on the whistleblower that is.

Anonymous #33877536: God is great. For every action, there is always a reaction. What comes around goes around. What goes up must come down.

They can go after Suaram, which is doing a sincere job for the people of Malaysia, but God acts in mysterious ways.

Odin: The members of the association are former police staff? Well, this is wonderful news. The irony of it makes me laugh.

Students march through KL for 'clean' campus polls

Kim Quek: Congratulations to our student demonstrators for having acted so promptly and courageously to reject the hardly disguised attempt to steal an election from the students.

Be assured that all right-thinking Malaysians are supportive and appreciative of your righteous move to defend your inalienable right to choose your representatives in a process that is clean and fair, and free of interference from any quarter.

Now it is up to the varsity student community at large to show their solidarity by casting their votes in such manner as to demonstrate without a shadow of doubt that such naked interference into their autonomous affairs is rejected.

Hero325: This is the problem of granting civil liberties and rights to underage people in the university. They could not get their priorities right. These are just half-past-six students admitted into the universities because we lower the standard of intake.

There is no issues in campus elections, all are made-out stories by the opposition to confuse the public. What more, if the students want to talk about cheating, they should ask themselves: What about copying assignments?

Amoker: Well done to the students. Unlike Hero325, I believe they are doing something fundamentally good with their time.

I wonder why the police did not cite any of the anti-Muslim video demonstrators the day before? But still, the police did well in allowing the people to express themselves.

Blind Freddo: One has to ask why the students are deemed incapable of running their own elections. But maybe that's because they haven't spent long enough under the Malaysian indoctrination system to perfect their criminal repressive controlling tendencies.

Lopilah: The solidarity to demand for clean and fair campus election should be respected, but the last-minute decision to hold the election next week points to possible manipulation and fraud by the campus authorities.

Anonymous #25708689: I'm glad to see students have guts these days again. I saw how brave students we were in the 60s and how independent they were. That was when we had some of the best brains.

Cops say students violated PAA, but march peaceful

iVote: When police starts to go after students it will spell more serious repercussions for BN. Just imagine, each student can influence at least five voters or more to vote against BN.

The PDRM has already shown how one-sided it is by handcuffing the students who showed disrespect to PM Najib Razak, while no such handcuffing was done on dignitaries committing more serious crimes (former transport minister Dr Ling Liong Sik and former Selangor MB Dr Mohamad Khir Toyo and a few others).

Artchan: First, Dang Wangi district police chief Zainuddin Ahmad said the police were not informed. Then he said 80 police personnel were involved in supervising the march.

You were not informed and suddenly you can find 80 police officers? Why don't you suddenly find 80 police officers to patrol the streets and make us feel safe.

Kgen: We can have peaceful rallies if the police do not provoke, beat, tear gas and shoot water cannons. Get that, PDRM?

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