YOURSAY ‘To get rid of the termites you have to get rid of the queen, BN. Otherwise the whole house will soon come crashing down.'

Complaints point to massive 6P scam by gov't insiders

Haveagreatday: It is heartbreaking to read of those heartless agents and government officials scamming the migrant workers. They must already be desperate to leave their home countries to find a living here, now to be cheated and if caught, deported. Where is justice?

Bad Head: The 6P project is to enable some to get rich illegally. The mentioned cheating case cannot have been that easy to happen without the help from insiders.

The government must set up a team to investigate the process with the involvement of both the Home Ministry and the Immigration Department.

Pemerhati: Just like a house infested with termites, Malaysia now is heavily infested with corrupt public service officials and BN ministers in almost in all areas where there is opportunity to make money through corruption.

Dr Mahathir Mohamad started the ball rolling in a big way in the 1980s and is said to have stolen US$44 billion. Then Monsoon Cup Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and Scorpene Najib Abdul Razak and many other ministers like Ling Liong Sik and S Samy Vellu followed in his footsteps.

Just after independence, there was some corruption in the public service such as the police, but this has now become rampant.

Since now most of the people from top to bottom are corrupt, any complaint made to anyone will be ignored because the chances are the person receiving the complaint and most of the people in the organisation are earning a lucrative income through corruption.

To get rid of the termites, you have to get rid of the queen and in Malaysia's case, it is BN. Otherwise the whole house will come crashing down and the country will go to the dogs.

NoBN4me: Getting rid of the queen (BN) may not necessarily eradicate the problem. In Selangor, the situation prevails. Ask them why and the answer is, "We do not have to give a reason."

NH Gong: Don't these foreign workers have any embassy to turn to? Why do they keep on coming like goats? Malaysia is no heaven, but to some, it's paradise.

Clearwater: There's no business like up-front cash business and many government enforcement agency personnel are deeply involved in many aspects of illegal activities. It's highly lucrative and the odds of getting caught and convicted are minuscule.

Kanasai: This is a new source of rent-seeking and this time the foreign workers are the target. That is why there's a need to bring in 1.4 million foreign workers that will enrich the cronies by RM5.3 billion.

TehTarik: I will not be the least surprised if some of the 336 approved companies are indirectly linked to politicians or senior civil servants. This is a typical modus operandi of Malaysia Inc, which is a nexus of politicians, civil servants and businessmen.

The granting of licenses to the 6P companies was done through closed negotiations, probably involving 'kickbacks'. Using open tenders would cost each foreign worker RM500 or less, instead of RM4,000.

The RM3,500 is nothing more than transfer of money from the poor foreign worker to the corrupt Malaysia Inc. It's yet another example of a ‘reverse' Robin Hood, where the rich rob the poor.

Jesse: It shows how incompetent the authorities are and the police's attention is directed at the opposition instead of on real crooks. Opposition to government is part of the democratic process, and yet, it seems going after dissidents is more important than nabbing crooks.

AngryBird: The police are busy searching for national laureate A Samad Said (Pak Samad) and have no time to investigate the reports made by the people who were cheated.

Similarly, the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), which claims to be best in the world, have both eyes and ears closed. This is the state of affairs in Bolehland.

Franklyspeaking: This is the result of corruption and an inefficient civil service. Every time a programme intended for the good of the nation is carried out, it is always done with little thought given to the process to ensure everything is airtight.

And when these programmes lead to problems, there are a whole lot more things to deal with. The amount of resources that are wasted in the clean-up process could be well be used for other more pertinent matters if only the powers-that-be are clean and efficient.

It is sad we have to compare ourselves time and again with Singapore and yet not learn at all but we carry on being "sombong bodoh".

MfM: I'm all for sending the foreigners packing but not by corrupt means and taking their hard-earned wages as has been done by these corrupt people.

They are not only corrupt, their actions are criminal by nature as they have committed fraud against these people, be they legal or illegal immigrants.

The question remains, do illegal immigrants have any right to protection under Malaysian law as their very presence here is already illegal. Morally, yes, they should.

Anonymous #33877536: Call all the companies appointed by the government and ask them to explain. They collected unreasonable sums from these poor workers. The companies must answer.

Mr KJ John: What is new? Please check who got these crony contracts?

2 Tim 1:7: To the regime and its underlings, freeloading, rent seeking, fraud and embezzlement are merely tools of the trade. Their activities are only different in degree, not in kind from those of the criminals in our streets whose methods are vulgar and extortionate.

But public officials who have had the benefit of some education and steal billions of taxpayers' ringgit kid themselves into believing that they are doing 'legitimate business' when the they sign documents and make phone calls.

Let me illustrate my point. In 1910, a missionary to Papua New Guinea took back with him to the United States a bright 10-year-old boy from a cannibal tribe. The boy returned to his homeland with a university education.

Forty years later, the son of the missionary visited the tribe and was horrified to find that human meat was still their staple. He questioned their chief, the boy who had studied in the States.

"Yes, it is true that we eat human meat," the chief explained to the visitor, "but now we use crockery and cutlery."

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