YOURSAY ‘He always finishes what he started, that's way of Kerala warrior.’

Kingfisher: It is disconcerting if not shocking that while many allegations against failure in leadership including abuse of public funds, family enrichment, why even suspicion in a murder case, has been directed at the PM by none other than a former PM, there is scant reaction from the large cabinet of ministers either in the form of open support or indignation.

This is very telling to the ordinary citizens. In a nation where the fabric of power relations in governance and political institutions are stitched in a rather monopolistic weave, the dissent has it seems left many, if not all, ministers in an emasculated status against being judgmental one way or the other.

This is unfortunate for the nation. This is a nation of laws with prerogatives and obligations for its citizens. One is left wandering that the absence of indignation against bad governance is an accepted norm in Malaysia.

Isana: Thank you, PM Najib Razak for your late April Fool's joke. We are humoured by it and we know you have tried your best.

By the way, Tun (Dr Mahathir Mohamad) will never surrender too. He always finishes what he started, that's the way of the Kerala warrior of old.

RKR: Mahathir is not asking the 'administration' to resign but just you because you were the source of many malaises in recent times. So don't hide behind the 'administration'.

Odin: Najib, one totally agrees that your government is transparent. Of course, it is. Because it is filled with nothing of substance to be opaque. From its chief right down to the most junior of ministers, the contents of that government are air heads.

By the way, the hoi-polloi are doubtless grateful for your clear, detailed explanation of how the ‘chief pirate’ has been milking 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) of billions with the assistance of a fat Chinaman, and your revelation of why Altantuya Shaariibuu was brutally murdered and on whose orders she was done in.

Commentable: When Najib talks about a transparent government, he means 1MDB, which is so transparent that nobody bothers to question him anymore.

When he says remain steadfast and continue the struggle, he means to ignore all criticisms of his alleged wrongdoings and the calls for his resignation that were lately hurled at him and to maintain his elegant silence.

When he says charting a million new paths for the people and the nation, he means a new chart on his spending list is in progress, creatively thinking on how to spend the hundreds of millions that he is raking in from the nation as a result of the recently implemented Goods and Services Tax (GST), and who among his own circle of people to spend it on.

Yes, when it comes to the Bugis heritage and the Bugis way, once the pirates have set sail, there is no turning back, not at least until the loot has been captured and taken.

Vijay47: No doubt unintended, your affirmation that you are transparent is an admission of reality - everyone can see through you.

The analogy of your ancestry and your seafaring ways is also quite apt since almost from the day of launching, your ship has been without a captain, rudderless, compass-less, buffeted by waves upon waves, with rats now deserting it in droves and sharks, toothless or otherwise, circling and waiting for the kill.

You claim to be heartened that your deputy is behind you but I would not be so quick to draw such assurance from him, as his position need not necessarily be of support.

After all, in as much as your origins are Bugis, Muhyiddin Yassin's are Roman and his name is Brutus. Then again, it could be Judas.

CQ Muar: Najib, therein lies the difference between wisdom and foolhardiness. You don't go against nature to prove your courage as declared from the analogy you boasted about Bugis seafarers.

You chart your course wisely and return to sail through another day instead of bulldozing head-on into the jaws of death. To a layman, your articulation was somewhat impressive, but you didn't fool all of the audience most of the time.

Anonymous_1421406986: This is the kind of fightback I have expected from the PM. Those who question Najib today of his many actions are the very same people who never found a voice during Mahathir's time.

Mahathir brought fear and destroyed family life by activating Operation Lallang in the early years of his premiership. Those arrested, except for DAP leader Karpal Singh, never offended Mahathir after that.

Mahathir didn’t care to answer politicians who questioned his policies and monumental projects. Billions were lost in the failed forex (foreign exchange) market, the Bakun dam and crony projects, Perwaja, MAS, first submarine project, and none of the clowns who are still around dared to question him then.

Today questions are raised because an ex-PM is leading the pack of bitter opposition. So much damage had been done by Mahathir, which he has selectively forgotten, that the s**t has now spilled over into Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's and Najib's time.

Najib is helpless because he is forced to nurse and heal an ailing nation.

Wira: Najib’s ship is listing badly. I wonder how long it can remain afloat. Now Umno even consider him a liability in the Permatang Pauh by-election and this has never happened before.

Anonymous_3e86: He admits he is of Bugis heritage and he is a bumiputera, while I am of Chinese heritage but I am not a bumiputera.

Neither of his nor my forefathers were from this land but he becomes a bumiputera while I am not considered one. Strange...

Oh Ya?: So by revealing his Bugis heritage, is he admitting that he too is a pendatang? And is Mahathir not half a pendatang as his father hailed from India? How could both become bumiputera and PM too?

Ace: Now it's Bugis vs Keralite? Is this Malaysia? And they call others pendatang!

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