YOURSAY ‘Nazri, care to disclose and declare your sources of income?’                              

'What's wrong with Najib being called rich?'

Pemerhati: Tourism and Culture Minister Nazri Abdul Aziz said “the prime minister is not answerable for issues concerning his stepson”.

We know from reliable news reports that the children, stepchildren and close relatives of the top BN leaders are unusually wealthy.

Former Sarawak CM Abdul Taib Mahmud’s son has assets in excess of RM1 billion and so does the son of Mahathir. Najib’s stepson has investments in excess of RM100 million in real estate and movie production in the US.

The son of Nazri is known to go around in expensive cars with bodyguards who beat up people.

DAP supremo Lim Kit Siang once described Khairy Jamaluddin as the richest unemployed person when his father-in-law Abdullah Ahmad Badawi was the PM.

For obvious reasons, BN leaders would not want to explain how their children and relatives, who did not display any special abilities, became extremely wealthy so quickly.

David: Such is the cockiness of Umno ministers and it is mind-boggling that the people in Padang Renggas are so blind to this arrogant man.

Yes, you are not wrong for proclaiming yourself rich but we have a problem with the manner you and your boss have enriched yourselves and your families.

Can you ask your boss where his stepson got the money to finance the movie ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’? Or the Hermes Birkin handbag that your boss's wife lugs around knowing that your boss's salary can never afford such luxuries.

While we are at it, how about your boss's daughter's wedding expenses?

Vijay47: Frankly, we don't care tuppence that Najib is rich. Our concern is over how he became rich. Strangely, in the past he never once defended himself that he "had only one house", as you now explain.

What he did say was that his wealth was from his "legacy inheritance" but the fact, as stated by his own brothers, is that about the only thing he got from his father was the surname "Razak".  So, what do you have to say?

And the riches of his "opinionated" wife, that she frugally lavishes on her pet rings and handbags, where did she get those? Her famous savings? In the first place, how did she get the money to save?

And while we are at it, since you proudly claim to be wealthy also, how did you get to be so rich? Maybe it is another case of legacy inheritance.

RCZ: To be rich with hard work is not wrong at all. We all strive for that. However Umno, the ministers and the party chiefs get rich and are rich in dubious ways as they can't be that obscenely rich on a minister’s salary and as ordinary working members of society.

It is extremely easy to get a lucrative contract, farm it out and get a huge commission for nothing. It is extremely easy to get cheap land from the government and then sell it off at a high price like 1MDB.

Firestone: Nazri, if I can get 6,000 taxi permits in Wilayah Persekutuan and rent them out, I also can be super rich.

My son, too, would be able to drive Lamborghini and Porsche and date a divorcee actress...

Rick Teo: I think the public wants to know how you got rich in the first place. Was it through your ministerial post that you accumulated your wealth? If not, then how did you become rich? The same question applies to Najib.

If you become rich through hard work, no one gives a damn.

Racing To Bottom: Nazri is trying to justify his boss's incompetence and inadequacies. With a leader like him, no wonder Malaysia is racing to the bottom.

His kind of logic typifies leaders of similar calibre and without exception, birds of a feather always flock together and this will have long-term devastating effect on the nation.

Well, Umno vice-presidents Ahmad Zahid Hamidi and Hishammuddin Hussein, better put your act together. Very soon this superb apple-polisher will leapfrog you both to become the DPM.

And he is not even an elected supreme council member.

CQ Muar: Isn't it common knowledge that the present regime is noted for blatant and bewildering corruption amongst its elite ministers and cohorts?

It will be redundant to go into details of what's transpiring within the government domain. Nazri, care to disclose and declare your sources of income to prove critics wrong?

Alex Ferguson: As if it is not bad enough that there is rampant corruption at the expense of the rakyat, these shameless culprits are actually saying there is nothing wrong about it. A case of adding insult to injury.

Speaking Sense: Nazri, the issue is not in being rich; it is how you become rich.

Anonymous 007: Please declare your assets if you say there is nothing to be shy about being rich. Dare to put your money where your mouth is?

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