COMMENT Money is the political resource that matters most. A politician from California once said that “money is the mother’s milk of politics”.

Our former prime minister, Dr Mahathir Mohamad, said in 2007: “There can be no escaping that without money you just cannot move.”

In 2010, an Agenda of Reform for political financing was submitted to the government.

I was a member of the team that prepared this agenda, which has 20 recommendations that were based on research, consultations with government agencies, NGOs and academicians...