Johor prince urging M’sians to disenthrall themselves

comments     Terence Netto     Published     Updated

COMMENT | The operative word is “mess”, the troubles the country is in.

The crown prince of Johor disdains indirection, the mode of Malay political discourse, preferring to tell it like it is.

The state of the nation may just be that it needs the drastic remedy that the prince counsels.

Tunku Ismail Sultan Ibrahim's latest broadside on the state of the nation comes a little over a week after the Conference of Rulers conveyed their concern that things are beginning to fall apart and that they were not going be like Nero, fiddling while Rome burns.

Tunku Ismail intimates he would want to do a whole lot more than just publicly convey concern like the rulers have done over the state of the nation and the suppurating wound that lies on the body politic the way the scandal-plagued 1MDB issue has...

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