YOURSAY | ‘If anyone in the world needs to hear that, it would be him.’
Don't fall into trap of corruption, Annuar tells Mara staff
Odin Tajué: To all you Mara staff, your big boss is absolutely right. If you want style, if you want to own and enjoy expensive items, you must not steal to buy them but to save up for them - and to do so from the time you are 13 years old, id est, when you have become a teenager.
See how PM’s wife Rosmah Mansor has jewellery, Hermès Birkin handbags and so on? She saved up for them since she was a teenager.
See how Umno information chief Annuar Musa has allegedly got to drive a Porsche Panamera, wear an expensive watch on his wrist and so on? He also saved up for them since he was a teenager.
What he could not tell you, for obvious reason, is that as you cannot go back in time and do the necessary, what you need to do now is to take as much as you need, and when caught, all you have to do is to tell the attorney-general that whatever you have with you, on you and to your name have all been donated by a Saudi prince.
You can pick any one of those princes. After all, there are thousands of them. If worse comes to worst, just name an imagined one.
But remember to write a letter supposedly written by him, backdate it, and ensure that its contents are so worded as to clear you of any possible suspicion of theft or corruption.
GE14Now!: This is a case of allegedly corrupt leaders from Umno telling others not to fall into trap of corruption. The only conclusion I can reach is that if there are fewer of them engaging in corruption, those who are already doing so can therefore have a bigger piece of the pie.
It looks like ‘Ah MO1’ (Malaysian Official 1) has set a 'good example' - why go for the millions when you can go for the billions? What a pathetic, hypocritical lot these politicians are.
Middle Path: Australia's minister for health, aged care and sports, Sussan Ley, announced she would step aside after it was revealed that she had used taxpayer-funded official trips for personal use, including one to buy herself an apartment.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said he had asked for a thorough investigation into her travel claims and Ley "had agreed to stand aside without ministerial pay" until it is completed.
Learn from this, Malaysia cabinet.
Demi Rakyat: Annuar, please tell that (don’t fall into the trap of corruption) to your boss, Najib. If anyone in the world needs to hear that, it would be him.
Wira: Come on, when the pillars are crooked and rotten, don't expect the beams to be straight.
Ex-CEO nabbed for graft after returning from umrah
Trueglitter: The arrests of those civil servants by the once highly-regarded Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), though commendable and appreciative from the grateful public, would still fall short and not deserving its full credits and accolades until the history-making arrest of the untouchable MO1 has been accounted for.
In order for the ostensibly unbiased agency to reclaim its past glory and honour, it should endeavour its activities on an independent keel by not succumbing or beholden to the powers-that-be.
The time is now ripe for the agency to ply its ennobled trade when our downtrodden nation has been menacingly battered and permeated by an escalation of unresolved corruption, which has spread across both the private and government spectrums.
The nation's high esteem and honour has been subjected under the unenviable scrutiny of the international community over the momentous corruption in 1MDB involving PM Najib Abdul Razak and the crowning glory awaits the MACC when action is finally taken against MO1.
Clever Voter: To the public, such arrests by MACC are applauded. Equally many are apprehensive as such cases tend to end up with a no-guilty verdict. This raises the question on the sincerity or the effectiveness of the agency.
All these cases have shown consistent evidence which are tangible and not well-hidden, given the size of the seizure.
Corruption has become an acceptable practice and these high-profile cases are not so small. One shudders at the thought of bigger and wealthier ministries.
For this to take place, MACC has to be independently managed, and report to a board comprising of diverse but people with untainted records. Only then, investigations and scrutiny can start from the top.
Slumdog: These arrests by the MACC are done with much fanfare to demonstrate how serious the government is against corruption.
Based on past decisions of the judiciary involving people associated with Umno, I am pessimistic and cynical about the outcome of these cases.
Following Umno’s standard operating procedures, the cases will drag on for years, there will be insufficient evidence to prosecute (attorney-general Mohamed Apandi Ali, please take a bow), the prosecution will intentionally foul up the case, or there will be successful appeals by the accused.
At the end of the day, those investigated by the MACC will laugh all the way to the bank and live happily after.
Leadership By Example: The MACC is doing a very commendable job in tackling corruption by acting against some very senior government officials.
It is very important corruption at the very top must be curbed and seen to be curbed, otherwise the subordinates will be emboldened to be corrupt if the top leaders are seen to be untouchable.
Angry Bird: Corrupt public officials in Thailand could be staring on the death penalty should a proposal by the country's National Reform Steering Assembly for a stiffer sentence is adopted by the government.
Under the proposed sentence, public officials who committed graft and caused more than Thai baht 1 billion (RM1 = TBH7.9) of losses to the country could be sentenced to death.
Rupert16: Nothing beats the elephant in the room in the form of MO1.
Najib gives a good example of the word ‘oxymoron’
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