DAP leaders may appear to be experts in the 1MDB narrative, armed with powerpoint presentations of charts and statistics at the ceramah Sayangi Malaysia, Hapuskan Kleptokrasi (Love Malaysia, Rid Kleptocracy) in Penaga, Penang, last night.

But the audience remained subdued, probably due to the barrage of jargons and figures of the complicated 1MDB trail thrown at them at such a late hour.

Attended by about 300, the event, the first to be held in a rural Malay area, an Umno stronghold, and part of a bigger rally which is slated for September, started at 9pm and ended two and half hours later.

Eventually, it was PKR secretary-general Saifuddin Nasution Ismail who had the crowd in stitches with his short speech, targeting individuals who allegedly bought “illegal assets with stolen money” from the state fund started by Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak.

Starting with Penang-born businessman Low Teak Jho or Jho Low, the central figure of the 1MDB fiasco, Saifuddin warned "as long as Umno or BN is in power, this person will be protected”...