Mariam Mokhtar | Najib rejects free consultations
My fellow Malaysians and I have saved the Malaysian government, Najib Abdul Razak and the nation hundreds of millions of ringgits. We provided free consultation services to spruce-up Najib’s image, rebuild trust in public institutions and foster good community race relations; but the ungrateful Najib hates local talent and sent the police after us.
That is why Domestic Trade, Cooperative and Consumerism Minister Hasan Malek is wrong when he said that our culture was to “respect our leaders, respect the nation and be grateful”.
Hasan’s attempt to pull more wool over our eyes, has failed. People who “respect” leaders who steal and spin lies, are devoid of any self-respect.
We are hypocrites if we respect a person who tells an international audience that he is a moderate, but allows extremists to roam scot-free. Respecting a leader who robs you is a sign that you lack integrity. No one should be “grateful” to the people who take our money to enrich themselves. Their only reward should be a jail term, courtesy of the Malaysian rakyat.
Few of us would dare take liberties and use public facilities, government property and taxpayers’ money, to go on overseas holidays to the French Riviera, a fishing trip in the Bahamas, attend an engagement party, fund our children’s wedding, or buy several luxury condominiums for our pet cows.
Hasan praised his ministry’s ‘Ops Titik’ and ‘Ops Harga’ which he claimed had “achieved a lot” and “saved millions of ringgits”. If only he recognised a bargain when he saw one.
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