It is a little over two years since Najib Razak became Malaysia’s sixth Prime Minister and his administration seems to be lurching from recklessness to ruin. His “People First, Performance Now” slogan is falling apart. That is not all that is breaking up, the whole country seems to be disintegrating.
Malaysians are reeling from the latest shock incident where a senior customs officer, Ahmad Sarbani Mohamad, fell to his death, in mysterious circumstances, at the MACC building in Cheras.
The commissioner of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Comission Abu Kassim Mohamad had earlier called for Ahmad Sarbani’s death “not be exploited or manipulated by certain quarters for their personal interests” as “malicious and full of ill-intent.”
Abu Kassim is rather disingenuous. His outfit has failed the public several times before. He is in no position to tell others off.
In fact, it is he and the MACC who should stand aside and allow an independent body to conduct the investigations into all these deaths. In truth, Abu Kassim should tender his resignation for he has failed miserably. Two similar deaths in as many years is a frightening statistic.
The MACC is under the Prime minister’s department. Presumably Abu Kassim takes his orders from the Prime Minister. Thus far, we have not heard anything substantial from Najib about this recent death. Why?
Now that another death has been recorded, Abu Kassim’s record is untenable.
Najib is also to shoulder the blame. It happened under his watch.
The death of someone who goes to assist questioning is one death too many. But two deaths, is more than just a coincidence.
No foreign investor is going to be inspired by all that is happening in Malaysia. And we too are not moved by Najib’s tepid logic.
Does Abu Kassim think that Malaysians have any more trust in its law enforcement agencies?
The police are known to beat up those in custody. Some have died from their beatings. If they don’t beat them up, they shoot to kill. In civilised countries around the world, the police is supposed to protect its citizens, not harm them like in Malaysia.
The death of Ahmad Sarbani couldn’t have come at a worse time. Teoh Beng Hock, a political aide also died in mysterious circumstances having fallen off another MACC building. His death is currently being investigated in a Royal Commission of Inquiry.
Ahmad Sarbani’s colleagues as well as the freight forwarders who used to work with him, had only good words to say about him. One should not speculate but it was said that Ahmad Sarbani was going to post a document today.
Did that document contain information that would reveal all the goings on in the current investigations into the Customs graft probe? Usually, those at the bottom try and protect someone higher up. Could the trail have led to a person or persons unknown, much higher up in the government, like in the Cabinet?
Someone certainly felt that his position needed to be protected at all costs. Ahmad Sarbani probably knew too much. A person with the authority to enter the MACC offices or any other government building, could so easily have slipped into the MACC building undetected or under pretext, and harmed Ahmad Sarjani.
Clearly, Najib’s administration does not inspire foreign investor confidence or even his own citizens.
Thus far, Najib has kept silent on why his administration feels a need to use sex and slander against his political opponents.
Najib’s Cabinet is staffed by politicians who are corrupt. Some of them are alleged rapists. Others in his ruling Umno party are confirmed child rapists.
Najib appoints people who are guilty of money politics to head big government corporations.
Najib’s ministers play the race and religion card and are not at all responsive to the needs of the other religions and races in the nation, as we can see in the Bible debacle.
Malaysia lacks a strong, clean and effective government. But will Najib ever get his act together? Should he even attempt to earn back our trust? Actually, he need not bother.
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