Ex-EC chief says no tangible proof of Project IC

Ex-EC chief evasive on Project IC scandal

VOXPOP 'It's funny because common folk on the ground in Sabah can tell you a lot about the ICs and the Filipinos.'

1M: "He (Abdul Rashid Abdul Rahman) added that he was still serving as EC secretary at that time, and he would have risked his job by interfering in another department."

Of the whole interview, this is the only part he was telling the truth. Abdul Rashid was appointed by Umno, Project IC is an Umno project, Umno has betrayed the people by selling the country away.

Tangible proof is everywhere, it will forever be covered up because Umno is in power.

Malaysia4all: No proof? I advise all Malaysians that have doubt about this Project IC to just walk to any of our hypermarkets and ask the broadband promoters of how many foreigner-looking customers seeking to subscribe for broadband service with Malaysian ICs.

You will be surprised.

Dood: In Malaysia, many scandals against Umno-BN appear to be unprovable.

It's similar for non-BN folk too, except that they won't be able to prove their innocence and even the flimsiest piece of circumstantial ‘evidence' will be used and dressed up enough to put them away for a while.

Pooh: So Abdul Rashid, what I understand from what you said is that you want solid proof. I think everyone knows that proof doesn't drop into our laps.

Maybe if you get out of your chair and do some real work, perhaps you will get your proof. Doesn't anyone ever work for their honest salary anymore?

Anonymous_3da0: Gerak Khas on TV won't cut it. No tangible proof, but was there an investigation? Who carried it out?

It's funny because common folk on the ground in Sabah can tell you a lot about the ICs and the Filipinos. I was in Sandakan sometime back, it felt like I was in the Philippines.

Sabahan: There is no tangible proof because any effort to investigate, including calling for a royal commission has been deliberately ignored. So, how to have proof?

We are not fools in Sabah. We have employed Indonesians fresh from the boats and within a few months, they produce their newly-minted ICs and declared that they are now citizens with only one condition - they must vote BN in the general elections.

VP Biden: Everyone in Sabah knows there was Project IC except Rashid. The Army, National Registration Department and Home Ministry was involved in it.

FOBs (fresh off the boat) immigrants were greeted by these traitors and issued ICs. This was from people who were there and passed on information to family and friends, as was told to me by a friend whose dad was a general in the army in Sabah.

Do I trust my buddy who is a normal 9 to 5 employee working to feed his family or Rashid who has been well-fed by the BN traitors? Lies and more lies will not absolve BN.

Tkc: I suspect that Abdul Rashid had this interview with Malaysiakini with the objective of "re-writing history".

Just like former inspector-general of police Abdul Rahim Noor's speech, it has Dr Mahathir Mohamad's fingerprints all over it.

Admitting to the indelible ink cock-up is just a sweetener so that he can have some credibility to deny Project M. Anyway, I don't believe a single word that Abdul Rashid said.

Manjit Bhatia: Yesterday's interview saw Abdul Rashid exude his amnesiac denial. His remarks today appear to be making the case for deniability or plausible deniability at least, as well as passing the buck.

Which leaves you wondering what tomorrow's installment, 'Flickering lights of reform', will bring.

More of the same, I suppose, and to boot, rejectionism, which would be hardly surprising. Everything about Malaysian politics has a higher and higher degree of predictability.

Onyourtoes: No one will ever admit there was a Project IC. And no one will ever admit and accept the fact that there are now thousands of foreigners in Sabah staring right at you.

TBH's kin lodges report to compel probe on MACC trio

FellowMalaysian: It is out of character for de facto law minister Nazri Abdul Aziz to say there was no action because no police report has been lodged.

Since the three Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) personnel has been implicated in the RCI (royal commission of inquiry), why can't the MACC or the Attorney-General's Chambers charge them directly without the need for Teoh Beng Hock's kin to lodge a police report?

Cala: The family of Teoh Beng Hock has done the right thing by making a police report. Hopefully, it will compel the authorities to do something about the MACC trio.

To me, it is a procedural move which may not result in anything substantive. Like it or not, it is as plain as daylight that the regime is practising selective justice here by branding Teoh Beng Hock's untimely death as nothing serious.

By the regime's action, all the departments (police, MACC, AG's Chambers, RCI, the judiciary and the executive) are behaving as a big organism. An attack on one part of it, in this case MACC, is viewed as an attack on the whole organism.

And that explains somehow the lackadaisical performance of the regime in the aftermath of the RCI on Teoh Beng Hock's case.

Pemerhati: The MACC officers involved in the death of Teoh Beng Hock were doing Najib Razak's and Umno's dirty work to destabilise the Selangor government so that they could take it over like they did Perak.

After Teoh's death, Najib and Umno have been pretending to show that they will investigate the death fairly, but it was just a charade. They have gone all out to protect the guilty officers because the latter were helping Umno.

Since Mahathir's time it has been standard practice to reward and protect anyone who does anything crooked and criminal for Umno and its leaders.

The rapid promotions of Augustine Paul, former IGP Musa Hassan and former AG Abdul Gani Patail after the conviction of Anwar Ibrahim on trumped up sodomy charges provide a clear illustration of Umno's standard operating procedure.

Alan Goh: For a job worth RM2,400 the late Teoh walked into the Shah Alam MACC building alive but found dead the next day.

Meanwhile, the 2010 Auditor General's Report to Parliament mentioned that the Muara Tuang Army camp in Sarawak built at a cost of RM214 million is 95 percent completed but in very poor condition.

The Kuching prison costing taxpayers RM221 million is eight years behind schedule with a cost over-run of RM56 million.

Loyal Malaysian: Remember the PM's "no stone unturned" pledge? Yes, Teoh's kin has to exhaust all possibilities to get some semblance of justice for him.

But sadly I believe the ‘no further action' stamp has already been issued on the RCI report.

Keturunan Malaysia: Simple, if the power-that-be stops telling lies, then many Malaysians will stop telling the truth about them.