The DAP veteran reiterates the need for an effort by all stakeholders to launch a “Save Malaysia” campaign.
KUALA LUMPUR: DAP elder statesman Lim Kit Siang, in an Open Letter to coincide with the Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, warned the government that the root causes of the crisis of confidence in the country are not just economic, but also political and about good governance.” In particular, we cannot overlook the RM42 billion 1MDB scandal and the RM2.6 billion deposited in Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak’s personal bank accounts before the 13th General Election in 2013.”
Lim, who is also DAP Parliamentary Leader and Gelang Patah MP, apparently wants to enter his Open Letter as a matter of public record as he reiterated the need for an effort by all stakeholders to launch a “Save Malaysia” campaign.
The reshuffled Cabinet on July 28, which saw not only the sacking of Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin but also Attorney-General Abdul Gani Patail, has deepened the national crisis, as the new Cabinet was not to seek new directions to steer the government and country out of the crisis, but to find new ways to defend the Prime Minister on the 1MDB and RM2.6 billion scandals, added Lim. “That’s why it has been described as the 1MDB Cabinet.”
Gani Patail, lamented Lim, had served three Prime Ministers and was just two months short of mandatory retirement on reaching 60 years.
Lim beefed up his arguments by citing Professor Danny Quah, the Penang-born Professor of Economics and International Development at the London School of Economics and Political Science, who wrote in The Diplomat recently that Malaysia has “gone rogue” – deviating from the ideals of democracy, rule of law, free speech and egalitarianism.
Never before has Malaysia been faced with such a grave national crisis as today, said Lim, with a minority Prime Minister helming the most fractured government ever. “This was evident from the ‘Nine Days of Madness in Putrajaya’ when there was a confrontation between the Police and the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC). “
This compelled the latter to hold a solat hajat to seek divine intervention to match the force and might of the police, he said.
