Malaysians do not want losers
| March 26, 2013
Najib does not have the wisdom, the
strength of character and the ability to respond to crisis in the manner we
would expect of our leader to do.
COMMENT
We know who killed Altantuya
Shaariibuu. We know how she was murdered. We know the possible reasons why she
was killed. We know the circumstances that led to her murder.
We know her murderers were two
highly trained, highly skilled UTK operatives trained to do as instructed by
their superiors – and killing is but just one of the things that they do, and
they do it well.
What we still do not know is who
ordered them, if at all there was someone, to kill Altantuya?
Now we have a second death that can
be directly linked to this Altantuya/Scorpene/Abdul Razak Baginda saga – that
of PI Bala.
We have been told that P
Balasubramaniam died of a heart attack. So in all probability we know what
killed Bala – and I say in all probability, not with certainty.
The dead can no longer tell any lies
nor can they tell the truth. And what is the truth with Bala?
And so in death as when he was
alive, Bala merely becomes a postscript to the real drama: who ordered
Altantuya killed?
Najib’s government does nothing to
answer the many questions now being asked by every thinking Malaysian. Would
this be because that any further judicial inquiry into this sordid affair would
implicate Najib himself?
And then there is this case of him
alienating a large number of Malaysians who want fair and equitable elections.
And the habit of unleashing the police to “manage” any critical situation in favour
of Barisan Nasional.
He also chose to take back Perak
from Pakatan Rakyat by enticing, intimidating and coercing opposition members
to defect to BN.
This shows that he cares little for
what the people of Perak had wanted when they voted for a Pakatan government
during the 12th general election.
He offered the voters of Sibu RM5
million of public money (our money) for flood mitigation schemes if the people
of Sibu would vote for his BN candidate in a by-election. To his shame, the
people of Sibu rejected his corrupt bid to hold them to ransom and voted for
the opposition candidate.
In a contested political environment
that he now finds himself facing within his own party and also on the national
political front, what does he do?
Lacking wisdom
Within his own Umno, his detractors
know that they have in him a loser who will in all probability lose the
election for BN. The long knives are out to cleanse Umno of him sooner if not
later.
Najib no longer looks behind his
shoulder to try and spot who would plunge the knife into his back – he himself
knows that events have overtaken him – and as he usually does, Najib will await
his fate rather than take any action or decision to influence its outcome in
any way.
His handling of the recent invasion
by armed soldiers of the Sultan of Sulu is a manifestation of his dithering and
bumbling failure to act decisively in deflecting the challenge to our
sovereignty effectively.
The many deaths of our security
forces and that of the invaders, the untold misery inflicted upon the Filipinos
who are staying legally and illegally in Sabah, the inconvenience it caused to
the local population and all the attendant adverse consequences of the invasion
locally and with our neighbour the Philippines – are of no consequence to Najib.
He simply does not have the wisdom,
the strength of character and the ability to respond to this kind of crisis
situation in the manner we would expect of our leader.
The latest exposé of how business is
done in Taib Mahmud’s Sarawak by international NGO Global Witness serves only
to amplify Najib’s lack of wisdom in making that judgment call to work with the
same Taib in Sarawak in this 13th general election.
Umno does not want losers. The
people of Malaysia do not want losers. Najib is a loser.
CT Ali is a reformist who believes
in Pakatan Rakyat’s ideologies. He is a FMT columnist.
