DAP stalwart Lim Kit Siang wants Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak to set up a royal commission of inquiry to determine if his mentor Dr Mahathir Mohamad had 'burned' RM100 billion on grandiose projects and corruption during his 22-year reign.
The book penned by former Asian Wall Street Journal managing editor Barry Wain, entitled 'Malaysian Maverick: Mahathir Mohamad in Turbulent Times' has pointed the finger at Dr M for the legacy of "wasting or burning up" RM100 billion in his long tenure.
I have not read the book but would welcome the government to lift the restriction for it to be sold in all book stores. It should be a good Christmas gift for a few good friends too.
The call for another royal commission of inquiry is laughable and still premature. It is natural for Lim wanting to score a few political points. But Dr M is already paying the price for his broken legacy.
The numerous royal commissions have been quite 'unroyal' and a waste of useful resources. The government, and not only Dr M, must respond to the allegations contained in Wain's book.
Then again, the best way to avoid more limelight is to stay mum in Malaysia. Malaysians are quite forgetful. Soon we will go back to the old way of kissing the dirty hands of these politicians.
The government PR guys, APCO, must be doing a good job. Yes, less or none (reply) is more (advantages).
The new year verdict is BN is not capable of a real reform. We are going to waste our money paying the salary of both KPI Ministers Koh Tsu Koon and Idris Jala. Bung Mokhtar is a smart ass. It is better to spend it on his mistress.
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Dr M paying the price of his broken legacy? I disagree. He is not paying for anything now. He has always been a smart freeloader. Many ignorant sycophants still fawn at his well shod feet. The Malaysian public are the ones paying the price for his follies. This, too, for many generations to come. Dr M's payment to all the people he has wronged grievously will be exacted in the afterlife. Am looking forward to reading the book.
Tan Sri Koh is not a minister tasked with KPI aspiration. Instead, Tan Sri Koh is a SMS Minister, who knows how to send mass SMS to BN cabinet ministers to remind them doing `something important'............He should go back to academic field and leave politic affairs in peace!!!
All these COIs are just a waste of $$$.Just getting the Commissioners richer!I would bet my last penny that no one is braved enough,in the present Government machinery,to nail or prosecute TDM or even any present or past cabinet ministers,even though the evidences are overwhelming.Just take a look at the most simple case 'Toyo Residence'.What has been done????
A real maverick he is,this mamak fler.So many wrongs committed during his tenure and yet not a bit of remorse from him.I pay taxes everyyear and yet this guy simply played with 'our money' and even gambled and lost!Not even a word of apology to the rakyat and still trying to exert his influence in the present leadership of the country.
I think the claim that Mahathir burned 100B is an understatement.If one really add up all the numbers,direct and indirect,it should be at least 3X that. mycuntree
aiyah, watever X commission inquiry pun tak guna la !!
its like termites attack your house, they will keep on attack and breed, while you be having many birthdays, new years,celebration,anniversaries, etc... by the time your floor board making funny sound,might be to late..
The pariah Mahathir is the mentor of AAB who may not have kept his part of the bargain with the pariah ! Is that the reason why you do not stop taunting him even though he is now no longer the P.M..
In fact the pariah is also the mentor of all the UMNO?BN shenanigans that the nation is having ! He really should be the minister of mentor.
The true and only reason why even now though AAB is now no longer the P.M.,the pariah is still taunting him that AAB have squandered 100 Billions of the nation's wealth is that there should be an enquiry on AAB. Why only now pariah, when only after a Royal Commission is demanded to look into your actions ?
Even if an enquiry be held on AAB and founded that AAB has indeed squandered a single dollar it does not mean the pariah did not squander the 100 billions of the nation's wealth. Two wrongs do not make one right ? Mr. Shenanigan you keep proving what you are and you are the reason why I will never become a Muslim. You have also proven there isn't an Allah ! Because you surely do not believe in one with all that you have done !
Pariah Mahathir,
You have, as usual, failed to mention the total amount you had squandered from the nation's coffer for the 22 years in office to all your 'blind' supporters.
This is aside from the 100 billions you took from Petronas when really you did not have to if you did not squander the nation's money the way you did.
When in actual fact there should be a surplus.
Just look at Singapore's Tamamsek Holding, when Singapore has nothing compare with Malaysia, to day what they have in Tamasek is much more than you ever will have even your oil producing Petronas has plus all the other funds you have put together. Soon when all the oil wells becomes dry what is going to happen then ? Who is going to cry for Malaysia ?
Was/is that one of the reasons why you resigned ? Because you had spent all the nation's wealth in your 22 years.
You demanded that AAB too should be investigated because in five years he took a whole lot more than you from Petronas than you did. By all means do so anyone who steal should be investigated ?
I am not trying to justify anyone who steal but when AAB took over the from you the nation's coffer had almost nothing and as such he had to take the necessary fund from Petronas to continue paying for the many pro Malay policies you implemented during your tenure as P.M.. This is not to mention to continue funding your NDP plus the millions of civil servant you recruited.
You had squandered it all plus the 100 billions from Petronas.
You do remember when he took over from you he had to cancel a few mega projects you initiated or started and you came out screaming that the projects should not be canceled and must be continued because Petronas still has plenty in the coffer. Surely you do remember that ?
AAB had to continue developing the nation but as I said earlier there was nothing much left in the nation's coffer because you had squandered it all.
As a consequence he had to make use of whatever funds were available and he had to take the funds from Petronas in order to keep paying the million plus civil servants in keep them employed.
No doubt he took from Petronas a lot more than you did but he had nothing or little in the treasury because you had squandered it all in the 22 years as P.M. compared to the five years he had in office.
But also do remember he is also from UMNO and if ever he is found to have squandered more Petronas. The total you squandered in the 22 years from the treasury plus the 100 billions of Petronas fund would easily amount to trillions and not as little as the 100 billions everyone now demands to know. Compare this to what AAB has taken from Petronas will look chicken feed.
This is further evidence of what you really are, a racist, a bloody shenanigan and a sadist ?
Mamathir,
Almost the entire world once thought the world was flat, were they right ? The world is not flat after all.
History has proven correctly that Dr M left behind a painful and sad legacy for all malaysians. His 22 years of misrule has brought economic and social disasters to malaysia> The ills are now showing clearly all over our nation - stagnated economy, increase in crime, breakdown in our social fabric , poor health care, declining education standards, migration of talents , corruption on the increase and increasing urban poverty in major towns. This is the NEW Malaysia created by DR M poor choices and wrong decisions during his 22 years in office. Can anyone disagree to what is writtenm
is change possible? DR M left behind a legacy of pain and breakdown of our social fabric.DR M 22 years of misrule, poor decisions and unsustainable policies have left malaysia economy in tatters and ruin. History has judged this to be correct as seen today in our nation. Our economy is stagnant, crime is rising, mega scandals are reported daily in the media, integrity and honesty are totally missing as jet engines disappeared into thin air, high inflation, rising unemployment among graduates , low wage structure, declining foreign investment, migration of young and professional talents,and 2 million aliens in our nation. This is the picture on the ground and is it real . Can DR M denied this? Can right thinking malaysians disagree to what is stated? This is the new malaysia we are in now - nothing but pessimism if we continue with the present BN government as change is not possible with them. the decision to change rests with all right thinking malaysians. so let us do it.
iirc a malaysian tun/(tong?)/tung/thug is immune to all previous legal actions?
HOW TO PROBE WITHOUT ROBE?
What is there really to probe
With the 'emperor' wearing his robe
Hiding his tract better than a microbe
Standing on his own pedestal not ready to disrobe
(C) Samuel Goh Kim Eng - 271209
http://MotivationInMotion.blogspot.com
SUN. 27th Dec. 2009.
The mamak, Mohamed Mahathir a/l Mohamed Iskandar Kutty has squandered and milked the country dry and yet, nothing is being done to make him accountable for it! Does anybody in Malaysia dare to audit him? Where did his siblings get their millions from? Legacy from him? Hahaha, give me a freaking break!!!
Mamakthir has transformed the nation leaders from PUBLIC SERVICE SERVANTS to SELF SERVICE WARRIORS. What more do we need from him but to ride into the sunset quietly. We were all sold out in one way or the other.
Thank you Barry Wain.
Mahathir was the MOST CORRUPT of all PM.He constanly talk about corruption...its like a Murderer preaching about the evil of killing and a Robber lecturing you about the sins of stealing !
Mahathir as the world know then and now framed and sacked Anwar so he can take over Finance post -save his Son's businesses from going under-using the nation money, and at the same time stashed away millions if not billions for himself and family,whilst playing the Racist card to the hilt.
Mahathir should face Royal Commission for raping the Nation's wealth -Today,Mahathir & his family business empire includes properties abroad,a Bakery, Land & Island in Langkawi,porshe franchise,F1 Racing Franchise etc etc.....its all DIRTY MONEY !
Mahathir is a hero only to the Corrupt,Racist and his Cronies.
Mahathir= DECEIT & CORRUPT.
REFORMASI !
Dont waste time , nothing will happen. The Sleepy zzzzPM is smarter , fishing somewhere in Perth & having wine under the moonlit.
Unless the squander is concerning the top leader of the opposition then it's Mandatory to read.
If not the saying goes- CHOY NI TOL SOH.
Tak senang nak layan u.
eddy said...
Dr Mahathir is many things to different people, for those who hates him obviously they would blame him for anything under the sun and more. For those who love him, he is God's gift to Malaysia who against all odds took this once backwater agro based ex colony of the British Empire screaming and kicking towards becoming a modern industry based multiracial and multi religious nation, a success story for many developing economies around the world.
For me Dr Mahathir is my hero and role model, I do not need a Australian Mat Salleh former editor of the now defunct Asian Wall Street Journal(which never write anything good about Malaysia anyway) now residing in Dr Mahathir's arch political nemesis Lee Kuan Yew's island to tell me any different.
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