All the Jigsaw Puzzles Put Together

 

         Very seldom does it happen, but since all the jigsaw puzzles can be put together in this past one week, I will state the obvious.

         There was news in the media that the judge who sentenced the convict, Najib Abdul Razak to 12 years jail, was suddenly investigated by the Malaysia Anti-Corruption Commission.

         Its commissioner, Azam Baki said this was a “standard procedure” since police reports have been lodged against the said trial judge, Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali, who presided over the court case involving the former prime minister, for misappropriation of RM42 million of SRC International Sdn Bhd’s funds.  

         If this is true, then, many of us who have lodged police reports against certain government officials would have to ask MACC why no action was done to even investigate the allegations.

         I believe police reports have also been made against Azam himself, but why did Azam not go on leave so that a thorough investigation could be carried out to clear his name? This could have been done at the very least by the agency that he represents.

Whistleblower

         At the same time when fugitive Malaysian blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin made allegations against Mohd Nazlan, we have another recent court case, where former Finance Minister II, Ahmad Husni Hanadzlah “shed some light today over why he resigned from his posts in Umno and Barisan Nasional (BN), after resigning from his position as second finance minister in June 2016.”

         According to Husni, he received a visit from then principal private secretary of Najib at 10pm one night, telling him that an ‘unknown person’ had contacted [blogger] Raja Petra.

         Husni was told by his guest that night, “They will attack you tomorrow.” Husni told the court: “What happened first was they attacked my son (Khalid Ahmad Husni). He and the chairman of NPE (New Pantai Expressway Sdn Bhd) attended one Economic Action Council meeting.

         “The Edge reported that the minutes of a meeting, which Husni attended, went to Raja Petra. He published on Facebook, saying that I was angry at Najib because my son did not get a RM2 billion contract."

         Bingo! Raja Petra had taken on the honour to attack Husni, therefore, there is no surprise that he is doing the same to Nazlan with the same agenda. Character assassination seems to be the order of the day, even if the party targeted is not guilty.

         Knowing the former Member of Parliament of Tambun personally, although we have not met personally, is an added advantage. I asked if he would return to politics again, and his answer was: “I think my time is over.”

         I have known Husni as a humble person who, despite being a minister, was willing to respond to complaints from his constituents. So, my argument is: If he had big stakes in contracts, he would not give up politics that easily.

         Here is one good man in Barisan Nasional similar to Anifah Aman, but unfortunately, they never last long enough to get to the top because they are swimming in the wrong sea.

         According to the same report, Raja Petra “obtained the minutes (of the said meeting) right after the meeting concluded.” We can all see that all the artillery, including “Umno-controlled Utusan Malaysia” was aimed at Husni.

         A similar story can be told about former Sarawak chief minister, Taib Mahmud. When a certain party could not get its way to enter into Sarawak politics, the attempt was to remove Taib.

         But, what happened after several weeks of MACC pursuing Taib? Then MACC chief commissioner, Shukri Abdull said the MACC was “unable to take action against former Sarawak governor Tun Abdul Taib Mahmud although 15 case files had been opened against him.”  

We are all Nazlan

         What people are generally fed up is to see the country is in such a sad state like this that even a trial judge is now being implicated. I trust that the other judges would be more resolved to stand up for justice.

         After all, didn’t we all read that as early as March 14, a news portal suddenly had already reported that a group of people wanted judge Nazlan to be arrested.

         Common sense tells us that hashtags such as #TangkapHakimNazlanBebasNajib and #ArrestJudgeNazlanFreeNajib are seditious, no? Yet, why were these people not arrested for sedition or contempt of court?

         Nazlan himself has lodged a police report against Raja Petra, and we are all waiting to see if the fugitive blogger will be extradited back to Malaysia.

         Assuming that even if Nazlan had not lodged a police report, the MACC also can still lodge a police report against Raja Petra, just as it did in March 2019, when the blogger published “several documents on his blog, which he claimed were MACC investigation papers on the tunnel and related road projects in Penang.”

         If you ask me, the country should not be held at ransom by one fugitive by the name of Raja Petra or a convicted kleptokrat, Najib. The cases involving Najib and the others should be expedited. Justice has to be seen done.

 

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