She said that after Anwar was sacked from the party, the mentri besar came to her office to tell her about the episode, saying "this is the hand that had paid several division chiefs to nominate Anwar for the fight against Ghafar".
It is clear that the person Rafidah is referring to is still a Mentri Besar today.
The Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA) Director-General Datuk Ahmad Zaki Husin should form a special ACA team to interrogate Rafidah Aziz for the identity of the Mentri Besar who had paid several UMNO division chiefs to nominate Anwar to challenge Ghafar Baba and charge him for corruption.
If Rafidah is responsible and committed to the wiping out of corruption and all forms of money politics, she should have volunteered this information to the ACA so that it could act against the Mentri Besar concerned.
If Rafidah refuses to co-operate with ACA by revealing the identity of the Mentri Besar concerned, then she should be charged in court for withholding important information relating to corruption which is in her possession.
From Rafidah's own confession, Malaysia has a Mentri Besar who had been involved in the politics of money and corruption - and until and unless the Mentri Besar is prepared to step forward to identity himself and to resign from offrice, every UMNO Mentri Besar who was already holding this office in 1993 is suspect - and Malaysians are entitled to ask each and every UMNO Mentri Besar whether he is the one referred to by Rafidah.
(3/11/99)