Hishammuddin cannot be more wrong – the issue is not whether he has “nothing to hide” but why as Defence Minister, he could not answer questions about whether military intelligence chief had received RM7 million from Najib a month before the last GE?
Defence Minister Hishammuddin Hussein cannot be more wrong when he gave a curt and terse response to questions about the claim that the director-general of the Defence Staff Intelligence Division had received money from Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak about a month before the last general election.
He avoided the question by simply declaring "I have nothing to hide."
Hishammuddin cannot be more wrong – the issue is not whether he has “nothing to hide” but why as Defence Minister, he could not answer questions whether the military intelligence chief had received RM7 million from Najib a month before the last GE; and if so, the reason for the extraordinary payment.
It is no use Hishammuddin going round the bush declaring that the military has “never been political” or that “we are not in the business of spinning this or making speculations”, when the question is why as Defence Minister he could not say “yes” or “no” to the allegation that the director-general of the military intelligence had received RM7 million from the Prime Minister about a month before the 13GE.
Why can’t Hisammuddin as Defence Minister confirm or deny that the money was indeed paid or not – is this because Hishammudin dare not want to know and dare not ask whether whistleblower site Sarawak Report is right when it alleged that Najib paid RM7 million to the director-general of the Defence Staff Intelligence Division, Lt-General Datuk Abdul Hadi Hussin, on April 8, 2013?
Sarawak Report claimed that the figures on the transactions came from the joint task force that had investigated 1MDB since March 2015 until it was abruptly disbanded, five months later.
Is this true, or Hishamuddin as Defence Minister does not want to know and dare not want to know?
Malaysian Government leaders have accused Sarawak Report as a website of lies, fake news and false information.
If there is no truth whatsoever in the latest disclosure by Sarawak Report that Najib had paid RM7 million to the director-general of the Defence Staff Intelligence Division on April 8, 2013, this would be a great and difficult-to-find opportunity to prove that the Sarawak Report is not a website of truth but one of fake news and false information.
Why is the Najib administration so kind to Sarawak Report, unless its latest disclosure is true and there is no way Najib can dispute it – just like the identity of who is “MO1” and “wife of MO1”?