Disappointed that Cabinet had not set up a RCI into RM9 billion LSC scandal yesterday but calls on Ismail Sabri to declassify the report of Council of Eminent Persons and to convene a Special Parliamentary Session on Corruption
Malaysians are disappointed that the Cabinet has not set up a Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) into the RM9 billion littoral combat ships (LCS) scandal yesterday.
Former Prime Minister and Bersatu President, Muhyiddin Yassin, said the fight against corruption doesn’t end with former Prime Minister Najib Razak being sent to jail, but it is regrettable that the nine Bersatu Ministers in the Cabinet were not prepared to live up to the Bersatu President’s words by pressing for the establishment of a RCI into the LCS scandal.
Rais Hussin, the President and CEO of Emir Research, said the fight against corruption is “a very long and arduous journey, particularly when corruption has become a way of life here”.
Would all political parties agree to a beginning in the fight against corruption?
UMNO Youth and Bersatu are on record as calling for an RCI into the LCS scandal?
Are they prepared to support a special session of Parliament on corruption, not only for a RCI on the RM9 billion LCS scandal, but how Malaysia can be serious in our war against corruption where the days where a MACC director could be slandered, threatened and offered bribes to stop their investigations as recalled by former MACC special operations director Bahri Mohd Zin are no more?
Will all the Ministers of Ismail Sabri’s jumbo-sized Cabinet agree to convene a Special Parliamentary Session on Corruption?
A few days ago, I met Tun Daim Zainuddin who expressed regret that the report of the Council of Eminent Persons (CEP), of which he was Chairman, had not been made public.
Daim is on record as saying that the New Economic Policy (NEP) should evolve into a national development policy that is focussed on a needs-based approach as opposed to race-based.
He said that although the NEP had its successes, its policy is now rife with shortcomings and abuses.
I call on Ismail Sabri to declassify the CEP 100-day report which was submitted to the Prime Minister, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, who never submitted it to the Cabinet.
It is now up to Ismail Sabri to declassify this document in his capacity as Prime Minister.
Parliament is set to resume its meeting for the 2023 Budget session on Wednesday, 26th October, 2022. The Special Parliamentary Session can be fixed on Monday Oct. 24 for two days or could be held earlier.
Is the Ismail Sabri government prepared to launch a new beginning in the war against corruption in Malaysia, to raise Malaysia’s ranking and score in Transparency International’s annual Corruption Perception Index and its Global Defence Integrity (GDI) index?
If Ismail Sabri is prepared to do so, this will be the greatest National Day celebrations presents which a Prime Minister could give to Malaysians.