Najib, there’s also no shortcut to filling one’s bank account

There is no shortcut to heaven, Najib tweets on Friday sermon

Commentable: True, there is no shortcut to heaven but there is surely a shortcut to hell. Using religion to white wash one’s guilt is definitely the shortest pathway.

You want to go to the right place? Then cut all the crap and speak the truth for once. Where has the US$1 billion gone to after it allegedly went into your bank account? Where has the missing billions belonging to 1MDB gone to?

Why are you not concerned at all as the PM and finance minister to get to the bottom of this financial scandal? Especially so when there are arrests being made in other countries against those who are involved with the scam.

Perhaps you are banking on the billions that you have to buy you a spot in heaven? It entices you to think that even in heaven cash is king, don’t you?

RM2.6 Billion Turkey Haram: “It is easier for the camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God,” said the Bible.

As for Najib, it would be a double jeopardy. Firstly, he is filthy rich. Secondly, he has not told the people the real truth about his billions, which almost everyone on the planet knows that it most probably came from 1MDB.

Kingfisher: Sanctimonious/God-fearing quality is a very welcome trait in any individual.

And when it is expounded and held in esteem by a leader at the highest level of governance and his First Lady, it should be very reassuring to the public.

The ground-level reality, however, seems to one of uncertainties, apprehension, even despair about socio-economic security for quite a number of people.

Perhaps a wise leader would seek with all righteousness to mitigate the discomfort and disquiet of the people as evident in recent months.

Senior Citizen: Why Najib? It is very simple. Please show the world, the payment document to prove that the US$681 million came from your Saudi donor.

We want to move on, so please show us the document. After that, you and us can concentrate on the path to heaven.

Opposition will keep shifting goalposts on RM2.6b, says Umno MP

Tan Kim Keong: Sekijang MP Annuar Manap should not sidestep the issue of an extraordinary volte face by the same Saudi foreign minister who said in February that it was not a donation but investments from private Saudi individuals.

And now saying that it is a donation from the Saudi government after the meeting with PM Najib Razak recently in Istanbul is indeed a suspicious turn around.

The goalposts have remained the same. It’s just that there are people who are dishonest and without integrity who will not follow the rules of a game.

Odin Tajué: Now, in order to understand what Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister Adel al-Jubeir has said, you first need to digest and intuit the question posed to him.

The question was, “Your Excellency, are you aware of the background and details about the issue on the donation to the prime minister of Malaysia?”

Annuar, like the hundreds of thousands and millions of the literate specimens of the human race who have read pieces of news about major happenings in the world or have listened to them on the TV, Adel has to be aware. Also don’t forget that the issue implicates his king, government and country. I repeat, he has to be aware.

Being aware of something merely means that you are conscious of it. One of the things that I am aware/conscious of right now is the marriage of a five-year-young girl to a teenaged male somewhere in India. I am conscious of it because I read the news.

But I have no idea as to the age of the teenager, the names of the bride and bridegroom, where exactly they come from, their family background, how much dowry was paid, if any, and so on.

The reporter asked Adel if he was aware of the matter. So, of course, he would answer that he was aware.

Furthermore, in answering the reporter, he was clearly – at least it is clear to those of us who are even moderately intelligent – reciting what Malaysia’s mainstream media has reported in respect of the attorney-general’s pronouncement.

Or reciting what Malaysia’s foreign minister had previously told him. And it is also clear that he has no details on the so-called donation.

A competent reporter would have asked Adel a question such as the one that columnist Kee Thuan Chye, one of Malaysia’s bright sparks, has suggested – “Can you confirm that a donation of US$681 million was made to Najib by Saudi Arabia and that it came from the Saudi royal family?”

But there is no need to feel too bad, Annuar. You are excused.

If even an Oxford University graduate among you has not got enough intelligence to read – read as in digest and intuit, that is – Adel’s response correctly, then it is just too much to expect you to have it.

Appum: If such is the quality of lawmakers in our country managing and running the country, especially from Umno-BN, then we can understand what is happening to the country generally – that we are moving towards a failed state.

And with such acceptance of a mother of scandal like 1MDB by the lawmakers and members of the ruling government, what can we say? They just tolerate such heinous crime and not be held accountable for it.

UMYES: Since you are a such lousy goal scorer, they are shifting the goalposts hoping you can come up with a winning goal. So far, you all have failed miserably.

Leongan: After coming out from a supermarket, I was stopped by the security officer accusing me of having stolen the goods that were in my hands.

It’s very simple really; I pulled out the official receipt to prove my innocence. It is that simple, isn’t it?

So can 1MDB make everybody’s life simple by providing the bank records to prove one’s innocence?

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