Yoursay: 2018 kicks off with yet more lies

Najib says forex RCI was in response to Kit Siang’s call

Gerard Lourdesamy: Was it a New Year’s speech or a eulogy for BN by PM Najib Razak?

Yes, former PM Dr Mahathir Mohamad was not perfect but what did Najib do then in the cabinet? Why no royal commission of inquiry (RCI) on 1MDB and Felda if you have nothing to hide?

Explain the wealth of your family, including your siblings? Last we checked, Najib’s father Abdul Razak Hussein was not a billionaire when he died.

You accuse Mahathir of nepotism but what about you and your cousin? It is not the opposition that is destroying the country but rather the greed and corruption of the present leadership.

Najib, the whole world is laughing at us because of the financial scandals under your watch. Civil liberties have been eroded to a situation worse than under Mahathir because of your need for self-preservation.

Every institution has been weakened through direct and indirect manipulation in order to ensure the survival of Umno and the BN.

Vijay47: Najib, it is expected that the prime minister of a country, which you are one to our great distress, would conduct himself with honour and display at least minimal intelligence even if he is from Umno.

Yet you continue to proclaim justifications and philosophies that have long lost their humour value and fallen deeper into the pitiable. Don’t you give at least a cursory review to the speeches written for you, why do you insist on being ever the village dunce?

In an effort at showing that despite all else you are a statesman, you now claim that the Forex RCI was to satisfy DAP leader Lim Kit Siang’s demands.

I don’t wish to even mention the 30 years gone by but will point out that Kit Siang has made even more pressing and current demands, especially on one issue involving you personally.

Are we to hope that these will be attended to after another 30 years? On New Year’s day, I can only believe that God foisted you upon us to test our faith and resolve. We pray and try to persevere.

Kim Quek: Contrary to Najib’s claim that his government has cracked down on corruption and cronyism, Malaysia has gained world notoriety under his leadership as the leading kleptocracy with its kleptocrats enjoying impunity.

It has additionally gained the dubious distinction as a fake democracy after it is ranked at the bottom in a world electoral integrity ranking.

In fact, right at this moment, this autocratic kleptocracy is staring at the prospect of plunging into a failed state, with its people already suffering unprecedented economic hardships, should the ruling kleptocratic coalition be returned to power again through the imminent national election, which has been manipulated to a scale unseen in its history.

Anonymous 2460851488616887: PM, Kit Siang also called for action on 1MDB, how now?

AntiRacial: Najib is trying very hard to create friction between Mahathir and Kit Siang. Indeed, Kit Siang also called for RCI for 1MDB, why was this not done?

Pemerhati Bebas: Now that the RCI has backfired, Malaysian Official 1 (MO1) has the cheek to say it was in response to the call made by Kit Siang.

Since when has Umno ever take heed of calls made by the opposition?

Ipohcrite: Najib claims to be the prime minister for all Malaysians, so why is he pandering to the call of just one individual, namely Kit Siang, when millions of Malaysians call upon Najib to form an RCI on the 1MDB scandal and he ignores them?

Is it because he has something to hide in the 1MDB issue? By putting the blame on Kit Siang, Najib clearly shows his true colours – all 50 shades of cowardice yellow.

Anonymous 2436471476414726: The Forex RCI is in response to Kit Siang’s call? This must be the mother of all lies churned out by Najib.

Kit Siang made the call decades ago. Why only have the RCI now and about eight years after you became PM? We, the rakyat, are not stupid and naive to believe your lies.

The RCI was held to demonise Mahathir, the man who had become your fierce critic and political rival. Had Mahathir kept his mouth shut and remain in Umno, this RCI would not be held.

Secondly, the RCI is also to divert from the adverse publicity Najib and the government is subject to as regards the 1MDB scandal and the RM2.6 billion wired to the PM’s personal account.

Kit Siang had been calling for RCI on the 1MDB scandal yet you chose to play dumb. Lest you forget, US attorney-general Jeff Sessions, in an international forum recently, described the 1MDB scandal as kleptocracy at its worst.

Anonymous_3e86: It would have been more dignified if he had just kept his mouth shut. The more he tries to blame others, the more stupid he sounds…

Samurai: Why hasn’t the Umno government sued Sessions for this ‘fake news’? Isn’t the US trying to play ‘hate politics’, as Najib is won’t to describe critics?

The US authorities are accusing the BN government of grand theft, yet the ever lawsuit-happy BN leaders have been amazingly well-behaved towards its Big Brother.

Vision2020: If MO1 had immediately responded to Kit Siang’s call for the Forex RCI during that material time in the 1990s, he would have gained the respect of the rakyat for his pursuit of accountability, transparency and justice.

However, one will question why the shameless MO1 insisted his Umno government to carry out this covert Forex RCI today and using Kit Siang as an afterthought to cover his dubious and malicious intent to annihilate his enemy’s political influence in the forthcoming GE14, but unfortunately the rakyat are smarter than him and have obviously seen his ‘true’ colours.

Tholu: Good of you, Najib, to heed the fair calls of the politicians. In the same spirit of your serious attention and consideration to the rakyat’s exhortations including that of Kit Siang, why don’t you immediately set up a RCI into the 1MDB hullaballoo?

Bluemountains: I have yet to come across a Malaysian who has come out in support of Najib’s statement. This clearly shows most Malaysians do not agree nor believe in what he says.

This is not a good sign for Najib and his party when GE14 is just around the corner. Try harder, Najib!

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