YOURSAY | ‘Why didn’t you voice out against them? Why do you blame him now?’

Yoursay: Wasn’t Najib a cabinet member when Dr M put up tolls?

 

Najib: Opposition hypocrites for supporting ‘Father of All Tolls’

Vijay47: Oh dear. Again, that foot in that mouth. PM Najib Razak, when will you ever learn that speeches are just not your forte?

Your various efforts at presenting an image of the profound and the philosophical, from kangkung to musang kings to making America great to the latest, your grand acquiescence to DAP leader Lim Kit Siang’s demand for the Forex RCI, have all fallen flat on your face.

And yet you insist on preaching to the multitudes? Former PM Dr Mahathir Mohamad may indeed be the Father of Tolls, but if you feel that the tolls were unfairly crafted, that they are unnecessary burdens on the public you care so much for as constantly reminded by you, why don’t you cancel the tolls throughout the nation and let travellers be free, free again at last?

It would pay for you to be wary, Najib, you may like John Donne’s poem ‘For whom the bell tolls’. Alas, it tolls for thee.

Oldtimer: Najib, you were in the cabinet when the toll concessions were inked. Why didn’t you voice out against them? Why do you blame him now?

Mushiro: Is Najib saying that when Mahathir made the lopsided agreement on the toll concessions, not a single member of the Umno cabinet, including Najib, objected?

It looks like every single member of Umno is castrated that they dare not raise any objection to any wrongdoing, even today under Najib.

They become daring, like Najib, only after many years have lapsed and raise stale issues such as the Bank Negara forex losses, which happened 30 years ago, and now this toll issue.

How will Umno solve problems if they do not have the guts to demand answers from their allegedly corrupt leaders, now and not years later?

SusahKes: Hmmm. Sometimes, when I’ve got some leisure time to kill, I’d sit down and wonder at some of life’s oxymoronic tendencies. Like, for example, how it’d sound if Al Capone got into a fit of moral rage because 7-11 sells Guinness Stout – “You can’t do that; alcohol is bad for us!”

Well, that’s me during my state of blissful, dreamy hours… where I feel nothing like that would ever happen.

And then – I read this news, about how MO1 is sounding almighty righteous by labelling Mahathir as the Father of All Tolls, when, as of to date, he hasn’t even been able to produce that ever-shy, ever-elusive Arabian donor of his.

And then I chuckle; maybe I wasn’t too far off in my presumption on Capone. Who knows – it could have happened.

Demi Rakyat: Najib can say all he wants but nobody believes him anyway. How can anyone believe and trust a person who received billions of ringgit of allegedly stolen money, and then allegedly lies about where it came from?

Ahbengkia: This is what I don’t understand. When one was caught cheating, his defence was others cheated too. When he made idiotic policies, his argument was others are even worse.

Can the Father of Kleptocracy be better than the Father of All Tolls? Is there a limit to stupidity?

Anonymous 788831449650206: Strange. Hypocrite sort of rhymes with kleptocrat. The latter is so much worse than the other.

External audit firm to probe KLVC project – Najib

Slumdog: Will Najib announce the name of the firm undertaking the forensic audit? Will he announce the terms of reference for the audit? Will the audit report be made public?

Unfortunately, the audit report will be handed over to Najib, the very person who has a finger in every scandalous pie and is the final decision-maker.

He will no doubt ensure a stringent vetting process to cleanse the report of any reported wrongdoing by his cronies.

Thirty days is an insufficient time frame to complete a forensic audit involving four agencies and the construction company. This is going to be a half-baked, incomplete audit.

Wg321: Maybe the said land was already mortgaged to the bank to obtain the fund to build the Kuala Lumpur Vertical City (KLVC) project by Synergy Promenade Sdn Bhd.

Perhaps this is an RM2 company. How can this company get so much cash to build a 68-storey building, etc?

Anonymous 2436471476414726: Why did Najib not direct a forensic audit to be performed on 1MDB and SRC International?

Even now, it is not too late to do if he wishes to. The loss in 1MDB is far greater than that of the Felda land. Indeed, Najib asked the auditor-general to conduct an audit only for him to OSAed the report later.

Is this a case of do what I say, don’t do what I do?

Bank Negara buys land from gov’t for RM2b

Mosquitobrain: Bank Negara is acquiring 22.58 hectares of land for RM2 billion to relocate the Global Islamic Finance University (Gifu) and the International Shari’ah Research Academy for Islamic Finance (Isra).

For all we know, besides the extra revenues from petrol and GST, the government needs more cash to supplement Umno’s warlords, civil servants’ bonuses, GE14 handouts and service dubious loans for 1MDB.

Wira: Where did Bank Negara get the RM2 billion from to pay for this piece of real estate? It seems to have forgotten the purpose why the central bank was established in the first place.

Apa Ini?: Taking from the left pocket to put it in the right? Since when is it a central bank’s job to set up universities?

Lajib: Bank Negara is not a government-linked company (GLC) but a government agency. Why should a federal government agency buy land from the federal government? Is the Bank Negara governor empowered to buy land?


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