MCA National Harmony Bureau chairman says Malaysia's problems are an accumulation of a culture of corruption and abuse of power.
PETALING JAYA: Prime Minister Najib Razak’s good intentions have been repeatedly skewed and it was unfair to blame all the nation’s woes on him, said MCA’s Ti Lian Ker.
“The many problems faced by PM today are due to accumulated practices and a culture of corruption and abuse of power.” Ti said this when asked to comment on former MCA president Dr Ling Liong Sik’s comments today that Malaysia would return to normalcy if Najib and his wife, Rosmah Mansor, were removed.
Ti, who is MCA Racial Harmony Bureau Chairman, told FMT that Ling often said that the test of a good leader was not when he was in power but thereafter.
“For that matter, former Prime Minister’s Abdullah Ahmad Badawi tried to put in place a structured system and administration, but that resulted in bureaucracy, unlike his predecessor Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s authoritarian rule whereby anything goes provided the numero uno says so.”
The party’s central working committee member said, similarly, Najib was trying to project the nation forward but his good intentions had been skewed, and he and Rosmah had become the primary targets for the nation’s woes.
“To be fair to the Prime Minister, the many issues raised have been explained … satisfactory or otherwise, it remains to be seen at the ballot box.”
He lamented the issue of political funding being used as political fodder against Najib, as it was Najib who first proposed political funding laws for Malaysia, but this was shot down by the Opposition.
Ti said it was politically convenient to blame the nation’s problems on one man and his wife and that the nation had been overly-polluted by politicians and politicking.
“I am a firm believer that once a leader has been elected , he should be left to discharge his duties without politically-calculated distractions.”
He said he had also been sympathetic to Ling and his wife when they had been attacked.
“It is my sincere hope that our politicians, retired or otherwise, maintain a semblance of decency and stop the ‘Machiavellian- style” of removing a democratically elected leader while in office,” he said, adding constant politicking would adversely affect the country.
-FMT NEWS-
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