Archive for November 2017

(MMO) – Pakatan Harapan (PH) needs to resolve issues with the DAP and Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (PPBM) before it can be approved as a formal coalition, Home Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said today.

The deputy prime minister said among the issues that the Opposition coalition needs to address includes the final report of the DAP's re-elected central executive committee and PPBM's amendment to its party constitution.

Ahmad Zahid said the Home Ministry has already ordered the Registrar of Societies (RoS) to let PH know of any necessary requirements they need to meet.

"PH must respect all rules which has been set. The application cannot be passed because a few issues among them have not been resolved.

"We have ordered the RoS to inform them on any rectification that needs to be done," he said at a press conference in Parliament today.

Home Ministry secretary-general Datuk Seri Alwi Ibrahim said the application will be expedited once the necessary terms are met by PH.

"We have our own laws and each party has their own constitution. They have to follow it. They have to follow their own constitution.

"The two things have to be immediately resolved so that we can take the next step in registration," he said.

Ahmad Zahid also stressed that there was nothing political about the application not being approved and the RoS will act "professionally" in all cases.

"This is an operational matter. RoS is under KDN but I do not involve myself in any of the suggestions made to accept or reject any application," he said, using the Malay initials for the Home Ministry.

HARARE 20 Nov. - Presiden Robert Mugabe mengejutkan rakyat Zimbabwee semalam, apabila tidak menyatakan tentang peletakan jawatannya dalam satu ucapan televisyen sekali gus menafikan keputusan partinya, ZANU-PF yang terlebih dahulu memecat beliau dan ratusan ribu penunjuk perasaan yang meraikan kejatuhan pemimpin itu.

Menurut dua orang sumber dan seorang pegawai kanan kerajaan, Mugabe akan mengumumkan peletakan jawatannya kepada umum selepas parti beliau memecat presiden itu.

Bagaimanapun, dalam ucapan yang disiarkan dari pejabat Dewan Negara, Mugabe yang duduk bersama barisan jeneral mengakui kritikan daripada ZANU-PF, tentera dan rakyat namun beliau langsung tidak menyebut tentang kedudukannya dalam kerajaan. - REUTERS

Tajuddin Rosli

Pakatan's chairman Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad recently revealed the Opposition's anti-corruption manifesto. How befitting it is to get an anti-corruption manifesto released by the same man who is the Father of Corruption of the nation. It is akin to asking ISIS to release a manifesto to fight against terrorism.

Mahathir's pledge of going after all corrupt officials in the first 100 days after coming to power is so hilarious that it puts Russell Peters to shame. He is literally repeating what he said in 1981 that never materialized throughout his 22 years tenure as the Prime Minister. Which is why nobody sane can take Mahathir seriously.

Mahathir also vows to revamp the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) to make it answerable to Parliament and not the Prime Minister. Back then during the days of the Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA), was it answerable to the Prime Minister who was Mahathir? Why didn't Mahathir change it then? Why only now when he is a commoner lusting for the power he once had?

During Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim's trial, the previous Director of ACA Datuk Shafee Yahya gave a sworn testimony in the court of law on an investigation the ACA conducted against the Ketua Pengarah of the Economy Planning Unit (EPU) in the past. In his testimony, Datuk Shafee clearly mentioned how Mahathir interfered in the investigation and instructed the ACA to close the case against the EPU chief. When Mahathir was asked about this after the court hearing, he responded saying he could not remember. I am sure if today you ask Mahathir about this incident, he would say Shafee was lying in court. Tun's Selective Memory decides on his feet when to remember what.

Not long ago when the nation was rocked by the 'Muslim-only laundry' incident in Johor, a lot of individuals from the Opposition camp condemned Najib for not publicly taking a stand. It is an irony though that these same individuals hero-worship the man behind the idea of 'Islamic toilet'.

Tun Musa Hitam revealed that during Mahathir's tenure as Prime Minister, the latter wanted to invent an "Islamic toilet" to improve public hygiene, and even made a prototype for which he asked the cabinet to inspect

For those of us who lived through Mahathir's atrocities, we would never be fooled by the ruthless dictator's words and promises. We have heard and witnessed too many of his lies. Mahathir can whine and cry till the heavens come crashing. To most of us he is just the boy who cries wolf.

SHAH ALAM 2 Nov. - Sultan Selangor, Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah menzahirkan rasa murka terhadap Pengerusi Pakatan Harapan yang diketuai DAP, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad kerana mengeluarkan kenyataan serong yang menghina etnik Bugis semasa berucap dalam perhimpunan haram di Petaling Jaya, bulan lalu.

Baginda menerusi kenyataan yang dikeluarkan oleh Setiausaha Dewan Diraja Selangor, Hanafisah Jais hari ini menegaskan, tindakan Mahathir yang menyebut bahawa etnik Bugis sebagai golongan lanun dan penjenayah dianggap keterlaluan selain boleh mencetuskan perasaan benci serta prasangka buruk masyarakat terhadap etnik itu.

"Tohmahan ini secara tidak langsung menghina salasilah dan keturunan Kesultanan Selangor yang berasal dari Bugis.

Dalam pada itu, Hanafisah turut memberitahu, Ahli Dewan Diraja Selangor menuntut supaya satu siasatan dan tindakan undang-undang di bawah Akta Hasutan 1948 atau apa-apa undang-undang berkaitan wajar diambil ke atas Mahathir.

"Dr. Mahathir sebagai seorang bekas Perdana Menteri yang menerajui pemerintahan negara selama 22 tahun seharusnya lebih berhati-hati di dalam mengeluarkan sebarang kenyataan dan lebih mengetahui tentang fakta sejarah keturunan bangsa Bugis.

"Sultan Selangor turut mengingatkan kepada semua pihak terutama orang-orang politik untuk tidak mempersendakan isu bangsa dan keturunan sebagai modal politik kerana ianya boleh menggugat keharmonian serta perpaduan kaum," ujarnya. - UTUSAN ONLINE

(Malaysiakini) Tindakan Pengerusi Pakatan Harapan, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad yang membidas lantang Bajet 2018 hanya mencerminkan dendam yang dpendamkan terhadap Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Razak, kata Ketua Pengarah Jabatan Hal Ehwal Khas (JASA), Datuk Mohd Puad Zakarshi.

Antara sebab utama keberangan Mahathir, kata Puad, adalah kegagalan bekas perdana menteri itu untuk mengembalikan semula projek "jambatan bengkok" yang akan memberi manfaat kepada kroni.

Dalam satu catatan di Facebook hari ini, Puad mendakwa bahawa Mahathir telah meminta bantuannya untuk mengaturkan satu pertemuan dengan pemimpin bahagian Umno Johor sebaik Najib menjadi perdana menteri.

Ketika itu, Umno Johor diketuai oleh Tan Sri Abdul Ghani Othman, yang bersetuju dengan mesyuarat kemudiannya diadakan di sebuah hotel di Putrajaya.

"Mahathir memaklumkan kepada kami, Najib tidak ada masalah dengan syarat orang Johor sendiri yang mahukannya.

"Justeru Mahathir berharap Umno Johor setuju dan ini boleh ditafsir sebagai sokongan penuh rakyat Johor kepada pembinaan semula jambatan bengkok.

"Abdul Ghani berjanji kepada Mahathir untuk membawa cadangan itu bagi mendapatkan persetujuan konsensus dalam mesyuarat perhubungan," kata Puad, yang sebelum ini adalah setiausaha politik Abdul Ghani dan bekas ketua penerangan Umno Johor.

Janji itu, bagaimanapun menurut Puad, tidak menjadi kenyataan.

"Tetapi ia tidak pernah dibincang dalam mesyuarat Umno Johor dan secara tidak langsung Umno Johor menolaknya.

"Antara puncanya, terdapat di kalangan ahli berpendapat jika diluluskan maka kontrak akan diberikan kepada syarikat sama Gerbang Perdana iaitu kroni Mahathir," katanya.

Gerbang Perdana dianugerahkan kontrak RM1.1 bilion pada tahun 2003, tahun terakhir Mahathir sebagai perdana menteri, untuk membina sebuah jambatan ke Singapura yang sepatutnya menggantikan Tambak Johor.

Walau bagaimanapun, projek itu akhirnya dibatalkan oleh pentadbiran Abdullah.

Gerbang Perdana kemudiannya menuntut pampasan RM360 juta dari Putrajaya, tetapi hanya diberikan RM247 juta.

Puad berkata Gerbang Perdana telah mendapat pampasan tinggi dan adalah satu pembaziran jika projek berkenaan disambung semula kerana ia bukan lagi projek mendesak.

Menurut Puad, hakikatnya Umno Johor menolak "jambatan bengkok" dan "kroni kapitalisme" Mahathir.

"Ternyata Najib menggembirakan rakyat. Mahathir berduka kerana Najib tidak melayan dasar crony capitalism nya. Sebab itu dia berdendam dengan Najib.

"Mahathir, berhentilah berbohong.," kata Puad.

Malaysiakini sudah menghubungi pejabat Mahathir untuk mendapatkan reaksinya.