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Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Najib doesn’t get the benefit of the doubt

In the eyes of the public, the Umno people who have not spoken against him may be as tainted as he is.
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Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak can’t be given the benefit of the doubt despite his consistent stand that he has never taken government funds for personal use, that he would never betray the people, and that he would not be so stupid as to steal the people’s money and keep it in his personal bank accounts in Malaysia.
These are good answers since anything he says can be and may be used against him.
In the Court of Law, a man is presumed innocent until proven guilty. In the Court of Public Opinion, however, the consensus is based somewhat on the “balance of probability” approach in the civil court. A man is presumed guilty unless he can prove his innocence.
Najib cannot be so naïve as to ignore the reality that the people are convinced, although they can’t prove it, that he’s guilty of many things. If more people in Umno have not spoken out against him, he knows why. They may be as tainted as he is in the eyes of the people.
Even if we can accept, at face value, his statement that he has never taken government monies for personal use, the question arises: Has he taken government monies for other purposes? If he has, he must come clean and throw himself at the mercy of the people.
There’s some dispute as to whether 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), the scandal-ridden company hogging the limelight, is synonymous with the government. If it is not, what’s the government doing with a company like this?
The argument that 1MDB has nothing to do with the government allows his apologists and sycophants, and Najib himself, to claim that he has never taken government funds. We have not even considered the government guarantees and letters of support that 1MDB has since secured from the Ministry of Finance and the fact that when the company fails, it would be the government that has to cough up on its behalf or be sued, even in the United Kingdom in the case of one agreement.
Again, where did the reported nearly USD700 million (about RM2.6 billion) in his personal bank accounts with AmBank Islamic private banking services come from? Even if these monies were not in his name but only under numbers reserved for him, it really doesn’t matter.
To complete the story, he has to say what he did with these monies. He can’t keep repeating the line that he never used them for personal purposes. No one asked him whether he used the monies in his accounts for personal purposes. He should not persist in answering questions which have never been asked.
Finally, he has to say whether he has spent all the RM2.6 billion for whatever purpose, or whether he still has some salted away somewhere else. He has to return these immediately, for starters, to the government.
As a footnote, it seems that there’s something in the Umno Constitution, and in the constitutions of other parties as well, especially Barisan Nasional (BN) component parties, that allows the President to hold monies meant for the party’s political activities and financing in his personal account.
This may be the reason why Najib, without being asked, keeps repeating that he never used government monies for personal purposes. Is he saying that he’s noted for integrity? After all, he could not have spent RM2.6 billion within a very short time for political activities and financing even if they were for the last general election.

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