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Wednesday, August 19, 2015

THANKS TO RAHMAN DAHLAN, WE NOW KNOW NAJIB PULLED A 'COUP' ON HIS ON DEPUTY - MUHYIDDIN YASSIN

THANKS TO RAHMAN DAHLAN, WE NOW KNOW NAJIB PULLED A 'COUP' ON HIS ON DEPUTY - MUHYIDDIN YASSIN
BN strategic communications director Abdul Rahman Dahlan's revelation last Sunday that Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak had to stop a charge sheet being served against him has raised many questions among the rakyat.
And one of the key questions is: Was Rahman’s revelation an admission by the BN that the events that took place the last three weeks are true?
Based on what he said in the interview, it appears that Rahman, who is also urban wellbeing, housing and local government minister, is quickly following the footsteps of a deputy minister, Ahmad Maslan, who often puts his foot in his mouth.
Rahman told The Star Online that Najib had to "take out people" after an alleged charge sheet against him emerged.
"Given that scenario what would you do? You would take drastic action wouldn't you?
"Okay, take these people out first, so that things will get back to normalcy and see what will happen next. If you could appreciate that scenario then you would understand the flurry of action taken by the PM," the MCA-owned daily quotes Rahman as saying.
After the Umno Kota Belud MP's revelation, DAP’s Klang MP Charles Santiago questioned whether Rahman had spilled the beans over what happened.
Certainly, the people, myself included, would like to know what actually happened in the spate of the last three weeks that saw Muhyiddin Yassin dropped as Najib's deputy and the removal of Abdul Gani Patail as attorney-general, with Gani’s replacement being a retired Federal Court judge known to be beholden to Umno in the past.
Also, the high-handed actions by the police on the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) which saw several arrests, and with inspector-general of police Khalid Abu Bakar denying these were “arrests”, despite MACC deputy public prosecutor spending a night in the police lock-up.
High-powered meeting of July 27
The revelation by Rahman may explain what happened the last few weeks.
According to those who claim to be in the know, there was a high-powered meeting held on Monday, July 27, comprising the police led by Khalid, the Armed Forces chief Zulkefli Mohd Zin, the MACC and Gani over what may happen the week after that date.
MACC officers investigating SRC International Sdn Bhd, a former subsidiary of 1MDB, who were present at the meeting told Gani that they have strong evidence against the sitting prime minister, enough to charge him with corruption.
Since the MACC cannot charge an individual unless it gets the consent to prosecute from the attorney-general, Gani offered to charge the PM himself.
Having faced allegations in the past, Gani, who was within two months into his retirement, wanted to go out with a bang in order to clean-up his alleged past deeds.
Hence, he told those present that he would personally charge the PM, later that week.
Word may have got out that Gani was preferring the charge and it got to the knowledge of Najib.
Hence, on Tuesday, July 28, there was a swift move by the chief secretary to the government, Ali Hamsa, to announce Gani’s removal as AG and his replacement by 65-year-old Mohamed Apandi Ali, a Kelantan Umno treasurer before he was made a judge.
Ali’s statement and the letter of appointment for Apandi were backdated to Monday, July 27, to quell what was decided at the high-powered meeting held that day.
Later that day, Najib, in announcing a cabinet reshuffle, also announced the removal of Umno deputy president Muhyiddin and vice-president Shafie Apdal as DPM and minister respectively.
This move was, allegedly, to stop any talk or speculation that Muhyiddin would replace Najib as prime minister and to possibly warn would-be BN saboteurs that they would also face the music if they rebelled against the BN chairperson.
Later that week, Sarawak Report published an alleged charge sheet prepared by the MACC and the AG's Chambers on Najib and another SRC International director.
MACC comes under investigation
To further quell or disrupt MACC's ongoing investigations, police were used on the premise of investigating the alleged leak of the charge sheet.
This led to a flurry of arrests of MACC officers and one officer from the AG's Chambers on July 31 and Aug 1.
A total of seven MACC officers said to be privy to the SRC International investigation were questioned, had their statements taken, offices and homes ransacked and documents and laptops seized.
This led to MACC's special operations director, Bahri Mohd Zin, denying that it caused the leak of the charge sheet and as for the high-handed actions of the police against his officers, Bahri pledged to find the culprits behind the “mad work” of the police.
Bahri and MACC strategic communications director Rohaizad Yaakob, who had a day earlier received a memorandum from opposition leaders, were transferred out to the Prime Minister's Department on Aug 7, in another alleged bid to suppress their investigations.
This short-lived transfer created an uproar, for never before has an officer from the MACC, or its predecessor the Anti-Corruption Agency, been transferred to another agency not related to investigations. And, what more, to the Prime Minister's Department!
In the meantime, during those three weeks, it was revealed that the questionable RM2.6 billion deposited into Najib’s personal bank accounts was in fact a political donation, despite questions surrounding the amount.
Now, in a further bid to legitimise political donations, Najib has proposed new laws to regulate political funding, as there have been no such regulations.
Despite what happened, these moves failed to settle the unrest felt by Najib's government, despite the Umno president’s claim that the party’s three million members are backing him.
Did it happen this way, Mr Abdul Rahman?
Abuse of power?
Najib also announced that Putrajaya's annual financial allocations for the BN lawmakers will be increased from the RM5 million each MP currently gets annually, thus dangling a carrot to prevent a no-confidence vote against him in Parliament, as alleged by his new deputy Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.
Questions remain as to whether what is stated above truly did really happen. The rakyat are asking whether this is an abuse of power, an offence for which former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim was convicted in 1998, under the Emergency Ordinance.
Although the provisions under the Emergency Ordinance have been repealed, can this go under Section 23 of the MACC Act, which classifies the use of public office or position for gratification as an offence?
Even Section 3 of MACC Act gives a wide meaning for gratification, to include donations, positions in office, money, financial benefit and others.
So is this what we are seeing taking place in our government today? The rakyat and I are asking. - M'kini

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