THEIR DAD DEFEATED, THE CHILDREN OF NAJIB NOW GO ALL OUT TO ‘TOPPLE’ DR MAHATHIR: SAD TO SAY, NAJIB’S APPLES DON’T FALL FAR FROM HIS TREE

I find it amusing initially when I read that the bank account of former Prime Minister, Najib Abdul Razak’s grandchild was frozen by the Malaysia Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC).

For some reasons, Najib’s daughter, Nooryana Najwa accused the MACC of being vicious by freezing her son’s duit raya of RM100. Her lamentation was heard across the nation, but many of us were not moved by her appeal to think about her father for once.

In fact, I am happy that within less than 24 hours, the MACC deputy chief commissioner (operations), Azam Baki had come out with a statement that this was not true.

Now, put it this way, between Azam Baki and Nooryana Najwa, I trust the MACC No 2 more!

The reason is because the MACC has a job to do to recoup every sen that was siphoned out of the 1MDB sovereign fund. They would not even have the time to bother with the account of a minor unless of course, a large sum of money had passed through the account.

Knowing Azam Baki, I have full confidence in his level of professionalism. There is simply no reason for the MACC to freeze the account of a minor. Now that Azam Baki had come out to categorically deny the allegations, Nooryana Najwa is better off retracting her statement or else, she could be charged under the Anti-Fake News Act that her own father and his people had bulldozed through parliament.

Reading further, I noticed a common trend when Najib’s son, Mohd Nazifuddin said that the prosecution was ‘lopsided’. And yes, his target was a 92-year-old Prime Minister, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

So, there you go! Najib’s own family members are trying to whip up public sympathy for the disgraced Malaysian Official No 1. And, what they want to do is to topple Dr Mahathir.

In all fairness, unlike Anwar Ibrahim’s sodomy trial, Najib’s corruption case is hardly getting any sympathy from Malaysians within the country as well as the world leaders, who spoke up against the jailing of Anwar. Malaysians stood in solidarity with Anwar’s family when he was sent to prison.

Yet, when Nooryana Najwa appealed to Malaysians, “Think of my father just this one time” most people are giving her the snub. In fact, Mariam Mokhtar’s response was one of the best that I have read and started off with this one line: “Najib should have thought about his actions and God’s wrath before he stole taxpayers’ money.”

Mariam is also a Malaysian at heart. Like her, surely all Malaysians are not so unkind! After all, when Anwar was thrown into prison, we rallied together with Anwar’s daughters.

Everyone could also empathise with Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, which explains why when she became the Deputy Prime Minister, everyone cheered!

The world have been following Anwar’s news closely and Malaysians with a sound mind and a good conscience had been waiting for Anwar’s release. Had Najib been kinder, he could have got Anwar out of prison through the royal pardon, but did he? For this same reason, we have one saying, “Whatever a man sows, that he shall also reap.”

So, if Najib goes to prison, there should be no royal pardon for him either. This is the lesson that he has to learn. Having said this, Nooryana Najwa and Mohd Nazifuddin should realise by now why the rest of the world is also not reporting the corruption trial in the same manner that they had reported about Anwar’s sodomy trial.

Up until now, no president or prime minister in the world has come out strongly to condemn the Malaysian government for putting Najib on trial. They did, when the apex court upheld the jail sentence for Anwar.

How ironic that not even his supposedly golf buddy, President Donald Trump spoke a word about Najib’s corruption trial. Either there is something wrong about the whole world or it is Najib and Rosmah’s world that has finally collapsed.

This one advice I hope both Mohd Najifuddin and Nooryana Najwa will take from me: revisit all the actions and words uttered by your own parents within the past 10 years and learn from their mistakes. Malaysians at large have waited for this moment to see that justice must not only be done, but must be seen to be done.

When he was in power (ah oh, so very powerful), he was both arrogant and always boasting that he was the ‘pendekar Bugis’ who cannot be defeated because `cash is king’.

When talking about the goods and services tax (GST), Rosmah even boasted that her hairdo cost RM1,200. This was seen as a resurrection of Marie Antoinette who was finally sent to the guillotine during the French revolution. Mohd Najifuddin and Nooryana Najwa should be grateful under the leadership of Dr Mahathir and Dr Wan Azizah, the people have not gone on a rampage.

Instead, we let justice take its course. We have finally reverted to the rule of law, something which this country has never seen for many years.

When Najib boasted about ‘Cash is king’, Nooryana Najwa should realise what makes many of us angry is that the cash came from our pockets through the GST, on top of an already heavy income tax! Many in the middle income bracket were already feeling the maximum impact of the GST after three full years.

Now, what makes us angrier is that we have discovered what an even bigger hole Najib has burned into our national treasury. So, talking about having sympathy for Najib and Rosmah, I would say we no longer know how to empathise with them.

WRITER: STEPHEN NG is an ordinary citizen with an avid interest in following political developments in the country since 2008.