WHY CAN’T WE MOVE ON FROM THIS STUPID MR2.6B MYSTERY, PEOPLE?

Umar Mukhtar

Yes sir, I do want to move on. This whole episode about money mysteriously appearing in Prime Minister Najib Razak’s personal bank account stinks to high heavens. The less I hear of it the better.

Too many opportunists have been jumping on the bandwagon to criticise just about anything that has to do with government business. People that I don’t like because of previous other reasons. They are having a field day and my government is not doing me any favours to alleviate the situation.

Surely the government does not expect me to drop every misgiving just because someone the PM had appointed as the Prosecutor had used his discretion to say that the case is closed because he feels there is no evidence of wrongdoing by the PM.

That’s like my expecting the PM to award me a project because I said that I voted for his candidate in the last election. Is it fair for me to expect him to take my word for it when my vote is secret and at my discretion, and the reward I am expecting is very lucrative?

Already I am expected to believe that people do give billions of ringgit away into a personal bank account as a confidential gift, and that people do return billions of ringgit of unutilised funds after the money had been given unconditionally? In the sixty-five years of my life, that is already mind-boggling, to say the least.

And then I am expected to believe that the PM used the funds in another personal account believing it to be the Arab money AFTER he has returned the money to them. Please do me a favour. Keep it simple. These people whom I hate are having too much fun laughing at me for being so gullible.

Why doesn’t the PM produce something unchallengeable that will shut them up for good? They may continue being mischievous but I will use the believable truth told to me by the PM to deal with them.

As it is now I have nothing to stand on, apart from the advice of the Attorney-General, whom the PM appointed in dramatic circumstances. I have never heard of him or his legal prowess, and I don’t know him from Adam before this.

I had promised myself not to write anything on this scandalous-looking episode until I heard from the Attorney-General. Alas, he says nothing that is new that I don’t already know. Those people in the fully-equipped MACC should be sacked for not being able to do more than a lone retiree like me.

What can I hope to hear from the Auditor-General whom the PM has the right to hire and fire? That cows live in condominiums?

The Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee is made up of a majority from the PM’s coalition. Some unknown had been appointed the Chairman, rescued from some political wilderness. A minority opposition member of the Committee is strutting around acting like judge and prosecutor, very much like the AG. It is all so confusing for an old retiree like me who still votes.

My late grandfather used to tell me as a young boy that the truth is the easiest thing to tell because God will help you, right or wrong. Otherwise, you end up digging a hole to cover a previous hole. I guess my PM missed such advice from his grandfather.