Zahid’s DNAA: Can rakyat believe in 'reformasi' now, PKR MP asks

 

Pasir Gudang MP Hassan Abdul Karim has expressed disappointment with Umno president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi being granted a discharge not amounting to an acquittal (DNAA).

In a morose Malay poem, the PKR lawmaker questioned how this would impact the people's trust.

"Every day we talk about how corruption must be stamped out, while we stand on our moral high ground.

"Free from corruption, upholding integrity, we shout our slogan of reformasi.

"But can the rakyat believe in all this now?" he questioned.

Zahid had been slapped with 47 charges, namely 12 criminal breach of trust, eight corruption, and 27 money laundering charges involving tens of millions of ringgit belonging to Yayasan Akalbudi.

Umno president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi

The trial before Justice Collin Lawrence Sequerah was at the defence stage after the criminal court ordered Zahid to enter his defence to the charges in January last year.

Sequerah had ruled that the prosecution succeeded in establishing prima facie (answerable case) against Zahid.

However, the prosecution today applied for Zahid to get a DNAA, citing the need for the MACC to investigate the case further to address concerns about selective prosecution, among others.

The DNAA would allow the prosecution to bring Zahid back to court again.

Hassan wrote that today was the saddest day in his life.

"It feels for nought and a complete waste, this struggle which I once considered noble.

"Now I question it all," he said.

‘Are we equal?’

The PKR veteran then questioned what signal the government was trying to send to the world.

Hassan also questioned whether it was true that all are treated equally in this country, and that there were no different standards for the elites in power and for the average citizen.

Hassan's poem in its original form is as follows:

Sajak DNAA

Mengapa begini yang terjadi?

Kita hari hari bercakap Basmi korupsi

Kita berdiri di tahaf moral yang tinggi

Bebas dari rasuah

Tegakkan intergriti

Kita melaungkan slogan reformasi

Tetapi bolehkah rakyat percaya semua ini sekarang?

Prima facie telah terbukti

Tiba tiba hari ini pertuduhan korupsi digugurkan

DNAA dihadiahkan

Keputusan dilepas tanpa dibebas

diberi begitu begitu mudah saja

Begitu santai santai kelihatannya

Lalu aku bertanya di manakah kedaulatan undang undang yang ada?

Yang kerap diulang sebut di bulan kemerdekaan ini

Jangan murka bila aku menyoal lagi

Benarkah Perlembagaan negaraku ini luhur?

Tiada dua darjat dalam tafsiran hukum?

Satu untuk rakyat jelata

Satu lagi untuk mereka dari elit berkuasa?

Tiada hari yang aku berasa sedih seperti hari ini

Terasa kosong dan sia sia belaka

perjuangan yang aku anggap mulia selama ini

Kini aku persoalkan semula

Tetapi inilah yang terjadi

Orang yang rasuah dan pecah amanah

Boleh lepas dari hukum

Secara mudah mudah sahaja

Isyarat apa pemerintah hari ini ingin beritahu kepada dunia?

- Mkini