Until today, nobody knows the exact sum of money Muhyiddin spent during his 18 month tenure as Prime Minister or why he allowed his cabinet to use funds from the National Trust Fund (KWAN). Source (pic): TTF Files
“Ismail Sabri set up a “near-duplicate administration” through the back door, comprising almost entirely of the same people who wreaked havoc under Muhyiddin’s watch, promising them more positions of power in return for their support”
Raggie Jessy Rithaudeen
‘محي الدين يڠ مولاكن كهنچورن، اسماعيل صبري هاڽ بوروقكن لاڬي كادأن’
A news report has surfaced quoting former Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin as saying, the country’s finances are not as pretty as they have been made out to be.
According to the report, Muhyiddin claimed the country’s treasury was ‘stretched’ after weathering the twin crises of the economy and the pandemic, calling it the “biggest challenge”.
“Yesterday, I asked for a report from the finance minister Tengku Zafrul Aziz. One day I will expose the state of our finances. I was once there (as the premier).
“How much longer can we keep this up? Is our annual revenue enough to pay salaries, development? Is there enough to pay pensions, which is huge,” Muhyiddin asked.
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Question is, why did Muhyiddin himself keep the actual state of the country’s finances secret?
Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri only recently became Prime Minister, and even though he is equally responsible for hiding things from us, he couldn’t possibly have caused as much damage as Muhyiddin did.
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Seriously, not only was the health crisis at its peak under Muhyiddin’s watch, the pay-outs he promised was the highest ever in the country’s history.
If anyone “window dressed” the actual state of affairs, it had to be Muhyiddin and Zafrul, and Ismail Sabri’s only crime is that he “helped keep Muhyiddin’s secret safe.”
So here I am, asking again – why did Muhyiddin keep the actual state of our country’s finances secret from us?
Not only was he secretive, he defied constitutional provisions that required him to lay before both Houses of Parliament the Proclamation of Emergency and the various ordinance promulgated.
It was obvious that Muhyiddin lacked majority support, and because of this, he was afraid that the Emergency Ordinances would not receive enough votes, simultaneously bringing an abrupt end to his role as Prime Minister.
Many opposed the State of Eemergency, as it gave Muhyiddin and his cabinet extraordinary powers to introduce laws without the approval of parliament, even though existing laws were sufficient to deal with the health crisis.
Yet, Muhyiddin and his administration failed to properly manage the crisis, despite putting in place endless restrictions that were questionable, laughable and brought misery to millions upon millions of Malaysians.
While the rakyat was told to “sit at home and stay safe,” Muhyiddin’s minions were either blackmailing or bribing elected representatives with lucrative positions of power so that they would jump ship and support him.
All this ended up destabilising several state governments and triggered the infamous Sabah state election, further soaring the number of infections sky high.
But what did Muhyiddin do?
He blamed the rakyat for taking SOPs lightly, imposed more restrictions and ‘punished’ small and medium scale businesses in the process, causing more and more to lose jobs and giving rise to an unprecedented rate of suicide-related deaths.
This caused the country’s economy to suffer further decline and led to the mass exodus of strategic investors, many of whom wrote Malaysia off as a country riddled with economic, administrative and political uncertainties.
Ismail Sabri simply made things worse.
He set up a “near-duplicate administration” through the back door, comprising almost entirely of the same people who wreaked havoc under Muhyiddin’s watch, promising them more positions of power in return for their support.
This only served to convince investors that Malaysia was a troubled state, and the fact that the government was reluctant to force the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) Chief Commissioner into leave over allegations of power abuse made matters worse.
Seriously, how would one expect investors to pump in billions of dollars into Malaysia and deal with government linked enterprises, when these enterprises are led by political appointees who would probably enjoy protection from the MACC as a measure of gratitude?
Just look at how the MACC “brushed aside” a well-publicised claim by former Inspector General of Police Tan Sri Abdul Hamid Bador regarding corruption and power abuse involving certain government politicians, and you get the picture.
And until today, nobody knows the exact sum of money Muhyiddin spent during his 18 month stint as Prime Minister or why he allowed his cabinet to use funds from the National Trust Fund (KWAN).
Perhaps Ismail Sabri can shed some light on this?
