Thursday, November 20, 2008

Dr M to name Umno members involved in money politics

PUTRAJAYA: Former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has promised to name Umno members implicated in money politics on his influential blog www.chedet.com.
He said he was willing to be sued for defamation and even risk arrest by the authorities because he was not afraid to expose the truth and the identities of such errant members.
“I can’t do anything about the complaints except to hand these over to the Umno disciplinary committee. I will put these names up in my blog.
“I am not afraid of being sued for libel or being arrested by the police. If they can release (blogger and Malaysia Today editor) Raja Petra Kamarudin, won’t they also be able to release me as well?” he said Wednesday in his dialogue with a group of Umno members and leaders, ex-ministers and Malay student groups at the Perdana Leadership Foundation here.
Earlier, an Umno member from the Parit division had complained of money politics in his area and had asked for Dr Mahathir to look into the list of names of those implicated in the division.
“Thank you for lodging a report. I hope there will be more who will come forward to lodge such reports,” he said. Earlier, in his speech, Dr Mahathir said voters would continue to reject Umno or the Barisan Nasional coalition if its new leader continues with the present policies and does not come down hard on corruption and money politics.
“Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak has mentioned that he will continue with the teachings of Islam Hadhari. This is not a good sign as it shows that the transition is only in the person, and not in terms of policies.
“The voters did not like the policies that were put into place by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, so they will still reject Umno. So, there is no point in having such a transition,” he said.
Najib had recently pledged to continue promoting Islam Hadhari (Civilisational Islam) when he takes over as Prime Minister, saying that he was a great believer in the concept which was introduced by Abdullah.
Dr Mahathir said at a time when Umno needed a courageous leader to get rid of problems plaguing the party, Najib was merely trying to protect Abdullah’s “face”.
“We have to think whether the person taking over from the Prime Minister will get rid of all those in Umno who are now involved in corruption.
“If he is biased and there won’t be any cleaning up, the rakyat will reject the party. If they end up choosing the Opposition party, that will present us with a dilemma because their leadership is not convincing,” he said.

tunku : umno really needs to be cleaned up.get rid from the corrupted leaders. the new leaders should be their own man and not merely bringing someone else policies espcially the current policies which has been rejected by many.hope to see those name mentioned by tun soon.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

i think Mahathir is still mad at Abdullah for not continuing his policy.when dont see anymore of "wawasan 2020",do we?. :)

it's up to Najib actually to continue or improvises the already existed policy.or Mahathir rather wants Najib to continue his policy then?

if Najib is going to get though on corruption,will Mahathir let him be if any of Mahathir's peoples or Mahathir himself are to be chased for corruption allegation?

Anonymous said...

alaaa.Mahathir sebenarnya marah lagi pada Abdullah sebab tak teruskan polisi Mahathir.yerlah.kalau kita ingat semula ada projek semasa Mahathir menjadi PM ditamatkan oleh Abdullah.sekarang ini pun dah takde kita dengar "wawasan 2020".lagilah Mahathir marah.

jadi kiranya kenyataan dia kali ini macam serampang dua mata.serang Najib dan juga Abdullah.orang yang benar-benar layak pada kacamata Mahathir adalah orang yang sanggup consult dan terima pandangan Mahathir.

Anonymous said...

same comment, one in english one in malay by 2 person or shall i say monkeys.

Anonymous said...

saya caya la Pak Mahathir sunggoh2 nak basmi rasuah dalam UMNO. Baru cakap nak "expose aje" PM dan DPM dah lari luar negeri hahha. Tapi macam mana nak basmi rasuah dalam UMNO ya?? Agak nya kena tutup UMNO kot, Kerana bapak2 dan mak2 menteri nya ada tumpang sekoleh..