Najib’s Greatest Folly?
By Dr. Dzulkefly Ahmad
It wasn’t always as bad. But of late, it has turned a lot worse. Judging by the spate of confusion and distress the nation is undergoing, Prime Minister Najib has to urgently invoke Divine Intervention to save his Administration from a tailspin – a choice which is as hard to him as to overturn the gambling license he recently awarded to the Ascot-Berjaya Group, in anticipation of a windfall from ‘sinful’ revenues.
Never mind the Limbang and Blok L-M fiasco. Never mind the Tanjong Pagar land swop which may turn out to be positive for us after all. Never mind the many exposé of the RM billion losses and colossal projects cost over-runs of stressed GLCs. Never mind even the Bollywood Sodomy 2.0 now showing. The citizenry are, by now, perhaps numbed and desensitized by it frequent occurrences.
Much worse is the latest Najib’s alarmist tactic and shock therapy which may prove to be ‘the medicine that will kill the patient’. Claims of the nation going bankrupt by 2019 may prove deadly. But to whom, you may really want to ask? The patient or the doctor?
Worst of it all is Najib’s newly-found-elegant-and-dignified escapism ie his latest ploy of leveraging credits for himself while swiftly and flagrantly passing the blame on others (read think-tanks) when challenged. This is despicable much as it’s very irresponsible for a Prime Minister.
As if admitting that the New Economic Model (NEM) was not a document of his government but merely a suggestion from Tan Sri Amirsham’s NEAC (National Economic Advisory Council) wasn’t dreadful enough, Najib’s earlier qualified support and now seen (after Perkasa) distancing himself from DS Idris Jala’s Management and Delivery Unit (Pemandu) subsidy rationalization programme, came down almost as the last straw that broke the nation’s back.
The nation is rudely reminded of the fate of Dr Lim Teck Ghee, the Asian Strategy Leadership Institute (ASLI) for challenging the alleged underachievement of 30% bumiputera corporate equity of the NEP. The power-that-be came down hard on him and he finally bowed out graciously. Will Idris Jala suffer the same fate?
Najib’s commitment is wavering while his direction is anything but clear. He truly displays his intrinsic character of indecision and fear, both traits miserably disqualifying him as a true statesman and a premier.
The nation now stood astounded, extremely distressed and enraged. How are they going to take all these and make sense of its disparate revelations?
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