The Summing Up of the Rosli Dahlan Case:Issues of Justice and Integrity
Din Merican
Finally the curtain is down on Musa Hassan. The most despised Inspector-General of Police (IGP) in the entire history of the Polis DiRaja Malaysia (PDRM) was so unceremoniously booted out. A man who had enjoyed so much power that he can inflict both physical and psychological harm on citizenry must now adapt himself to the realities of becoming a non-entity and face scorn of Malaysians. ”The evil that men do lives after them”(William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar), so let it be with Musa Hassan.
Credit to the Minister of Home Affairs
Credit must be given to the Minister of Home Affairs, Dato’ Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein for orchestrating the press conference during which the end of the Musa Hassan’s contract was announced. Hishamuddin’s lawyering skills can now be acknowledged for Hishammuddin trapped Musa Hassan nice and proper this time, after a failed attempt in March 2010 when Musa outwitted his Minister.
Hishamuddin’s lawyering skills can now be acknowledged for Hishammuddin trapped Musa Hassan nice and proper this time, after a failed attempt in March 2010 when Musa outwitted his Minister.
Musa Hassan relentlessly and shamelessly lobbied to keep his job
It was widely known within the ranks of PDRM that Musa Hassan was still lobbying very hard ,even in the eleventh hour to get a further extension when Hishammuddin dropped the executioner’s blade on him. To get that extension, Musa Hassan even created and popularised the myth that the Deputy IGP Ismail Omar was not fit to succeed him as IGP and that none of the existing Directors were ready. That is how scheming that son of an Ustaz can be.
Musa Hassan will now be remembered in the annals of PDRM’s history as the IGP who did not want his Deputy IGP to succeed him.
Surely, Musa did not need to be reminded that he picked Tan Sri Ismail Omar as Deputy IGP before he started name-calling Ismail Omar as “bongok” and “bengap”. But Musa did not care for all that.
All he cared for was to get a third extension. That was how desperate Musa was and the Mingguan Malaysia interview which he used to lambast Hishammuddin is the proof in the pudding. Musa Hassan will now be remembered in the annals of PDRM’s history as the IGP who did not want his Deputy IGP to succeed him.
Who is the REAL Musa Hassan?
Musa has also carved out many more names for himself in the history of PDRM. For starters, he has always been ambiguous about being a university graduate. Many, even Tan Sri Robert Phang, questioned him on his so-called law degree. Musa’s response was to adopt Abdullah Badawi’s “elegance silence” to such a serious allegation that he is a bogus university graduate. He was as inept as ex-Prime Minister and slumber jack Abdullah Badawi.
His fame as a police investigator was just by being the Mattress Carrier in Sodomy I. For fabricating evidence in the case against Anwar Ibrahim, he was rewarded with a mercuric rise and managed to bypass his immediate superior, Dato’ Ramli Yusuff, to become IGP. There it was Dato’ Ramli who gave him two promotions and what did he do to Dato’ Ramli? He fixed Dato’ Ramli and eliminated him from PDRM! In case you have forgotten, let me just remind you what else Musa Hassan did to become the IGP.
Tan Sri Bakri Omar Outwitted
Just before Ramadan 2005, Musa Hassan baited Tan Sri Bakri Omar’s son to monopolise the Ramadan Bazaar licence. He then used his in-laws in the then ACA to nab Tan Sri Bakri’s son for involvement in manipulating the licence and got his media friends, namely Lourdes Charles of The Star and Ruhaidini Abdul Kadir of Utusan Malaysia, to publicise that story. That was a low blow that dented Tan Sri Bakri’s reputation although his son was not charged eventually.
