Kadir: PM has to change or he could be removed

(National Express) – Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak needs to change  his ways and start doing the right things to ease the burden of the people, otherwise BN will risk losing the next general election, blogger Abdul Kadir Jasin said in his latest blogpost.

Kadir, who is now editor-in-chief of magazine publishing company Berita Publishing Sdn Bhd, listed out three scenarios for the future leadership of Najib, and said if he does not change, he risks being removed from his position, or BN risks losing the next general election if Najib continues with his ways.

“One is for the PM to change and do the right thing to ease the hardship of the people. Two, for him to be removed if he does not change and three, he remains, nothing changes and the BN faces the risk of being thrown out at the next GE,” Kadir wrote in his blog.

He also said that Najib should listen more to the “crying pain” of the people rather than listening to “market driven advisers”, who Kadir said were “spooking” the PM with market rating downgrades.

51,000 uemployed bumiputera graduates

He said the government has done subsidy reductions in the past and the people have understood, but Kadir criticised the lumping together of all hikes at the end of 2013 and the beginning of this year when the rakyat needed money for their children’s schooling as “insensitive”.

He added that since Najib became prime minister, there has been a 30 percent jump in unemployed bumiputera graduates, which now stands at 51,000.

“So, should we not be worried?” he asked.

He said he was “disgusted” by the fact that almost half of the cabinet members were abroad during year end, at a time when floods were displacing thousands of Malaysians from their homes.

“I was told that those ministers who stayed back had to become caretakers to multiple portfolios. One had to be answerable to more than 10 ministries at a time. No wonder the Prime Minister’s Office was so secretive about the PM’s whereabouts,” he said.

“Can they please not do this ever again? Or they just don’t care,” Kadir added.