DAP and the west coast plan: part 6
Raggie Jessy
It may have occurred to you by now how reluctant I’ve been in blowing wide open the horizons to Anwar’s treachery, which is never grounding and paralleled only by his apathy towards the party and coalition.
But there never was reason to haste the exposes in the first place. Anwar is going nowhere, and neither is Mat Sabu or his comedy of dumb witted buffoons who tried to cast their jinx on Hadi. As a matter of fact, we needn’t worry about Wan Azizah either. Like her husband, she seems to find a way to hang herself as soon as you draw her some rope.
But then, we have every reason to worry about Kit Siang and the west coast agenda.
Which is why this series is premised on a tacit bargain that all that is exposed should come together to unveil a west coast plan. But central to the west coast plan is the state of Selangor, which Kuan Yew himself realised was cardinal to a west coast dominion and the subsequent control of the Straits of Malacca.
And central to the Selangor conquest is Anwar and his cabal of half-past-six oafs, who haven’t the faintest idea that they’re half-past-six oafs. You see, Anwar never did tell them that they were as naive as naive could be. It is only my hope that both Rafizi and Saifuddin are reading part 6 right now, so that they would get an idea of the new low they set the bar for idiocy to.
Be that as it may, it is important that I pick the seam to the whole Kajang conspiracy a stitch at a time. In order for me to cut to the west coast plan, I would have to meticulously and thoroughly explicate the terms by which Anwar and Kit Siang destroyed Pakatan Rakyat.
The Drumhead: Part 2
In part 5, I told you how Anwar had tasked Saifuddin to run for PKR deputy president. As a matter of fact, Anwar had spoken his oracle in delusory terms to his henchmen Rafizi and Saifuddin sometime after Langkah Kajang was launched.
It seems that Saifuddin was sold on the idea of contesting Khalid and Azmin for the post of deputy president with the express understanding that Anwar would solicit a patronage for him. Truth be told, Anwar did break his back getting divisional leaders and branch chairpersons to channel some of Khalid’s lifeline to Saifuddin. The broad idea was to deny Khalid a lead by splitting his votes.
Following a 2014 court verdict that found him guilty, Anwar was advised to sack Khalid from PKR ‘by any means necessary’. A confederate accessory, the lawyer who was said to have rendered the advice was also said to have conspired with Anwar and Saifuddin from behind a veil of secrecy to disclose confidential information pertinent to the documentation of a dossier against Khalid.
It was then that Anwar approached Saifuddin and Rafizi and drew up plans to wipe Khalid’s name off PKR’s roll. Following this, Saifuddin presided over a cabal of confederates to blow Khalid’s credibility to bits in public eye.
Around the same time, Anwar was met by several ‘consultants’ who upended the crystal ball and told him to ditch Wan Azizah in favour of plan C. Now, these were the same consultants I spoke of in part 5, the ones who painted a grim outlook of his shot at vindication when he met them before Langkah Kajang went into circulation.
Incidentally, plan B involved Wan Azizah’s candidature for the post of Menteri Besar, while plan A had, of course, everything to do with Anwar. For some reason not immediately known to me, Anwar went ahead with plan C, which was to cast his die in favour of Azmin.
As a matter of fact, Anwar threw in plan D, which was meant to muddy the water. Plan D had something to do with ditching both Wan Azizah and Azmin in favour of Nawawi. And how Anwar juggled these plans around with his apologists and henchmen (Saifuddin and Rafizi) makes yet for another interesting episode which we will put under the microscope in part 7 or 8.
For the purpose of this article, we will hinge contentions on the premise that both Saifuddin and Rafizi colluded with the aforesaid lawyer and several other of Anwar’s apologists to erect a bulwark against Khalid’s continued membership in PKR. Saifuddin was tasked with steering the committee, hereinafter referred to as the ‘group of three’.
On 4th of August 2014, Saifuddin spoke his will to make plain and comprehensible PKR’s reasons for supporting Wan Azizah as Selangor Menteri Besar. Following this, Saifuddin lodged a dossier of unnamed authorship with Pakatan Rakyat’s leadership.
The report (READ HERE), said to be an exposition, was dense with nothing but insinuation and innuendo. It is my solemn conviction that the report contrasted methodological linchpins common to jurisprudence and isn’t a document worthy of consideration.
Nothing substantive was ever offered against Khalid, much less proven. The dossier was written in cursory terms that reflected the haste with which Anwar sought to depose of the former.
In a letter that was made out to PAS Secretary General Dato’ Mustafa Ali (READ HERE), Saifuddin made mention of his meetings with Nik Aziz, Mat Sabu and several other PAS leaders. According to Saifuddin, circumstances had waranted the need for terms of expression that would help quash negative perception against PKR over its decision to remove Khalid.
Prior to this, Anwar had partaken in discussions with Nik Aziz and Hadi over Khalid’s position in futility. It was said that both Nik Aziz and Hadi were dead against attempts to dislodge Khalid from power. Had it not been for Nik Aziz, Hadi would most certainly have come down hard on Anwar the minute Langkah Kajang was broadcast to the public.
Considering that the dossier was made available to Pakatan Rakyat’s leadership and the public by Saifuddin, I hold with conviction and without prejudice the following to be tenable and worthy for consideration:
1. Saifuddin made public a chronology that detailed terms of agreements that had to do with RM 59.5 million in debts incurred by Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim (hereinafter referred to as ‘Khalid’) to Bank Islam.
2. Saifuddin also made public various forms of transactions that concerned Khalid and Bank Islam and others who may have directly or indirectly been implicated in these transactions (hereinafter referred to as ‘the affected parties’).
3. The act of divulging these transactions may have compromised the affected parties in no uncertain terms. This is hinged on the premise that the affected parties may have undertaken in non-disclosure agreements with each other.
4. The term transaction refers to the disposal of confidential information that includes letters, contracts, shares, monies, shares or information (documented in any form or verbal) by any one party to another it has entered into agreement with.
5. For the purpose of this article, confidential information refers to all information or material which is (a) marked “Confidential”, “Restricted,” or bears other markings which are similar, (b) known by parties entering into an agreement to be confidential, or (c) known or understood to be confidential or propriety by an individual exercising reasonable judgement.
6. Saifuddin may have discredited and disgraced the affected parties and caused them irrevocable harm by disclosing the transactions. This holds true when hinged on the premise that the disclosures were made without the express and collective consent of the affected parties or those authorized to act on behalf of the affected parties.
7. Saifuddin had inadvertently insinuated doubt over a decision by Khalid and Bank Islam to enter into an out of court arrangement.
8. It was further insinuated that the decision by Khalid and Bank Islam to settle disputes out of court was expedited in conjunction with the launching of langkah Kajang.
9. Saifuddin seemed to imply some measure of wheeling and dealing between Khalid and the Government of Malaysia apropos the terms of settlement that was entered into by Khalid and Bank Islam.
10. Towards this end, Saifuddin seemed to insinuate Tan Sri Rashid Manaf (hereinafter referred to as Rashid), a close aide and former lawyer of Tun Daim Zainuddin, as the agency through which the Government of Malaysia colluded with Khalid over terms of the latter’s debt settlement with Bank Islam.
11. Doubt was raised over a land acquisition deal between Tropicana Corporation Berhad and Rashid owned Ecoworld Berhad (hereinafter referred to as ‘Ecoworld’), when it was insinuated to have been ratified as a quid pro quo for Rashid’s role in hashing out the terms to Khalid’s debt settlement with Bank Islam.
12. Rashid’s Ecoworld was further implicated in a development project, said to be worth RM 591 million and insinuated to have been awarded to Ecoworld in terms of reciprocity for Rashid’s role in the Bank Islam settlement case.
13. Doubt was raised over the terms of settlement that was entered into by Khalid and Bank Islam, which was, among others, insinuated to have been a quid pro quo for Khalid’s acquiescence to the Langat 2 project and Selangor state water restructuring proposal.
14. Doubt was also raised over the exclusion of Bank Islam’s advocate Tommy Thomas in the out of court arrangement between Bank Islam and Khalid, although the reasons for expressing such a doubt remain expressly vague.
15. Apropos the above and where appropriate, nothing substantive has ever been offered by Saifuddin in public to explicate the terms of insinuation in a manner that is concise and would validate any claim made or vindicate him from contempt.
16. The onus is now on Saifuddin to substantiate claims that were made in the dossier and to explicate the bounds and depths to insinuations that were hurled at the affected parties and any other party aforementioned or otherwise that may have been implicated directly or indirectly.
To be continued…
