Azmin, forget 1MDB, focus on Ijok by telling us if you received kickbacks

The Third Force

The Prime Minister is spot on (see news item below).

Nobody could have said it better than Najib. If I were Azmin, I’d keep a low profile over the next couple of days lest I get stares from people for being so stupid. Imagine, you have families in Selangor who are suffering without water, and all this axxhole can think about is 1MDB and Putrajaya’s debt management.

Why, is our country going to go kaput?

If it is, then it’s a wonder how our economy weathered the eighties under the leadership of Dr Mahathir Mohamad. According to Lim Sian See, the nation’s debt-to-GDP ratio in 1986 was almost double the current 50.8 percent, meaning, the country should have been bankrupt over three decades ago if we were to go by Mahathir’s and Lim Kit Siang’s logic.

And what is so worrisome about 1MDB that is keeping Amin from doing his job?

Azmin is said to have collected RM700-800 million in kickbacks from the Ijok deal alone

The last I checked, the wealth fund was put under the highest powered microscopes by five mutually exclusive investigative bodies that did not find elements of criminal wrongdoing. However, we have yet to discover if Azmin had solicited kickbacks from developers through the questionable sale of land that once belonged to settlers.

To recap, a group of Ijok settlers undertook in the nineties to consign some land to the Selangor government by means of legal authority. The state government, in turn, undertook to grant a Joint-Venture (JV) concern involving both LBCN Development Sdn Bhd and Mujur Zaman Sdn Bhd the right to develop that land (hereinafter referred to as the “disputed land”).

As part of an agreement, the settlers were promised a house each and some cash in hand by the aforementioned developers in return for their right to develop the said land. However, the JV company hit a snag not long after and was forced to abandon the development project. When Abdul Khalid Ibrahim took over as Menteri Besar of Selangor, he invoked his power as head of government to confiscate the disputed land, thereby forestalling plans by the banks to auction that land in the nick of time.

Then, when Azmin wrested the state from Khalid through democratic thievery, he allowed the companies to sell the disputed land to a third party for RM1.18 billion. But the settlers were only awarded RM421 million in compensation while the developers raked in a handsome RM757 million profit without telling a soul about it.

Tell me, where is the justice in that, and why has the state government refused to make public its settlement with the developers? Why worry about 1MDB Azmin, when your own backyard stinks of untold corruption and kitchen door deals that may have cost the people of Selangor hundreds of millions atop their pride and dignity?

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