TYT calls for clean graduates in 21st Century

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Two months later nobody is charged

Published on: Sunday, December 11, 2016

By Jk
TYT Sabah Tun Juhar Mahiruddin at the recent convocation of University Malaysia Sabah called on graduates to “stay away” from corruption or any favours as it could eliminate wisdom and contradict the truth.”US President-elect Donald Trump said he will “drain the swamp” in the US Government.
What about the alleged fake doctorates and other paper qualifications within academias and others?
What TYT said reminds me of the Water Department corruption scandal.
First we saw the massive boxes and stacks of Ringgit notes of RM50 and RM100 denominations and some precious treasures and luxury cars splashed over the mass media.
Then we see some of the accused going to the courts for remand only. Their faces were hidden by clothing.
Only a few names were mentioned in the press although more than 20 suspects were arrested to face action.
Later, we were shown massive documents of the water projects worth RM3.3b since 2009 again splashed in some mass media.
But almost two months since the corruption was exposed, no one had been charged in court although much assets of the suspects were confiscated by MACC. So where is all the confiscated assets worth nearly RM500m of expected loss of RM1b?
Have such assets been returned to the water department to be used to continue to complete whatever left to be done in the water infrastructure especially in the rural areas where the demand is greatest.
The scandal reminded me of the Bumiputra Malaysia Finance (BMF) scandal back in the late 1980s in Hong Kong where the auditor was also killed.
have we learned anything from that unfortunate debacle?
We now see the establishment of socalled “sovereign fund” 1MDB now also implicated in a scandal.
With all the terrible background in ill intended modus operandi which is unlikely to end, how would Malaysia rise up to “drain the swamp” unless we have now in place a totally new administration with zero corruption as the paramount performance index?
Otherwise all new graduates would go into the same old administrative setup and environment and sink with the trend in the corruption.
Lets move on with fresh air in Malaysia as we cannot survive any longer with meaningless slogans once like Clean Efficient and Trust (amanah, bersih, cekap) on paper only.
Jk

TYT calls for clean graduates for 21^st century

TYT Sabah Tun Juhar Mahiruddin at the recent convocation of University Malaysia Sabah called on graduates “The younger generation should deter themselves from corruption or any favours as it could eliminate wisdom and contradict the truth.”

Is it the first time that the TYT himself once a top civil servant make such a top order in an environment loaded with corruption for decades in the civil service vis-à-vis the politicians and the political masters?

I hope TYT would now come up with a tough programme involving more than MACC and more educational awareness to clean up the “filthy” system like USA President elect doing something like “drain the swamp” in the US Government.  What about the approach on alleged fake Doctorate and other paper qualifications within the academic and others?

What TYT say about this is possibly a reflection of the many shameful pictures in the mass media and the social media about the water department corruption of alleged “RM1b and more”.

First we saw the massive boxes and stakes of Ringgit notes of RM50 and RM100 denominations and some precious treasures and luxurious cars splashed over the mass media.  Then we see some of the accused going to the Courts for remand only.  Their faces were hidden by some clothing.  Only a few name names were mentioned in the press although more than 20 suspects are arrested to face action.  Later, we were shown massive documents of the water projects worth RM3.3b since 2009 again splashed in some mass media.

But up to now almost two months since the corruption was exposed, no one had been charged in Court although much assets of the suspects were confiscated by MACC.  So where is all the confiscated assets worth nearly RM500m of expected loss of RM1b?   Have such assets returned to the water department to be used to continue to complete whatever left to be done in the water infrastructure especially in the rural areas where the demand is greatest.

Maybe many have short memory as memory flashes back to me when I saw the massive documents of the water scandal splashed in the newspaper as it was sort of done in printed 13 volumes of the thousands of pages of the scandal of Bank Malaysia Finance (BMF) back in the late 1980s in Hong Kong where the auditor was killed.  So have we learned anything from that unfortunate debacle despite the printed volumes except the criminals –real and assumed- have sort of “escaped” with light punishment.  From such development, it is obvious some people in the authorities were cohorts with the criminals as why was BMF created in the first place. Wasn’t it created to be conduit for pay offs and massive corruptions ensued with very poor management controls of the systems in place?  How many billions of Ringgit were lost was unknown although much of the money came from Petronas which has just taken over the oil and  gas assets of Sabah and Sarawak with PDA Act 144 in mid 1970.  So were the “payoffs” made via a foreign company connected with Petronas deals?  We can now see a similar double with the establishment of socalled “sovereign fund” 1MDB now also involved with siphoning off the money arising from Malaysia through such a “closed” vehicle.

With all the terrible background in ill intended modus operandi which is unlikely to end, how would Malaysia rise up to clean the “drain or swamp” unless we have now in place a totally new administration with zero corruption as the paramount performance index?  Otherwise all new graduates would go into the same old administrative setup andenvironment and sunk with the trend in the corruption.

Lets move on with fresh air in Malaysia as we cannot survive any longer with meaningless slogans once like Clean Efficient and Trust (amanah, bersih, cekap) on paper only.

Joshua Y. C. Kong 7^th December, 2016