New King must put the house in order.

New King must put the house in order.

Legally according to articles 39 and 40 of the “Malaysia’s Constitution”, executive power is vested in the Yang di-Pertuan Agong. Such power may be exercised by him personally only in accordance with Cabinet advice (except where the Constitution allows him to act in his own discretion) (Art. 40), the Cabinet, any minister authorised by the Cabinet, or any person authorised by federal law.

With this legal background, the new King, His Majesty then took his Oath of Installation, pledging among other things to perform his duties in accordance with the laws and constitution, and to protect Islam at all times.

“I will hereby rule Malaysia in a fair manner in accordance with the law and the country’s constitution and uphold at all times the religion of Islam and stand firm for a just government and peaceful country," he read the proclamation.

Yang di-Pertuan Agong Sultan Muhammad V also said quality human capital is the key to the success of Malaysia in the future. He said only with quality human capital could people improve their productivity and competitiveness as well as explore and exploit the country’s advantages and resources.

“I also hope the other Rulers will give their views and advice to ensure that Malaysia continues to uphold the sovereignty of Constitutional Monarchy in this blessed land,” Sultan Muhammad V said.

Pondering deep into such statements by the new King No. 15 on 24 April, 2017 and to help His Majesty to fulfil his duties to the letter of the “Constitution” and the spirit of Malaysia in both the Constitution and the Malaysia Agreement 1963, I would like to direct His Majesty to many anomalies in the “Malaysia or Malaya Constitution” as amended so many times since 1957 / 1963 with respects to Sabah and Sarawak and Malaya.  Most of those major amendments could be bias against Sabah and Sarawak causing lop-sidedness in the nation’s laws like Sabah and Sarawak were reduced to states in 1976’s major amendment in Parliament instead of 3 or 4 nations in 1963 at the formation of Malaysia.  There are so many amendments in the “Constitution” be it Malaysia or Malaya and so much so much confusions had arisen with great disadvantages and disparities to Sabah and Sarawak in one nation Malaysia.  Since His Majesty has pledged to conform to the “Constitution” and not the sacred “original” one, I hope the new King would call a Royal Commission Inquiry on the prevailing “Constitution” to put the house of Malaysia in good and proper order.

Legally this is his Government and he had delegated it to the appointed Prime Minister and if his PM does not advice for an RCI on the Constitution proper, His Majesty should do it now.

Going from there, His Majesty has indeed a much greater burden in  his hand to “drain the swamp” in Putrajaya as we have come to observe that the present Government under the King has failed the nation in many aspects especially massive corruption and mismanagement/ bad governance after 60/54 years.  The obvious one is that vision 2020 is now “distorted” and a new vision 2050 is in the pipeline.  The King must be very much concerned why the perfect vision of 2020 is now abandoned.

The new King has also said that quality human capital is the key to the future in Malaysia and yet we know that foreigners including massive illegal people from various nations were given Project ICs to remain in the nation with impunity.  With this kind of scenario, how can quality human capital be attainable when the locals are side lined or marginalised and even be demoralised in many aspects.  We had a Royal commission of Inquiry on illegal immigrants in Sabah (RCI IIS) since 2012 with the abridged version of the Report on 4^th December, 2014.  Then the process of dealing with the illegal immigrants including those millions given Project ICs (much denied/silent then in the said Report) and at variances at the RCI proper hearing in 2013 were passed on to two “high power” working committees in 2015 at national and state levels.  Today 24 April, 2017 at the time of Installation of His Majesty, we have yet to hear of any positive results on the positive actions of the RCI IIS.  So my dear King, this is for you to perform as part and parcel of “draining the swamp.”

The new King also indicated that he will uphold the “peaceful” (my addition) religion of Islam and stand firm for a just government and peaceful country. Is the Government really just with all those things going on (including the few items amongst many I have listed above) in the nation under the Barisan National ruling coalition of UMNO and the rest?  Do we really have real peace in the country as prevailing in the country when a large junk of the people could be suffering for all sort of reasons?

I hope the King as the Chief executive of the nation would put the house in order considering that Malaysia Agreement 1963 must be adhered to in the letter and the spirit thereof albeit 54 years belatedly. Prompt and positive actions on good governance long overdue are very much desirable.

Joshua Y. C. Kong  27/4/2017