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Thesun 2009-02-23 Page12 Lets Have Updates On All Graft Cases
Thesun 2009-02-23 Page12 Lets Have Updates On All Graft Cases
Thesun 2009-02-23 Page12 Lets Have Updates On All Graft Cases
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Without fear
or favour?
I SUPPOSE I should congratulate the
MACC chief commissioner for his alacrity
in providing proof of the Selangor Mentri
Besar’s misuse of powers, alas I cannot
bring myself to do so.
Never in the history of Malaysia has an
anti-corruption agency been so efficient.
When the commission was set up, Malay-
sians were buoyed that at last we would
have an agency that would put a stop to
corruption in the country. We expected the
MACC to carry out its function without “fear
or favour”. It is certainly without “fear” but
can we believe without “favour”?
It is naive for the commissioner to make
us believe that his disclosure to the press
“that we have good and strong evidence”
was done in the public interest. The dis-
closure was deliberate – to influence the
public’s perception of the mentri besar.
The episode reeks of political con-
spiracy.
I am not a supporter of corruption,
regardless of who commits it, but I believe
in the law that a person is innocent until
proven guilty.
C.H.Yap
Kuala Lumpur