Dimana Pakatan Rakyat? - by Aegan

Semasa gambar Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak bermain golf bersama Presiden US Barack Obama, Pakatan Rakyat yang diketuai oleh Anwar Ibrahim telah mempersoalkan kenapa beliau tidak membantu rakyat yang sedang menderita dengan banjir di negara ini.

Persoalan saya sekarang, sudah hampir 1 bulan negara kita melanda banjir tetapi sehingga sekarang saya tidak menjumpai Ketua Umum Pakatan Rakyat serta pemimpin-pemimpin Pakatan Rakyat yang lain. Malah, sebuah status telah dipaparkan oleh Anwar dan ia menunjukan lokasi di Cathays Park, United Kingdom.

Adakah ini Resolusi Pakatan Rakyat?

Bila Rakyat Susah, Pakatan Rakyat Hilang? 

My deepest condolences - by Aegan

My deepest condolences to the families and relatives of the passengers of Air Asia QZ8501. In this difficult moment, I share your grief and sorrow. May the souls of passengers QZ8501 rest in peace.

The nation lost a legend – by Aegan

Tan Sri Datuk Haji Dr Ani Arope, a widely admired figure in Malaysian public life, passed away recently, leaving the nation to grieve. Tan Sri was a multi-talented man who was, as one of his many admiring employees once put it, knowledgeable about a wide variety of topics. He caused a stir in 1996 and he chose to resign from the Tenaga Nasional post.

When I first met Tan Sri in his role as chairman of Kumpulan Guthrie Berhad, he was a prominent figure in Malaysia, and people treated him with great deference. But as a senior administrator remarked when Indiana University awarded him the honorary Doctorate of Laws and the Thomas Hart Benton Medallion, Tan Sri was an easily approachable man of good humor.

In many of my conversation with him, it revealed a man highly educated in a classic manner, with knowledge not only of the science of agriculture, but also history, the arts, humanities, current events, and the social sciences. Coupled to his clear commitment to lifelong learning, this made him a wonderfully engaging conversationalist. As with much in his eventful life, Tan Sri approached many things and one of his passion was learning to fly with a commitment to mastery, and he followed through.

From the early 1990 of his tenure as executive chairman of Tenaga Nasional Berhad, Tan Sri made some structural and administrative changes that were strongly resisted by a considerable number of technicians and other employees. Now, TNB was in a far better shape than it had been because of the contribution given by Tan Sri. TNB is the country’s second most valuable company on Bursa Malaysia with over RM78.2bil in market capitalization.

In Sept 1992, a total power blackout engulfed the nation for several days. This landmark engineered incident sparked a privatization of the power generation sector that broke the dawn for Independent Power Producers (IPPs) in Malaysia. He accused those in power in 1992, through the Economic Planning Unit (EPU) of the Prime Minister’s Department which lead by Mahathir Mohamad, had threatened TNB and pushed for the power company to turn over land it owns to the government to be given to Mahathir cronies.

Tan Sri claimed, this orchestrated by Mahathir Mohamad, so that the IPPs companies seen to be close to the government and often dubbed cronies, could then be contracted to build the power plants that were in fact in excess of Malaysia’s electricity demand.

Indeed, the former TNB chief’s accusations speak of a possible rot at the very core of Mahathir Mohamad which by his account not only works to victimize the people but also betrays the rakyat’s trust in it for the sake of lining his cronies’ pockets.

We now know what kind of human Mahathir Mohamad is, willing to holds its own people to ransom and to bring down a democratic elected government.

Why Mahathir so noisy?? - by Aegan

Past few months I saw Tun Mahathir keep condemning towards Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak development for country and community. Why suddenly Mahathir start to questions after 5 years Najib take charge as number one in our country? Is there any hidden agenda from Mahathir?

Yet Mahathir stubbornly refuses to accept or to admit to his mistakes. This is one man who refuses to face up to reality. He is not really interested in the welfare of Malaysians at all, not even the Malays or UMNO. He only wants to save his face and to make sure that his son Mukhriz will become Prime Minister no matter what deals he has to execute with the current batch of UMNO warlords to affect this.

Ruthless and completely selfish, Mahathir would think nothing of creating chaos just to fulfil that ambition. After all, he could de-register UMNO just to stay in power. Imagine what he won’t dare to do to get Mukhriz in as UMNO president. But it is this incessant interfering and trouble-making in UMNO that will be his tenth and last mistake.

Now let’s talk about Mahathir, the suitable person for crony capitalism. A controversial power plant deal which national utility Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB) is now disassociating itself from shows that Mahathir-era crony capitalism still thrives in Malaysia.  

Not only that, Mahathir also choosing the wrong people for the wrong jobs. He also trusted the wrong people. All of the Malays tycoons that he picked had no real business savvy but were merely the trusted aides of former Finance minister Daim Zainuddin. That is why guys like Tajuddin, Halim, Rashid Husein of RHB Bank, Mohd Noor Mutalib and Abdul Rahman Maidin of MRCB fared poorly in the end. Some have even been hauled to court to settle debts.

Mahathir, in his foolishness, made was to pool the major part of the nation’s wealth in the hands of a few. This time he included non-Malays millionaires such as Vincent Tan, Robert Kuok and Ananda Krishnan. Tan has just announced his retirement, Kuok unhappy with the worsening racial system in the country has chosen to stay Hong Kong, while Ananda is wanted by the Indian authorities for allegedly having corruptly wangled a telecoms licence to buy into Aircel.

During his era non-Malays, of course, they have felt the pinch more. Many have been forced to go overseas to work and to study. That’s right, educational and employment opportunities are scarce for the non-Malays in the country. Again, the only group that benefited were the elite in the party, their families and cronies.

Even Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad took responsibility today for Ops Lalang in the year 1987 which security crackdown that saw a number of opposition politicians and government especially Chinese’s, dissenters detained under the Internal Security Act (ISA).

So Mahathir – despite his self-praise – was in fact rather short-sighted. Money was far more important to him than he cared to admit.

Government Help Abandoned Projects For The People - By Aegan

After I read the article “Abandoned housing project: Whose fault is it?” by TK Chua. I would like to take this opportunity to review my opinion to this article. Prime Minster said that he will rehabilitate the abandoned 12 years housing projects. I am not denied that this abandoned housing project is between the buyer and developer but Prime Minister just concern about the buyer which have paid the down payment. The reason government going to rehabilitate the abandoned house is to ensure all the buyer get the justice because current market value on housing price is to high compare to those days.

TK Chua you also should understand the current situation of our country towards development, government cannot simply leave the abandoned housing area because we are focusing toward 2020 century.

Why not we think this as a good come up from government toward assist the society which need the help from government because the people are waiting the subsidies from government.

Not only that TK Chua also stated the poor regulation, corruption and the lack of monitoring and enforcement in the housing industry is the problems of abandoned housing projects. If you refer to 12 years back abandoned housing projects which stated by Prime Minister, the government is rolling by Former Prime Minster Tun Mahathir not current Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak. Due to that I don’t think so if we blame current government is sufficient.

Take this as a great opportunity to questions back Tun Mahathir. Past few months I saw Tun Mahathir was criticize toward Prime Minister leadership and development but he forgets what he have done when he was Prime Minister. Too much of corruptions and crony capitalism in Malaysia when Tun Mahathir are Prime Minister example is this abandoned housing projects. Now the true are come out ready.  

You also said that government is going to use resolve using taxpayers’ money, can I ask u how much you sure about this? Don’t forget government have their own fund under PR1MA. They might use that money to develop the abandoned housing project.

Rescuing abandoned housing projects is grants and subsidies house buyer, not help extended to developer.