Multi-millionaire, or billionaire? Ex CM of Sarawak Taib Mahmud has issued a message praising the Sarawak Chinese community for its part in nation building!

It is far more accurate to say that that community, or rather a small part of it, has played a vital part in fortune building for Taib himself. While he specialised in the improper issuance of timber felling permits (and profited greatly therefrom) the timber towkays supplied the manpower, machinery and marketing skills needed to destroy the patrimony of the people of the State and to enrich both themselves and their political benefactors.

Would Taib like to explain in detail how, as a salaried politician for decades, he managed to amass his enormous fortune? Attendance at office does not produce personalised Rolls Royces; including the one gathering dust in KL awaiting an occasional visitor from Kuching.

Of course he will not though in the past he has boasted about the extent of his wealth. After GE14 he will have to provide more detailed and satisfactory explanations or face his last years in a Sarawakian prison.