Speakers' Corner

Occasional contributions from readers, which do not necessarily reflect the views of Sarawak Report but may be published at the discretion of the site

Wait In The Car!

In his latest publicity boob “senior minister” Ismail Sabri is reported as telling shoppers that one person should “wait in the car” while the other shopped. He was referring the new PN ruling allowing two persons to go on shopping trips. Does the “minister”, one wonders, know how many Malaysians do their shopping by car […]

Above The Law

“Senior” Minister Ismail Sabri is reported as excusing MCO breaches by senior members of his party on the ground that they “were only visiting and helping the needy.”  So thats all right then and PN can continue to ignore the law as they and their very highly placed backers have done over the “parliament/Prime Minister”

Sick Of Politics?

Is what “acting prime minister” is reported as saying about the Malaysian public. In a sense, though unintended by him, he is right. The public are most certainly sick of the crooked political manoeuvres by which he found himself in power through the political actions of the Head of State. The public are also sick

No Politics Please

Lengthy Press reports detail the news and actions of the Agong, particularly about the covid epidemic, and all laudatory of the PN “coup” government. It is quite wrong and unconstitutional for the Agong to express political views; which, as Head of State, he should not hold or express publicly. Possibly he thinks that having caused

Why Not?

The Agong having, as prescribed by the Constitution, appointed PN figurehead Muyhiddin as Prime Minister, should be the first among millions of Malaysians to want to see if he had made the correct choice; whatever the means by which he had arrived at it. It is possible, it appears, for the Assembly to meet on

Is Malaysia A Parliamentary Democracy, Or Isn’t It?

When the then Malaya asked for, and was granted, independent nation status in 1957 the agreed arrangements were based on the principle that the new nation would be a parliamentary democracy. That was also the basis of the establishment in 1963 of Malaysia to include the British colonies of Singapore, Sarawak and Sabah. Accordingly an

PN Starves The Needy

PH Assembly members are having to use their personal funds to buy basic foodstuffs for the needy while PN members are provided with public money for the same purpose. How corrupt can politicians get? When even starving citizens is a political tactic. But not one that will win many votes. Those already in the PN

Well Being And National Interest

If such matters are to be used as an excuse for meetings with an illegitimate Prime Minister, in place through official connivance at the highest level, then it would be wise to explain the matters in question publicly and in detail. Vague deflections of queries convince no one and, worse, give rise to what may

Starving The People. Round Two

After the recently exposed scandal of PN supporting GPS in Sarawak trying to limit the issue of food aid to persons selected by its State assembly members, the same despicable attempt appears to have been tried in Semananong; specifically in Penang where a “deputy education “Minister” issued an official letter to the Welfare Department listing

Everyone Must Follow The Covid Rules

Thus “Senior Minister” Ismail Sabri. But it appears that, according to the same “Senior Minister”, everyone does not include what he called people’s representatives. They, and among them must be venal politicians who have “frogged” to PN, can, it appears, visit their constituents. That decision sums up both the idiocy and the venality of PN.

No One Is Above The Law

This often repeated truism was once more trotted out by “Senior Minister” Ismail Sabri when speaking about MCO violators. Whether this is more than verbiage Malaysians will see if the PN violators to whom he was referring, are prosecuted. Or when cows are spotted flying in Malaysian skies. He did, however, probably unintentionally, make the

Rewarding The Thieves

Many Malaysians will be puzzled by the US decision to return part  of the money stolen by Najib and his fellow thieves to an administration clearly in office by a combination of trickery and ignoring the provisions of the Constitution. They will also be puzzled by the apparent fact that this came about through an

Speaking To A Deaf Ear

PH are calling for a session of Parliament to “discuss the Covid crisis”.  While they are right to seek opportunities to correct the mistakes of the illegal PN “government” in that connection and even more right to make public their concern about PN mishandling of the crisis, it is a mistake to try to do

Pre-Cabinet Meetings

Many Malaysians may be interested to learn that the Agong reportedly held a “pre Cabinet meeting” with unconfirmed Prime Minister  Muyhiddin by electronic means. The report in question makes no mention as to whether this meeting was a “one off” due to the virus situation or an “arms length” version of an established practice. The

Heil “Minister”

Minister, sorry “Senior” minister, Ismail Sabri is reported stating that as fines do not appear to deter MCO “violators” they will be imprisoned. Clearly he does not understand that government is by consent, even when obtained by backdoor support, not by diktat. Or do PN actually believe that having got into government by manipulating the

Taxes: What Taxes?

A daughter of ex-prime Minister Najib has reportedly asked a Court for a stay of proceedings against her by the tax authorities in respect of over RM TEN MILLION in unpaid taxes due from 2011 to 2017. Roughly the same period that her father was Prime Minister. While is is good to see the tax

Speak For Yourself!

The IGP has received a public snub from “Senior” Minister Ismail Sabri for having speculated about a possible extension of the MCO. Whatever the view of the PN “government” about this matter may be to snub the IGP publicly instead of having a private word with him further displays both the ignorance of PN “ministers”

Crime? Of Course

But what did you expect? Honesty and a proper use of public funds. From PN? A bad joke at best. Why should anyone expect a government that came into “office” through blatant manipulation of the Constitution, that includes parties and MLA’s whose leadership is facing multiple trials for theft of public funds, and should be

Murder Will Out

As the traditional saying has it. Whether or not murder is in question in connection with the distribution of food supplies in locked down areas of Sarawak, it is undeniable that GPS efforts to restrict the distribution of vital food supplies in the hands of its Assemblymen might well have resulted in deaths from starvation

Big Brother Boasting

“Senior Minister (Security Cluster)” Ismail Sabri is reported in the Press as saying that nearly 1500 Malaysians had been arrested in the past day for flouting the MCO. Has it yet occurred to him that this very high figure results from the failure of his, illegal, “government” to explain the facts to the general public?

High Blood Pressure

According reports a person described as a “staunch supporter of “Senior Minister” Azmin supports re-opening of barber shops on the basis that “haircuts help to reduce high blood pressure”  Unfortunately the report did not inform readers about the medical qualifications of this “ staunch supporter”. Possibly because he does not possess any? He also seems

Rigging Elections Is One Thing, Mass Starvation Is Another

The latest expose of what GPS assemblymen, and, by implication, the GPS leadership, have been up to is nothing less than a mega scandal in attempting to reduce those who oppose GPS to starvation in the face of the lock down. Decades of Taib led misrule have accustomed Sarawakians to expect nothing from their State

Where Are You All, Multimillionaires?

Over the past sixty years a number of Malaysians have become rich, and not just rich but mega rich. Among them, for reasons which they apparently do not care to explain, are many of those most prominent in Malaysian politics life. This may not be the place to go into how those mega millions have

Vote For Me Or Starve

Sarawak hit a new low this week. In a situation of national emergency local politicians grabbed the emergency funds meant to prevent Sarawakians from starving during lock down and blatantly distributed to those whom they know, or think, will vote for them in the upcoming State election. How low can you get? Much lower, it

Corruption Can’t Wait

Some Malaysians might have thought that the “coup” administration of defector Muyhiddin might have waited to see if they win or lose the vote of “no confidence” which even the highest have not been able to scrap or “arrange” Not so. Wholesale purges of government organisations are taking place daily with competent and experienced managers

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