I wish to insert in this article of what I like to call it "honorable" act.
Yes, the decision by Datuk Wira Azhar Abdul Hamid, CEO of Mass Rapid Transit Corporation Sdn Bhd to have announced his resignation over the fatal incident at MRT site in Sg. Buluh that took three lives, is welcomed.
"As the head of MRT Corp, I am taking personal responsibility for the incident and this is the correct thing to do," he said, report The Star.
To me, his decision may not be considered a solution, but mirrors his commitment of accepting responsibility. Scarce (perhaps close to none) in our local atmosphere, his resignation may not be the means of solving the problem but his positive attitude in declaring his responsibility by resigning still, deserved him a compliment.
I think, he could be the first Malaysian to have resign over an incident.
However, as resignation is voluntary in nature, it cannot be regarded as a punishment and cannot be used to flee from everything.
The prime thing to do is to face it (problems), manage it and resolve it before resigning as not to be seen as fleeing the "scene".
Should there be even criticisms following his action (resignation), I still feel he was bold if not decisive in his action and my only hope is that Azhar would be around to assist in every possible way as not to be accused of running away or adopting a hands-off attitude.
In some developed countries, similar incident or situation like the above could land the top gun (head) together with others behind bars.
Would Azhar's action inspire politicians especially ministers or even government heads as well as "chief sitting bulls" of GLCs (Government-Linked Company) to do the same in the event their ministries, departments, companies are plagued with "catastrophes"?
Top guns of MAS (Malaysian Airlines System) for instance, should have done the same when the company was hit with several catastrophes - not only the MH370 and MH17 tragedies but "management tragedies" -which landed the company in the lane of huge losses.
Back to another reality, the Selangor MB crisis - In an unprecedented bid to oust beleaguered MB (chief minister) Khalid Ibrahim, PKR has issued a 40-page dossier containing allegations of Khalid's wrongdoings to Selangor voters/people in particular and Malaysian public in general.
How does Malaysian public digest?
Lets start with the dossier itself.
Kua Kia Soong has thrown some questions that ought to be answered by PKR/PR/it's leaders. Let me repeat what have been asked.
- When was the first of Khalid's malpractices discovered?
- Was the first alleged wrongdoing discovered after the 13th general election since Khalid was reappointed MB (chief minister) after the 2013 election?
- How did Rafizi (PKR's strategy director) the rat-catcher miss out on these alleged malpractices?
- Is Rafizi only a selective rat catcher?
- Has Tian Chua (PKR's vice president) been kept in the dark about Khalid's malpractices since he was quoted as saying only yesterday that Khalid would still be the state economic advisor when Wan Azizah (Anwar's wife) becomes the MB. Or did Tian think these charges are not that serious after all?
- Was it PKR/PR's plan to destroy this dossier if it succeeded in forcing Khalid to step down?
Should the dossier is proven in any court of law ;
- An act of cover-up by PKR/PR/it's leaders.
- That PKR/PR leaders are equally corrupt and dishonest.
- That PKR/PR/it's leaders were agile at finding fault(s) of other(s), but not agile with it's/their own.
- That they don't practice what they preach.
Should the dossier cannot be proven in any court of law ;
- An irresponsible act of manufacturing and/or inventing slanders schemed to character assassinate or undermine own party member(s) to fulfill perpetrators' pre-determined objectives.
- If Umno/it's leaders was/were accused of being unethical by using immoral materials including pornographic video clips to bring down it's/their political opponents (opposition), PKR/PR/it's leaders too solicited similar methodology (except in this case, no pornographic video clips was used).
- The dossier which is akin to a 1998 defamatory book titled 50 Reasons Why Anwar Cannot Become Prime Minister that was published and circulated before the controversial sacking of Anwar Ibrahim as deputy prime minister and party reinforced prejudice or strengthened suspicion that the dossier was not more than an evil scheme.
I may have missed more in both situations - should the dossier is proven or not, in any court of law - but I let readers do the adding (if any).
Aug 27 is still about a week to go and by then, the Selangor MB post crisis is anticipated to enter a new dimension with the returned of HRH Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah, the Selangor Ruler.
If I could share some feedback of what I have heard from Selangor friends relating to the Selangor MB crisis - Azizah's nomination as MB.
"We are more than convinced that the palace would not consent Azizah's nomination."
"Anwar's bid to make his wife MB would go nowhere, even-though he could get all 43 assemblymen to sign the statutory declarations.."
"Read my lips, Sultan will reject Azizah. When that happens, PKR/PR has no choice, but to submit Azmin's name."
"Should an MB would come from PKR, It's going to be Azmin, not Azizah."
"Azmin's act to decline his nomination is only a "face saving" for Azizah, period."
"Azmin is "powerful" in PKR. More powerful than Azizah, actually."
"If Azizah is MB, what she said and does is actually Anwar's and when Anwar is in jail (referring to his sodomy conviction), instructions of the "jailbird MB" would come from prison. Selangor deserves better than that."
"We don't want a puppet MB and we don't want a puppet to run the state."
People are not talking whether Malaysia is ready or not to accept a woman to helm a state or even a nation, and it's not also about sabotaging Azizah and certainly it's not about people's anxiety or even fear of change.
Though it's quite true that people are not comfortable with changes initially, but people could also make evaluation and could forecast/predict the potential effect of such change(s). Changing MB for a state like Selangor is not like changing shirt.
Bearing a status of most developed and richest state of the land, Selangor needs a real competent MB to administer the state and people know as far as Azizah's credential and capabilities are concerned.
We should segregate between running a state and the shouts of rhetoric in politics though we also understand that MB and politics cannot be separated. The issue is more of getting the best eligible politician to undertake the task of MB.
The perception that Azizah would turn around the state or country and make those presently in power in trouble could be a sheer exaggerated perception when she cannot even put her own house in order (the squabbling factions within her PKR party). Thus, it's also never about gender.
I would be more than appalled should there be people (especially woman) who claims that men are opposing to the idea of having women to hold key roles in society, especially politics.
Today, we are witnessing many "Pengarah/Ketua Pengarah" (Director/ Director General) of government's ministries and/or agencies are indeed, women.
People are not saying that Azizah could not do anything, but lets also be rational in not "over-selling" Azizah to do wonders, let alone overhauling the Syariah law in Malaysia when she's silent on the Bible issue affecting Selangor.
Let's not also jump the gun by discrediting those who left PKR. The trouble with hardcore supporters if not fanatical, they would "bash" them as they wish and little that these people realized the root for their exodus.
Khalid Ibrahim's saga is one glaring example where a leader who has contributed to the party is thrown away like throwing away a food wrapper.
I'm not saying Khalid is a saint, but are those leaders in PKR saints?
People are not disputing the fact that Azizah could easily have with her a line-up of advisers (experts in their related fields) to assist her, but she must also posses some level of self-capability being the "woman in-charge".
Let's not make Umno/BN any comparison. Is there a need to do so? What we need is to be a government that practice good governance, period.
I also don't understand these group of people, in a show of support to certain leaders, they would ignore the bounds, in "bashing" anybody seen opposing. That includes "bashing" party or it's leaders within the alliance.
They "bashed" PAS for it's "spineless" endorsement of Azizah's nomination without taking into account PAS' reason(s) for doing so. What these people want is for everybody to just accept blindly whatever their supported leaders ever wanted. As if, their leaders are saints.
Don't they see the fiasco in Selangor was the deeds of several of their supported leaders that has dragged not only Selangor people, but the state into a mess?
If only it's not the situation, Pakatan Rakyat (primarily PKR) would not be widely criticised by netizens even by those who accepted Khalid's removal. Do they know that people are seeing action against Khalid was more to their leaders' own interest than that of people's interest?
Do they know discernible designs surfacing from Aug 9 to 15 which highlights Khalid's past problems don't go down well with people and instead made them more sympathetic of Khalid?
I don't read very much articles by Raja Petra Kamarudin, but I was appalled when I found THIS - DAP tells the Sultan to fuck off
If there's any truth in it, it could change my personal stance of the DAP.
While trying to portray yourself as "Angels" to everything, don't make yourself the unknown "devils".
Aug 27 is still about a week to go and by then, the Selangor MB post crisis is anticipated to enter a new dimension with the returned of HRH Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah, the Selangor Ruler.
If I could share some feedback of what I have heard from Selangor friends relating to the Selangor MB crisis - Azizah's nomination as MB.
"We are more than convinced that the palace would not consent Azizah's nomination."
"Anwar's bid to make his wife MB would go nowhere, even-though he could get all 43 assemblymen to sign the statutory declarations.."
"Read my lips, Sultan will reject Azizah. When that happens, PKR/PR has no choice, but to submit Azmin's name."
"Should an MB would come from PKR, It's going to be Azmin, not Azizah."
"Azmin's act to decline his nomination is only a "face saving" for Azizah, period."
"Azmin is "powerful" in PKR. More powerful than Azizah, actually."
"If Azizah is MB, what she said and does is actually Anwar's and when Anwar is in jail (referring to his sodomy conviction), instructions of the "jailbird MB" would come from prison. Selangor deserves better than that."
"We don't want a puppet MB and we don't want a puppet to run the state."
People are not talking whether Malaysia is ready or not to accept a woman to helm a state or even a nation, and it's not also about sabotaging Azizah and certainly it's not about people's anxiety or even fear of change.
Though it's quite true that people are not comfortable with changes initially, but people could also make evaluation and could forecast/predict the potential effect of such change(s). Changing MB for a state like Selangor is not like changing shirt.
Bearing a status of most developed and richest state of the land, Selangor needs a real competent MB to administer the state and people know as far as Azizah's credential and capabilities are concerned.
We should segregate between running a state and the shouts of rhetoric in politics though we also understand that MB and politics cannot be separated. The issue is more of getting the best eligible politician to undertake the task of MB.
The perception that Azizah would turn around the state or country and make those presently in power in trouble could be a sheer exaggerated perception when she cannot even put her own house in order (the squabbling factions within her PKR party). Thus, it's also never about gender.
I would be more than appalled should there be people (especially woman) who claims that men are opposing to the idea of having women to hold key roles in society, especially politics.
Today, we are witnessing many "Pengarah/Ketua Pengarah" (Director/ Director General) of government's ministries and/or agencies are indeed, women.
People are not saying that Azizah could not do anything, but lets also be rational in not "over-selling" Azizah to do wonders, let alone overhauling the Syariah law in Malaysia when she's silent on the Bible issue affecting Selangor.
Let's not also jump the gun by discrediting those who left PKR. The trouble with hardcore supporters if not fanatical, they would "bash" them as they wish and little that these people realized the root for their exodus.
Khalid Ibrahim's saga is one glaring example where a leader who has contributed to the party is thrown away like throwing away a food wrapper.
I'm not saying Khalid is a saint, but are those leaders in PKR saints?
People are not disputing the fact that Azizah could easily have with her a line-up of advisers (experts in their related fields) to assist her, but she must also posses some level of self-capability being the "woman in-charge".
Let's not make Umno/BN any comparison. Is there a need to do so? What we need is to be a government that practice good governance, period.
I also don't understand these group of people, in a show of support to certain leaders, they would ignore the bounds, in "bashing" anybody seen opposing. That includes "bashing" party or it's leaders within the alliance.
They "bashed" PAS for it's "spineless" endorsement of Azizah's nomination without taking into account PAS' reason(s) for doing so. What these people want is for everybody to just accept blindly whatever their supported leaders ever wanted. As if, their leaders are saints.
Don't they see the fiasco in Selangor was the deeds of several of their supported leaders that has dragged not only Selangor people, but the state into a mess?
If only it's not the situation, Pakatan Rakyat (primarily PKR) would not be widely criticised by netizens even by those who accepted Khalid's removal. Do they know that people are seeing action against Khalid was more to their leaders' own interest than that of people's interest?
Do they know discernible designs surfacing from Aug 9 to 15 which highlights Khalid's past problems don't go down well with people and instead made them more sympathetic of Khalid?
I don't read very much articles by Raja Petra Kamarudin, but I was appalled when I found THIS - DAP tells the Sultan to fuck off
If there's any truth in it, it could change my personal stance of the DAP.
While trying to portray yourself as "Angels" to everything, don't make yourself the unknown "devils".
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