Pak Lah, You Are A Huge Disappointment

The Member of Parliament (MP) of Jasin, Mohd Said Yusof admits that he is the sole proprietor of the forwarding agency, Binyu Sof Enterprise, which transported the consignment of imported sawn timber seized by the Malacca Customs. This gives a new twist to the controversy surrounding the dramatic resignation of Datuk Shahrir Samad as the chairman of the Backbenchers' Club in the parliament of Malaysia. It all started as a story carried on the Malaysia's English dairy, The New Straits Times, reporting that a MP was interfering with the operations of the Customs Office by telling the Director of Customs to "close one eye". Seeing the opportunity, the Leader of Opposition, Lim Kit Siang of the Democratic Action Party (DAP), brought the matter to the Parliament and moved that the said report carried in the NST to be referred to the Rights and Previllages Committee. On normal day this story will usually end here, the National Front (BN) MPs will simply vote it out treating it as just another of the gimicks by the Opposition to attract attentions, and will not even be reported in the news. But not this time, because Datuk Shahrir saw the real issue and its moral seriousness and supported the motion. He urged his comrades to do the same. But the BN MPs did not vote with their clear conscience and opposed Lim's motion. In a fit, Datuk Shahrir resigned from his position as chairman of the Backbenchers' Club, and drew sharp criticism from his collegues, notablily the Minister in the Prime Minister's Department, Datuk Seri Nasri. The matter was widely reported in the media, now this time the BN MPs draws sharp criticism from the public, they cried, "why close only one, better close both eyes!". Malaysia Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi was out of the country at that time and everyone was waiting for him to return and sort this out. On his return, Datuk Badawi announced that all BN MPs should follow party rules a nd vote only for BN MP's motion! (Blindly huh?) This means Datuk Badawi who portrays himself as the champion of anti-corruption in Malaysia has given himself a tight slap on his own mouth. It means that he condorns the action of the BN MPs' action of blocking a motion to investigate corrupt practice of a MP. He is willing to sacrisfy the efforts to curb corruption in favour of political gains. MP of Jasin, Mohd Said Yusof declared, "I admit I'm a businessman, but what's wrong with a MP becoming a businessman?" Nothing wrong, absolutely nothing wrong YB. But using your position as a YB and start to ask enforcement officers to "close one eye" is defenitely wrong. If every YB starts to do the same, what will become of Malaysia?