Why Musa so quiet on the RM40 million

The high profile case of the RM40 million being "detained" in Hong Kong involving certain individuals from Sabah was investigated both by the MACC and the ICAC, and later was declared as "politic donation" to UMNO.

This huge some of money had raised much attention and question in the country, but the true picture did not surface until today. This has become a common "coffee shop talk" topic and the speculation goes on and getting more interesting. It is widely speculated as some money laundering, associated to timber, corruption money, and now this has developed into "political donation" by certain rich quarters to UMNO.

The question remains that why this huge sum of RM 40 million (in Singapore bank notes) were placed in the lagguage begs to be shipped out from Hong Kong airport as reported in the newspaper. The said cash money could have been transferred through the normal banking procedure via tele-transfer (TT), bank draft or even E-banking. These were not done through the safe conventional banking process in stead of taking a big risk to bring along personally. Why not use the easy and safe way but to take a big risk on being caught or even being robbed? Many said there must be some logical explanation towards the peculiar act on transferring such big sum of money.

Up to date, there are rumors that alleged the money is connected to the Sabah Minister Datuk Musa Aman and his people, but strange enough suddenly this money had became a donation fund for UMNO after so many investigation rounds have been conducted for so many years. Why didn't the money be declared as Political donations. The CM Musa seems in absolute silent and said nothing about this. In order to clear the mist and to demonstrate his creditability, accountability, and transparency as the chief minister of Sabah, he should make an open declaration and explain to the people in Sabah and Malaysia on the RM 40 million. If the money is clean and straight, he should have no worry, and even though the money is a donation, there should be a donor to be made known.

On the other hand, a ruling party like the UMNO when receiving a huge sum of Political Donations can be seen as an act of corruption. This is similar to the cases of civil servants receiving hampers or gifts, and they can be charged for corruption. Why BN government can openly announce the same without worrying being charged?

This incident is a life proof that the BN is no longer creditable and trustworthy to continue as the Malaysia government. It is time for the Malaysian to change and ditch the "Bad Managers"!

Dr Hiew King Cheu MP for Kota Kinabalu