Liow Tiong Lai wrote in a Twitter post that he has conveyed the feelings of the Chinese community to YAB PM and hoped the prime minister will intervene to put the needless and baseless attack on Robert Kuok to rest.
It is probable that UMNO leaders like Nazri will stop their malicious attacks against Robert Kuok, but that is far from sufficient. Did MCA also demand that Nazri and Tajuddin Abdul Rahman apologize to Robert Kuok?
The words used by these 2 UMNO leaders against Kuok were uncouth and totally uncalled for. In fact even after Robert Kuok’s office issued a statement to deny all allegations that he was funding DAP to topple the ruling BN government, Nazri expressed no remorse for his actions. Does MCA agree with me that he must be held responsible for his gangster-like attitude?
MCA President in his statement did not demand Nazri to apologize. Is it because he knows it will be a futile exercise?
In 2015, the then Agriculture and Agro-based Industries Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob had called on Malays to boycott Chinese business to force the Chinese minority to cut prices.
Putrajaya issued a statement to “clarify” that the minister was referring to all unscrupulous traders and not only the Chinese, but MCA at that point of time insisted that Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob apologised for his “wrong, extreme, and racist remark”.
But did Ismail Sabri ever apologize?
No.
Now the history repeats. This time the victim is not the Malaysian Chinese traders, but one of the most successful Chinese businessmen in Malaysia. But the attack against Robert Kuok is even more “wrong, extreme and racist”.
However, we did not see MCA demanding Nazri to apologize Robert Kuok, despite the fact that Robert Kuok had bailed out their president with RM20 million in Singapore in 1986.
Is it because MCA knows very well that if they cannot secure an apology from Ismail Sabri in 2015, their demand for an apology from Nazri will be futile and only bring embarrassment to themselves?