Malaysia must ensure that the Siti Mastura fiasco is the last case of the national decline and that the country will leave such shameful episodes behind and rise up again to become a great world-class nation.
It is a national infamy and ignominy that we have a media illiterate not only as a Member of Parliament but have a PHD conferred on her!
If Siti Mastura have the basic common sense – which any decent educational system should impart to all primary and secondary school students, let alone university students and those having doctorates conferred on them – to check on the truth or falsity of the allegations that I am related to the Malayan Communist Party leader Chin Peng or the founder Singapore premier, Lee Kuan Yew – it is most horrifying error that a PHD holder can change his name to “Lim” Kuan Yew – Siti Mastura will find plenty of material on the Internet challenging the veracity of these allegations.
Leaving aside for the moment the defamatory element on me and those mentioned by her, I ask the Parliament Speaker, Tan Sri Johari Abdul and the Minister for Higher Education, Dato’ Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin to take note and carry out remedial action to check such shocking infamy and ignominy to both the parliamentary and the higher education systems.
Siti Mastura would find plenty of materials on the Internet to rebut the veracity of the allegations and the question is why she had failed to do so.
She would have found my media statement in early 2017 denying the veracity of a “family tree” chart alleging that I am related to Chin Peng and Lee Kuan Yew.
How could Situ Mastura so devoid of common sense and still can get a PHD?
Or as Kee Thuan Chye, the author of two-volume biography on me, remarked: “I know the allegations are false. I’ve recorded it on page 459 of my Volume Two!”
Kee was referring to three paragraphs in page 459 of Voume Two, which said:
“Yet another lie claimed that Kit and other DAP leaders were relatives of the leader of the Malayan Communist Party, Chin Peng, who had died in 2013.
“A ‘family-tree’ was even disseminated online falsely showing that Chin Peng had ancestral ties with Kit, Teresa Kok, Tony Pua, Anthony Loke, Nga Kor Ming, Ngeh Koo Ham, Nizar Jamaluddin, Lim Guan Eng – and even Lee Kuan Yew!
“That sounded like a lark, so Kit dryly responded to it with: ‘Apart from Lim Guan Eng, I have no idea how I could be related to all the other named personalities.’”