It is Najib who is misleading, dishonest and downright deceitful.
The ‘band of bandits’- he and members of his former administration that aided and abetted the entire 1MDB kleptocracy scandal, still has the audacity to put the blame on the tax holiday to divert the Rakyat’s focus from their own failure to refund the GST Input Tax accumulating to RM19.4billion.
Numbers don’t lie. The Report shows that as at 30/4/2018, there was only RM450 million left in the Consolidated Revenue Account when PH took power, and this is despite all GST collections in its entirety going directly to the Consolidated Revenue Account. The report also shows that as at 30/5/2018, there was only RM152 million (0.78% of Input claims) left in the GST Trust Account, and the total GST Input Tax claim is RM19.4billion.
Section 54(2) of the GST Act 2014 (which has since been repealed) states that all GST revenue must be placed in the trust account where either all or a portion of the money can be then moved to the consolidated account with the Finance Ministry’s approval. What Najib’s did is totally in breach of the clear provisions of GST Act- which was drafted, tabled in Parliament, and approved by his administration. Yet, he wants to put the blame on the PH government who cleared up his mess, by refunding the GST Input Tax to the tax payers?
This is nothing but an act of desperation, by an unrepentant criminal clutching at straws to preserve a perception of innocence, by brute force of deceit and misdirection.
Is this not indisputable admission by Najib’s band of bandits that, the implementation of GST was a desperate act to finance spending behaviours not dissimilar to the purported RM3.3 million a day of credit bills? Is Najib admitting that he was actually depending on future money of others to pay off his previous debts?
The word ‘rompak’, is defined as:
Perompakan merupakan perbuatan jenayah yang bertujuan untuk mengambil harta orang lain secara ganas atau intimidasi, sama ada dilakukan secara perseorangan atau kumpulan
(translated: Robbing is an act of crime intended to take the property of others by terror/force or intimidation, whether carried out individually or by group.)
The word is translated into english directly as ‘rob’, which by Oxford Dictionary’s definition, means to take property unlawfully from (a person or place) by force or threat of force. It further expands on the other uses of the word such as the following.
1.1 informal: Overcharge (someone) for something.
‘Bob thinks my suit cost £70, and even then he thinks I was robbed’
1.2 informal: dialect – Steal.
‘someone had robbed my jacket’
1.3 rob someone of: Deprive someone of (something needed or deserved)
‘poor health has robbed her of a normal social life’
1.4 Soccer: Deprive (an opposing player) of the ball.
‘Hughes robbed Vonk yards inside the City half’
I would conclude that in order for the word ‘rompak’ to be used to describe the act of accused, the act must pass three tests; it must
- show illegality,
- show elements of intimidation,
- show that someone is deprived of something that is rightfully theirs as a result of the act.
Test number one: What was detailed of the GST revenue numbers shows clear contravention of the GST act, hence it being ILLEGAL.
Test number one: On countless occassions, Najib and his band of bandits threatened and intimidated the Malaysian People that the government would not be able to function, and that the nation would not be able to deliver services and development without GST.
Test number three: tens of thousands of of GST input tax claimants were deprived of their claims that the Malaysian economy sorely needed to maintain market capital fluidity.
With all three tests satisfied, Najib’s smokescreen of desperation is nothing less than daylight robbery of the truth that Malaysians sorely need, to restore our nation back to greatness. Not only did he merompak, he also a pencuri, penyamun, penyangak- a claim that we all stand by.