I urge both Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz, the Tourism and Culture Minister, and Wee Ka Seong the Prime Minister Department Minister to inquire at the next cabinet meeting as to whether the issue of excessive consultancy fees paid for Penang Undersea Tunnel Project involved any cabinet minister.
If any Minister or their proxies are involved in the scandal, both should request the Minister concerned to step down immediately in order to ensure no executive interference upon the MACC investigations on the case.
I have reasons to believe that the reason for both MCA and Nazri’s squabble over the attacks towards the national great statesman Tan Sri Robert Kuok is to divert the attention away from MACC investigations directed at UMNO and BN leaders and members concerning the Penang Undersea Tunnel scandal implicating involvement of top UMNO leaders.
The resignation of any Federal cabinet minister being implicated in any form of involvement in the scandal would set a new and historical example of individual responsibility of an executive member of governments of any levels.
The stepping down of a cabinet Minister would start a new beginning for democracy In Malaysia where MACC as an enforcement agency could carry out their investigations without any executive interference.
To further ensure the independence of law enforcement agencies, top posts such as IGP, Attorney General, Auditor General, MACC Commissioner, Director Generals of all federal departments and Federal Judges should be recommended by the executive, and further scrutinized by parliamentary select committees before being submitted for approval by Yang Di Pertuan Agong as a formality under Constitutional Monarchy.
Our democracy would NOT be maturing if the highest officers and civil servants are not subject to law enforcements and individual accountability for their actions.
Besides constitutional reforms, more importantly, the executive members of governments of all levels should shoulder each of their own individual responsibility and accountability than dragging down the whole system of justice for their own mistakes.
Besides the Penang Undersea Tunnel scandal, the cabinet and MO1 have to be both individually and collectively accountable to 1MDB scandal in order to restore Malaysia’s good name in the international arena.