Malays must get rid of corrupted leaders without integrity: Mat Sabu

KUALA LUMPUR – Malays will be a weak people if the community continues to support corrupted leaders instead of punishing them, said Mohamad Sabu (Kota Raja-Amanah).

Speaking in Dewan Rakyat today, Sabu voiced his worry that the ruling coalition parties will utilise dirty tactics and play up race-and-religious-based sentiments to win the hearts and minds of their voters.

“We worry that Malaysia will face the same problem as in Sri Lanka, where they use psychology to force the people to support Bumiputera (candidates) to continue leading them, while not allowing others to rule.

“In our country, it is okay even if you are corrupted, because we must still support Malay Muslims, which have led to greater national debt and an increase in the corruption index.

“At that point, it is already useless as we are already like Sri Lanka,” said the opposition lawmaker when he debated the Constitution (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2022 in the august House today.

Even though Mohamad said he supports the amendment, he still questioned Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob’s “Keluarga Malaysia” administration morals, seeing that they accept traitors into the cabinet.

In fact, he said, Malaysia should follow suit with the action taken by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who tendered his resignation after receiving tremendous backlash from his own party members after he breached his own government’s Covid-19 lockdown laws.

“In Parliament, he (Johnson) apologised for his mistake because while his people were under lockdown, he threw a celebration at his house.

“However, it was not enough for his own party. He was urged by his party, not the opposition, to resign.

“They hold strongly to their morals but for us, morals are no longer an issue.

“Therefore, this wrong value must be erased, in order to develop leaders with better morals to create a parliamentary democratic system that is honoured by the public,” said Mohamad, noting that the bill can be the start to return public confidence into Malaysia’s democratic and political system.

However, he said, it will still take between five to ten years before public confidence can be fully regained after it was damaged by the devilish Sheraton Move. – The Vibes, July 27, 2022