January 2, 2012
Political Secretary to Menteri Besar, Selangor responds to RPK
KENYATAAN AKHBAR
Saya terpanggil untuk memberi komen selepas membaca temubual eksklusif bekas rakan reformasi yang juga Penulis Blog, Raja Petra Kamarudin (RPK) bersama akhbar-akhbar milik UMNO yang disiarkan semalam.
Meskipun saya menghormati hak RPK melakukan analisa politiknya namun saya berasa mushkil dan sesungguhnya hanya beliau seorang sahaja yang mengetahui logik sebenar kenyataan tersebut.
Pada masa yang sama saya percaya rakyat boleh menilai sendiri kenyataan dan dakwaan yang dibuat oleh RPK seperti disiarkan The Sunday Times dan Berita Minggu – dua akhbar yang dulunya pernah mengkritik dan mengutuk RPK secara keras kerana menentang Kerajaan Barisan Nasional.
Walau apapun sebab yang membawa kepada tindakan akhbar-akhbar tersebut bertukar selera serta ghairah memberi keistimewaan kepada RPK, yang pasti RPK harus bertanggungjawab ke atas apa yang beliau telah katakan.
Tuduhan beliau bahawa wujud amalan rasuah di Selangor; duit kopi yang melibatkan para usahawan berbangsa Cina, adalah tuduhan serius. Kami menuntut RPK untuk tampil memberikan butiran lanjut kepada Kerajaan Negeri dan pihak berwajib agar penyiasatan terperinci dapat dilakukan.
Kerajaan Negeri bersedia membayar kos perjalanan RPK ke Pejabat Pentadbiran Kerajaan kerana untuk makluman RPK Kerajaan Negeri Selangor telah memperuntukkan sejumlah RM15 juta untuk membasmi rasuah dan penyalahgunaan kuasa di Negara ini khususnya di Selangor. Jumlah tersebut termasuk di dalam Geran Selangorku yang diumumkan oleh YAB Dato’ Menteri Besar ketika pembentangan Belanjawan 2012 yang lalu.
Sesungguhnya inilah sekecil-kecil jasa yang beliau boleh lakukan untuk membantu kerajaan yang benar-benar mahu membenteras rasuah; apatah lagi beliau sendiri dari darah bangsawan negeri Selangor. RPK tidak seharusnya melemparkan dakwaan liar hanya semata-mata mahu memperlekeh usaha Kerajaan Negeri untuk mewujudkan sebuah pentadbiran yang baik, bersih dan penuh pertanggungjawaban.
Kami sesungguhnya simpati dan amat memahami kekecewaan beliau yang terpaksa hidup dalam buangan di tengah-tengah permasalahan peribadi yang beliau hadapi, tetapi dengan melemparkan dakwaan liar sebegini tidak akan membantu membawanya pulang ke negara ini. Sebaliknya ianya hanya akan mencemarkan lagi imejnya yang sudah sediakala tercalar.
Rata-rata teman reformasi yang sempat dihubungi serta rakyat biasa, telahpun membuat kesimpulan bahawa RPK begitu terdesak serta mengharapkan kebebasan dan dibenarkan pulang ke negara ini. Insuransnya mudah; tohmahan dan fitnah terhadap Kerajaan Negeri Selangor dan Penasihat Ekonomi Negeri, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim sebagai serangan awal menghadapi pilihan raya umum.
Faekah Husin
Setiausaha Politik kepada
YAB DATO’ MENTERI BESAR SELANGOR
I have criticised Anwar some one and half years ago on this blog despite brickbats thrown at me and SOME even asking the bloghost to remove me here, some accused me as an UMNO-BN supporter.
He should know when the odds are severely STACK against him and his responses to those allegations are found wanting to convince some of his friends and supporters.
It does not take long for those who care to discern the behaviour of politicians and how they respond to crises in their lives or in their career.
Anwar COULD HAVE been a BETTER politician than what he is today IF HE HAD TAKEN a DIFFERENT direction on his leadership role as Pakatan’s Opposition leader.
He should know when the odds are severely stake against him and his responses to those allegations are found wanting to convince some of his friends and supporters.
The man has too many unresolved skeletons in the cupboard and his continued presence in the limelight of Opposition politics has become a liability.
I had said so two years ago that Anwar spent too much in the conference and seminar rooms of Washington, New York, London,Los Angeles and Paris TALKING ABOUT democracy and Islam and not giving due time and resources to strengthen the opposition coalition.
But the man is indignant on wanting to achieve an ambition which was destroyed by Kutty Supremo and his former friends and allies in UMNO when he was DPM. Anwar’s single-mindedness to be PM has blinded the bigger picture which he had painted for Malaysians after the March 2008 election.
Thus today, the criticism is mounting that Anwar is more interested in his personal salvation than the salvation of the country.
Anwar’s integrity and reputation are beginning to crumble like a house of cards.
As I said, there are acceptable leaders to Malays, non Malays in PAS who can take on the mantle to lead Opposition coalition.
RPK was a fellow traveler with Anwar and a stronger of Anwar and what Anwar had believed. I can only guess that RPK’s disappointment had reached a critical mass. And so are many others.
History will record Anwar as a tragic hero. His incarceration earned him the sympathies of many a Malaysian. But he over-spent unwisely the compassion and sympathy of his supporters and friends.
He could have used that sympathy to further the better good of the country, especially after MARCH 2008.
But he didn’t.
Anwar Ibrahim is too obsessed with being Prime Minister to listen to advice and that is why he is in the pits today. He is also taking DAP and PAS for granted. Now he is paying the price and his political downfall is imminent. Cry Geranimo.
We talk about free speech and equality all the time as if it is the monopoly of UMNO-BN government. Yet when someone criticizes and makes allegations albeit unsupported by evidence about the abuse of power and corruption among high level state government officials we react with subtle threats to his security.
Citizen Raja Petra Kamaruddin can say what he thinks. We call that freedom of speech. Get used to it.
ooops …. we talk about restrictions to free speech and equality all the time as if it is the monopoly of UMNO-BN government.
Why give this turncoat his fifteen minutes of fame by issuing press statements? We can think for ourselves.
“Anwar Ibrahim is too obsessed with being Prime Minister to listen to advice and that is why he is in the pits today” — Tok Cik turned Apache Chief
That is his constitutional right i.e. to aspire to a be anything he likes even if that includes being the occupant of the most powerful office in the country. Call that the Malaysian Dream. You are welcome to have a piece of that Malaysian Dream. Just like two old geezers here are welcome to a piece of the American Dream.
Anwar for all his shortcomings has riled up the base of the Opposition the way no one could. We could at least give that to the guy.
DSAI and RPK can aspire and do what they like as citizens of this country. I think the focus should not be on personality but the cause. DSAI happened to be the man of the moment and a thorn in the ruling party’s flesh as he is the only one who can unite albeit loosely 3 major parties with very different philosophies.
The opposition must be united in practical terms to capture Putrajaya. That would be the best present they can ever give to the long suffering rakyat. There onwards the rakyat must be vigilant so that the new rulers wouldn’t lose their clothes.
But the point some are making is that Anwar Ibrahim is too absorbed (and hence distracted) in his quest for power domestically and popularity abroad that he abdicates his responsibiliy as Opposition leader.
I don’t know why people are making a big deal if Anwar aspires to become the PM. That’s his ambition and I’m pretty sure everybody has some sort of ambition. Maybe having ambition is something foreign in Malaysia. No wonder Singapore said au revoir to us and went on to become a developed nation.
…i’ve always follow & admire rpk’s revelation & write-ups bcoz he never failed to support it with material facts & figures…BUT…this time around, I DON’T KNOW…APA PUNYA MANUSIA LAH DIA NI !!!…itu pun kalau boleh di gelar manusia !!!
I don’t know why people are making a big deal if Anwar aspires to become the PM.- didi
True, but at what cost to the party you lead and to Opposition politics. That is the issue.
The journey to the Prime Ministership is via the party and the coalition of parties you lead and not as a PERSONAL journey. That was Anwar’s problem.
Malaysians are beginning to see Anwar wanting to be PM for himself and not for Pakatan Raktyat.
Anwar has been perceived to enjoy being gloated upon by Western leaders and western media and he spent LESS time than he should talking especially to the Malay constituency in the rural areas. The majority of the urban constituency are the converted.
Anwar has the gift and the oratory to bring the rural Malay heartland to the Opposition, yet how often in the past two years had he done that? He prefered to “wow:” the audience in coat and tie in New York, Washington, London and Paris, instead of in Kg Chempaka or in Sg Bedah in some remote places in Pahang or Perak.
Money does wonders
And lots of MONEY can do lots of WONDERS!
I wonder.
let him the so called raja speak his mind la…I dunt even believed this one raja… the only raja I do believe is raja gopal la…
let this raja alone with his all rumblings and mumblings as he is the one who knows everything…heheheh? please?
again… RPK said time and time again “didnt I told you so…. in his MT” that he claimed all true nothing but the true. Whilst he also reminded us that whatever in STAR/NST/Utusan/Berita or even TVs that pro gov… is all nothing but lie.
So when he “thinks” are true story he will write in his blog… whatever he thinks are not so right or “lies” … go and rush to NST or TV3 or Utusan… definitely these MSM will carry the story 120% with sweetener added..
Do I just chewed what he said?… no not at all…