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Why many people don’t mind bribes?
People traded their values and costs
for an influence and power from ancient times and afterwards also used them to
control others. In The Kingdom of Hungary the first marks of buying over or
corruption appeared in the 15th century. Judges used to accept so called
pre-hearing gifts then, which was permitted and therefore allowed by law. Since
then bribes became a natural part of pursuing one’s interests throughout
human evolution up to these days.
To illustrate the situation when
people don’t mind bribes, let’s take an exemplary profession. Imagine you work
as a judge. You’re on an average salary, it rather seems your performance
evaluation of your professional status is inadequate. You tell your friends
you’re doing fine and don’t know what to do with money, in fact you’re not that
well-off. You’re frustrated and here comes a client who thinks his case is
endangered and his opponent has enough evidence to beat him. But your client
can’t afford to lose, so he offers you a gift as a sign of friendship,
usually cash. Desiring money you wish that much, you don’t think of justice or
moral values, so you don’t mind being bribed.
The root of the problem lies in the
question – why do people accept bribes willingly? Some of them do because every
month they have the same figure on their payslip they are not satisfied with
and simply can’t afford a new Audi. Some of them might enjoy it. They feel
more important and the excitement they get makes them feel like
a big-league. Finally, there are people who had no option, they have lack
of money using most of the wage to pay mortgage and are thankful for a roof
over their head. Extra money are always welcome and moral principles left
behind.
The most exposed professions are
doctors, judges and politicians. In other words the offices that directly
influence people and their lives. A more influential politician has such
competence that even a president doesn’t have. He can do almost whatever
he likes. In Slovakia deputies make the most of it – they do whatever they like.
Thereafter they become a target of bribes. And as they are untouchable,
they accept the bribe harmlessly. They don’t mind which bill they legislate or
who they liberate. They also need to make a living out of something, don’t
they? Let’s say a doctor can’t guarantee a safe surgery but if you
pay, you might get the term a few months earlier. But not anybody can
afford to be privileged. That’s why it’s one of the filthiest and most unfair
things to do – offering or accepting a bribe in health service. But you can still
see the Dubai holiday photos of your ‘guardian angel’ pinned around his office.
And no, he was not working night shifts.
To understand why people are willing
to get bought, let’s have a brief look at history again. Our civilization
is very selfish since its beginning. Let’s take Adam from Paradise, he couldn’t
resist and to fulfill his desire, he picked the Apple from a tree and ate
it. God punished him and Eve by expelling them from Paradise. And so we, our
generation spoilt by materialism, can’t turn down offers appearing as better
future to us. Man is incorrigible, he will make the same mistake at least twice
in his life and so we behave selfishly like Adam. And it is also going to
revenge on us as it has in his case.
Despite of the fact that everyone
individually is responsible for offering / accepting a bribe, I think
that people are behind that social fiasco. It’s a pyramide with state
authorities bribed by higher classes, mafia and rich investors. So everyone
should ask himself in this new regime called capitalism, „Am I ready or am
I not to betray myself?“
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A vice-president of Parti Warisan Sabah – described as a
“key ally” of party president Datuk Seri Shafie Apdal – has been arrested after
being called in to give a statement to the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission
(MACC).
He is believed to be among three people arrested in connection with
alleged fraud involving rural projects.
Sources close to the vice-president said several other businessmen were
also called in by the MACC to have their statements recorded in connection with
alleged fraud involving rural projects.
They said he was detained yesterday and is expected to be remanded
today. There are three vice-presidents in Parti Warisan Sabah – Datuk Peter
Anthony, Datuk Jaujan Sambakong and Junz Wong. The detained man is said to be
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Hamid
Apdal, the brother of Part Warisan Sabah (Warisan) president Mohd Shafie Apdal,
has been arrested by MACC.
Sources told Malaysiakini Hamid was
arrested at 9.30pm, after around three hours of questioning at the MACC office
in Kota Kinabalu.
Hamid had turned up at the MACC office at 10am today after the
commission failed to locate him at his house last night.
Malaysiakini understands that Hamid was taken
to his house at 3.30pm with five MACC officers in Putatan.
The MACC officers were seeking evidence to facilitate their
investigation into the alleged siphoning of funds for rural development
in Sabah.
They were there until 6pm, before Hamid was taken back to the
MACC office.
According to The Star Online, at least two Sabah
assemblypersons and another senator are also expected to be called in to give
their statements.
A BN component party senator was released yesterday after having
his statement recorded over the matter, added the report.
Earlier today, two Sabah Umno Youth leaders and a
Warisan Youth chief were remanded for
five days pertaining to the case.
Umno Youth information chief Jamawi Jaafar, who is also Tenom
Umno Youth chief, was detained along
with Warisan Youth chief Mohd Azis Jamman at the Sabah MACC headquarters
in Kota Kinabalu yesterday.
The third person, Tawau Umno Youth chief Ariffin Kassim, was
arrested at the graft buster's office in Tawau.
Jamawi is currently serving as a special officer in the
Communications and Multimedia Ministry, and it is learned that his arrest was
in regard to his tenure as an aide to Mohd Shafie when the latter was rural and
regional development minister.
Mohd Azis was Semporna Umno Youth chief before he left the party
and subsequently joined Warisan.
The remand on Warisan vice-president Peter Anthony, who was
arrested last Thursday, was also extended to a further three days, from the
original five.
The arrests are in connection with funds allegedly misappropriated from projects in Sabah, which were to be carried out by the Rural and Regional Development Ministry prior to Shafie's sacking during the Cabinet reshuffle in 2015.
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Dragnet over Sabah Politicians
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Dragnet over Sabah Politicians
Sabah’s
leading opposition party Warisan has been rocked by the arrests of some of its
top leaders in connection to MACC’s probe into allegations of
embezzlement.
DATUK Seri Shafie Apdal stepped out
of the arrival hall at the Kota Kinabalu airport wearing a big smile.
The Warisan president’s smile widened
when cries of “Lawan Barisan” and “Undi Warisan” rose from the group of
supporters and top Warisan leaders waiting for him.
But reporters waiting for him could
sense that he was not quite his usual self.
His vice-president Datuk Peter
Anthony had been detained for questioning by the MACC and rumours swirled of
more politicians to be picked up in connection to the embezzlement of rural
development funds.
The saying that money makes the world
go round applies beautifully in Sabah’s politics and the arrests had sent
jitters through political circles in the state.
“Outwardly, he seemed in control, but
there was something in his voice, some kind of tension there,” said The Star’s Sabah bureau chief Muguntan
Vanar who has, over the years, learnt to read Shafie like a book.
Shafie was obviously upset that
fingers were being pointed at him. As reporters crowded around him, he riffled
though the black backpack of his Youth chief Azis Jamman and held up several
sheaves of letters to show the high KPIs during his time as Rural and Regional
Development Minister.
“Out of 10 in 2009, we scored 8. See,
signed by Najib (Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak). And this one, congratulating the
ministry. When I was in the Government, my performance was good but now, I did
something wrong?” he said, holding up the letters.
The former Cabinet minister was in
town for a political gathering in Tenom. The next day, he and several other
party leaders took a train from Beaufort to Tenom.
The train broke down midway and
Shafie had a field day on stage, holding up his train ticket as he poked fun at
Sabah’s infrastructure. He said that if he wins, he will build a high-speed
train from Kota Kinabalu to Tenom.
Tenom is a fertile valley synonymous
with the Murut community and one of the oldest Chinese settlements in Sabah.
His party is eyeing the Tenom parliamentary seat which Barisan Nasional won by
about 4,000 votes in a five-corner fight.
The ceramah drew
a massive crowd and he gave what his vice-president Junz Wong described as a
“powerful speech”.
Shafie is ordinarily soft-spoken and
gentle but put him on stage and suddenly, there is this big voice coming from
this slight-build man. It was also quite an angry speech, a sign that he was
anticipating the political storm ahead.
He defended Peter who had been
brought to the Kota Kinabalu court that very morning in handcuffs and wearing
that dreaded orange lock-up t-shirt.
He told the crowd: “Don’t make
judgement while the investigation is still on. I have said we will comply and
cooperate with MACC.”
He called Peter “my young brother”.
The media had referred to him as Shafie’s “key ally” but everyone knows that
Peter is the “money man” in Warisan even though the party treasurer is Terence
Siambun, the Moyog assemblyman who hopped over from PKR.
The media had zeroed in on Peter when
he appeared in court whereas Sabah insiders said the person to watch is the
nondescript-looking but well-connected businessman, Yu Sin Kong, who was also
remanded for questioning.
Peter’s arrest had been the talk of
the town. He is quite a colourful character in Kota Kinabalu where everyone
knows about what everyone is up to. He is said to have worked for Shafie when
the latter was a minister although it is unclear what kind of job he did.
Peter, 46, started out working at a
local nightclub known as Strawberry Lips where he got to know the who’s who in
town. With his boyish good looks and agreeable personality, he made friends
easily and by the time he was in his mid-30s, he was rubbing shoulders with
people who mattered in politics and business and, as they say, he was on a
roll.
There were also stories about an
exclusive penthouse where people would go to unwind, network and make deals.
“We used to call him Nokia – you
know, good at connecting people,” said a former Umno MP from Sabah.
Peter made news several years ago for
waving his pistol at the Kapitan Cina in the Lido commercial enclave over a
parking problem. He is also the managing director of Asli Jati Engineering
which gets lucrative projects which he claimed was through competitive bidding.
He has been on MACC’s radar screen
since 2012 when allegations surfaced about his company making false claims of
up to RM45mil for a Universiti Malaysia Sabah contract. He claimed that MACC
has cleared him of wrongdoing.
It has been a dramatic week for
Warisan but Umno politicians are also nervous, unsure how far the MACC dragnet
will be cast.
The Rural and Regional Development
Ministry which Shafie headed from 2009 till 2015 was like an octopus whose
tentacles spread far and wide in Sabah. Many politicians benefited from it.
Some used the money correctly, others less so.
Sabah is not one of those places
where bridges are built where there are no rivers. But as Datuk Lajim Ukin,
president of Parti Harapan Rakyat Sabah pointed out, there have been instances
where roads are built in the middle of nowhere, electric poles erected without
cables and water pipes installed with no water.
“Umno politicians got a lot of
projects from his ministry. He was generous, that’s how he won the Umno
vice-president post,” said the above Umno politician.
The latest scandal allegedly involves
the siphoning of RM1,5bil from an allocation of RM7.5bil meant for rural
development funds in Sabah over the last six years. MACC is also investigating
some 60 companies many of which have Umno connections.
MACC has seized cash amounting to
RM150mil from 15 locations and frozen assets amounting to RM29mil. There are
all kinds of gossip about these locations, the personalities behind them and
even what RM150mil looks like.
“The way I see it, the ‘taps’ have
been turned off, the funds will dry up. Without funds, it’s hard to mobilise or
campaign in Sabah because you are not going to get votes talking about 1MDB.
And this is only the start,” said CENSE think-tank CEO Fui K. Soong who is from
Sabah.
On Sunday night, Azis, who was
sending off Shafie at the airport, received a call that the MACC wanted to meet
him. The alarm bells went off and his deputy president Darell Leiking who was
at his cousin’s wedding rushed to the MACC office.
The tall and handsome Azis whose
father is Shafie’s cousin, was detained the next day and by Tuesday, it was his
turn to wear orange when he appeared in court to be remanded.
The orange t-shirt does not seem to
have the same connotation in Sabah and a defiant Azis flashed a cynical smile
and held up his handcuffed hands to show the “W for Warisan” hand sign –
outspread palms with thumbs joined in a “W” shape.
Two Umno politicians – the Youth
chiefs for Temom and Tawau, Jamawi Jaafar and Ariffin Kassim – were also
arrested in connection to the same scandal but they kept their heads down.
Jamawi was a former aide to Shafie
and the arrest could not have come at a worse time. He had contested the Umno
Youth No. 2 post in 2013 and is actually quite a good grassroots man but his
arrest may have put him out of the running as a candidate in the general
election.
Warisan’s Wong, who is also Likas
assemblyman, has slammed the arrests as political intimidation and selective
prosecution.
“It’s to discredit Warisan leaders as
the general election gets nearer,” he said.
Shafie likes to tell people that he
does not have deep pockets but his Warisan events all over Sabah suggest that
his party is not short of funds or organising skills.
Their events often feature an
impressive stage with a fancy backdrop, a fantastic sound system with music,
and air-blowers to cool those onstage. There are also big tents and lots of
chairs filled by people who try to kiss his hand.
His party does things in style and
even in far-flung villages, Shafie will be escorted by party officials in their
Warisan shirts, with party flags fluttering in the wind and even a kompang in the background.
It is not surprising that in Sabah,
Umno versus Warisan has been likened to Cash versus Money.
The Warisan logo denotes a sailboat
floating above a pair of hands and rice stalks. The boat carries the people’s
hope, the hands are to unite the east and west of Sabah while the rice stalks
are about the needs of the people.
The sailboat is in stormy seas and a
recent Facebook posting of the party logo was tweaked to show a MACC gunboat in
pursuit of the Warisan sailboat.
Shafie’s younger brother Hamid Apdal
has also been arrested and the question on everyone’s lips is whether the net
is closing in on Shafie.
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KUALA LUMPUR: Political literacy is
important to rein in those who have reached the eligible age to register as
voters.
Politicians across the divide agree
that maturity and knowledge on current issues or policies should be the pull
factor for people to participate in the democratic process.
Umno Supreme Council member Professor
Tan Sri Ibrahim Abu Shah said while there was nothing wrong with subscribing to
political sentiments or causes, it was pertinent for the public to make
decisions based on the policies crafted by respective governments.
Abu Shah does not agree with
enforcing an automatic voter registration system, which could lead to votes
made by a less-informed electorate.
“Voting is a right and power given to
the people. An auto-registration is not the answer to mitigate imbalances
created by low voter registration.
“Instead, it is important for the
people to be educated on voting and what it means in a democratic society,” he
said.
Moreover, people should realise that
the voting process itself is not apolitical, should political fatigue be the
main reason that deters people from registering.
“The act of voting is apolitical in
nature. It is something that the public should be aware of. Yes, you can vote
for your political stance.
“But it is more important to vote for
parties with the best policies formulated to take the nation forward,” Ibrahim
said.
Echoing Ibrahim’s sentiment is MCA
central committee member Datuk Seri Ti Lian Ker, who said a soft approach in
educating potential voters was essential in developing maturity among the
electorate.
Ti said only those who were
politically savvy should vote, instead of impressionable groups whose votes
might derail the nation’s trajectory.
“Maturity is very important in
granting mandates to the preferred party.
“Hence, I agree that education and
campaign drives are the most suitable approaches when it comes to encouraging
the public to register as voters.
“Malaysia is a young nation. Not all
segments of society are politically mature.
“For instance, if voter registration
is made compulsory, you will have groups of people voting in protest instead of
voting for what is right.”
PKR communications director Fahmi
Fadzil said the voter registration awareness should not be carried out by the
EC alone.
“Importance should be placed on
reeducating the public on the importance of voting, and such endeavours need to
be a multi-pronged approach.
“Rather than placing the task on the shoulders of the Election Commission, it is better for civil societies and non-governmental organisations to participate in inculcating awareness about the system and policies laid out in government administration and the country’s democratic process.”
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