1. Akhbar lapor bahawa Singapura memerlukan bekalan elektrik dan akan beli dari Malaysia.

2. Mungkin kerana itu Kementerian Tenaga dan Sumber Asli mengeluarkan kenyataan bahawa hanya bekalan dari punca yang non-renewable sahaja yang boleh dieksport ke Singapura. Juga eskport melalui saluran milik swasta tidak dibenar.

3. Tetapi umum tahu bahawa kita sedang eksport air ke Singapura dengan harga 3 sen seribu gelen. Kita juga tahu seludupan pasir laut dan darat sedang dilakukan.

4. Sebaliknya jika kita eksport tenaga dari cahaya matahari dan angin, Malaysia tidak kehilangan apa-apa.

5. Saya kurang faham dengan dasar Kerajaan hari ini. Dengan keputusan ini pelaburan yang tidak kecil dan peluang kerja terhalang.

Najib Razak

6. Najib Razak telah dihukum penjara dan denda kerana kesalahan money laundering.

7. Kononnya kerana ia membuat rayuan hukuman tidak dilaksana.

8. Tarikh kes rayuan ialah pada April 2021. Sepanjang masa ia bebas seperti orang yang tidak salah. Kes tidak didengar kerana bermacam alasan.

9. Dia boleh hadir ke Dewan walaupun tidak dapat ke mahkamah. Adakala kononnya sakit.

10. Mahkamah Rayuan mendengar rayuan Najib. Tetapi keputusan ditangguh. Sudah enam bulan berlalu. Mahkamah belum buat keputusan.

11. Sekarang banduan ini dibenar ke Singapura.

12. Peguam Negara tidak bantah

13. Najib ubah tarikh kerana dipilih oleh UMNO sebagai pengurus dalam pilihan raya Melaka. Ini juga dilulus.

14. Bilakah Najib akan dapat keputusan Mahkamah Rayuan. Jika didapati bersalah, Najib akan rayu kepada Mahkamah Persekutuan.

15. Ini juga akan ambil masa. PRU ke-15 pun sudah tiba. Najib belum disah oleh Mahkamah Persekutuan yang ia bersalah.

16. Tentu boleh bertanding dalam PRU-15.

17. Rakyat tentu berbangga. Curi 10-ringgit masuk penjara serta merta.

18. Curi satu billion-ringgit boleh lepas dari penjara.

19. Ramailah penyangak dan perasuah sekarang bebas menjelajah seluruh dunia sementara hukuman ditangguh atau pertuduhan dibatal.

20. Sekali lagi dunia kagum melihat Malaysia, contoh demokrasi yang liberal di mana yang menang kalah, yang kalah menang, yang curi sedikit dipenjara, yang curi bertimbun bebas.

21. Syabas Malaysia.

1. Tidak wajar kita banding Langkawi dengan Pulau Batu Puteh.

2. Langkawi adalah pulau yang diiktiraf sebagai pulau milik Malaysia sedangkan Pulau Batu Puteh ialah beting atau dengan izin sandbank yang dituntut oleh dua negara.

3. Langkawi tidak pernah dituntut oleh Siam dan pegawai Kerajaan negeri Kedah tidak pernah menyatakan kepada Siam bahawa Kedah tidak anggap Langkawi bukan milik Kedah.

4. Sebaliknya Kerajaan Johor melalui surat telah menyatakan bahawa Johor tidak menuntut Pulau Batu Puteh sebagai milik Kerajaan Johor.

5. Kemudian Malaysia mendakwa Pulau Batu Puteh adalah milik Malaysia. Maka ini dipertikai oleh Singapura. Dan berlakulah kontroversi.

6. Percubaan secara rundingan untuk Malaysia memiliki semula Pulau Batu Puteh bertahun-tahun tidak berjaya. Singapura masih mendakwa Pulau Batu Puteh adalah milik Singapura.

7. Apa pilihan kita?

8. Kita boleh berperang untuk rampas Pulau Batu Puteh. Tetapi kos dan korbanan jiwa amat tinggi. Ia tidak dapat diterima oleh kita. Lagi pun belum tentu kita menang.

9. Kita terus berunding tetapi tidak menghasil apa-apa keputusan.

10. Kita, dan juga Singapura bersetuju untuk rujuk kepada International Court of Justice (ICJ).

11. Tetapi untuk ini kedua-dua pihak perlu berjanji secara bertulis akan menerima apa sahaja keputusan yang dibuat oleh ICJ. Tidak ada rayuan terhadap keputusan ICJ. Keputusan ICJ adalah muktamad.

12. Rujukan kepada ICJ hanya akan diterima oleh ICJ jika perjanjian menerima tanpa soal dan keputusannya dihormati.

13. Negara yang bermaruah mesti hormati janji. Hanya negara yang tidak bermaruah yang akan mungkir janji.

14. Muktamad adalah muktamad. Jika sebuah negara tidak hormati janji, tidak ada negara lain yang akan buat perjanjian dengan negara berkenaan. Ia menjadi negara pariah.

15. Sebab itu sebelum berjanji kajian sedalam-dalamnya perlu dibuat. Jika tidak yakin jangan buat janji.

16. Malaysia mempunyai dasar liberal dalam pemilikan tanah. Siapa sahaja boleh milik tanah. Bukan warganegara pun boleh milik tanah.

17. Ini mendedahkan negara pada kehilangan tanah yang sudah dimiliki oleh orang asing. Jika sebahagian yang besar tanah dimiliki oleh orang asing maka negara sudah tidak lagi secara fizikal, tanah milik warganegara.

18. Inilah yang berlaku di Singapura. Walaupun Singapura asalnya milik negeri Melayu, hari ini ia sudah jadi negara asing.

19. Hari ini walaupun negara ini dikenali sebagai Tanah Melayu, tetapi orang Melayu sendiri sudah kehilangan tanah mereka. Nasib baik yang memiliki tanah yang bernilai tinggi dan besar dimiliki oleh warga Malaysia.

20. Satu lagi cara untuk hilang negara ialah dengan menjual tanah yang digali dalam negara atau laut milik negara kepada negara lain. Secara langsung kita menjual sebahagian dari negara kepada negara lain. Jika tanah yang dijual adalah untuk menambak dan membesar negara lain, dia tidak berbeza dengan menjual bahagian-bahagian tertentu negara kepada negara lain.

21. Hari ini kita jual air dan tanah berlori-lori dan berkapal-kapal ke negara lain guna untuk membesar negara mereka.

22. Atau kita jual laut untuk ditambak dan dimiliki serta diduduki oleh orang lain, keadaannya tidak berbeza dari menjual bahagian-bahagian negara kepada negara asing.

23. Kita jual Singapura. Lazimnya apabila penjajah tidak lagi berminat, tanah yang dijual dikembalikan kepada negara asal. Itulah yang terjadi kepada Hong Kong, Goa, Pondicherry. Tetapi tidak Singapura. Tanah dan air yang kita jual ke Singapura untuk membesar pulau itu menjadi kawasan milik penduduk Singapura, dibangun di bawah kuasa Kerajaan Singapura.

24. Itulah sebabnya Kerajaan Malaysia melarang penjualan tanah kita dan mempertikai jualan air kepada negara asing. Malangnya beberapa pentadbiran Kerajaan Malaysia rela untuk dibayar 3 sen untuk 1000 gelen air mentah kepada negara asing kerana malas atau takut menuntut hak.

1. Why is it that the political parties in Malaysia are race-based? The answer is that Malaysians insist on retaining their identification with their countries of origin.

2. This is not so in other multiracial countries. The migrants from other countries, upon accepting citizenship adopt the language, culture and loyalties to their adopted countries completely. They get fully assimilated after one or two generations.

3. But in Malaysia the migrants, despite being citizens insist not only on being recognised as of different origins from the indigenous people but are physically separated through their economic functions and their political affiliations.

4. Pejuang is race-based. It is a Malay party. It has to be because it expects to contest against UMNO, a Malay party. And it expects to do this in the rural areas where the population is largely Malay. These people would not support a multiracial party. In the absence of any other Malay party, the rural people will vote for UMNO. Besides UMNO is rich and rural Malays are poor. Money means a lot to them. Pejuang is the alternative.

5. There are issues but race and money are more important.

6. Pejuang has no money. It depends on race and its anti-corruption campaign.

7. As long as we retain our identification with our countries of origin, politics and political parties in Malaysia will remain racial.

1. The public generally believes that all those who are in a position of power must be corrupt. You can do your best to reject corruption but no one will believe you.

2. Throughout my career I had rejected corruption. I did my best to show that I was not corrupt when I was the Prime Minister.

3. I did not live a lavish life. Yes, I built two houses but they were built with Government loans to which I was entitled and through borrowing from a bank. They were not expensive and I was able to pay the loans with my salary and allowance as Prime Minister. I don’t owe anything to anyone since then.

4. Actually my pay was more than sufficient to support me and my family. It was sufficient because the Government provides me with housing, pay my electricity and water bills, make available to me several motor vehicles, even airplanes for my use.

5. I get paid allowances for moving around the country to do my work or even when taking holidays abroad.

6. The only thing I had to pay for is the food I and my family consumed and my clothing. Even this was not much as I get invited to functions where food was served.

7. I did not ask for scholarships for my children. I could afford to pay for their education. As Prime Minister, I earned more than ten times what I earned as a private medical practitioner.

8. I bought no shares except for 200 British American Tobacco shares which I bought before I became a member of Parliament. The only shares I bought after I joined the Government were those in Permodalan Nasional and other official funds when I launched those funds. But usually not more than 1,000 shares. The return was not big. I did not sell or buy these shares. They remain with the funds and they grow as I did not take dividends. I did not buy shares in the stock market.

9. My children were not allowed to do business with the Government. They were not even allowed to be involved in politics. Certainly not to join UMNO. Most of the business they did when I was Prime Minister were in foreign countries. I did not want to be accused of nepotism.

10. As President of UMNO I was often offered donations for the party. All those donations were given to UMNO. I kept nothing. In fact, I paid for all the campaigning for my own elections. In those days payments for party workers were small and affordable. The normal party allocation for the constituency during elections went to the division and was spent for its management and the conduct of the election. I paid for the cigarettes and nasi lemak occasionally.

11. As Prime Minister I received a lot of gifts. I did not regard them as given to me personally. I regarded them as gifts to the Office of Prime Minister. Accordingly, I registered them as properties of the Government, especially the motor cars. All these gifts are in the Galleria in Langkawi and in my old (Prime Minister’s official) residence in Kuala Lumpur.

12. All these things I did and more to avoid being accused of corruption. But still, I am accused of being corrupt. In fact, many people believe that I have huge amounts of money stashed abroad. No evidence has been revealed that I had this great wealth. But that does not mean that it is not true that I did not have this wealth. It is just that I am said to be clever at hiding my great wealth.

13. This refusal to admit that I am not corrupt affects my efforts to clean up the country of corruption. When I try to campaign against corruption people became cynical. They just cannot believe I am sincere because apparently, I myself am so corrupt.

14. Yet this anti-corruption campaign is very important as I see how corruption is destroying the country. It has come to the stage when Governments can be bought through corruption. And when such a Government is installed, Government funds would be stolen and the country just cannot develop. It will become poorer and poorer and would fail as a nation.

15. The people will suffer as the cost of dealing with the Government would become prohibitive and service would deteriorate. Investments would decline and job creation would not meet the demand of the unemployed workers.

16. So what, some would say. Many countries would be like us.

17. Well, if we are ready and willing to become a failed country it is okay.

18. But we would be looked down upon and would be begging from the rich. We cannot stand tall and be respected.

19. Because of this, I think it is important to elect Governments that are not corrupt.

20. Generally the people do not trust politicians. They believe all of them are corrupt. So, many people have decided not to vote in elections.

21. If people do not vote in elections, the corrupt politicians will win as they would bribe their corrupt supporters to vote for them. Then the Government of Malaysia would continue to be led by corrupt politicians.

22. But I believe most people do not want corruption to cause us to become a failed nation. We want to become a successful nation. For this to happen we have to fight against corruption.

23. How do we fight corruption. We can campaign to instill in the minds of people the rejection of corruption. We can explain the harm that corruption can do to us, to our society, and to our nation. We must make people be aware that corruption is not only about civil servants accepting bribes for the service they are expected to give, but corruption can result in crooks bribing to win elections and form Governments or members of Parliament being bribed to bring down an elected Government and replacing it with corrupt Government.

24. In Malaysia we have reached the stage where crooks can buy members of elected Governments so as to bring down the Government and replace it with corrupt members.

25. By this time the whole population will become corrupt as the corrupt Government will use Government funds to give citizens money to buy support. The cost of doing business would be high, few will invest and businesses will make little profits. With that taxes will not yield enough revenue for the Government. Pay for Government employees, would be reduced. Their purchases would decrease. Retail businesses would suffer, lose profit, pay less tax and Government funds would be unable to sustain the services for the people.

26. The country will become poorer and poorer and will be forced to borrow money or beg for aid. The decline of the country would be continuous and all the people would suffer.

27. Clearly, if we do not want these to happen. If we do not want to become beggars, we must reject and rid our country of corruption.

28. For this we must reject corrupt people from winning elections and forming Governments.

29. We must monitor closely the performance of Governments. There will be false accusation. These will only be accepted if materially proven. It is common for the corrupt to deflect accusations against them by accusing their accusers of being equally corrupt.

30. The struggle against corruption is a holy struggle. In this struggle, we must all be willing to make sacrifices.


* This article first appeared in Astro Awani on Sept 30, 2021

1. Saya ucap terima kasih kepada semua agensi Kerajaan dan pihak lain yang terlibat di dalam gotong royong pembersihan sampah terapung dari perairan Kuah ke Bukit Malut pada hari Selasa 21hb September.

2. Saya bangga kerana tindakan cepat diambil setelah isu ini diketengahkan pengguna media sosial.

3. Langkawi sudah dibuka kepada pelancong semula. Tidak lama lagi, pelancong asing dari luar negara juga akan mula berkunjung semula.

4. Mereka ke Langkawi untuk menikmati keindahan pulau setelah lebih dua tahun tersekat akibat COVID-19. Sudah tentu tidak ada sesiapa yang mahu lihat sampah sarap bertaburan di pulau ini.

5. Saya terbaca di Pulau Bali dan di beberapa pulau peranginan di Thailand, penduduk setempat bergotong-royong bersihkan pulau sementara ianya tertutup kepada pelancong.

6. Mungkin pentadbiran Langkawi juga boleh pertimbang usaha gotong royong bersama penduduk dan pengusaha industri pelancong. Saya pasti usaha ini juga akan dapat perhatian dan sokongan NGO yang bertapak di Langkawi.

7. Langkawi ini pulau bertuah dan telah menjadi tempat sumber rezeki bukan sahaja orang tempatan, tetapi ramai rakyat Malaysia yang berhijrah ke sini. Dan InsyaAllah jika kita berjaya kawal dan tangani masalah COVID-19 ini, Langkawi dapat kembali jadi destinasi pelancongan yang ulung dan ternama seperti dulu.

8. Tetapi, kita haruslah sama-sama pikul tanggungjawab. Saya harap penduduk Langkawi tidak bergantung kepada agensi Kerajaan semata-mata, tetapi bersama-sama jaga kebersihan persekitaran pulau kita ini.

9. Jika pulau ini kotor, pelancong di masa hadapan mungkin tidak minat untuk datang dan dengan itu kita akan hilang punca pendapatan yang kita nikmati hari ini.

1. Kita sedang lihat jumlah kematian kerana COVID-19 meningkat secara mendadak. Tiap hari hampir 400 orang meninggal. Sebahagian dari mereka dibawa ke hospital selepas meninggal.

2. Kenapakah ini berlaku sekarang. Sebabnya ialah kerana jumlah kejangkitan meningkat dengan amat tinggi. Tidak mungkin semua yang dijangkiti (25,080 orang) dimasuk ke hospital.

3. Amalan sekarang ialah yang teruk, yang sudah memerlukan oksigen dan mengguna alatan untuk diberi oksigen dengan tekanan tinggi, sahaja yang dimasuk ke dalam hospital – iaitu kategori 4 dan 5.

4. Kategori 1,2, dan 3 diarah kuarantin di rumah. Di rumah tidak ada perawat atau oksigen. Kategori 3 yang sudah pun menunjuk paru-paru terjangkit, apabila menjadi lebih teruk tidak dapat apa-apa rawatan di rumah.

5. Keluarga di rumah tidak dapat tolong kerana tidak boleh berdekat dengan pesakit. Doktor tidak dapat dipanggil. Pesakit jadi lebih teruk. Oksigen tidak ada di rumah. Dan akhirnya pesakit meninggal dunia.

6. Saya percaya kumpulan ketiga ini boleh diselamatkan. Mereka tidak begitu ramai. Hospital sementara boleh diadakan. Hospital ini hanya dibekal oksigen dan diadakan beberapa doktor dan jururawat.

7. Lebih seribu pesakit kategori 3 boleh dikuarantin di hospital sementara. Pihak tentera boleh bina hospital ala field hospital. Dewan-dewan di hotel dan bangunan lain boleh dilengkap dengan katil, oksigen dan doktor serta jururawat.

8. Apabila dikesan pesakit sudah jadi lebih serius, doktor dan jururawat boleh beri oksigen. Jika kurang respon, pesakit boleh dipindah ke hospital biasa.

9. Lawatan oleh satu pasukan doktor dan jururawat perlu diadakan kepada kategori 1 dan 2 yang dikuarantin di rumah. Dengan itu jika ada pesakit yang menjadi lebih teruk oksigen boleh diberi. Dalam kes yang serius mereka boleh dipindah ke hospital atau hospital untuk pesakit kategori 3.

10. Saya harap cadangan saya ini diterima oleh Kementerian Kesihatan. Saya percaya jumlah kes baru dapat dikurangkan. Dan juga jumlah kematian.

1. The Malaysian Constitution provides for the declaration of a state of emergency.

2. A state of emergency is necessary because the ordinary or normal structure, constitution or laws of the country do not provide for action to be taken to deal with a situation threatening the country.

3. Under a state of emergency actions, and structures not provided in the constitution and laws can be taken so as to deal with the reason or threats facing the nation.

4. The threats or cause which justify the declaration of the emergency has to be identified.

5. In the 1969 case, the reason was the race riots resulting in the breakdown of law and order.

6. In 2020 the stated reason for a declaration of the state of emergency was the COVID-19 pandemic. No other reason was stated.

7. Therefore the Government needs to show and to act beyond the provision of the Constitution and the laws specifically to deal with the threat posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.

8. The Government may claim that a sitting of Parliament would obstruct the actions needed to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. But the sitting on 26 July is merely to brief members on the Government’s plans for dealing with the pandemic. It has already been demonstrated that these plans are ineffective. The number of new cases, deaths and suicides have actually greatly increased during the emergency period.

9. Both the plan and the briefings do not require a state of emergency as they are not against the Constitution or the laws of the country.

10. So they do not warrant the declaration of an emergency. On the other hand it is evident that the COVID-19 pandemic has taken a serious turn. New cases have increased above 8,000 daily, deaths have reached 6,260 and suicide cases have reached 468 (as of Jan – May 2021).

11. People are suffering from the loss of their loved ones, from inability to work or do business and earn a living, from the tensions caused by the lockdown, lack of food, inability to look after their families etc.

12. The pandemic has also affected the country’s economy and finance, the social life of the people and the uncertainties in politics.

13. The Government has used the emergency to make laws by decree e.g. the fake news law and the raising of funds for the Government.

14. Clearly under the emergency anything that can mitigate or blunt the effect of the pandemic is legitimate.

15. The King under the constitution acts on the advice of the Prime Minister or the Ministers. But this requirement is for normal situations.

16. But in an emergency if the action is in order to deal with the cause of the emergency i.e. the COVID-19 pandemic, the ordinary requirement for the King to be advised by the Prime Minister, if this stands in the way of dealing with the epidemic, then this provision in the Constitution can be disregarded.

17. The situation is very serious. There is a need for immediate action, even if the action is contrary to the provisions of the Constitution or the laws of the country.


18. It is proposed that a special organisation be set up immediately, with special powers to act in whatever ways to reduce the increase in new cases, to reduce it until it ceases to be a threat to the lives and normal activities of the people.

19. The actions to be taken should be funded by the Government under a special allocation commensurate with the needs of the actions. Civil servants involved in the implementation must be put at the disposal of the organisation.

20. The organisation must be given the same powers and authority as that given to the National Operation Council in the 1969-1971 Emergency.

1. Today (June 29, 2021) there are 6,437 new cases. It was 5,000 plus these last few days. One hundred and seven people died today bringing the total to 5,108. There had been quite a number of suicides.

2. Clearly the lockdown has not reduced the number of new cases or deaths. But the MCO will be continued from today for more days. Will the number of new cases decrease? Probably not. But we are instructed to continue with lockdown and MCO until the new cases are reduced, But when? After that more days of lockdown and so on. And the cases will remain high and more would die and more would commit suicide. Already the strain is unbearable. But more lockdowns. More of the same.

3. It is always more of the same. The people will suffer, will die, will commit suicide. For the Government, this is okay. The Government remains in power. Parliament will not sit until the Prime Minister advises the King.

4. What about the people. They will continue to suffer. That is alright so long as the Government continue to be in power. That is important. The sufferings of the people is not important.

5. They are without money, without food. They are desperate. They are killing themselves. That’s okay. Not enough beds. Well quarantine at home. You get worse. No oxygen. You die. But that is preordained.

6. The people must appreciate that certain businesses must go on. We cannot afford to lose 2 billion Ringgit a day. If we have to starve, to die, that is the cost we must pay.

7. Now your friends and members of your family are dying. That is not the Government’s fault. The virus does not discriminate.

8. So accept the lockdown, accept the MCO. It is good for you. Eventually, the pandemic will be over. If you survive you can still enjoy life. Just imagine, you can actually vote in the next election and the Government you choose will be sold at the highest price. The backdoor is open. There is money to be made.

9. Politics are what matters. Remaining as Prime Minister, becoming Prime Minister – that is very important.

10. People getting sick, people dying, people committing suicide, starving, being broke, divorcing etc. etc. – all these are okay as long as the Prime Minister is Prime Minister, Ministers and Deputy Ministers get their good pay to do nothing.

11. Don’t have Majlis Pemulihan Negara. Let the country be destroyed. Let the new case remain high. The King must listen to the advice of the Prime Minister. The King is a constitutional monarch. The Prime Minister is the absolute King.

12. No problem. Give the same medicine i.e. impose lockdown, MCO and SOP. Make it difficult for vaccine to be imported. Can make money – why not. What is a few deaths, a few suicides? Yes. Let there be more deaths and more suicides.

13. Have more of the same.

** This article was published in THE EDGE DAILY, June 28, 2021
1. The Government has announced a National Recovery Plan. Unfortunately it is more of a time table for recovery based on the number of new cases and the dates the lockdown would be loosened. How the reduction is to be achieved during the stipulated period is not explained. The virus may not oblige and continue to plague the nation despite the time table.

2. We are now seeing a rise in the number of new cases. When the number decreased to 4000 plus, we believed that it must be due to the strategy adopted by the Government. But then the figure started to rise again. On June 18 new cases increased to over 6000. This figure does not seem to accord with the time table.

3. Actually the recovery plan should focus on the action to be carried out to reduce the number of the new cases. We know the measures that have to be taken.

4. We know for example the SOP is intended to reduce the spreading of the pandemic. We also know that the MCO is also intended to reduce infection. But the increase in the number of new cases mean that the SOP and the MCO have not been effective.

5. The question is why? The Government needs to study the situation. Is it because people are disobeying Government instruction? For example the masks are not worn properly or the social distancing is not practiced.

6. We know about clusters. Why are there these clusters? What happened? The workers for example may be lax in practicing the SOP. They are not very disciplined. No one is overseeing their obeying the SOP.

7. The workers go to work in buses. The workers’ buses may not be sanitised. Maybe there are too many on the buses.

8. The workers have to walk from the bus to the work place and back. Do they keep their distance from each other? And at the place of work are they separated from each other far enough. How do they behave during coffee break or when they are being briefed?

9. Many live in workers’ quarters. Some of these are well constructed but some are hastily-built huts. Do they keep their social distances while in their quarters? How far are their beds from each other?

10. Yes, there are many occasions when the workers expose themselves to infection. Merely ordering them to obey the SOP is not enough. The authorities, the police, RELA and frontline people must ensure that the SOP is followed properly. Merely imposing fines is not enough.

11. Everyday more than 6000 new cases are identified. We do not have enough beds for all of them. Some with mild symptoms have been asked to quarantine at home. As we all know mild cases can become serious. At home members of the family cannot go near them. With the virus one of the effect is to have difficulty in breathing.

12. At the hospital oxygen would be given. But at home there is no oxygen. The family members feel distressed watching their family members unable to breathe. He may die and the family members could not handle the deceased. But can they just do nothing? They may want to do something. When they go near the deceased, they may get infected. Then we are going to see a cluster. And the number of new cases will increase.

13. Vaccination is effective in reducing cases. But there also we find problems. Just registering is a problem. People in the rural areas, especially old people may not have handphones, or may not know how to register online. They may be too old, incapable.

14. Initially the vaccination centres are in the urban areas.

15. I can go on. But it is clear that the management of the pandemic is not very good. It is improving now but more can be done with less hassle.

16. This is about the pandemic. What about the economic, the finances, the social problems. Already people are committing suicide. There are lots of domestic quarrels and beating up.

17. Some politicians believe that what we need to do is to have a Parliament. Yes this is good and necessary. But many seem to think that all that is needed is to change Government. I think a change is needed. But the likelihood is to get another weak Government with paper thin majority. The concern would be about becoming Prime Minister – that’s all.

18. With all these problems some people only see opportunities for making money. Maybe this has contributed to the shortage of vaccine.

19. The Government is listening and doing something. But there are lots more things to do. Only professionals with vast experience can come up with ideas to tackle all the four crises.

1. Pada 1969, apabila berlaku rusuhan di Kuala Lumpur, Kerajaan Perikatan mendapat persetujuan Yang di-Pertuan Agong untuk isytihar darurat.

2. Susulan dari itu Kerajaan, iaitu Perikatan, menubuh sebuah badan yang dinamakan MAGERAN (Majlis Gerakan Negara) bagi menangani masalah yang mencetus rusuhan di Kuala Lumpur.

3. Masalahnya ialah:-
i. Kemenangan Perikatan yang kurang dari dahulu.
ii. Pendapat orang Melayu yang tidak puas hati kerana merasa tidak terbela serta tidak mendapat nikmat dari kemerdekaan.

4. Tun Razak sebagai Pengerusi MAGERAN berjaya mendapat penyertaan parti lawan, iaitu Gerakan, Parti Progressive Perak, PAS dan Sarawak United Peoples Parti ke dalam Kerajaan. Perikatan bertukar menjadi Barisan Nasional.

5. Untuk masalah kedua Tun Razak memperkenal Dasar Ekonomi Baru.

6. Di masa yang sama Kuala Lumpur dipisah dari Selangor dan pemilihan ahli Majlis bandaran ditamatkan.

7. Tindakan Tun Razak melalui MAGERAN berjaya menstabilkan negara selama lebih dari 40 tahun.

MAJLIS PEMULIHAN NEGARA (NATIONAL RECOVERY COUNCIL)

8. Kali ini keadaan adalah lebih teruk. Walaupun di waktu darurat diisytihar masalah COVID-19 tidaklah begitu serius, tetapi darurat gagal.
9. Ini menyebabkan jumlah katil di hospital tidak mencukupi sehingga pesakit terpaksa dikuarantin di rumah. Ada yang maut di rumah kerana tidak dapat dirawat, khusus dengan bekalan oksigen.

10. Selain dari wabak, tindakan MCO menyebabkan ekonomi merosot dan kewangan Kerajaan terhakis teruk.

11. Di masa yang sama pula politik menjadi kucar-kacir kerana kelemahan Kerajaan. Ini disusuli dengan banyak masalah sosial termasuk membunuh diri.

12. Majlis Pemulihan Negara tidak akan ganti Kerajaan. Majlis ditugas untuk mengurang kes baru sehingga tercapai herd imuniti.

13. Selain masalah kemerosotan ekonomi dan kewangan akan dipulih oleh Majlis.
14. Untuk politik Parlimen akan bersidang dan tindakan Majlis akan dibentang kepada Parlimen. Percubaan untuk hapuskan Majlis Pemulihan Negara tidak akan diusahakan oleh Parlimen.

15. Yang menjadi masalah politik ialah percubaan merampas kuasa. Malangnya jika Kerajaan ditukar, Kerajaan baru juga akan menjadi lemah kerana majoriti yang tipis. Tindakan politik hanya akan meneruskan masalah.


16. Masalah persekolahan juga akan dikaji dan ditangani oleh Majlis.

17. Selain dari empat perkara ini, perkara lain tidak akan disentuh oleh Majlis. Sementara itu Kerajaan boleh menangani urusan-urusan biasa asalkan tidak menyentuh empat perkara tadi.


18. Majlis tidak diletak dibawah Kerajaan tetapi akan lapor secara langsung kepada DYMM Yang di-Pertuan Agong.

19. Kewujudan Majlis akan tamat apabila negara mencapai herd immuniti atau sebelum PRU 15.


20. Majlis in diperlukan untuk memasti keputusan-keputusan pelan tindakan untuk membantu rakyat dapat dibuat dengan segera dan dilaksanakan tanpa melalui terlalu banyak proses birokrasi.

21. Ahli-ahli Majlis akan terdiri dari pakar-pakar perubatan termasuk ahli psikiatri, pakar-pakar ekonomi yang tidak partisan dan berpengalaman di dalam membantu Negara mengatasi krisis, pakar pelaburan yang berpengalaman, penggerak sosial yang telah bukti keupayaan membantu rakyat ketika pandemik, tokoh-tokoh perundangan yang tidak partisan dan beberapa tokoh politik yang tidak bertindak mewakili parti. Keahlian tidak akan lebih dari 20 anggota. Tidak ada politik dalam Majlis Pemulihan Negara.


22. Nama-nama mereka akan disembahkan kepada Yang di-Pertuan Agong untuk perkenannya. Ahli-ahli Majlis akan berkhidmat secara sukarela, tanpa gaji kecuali diberi elaun yang perlu. Mereka perlu menganggap perlantikan mereka sebagai satu khidmat Negara atau national service.

23. Jika Yang Di-Pertuan Agong dan Majlis Raja-Raja menerima cadangan penubuhan Majlis Pemulihan Negara ini, nama-nama mereka akan dipersembahkan untuk perkenan.