— Ali Kadir
The Malaysian Insider
Nov 18, 2011
NOV 18 — Now I know why Najib Razak is always out of the country: the prime minister wants to show us what he also knows — that he has a pretty mediocre deputy.
Muhyiddin Yassin is at best of mentri besar quality, but unfortunately because of the dysfunctional system of Umno’s president and deputy president being given the number one and number two leadership posts in Malaysia, Muhyiddin is one position away from being the PM.
His handling of the National Feedlot Corporation scandal has been ridiculous and shifty. From the beginning he has tried to shift the responsibility of explaining the project to Noh Omar and others but he was the man who helmed the Agriculture Ministry which promoted and endorsed this project!!!
Today, he is quoted as saying that he leaves it to the public to accept or reject the explanation put forward by Mohamed Salleh of the National Feedlot Corporation but quickly says that as far as the government is concerned, these are all stories created by the Opposition.
Really? But the failure of the feedlot project was highlighted by the Auditor General, not Anwar Ibrahim or Lim Kit Siang.
And the last time I checked, it was Mohamed Salleh and family who bought that plush condominium in Bangsar.
In addition, it was not Anwar or Nik Aziz who paid RM26,000 to cover the expenses of their spouses but rather the NFC which paid the expenses of Shahrizat Jalil, the Cabinet minister.
The sad fact is that Muhyiddin has stopped representing the people and has abdicated his role as guardian of public finances.
He can’t even acknowledge wrongdoing and mismanagement when it stares him in the face.