Four things are clear.
First, that there is something very rotten about the RM336.64 million National Feedlot Centre (NFC)/National Feedlot Corporation (NFCorp) “cattle condo” scandal – what with a RM250 million soft loan at 2% interest to promote cattle production used to buy two units of luxury condominiums in Kuala Lumpur and another condominium in Singapore, purchase of land in Precinct 10 Putrajaya, close to a million ringgit expenditures on overseas trips and extraordinarily high salaries for the family members of Datuk Seri Shahrizat, Minister for Women, Family and Community Development.
Second, that very high-level personalities are involved whether in the scandal or in the decision-making process resulting in the scandal, and that the personalities who must clear themselves include not only Shahrizat but also the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak who was then Chairman of the Cabinet Committee on High Impact Projects which approved the NFC project in 2006, Deputy Prime Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, who was then the Minister for Agriculture and Agro-Based Industries, Datuk Seri Nor Omar, current Minister for Agriculture and Agro-Based Industries, even the former Prime Minister, Tun Abdullah as well as the entire former Cabinet before the 12th General Elections on March 8, 2008.
Third, the initial reactions of the various authorities unanimously trying to avoid touching the NFC/NF Corp scandal with a “barge pole”, although the Auditor-General, Tan Sri Ambrin Buang signed off the Auditor-General’s Report 2010 on 8th July 2011 with copies sent to the various relevant authorities, including the Cabinet – which probably explains the irresponsible inactions for more than six months, the delayed presentation of the Auditor-General’s Report in Parliament on October 25 when it should have been tabled in Parliament more than three weeks earlier on the first day of the Budget Parliament on 3rd October; the initial five-month refusal of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) to investigate the scandal; the refusal of the Public Accounts Committee Chairman Datuk Seri Azmi Khalid to allow the PAC to conduct immediate and urgent investigations into the scandal although the PAC may cease to exist any time with the imminent dissolution of Parliament for the 13th General Elections and the continued refusal of the Prime Minister and the Deputy Prime Minister to agree to a Royal Commission of Inquiry into the scandal.
Fourth, latest efforts by various personalities in a “cover up” and to wriggle out of responsibility for the “cattle condo” scandal – whether by using semantics claiming that the Auditor-General had never used the word “mess” in his report (when the facts that have emerged reveal that it was more than a “mess” and was indeed a “terrible mess”) and that the Auditor-General had mixed up the two entities of NFC and NFCorp.
All in all, the building block for a grand conspiracy to cover up the NFC/NFCorp “cattle condo” scandal.
Such a conspiracy must not be allowed to succeed, as the NFC/NFCorp “cattle condo” scandal has become a symbol of the utter lack of seriousness of the Najib administration to combat corruption and head an accountable and transparent government, making nonsense of all the alphabet soup of GTP, NKRAs, MKRAs, etc as all propaganda with little real meaning.
Even without the RM336.64 million NFC/NFCorp “cattle condo” scandal, Malaysia has plunged to the worst ranking of 60th place and lowest score of 4.3 in 17 years in the 2011 Transparency International Corruption Perception Index.
With the continued obstruction and impediment placed in the way of a no-holds-barred investigation and full public accounting into the NFC/NFCorp “cattle condo” scandal, Malaysia can expect an even worse ranking and score in the 2012 Transparency International Corruption Perception Index.
Patriotic Malaysians, regardless of race, religion or political affiliation should unite as one to demand in a loud and clear voice for a Royal Commission of Inquiry into the NFC/NFCorp “cattle condo” scandal.
Look ! Look ! There’s a cow standing on the window sill on the 12th floor condo. Is it going to fall ? Will it leave a note ?
///Patriotic Malaysians, regardless of race, religion or political affiliation should unite as one to demand in a loud and clear voice for a Royal Commission of Inquiry into the NFC/NFCorp “cattle condo” scandal.///
Yeah, Malaysians must unite to fight entrenched, institutionalized corruption condoned by high-profile government figures. Patriotic Malaysians can help in this matter by voting out BN in GE13.
Cow on window sill? Is anyone forcing it to commit suicide? Oh boy. And I wonder how it could carry-out self-strangulation. Errr can someone in macc pls help the cow to commit suicide.
//There’s a cow standing on the window sill on the 12th floor condo.//
Is it wearing a tudung and cursing and waving its fists in the air? I thought it has taken a 3-week leave. Quick, inform its hubby and children so that they can all jump down together.
The PM says that the assets have been frozen. Wait, is this for the Centre or the Corp ? Or has it become a corpse ? I’m willing to bet that Najib heard from Ahmad Husni who heard from the Treasury secretary-general, who heard from his deputy, who heard from his senior officer, who heard from his desk officer. And I can bet that none of these people know the answer to Kit Siang’s original question – whose assets have been frozen ?
In December, the police said that their investigations are “80 pct complete”. Is it now at 81 pct ?
Then Shamsubahrin gets charged for cheating. Did he cheat the Chairman of the Corp ? How did the Chairman pay out millions to the conman in December when the assets have been frozen ? Now Shamsubahrin gets charged with some more offences unconnected with the NFC fiasco. Another red herring ? Too afraid to hear the canary sing ?
Big Moo just said that there will be no RCI. He is obviously not qualified to make that statement as he was the Minister in charge at the time the deal awarded without tender.
At the rate these goons are trying to wriggle free, we should rachet up the pressure. These goons definitely have lots to hide.
///PUTRAJAYA Jan 27 — Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin dismissed today calls for the formation of a Royal Commission of Inquiry to probe the National Feedlot Corporation scandal He pointed out instead that the police and Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission MACC were capable of handling the matter The DPM also added that the government had appointed an accounting firm to conduct an audit of the company “I think these are sufficient to handle the matter ” he said.///–Malaysian Insider
The police and the MACC should normally be able to handle the matter if they are willing. Are they willing? It is because they are not willing to get their bosses to answer relevant questions that RCI is needed.
RCI will do what the MACC and the police have no power to do; to answer the questions as to whether the project had been approved with due diligence. Muhyiddin who was the minister in charge of the project shows that he does not want any review on how the project was approved. But Malaysians want to be sure that the 300 million ringgit government funds had been invested properly. Only RCI could give the correct answer, and only RCI should be able to tell whether Muhyiddin slept on his job. Since Muhyiddin is not keen to have RCI pronounce that a RM 300-million project from his ministry is above board, he must have something to hide.
Najib as PM has the final say on whether RCI should be established. Muhyiddin has declared that RCI is off. He was not doing on behalf of Najib since it takes less than a minute to say yes or no, and Najib is around the country to say it, if he had decided. Does Muhyiddin tell UMNO members that he is the defacto president of UMNO?
NFC CEO’s say that all moneys will be repaid? The question now is not repaid or otherwise. If certain criminal CBT has been committed it simply just can be made clean by saying that those money will be return in full and case close. Once there is abused of power, abused of the purpose that the fund allocated is mean for cattle rearing and not investment in real estate, abuse has been committed and it has to be punished. It can’t say that as far as the money is return to its original form the crime is free.
We can see how UMNO is trying very hard to delay proper investigations and twist and whitewash the issue to protect itself ahead of GE13. Right thinking rakyat is aware of what is going on and will not vote for UMNO/BN. UMNO/BN can’t fool us!
UMNO is trying very hard to be government so that this activities can continue.