DEC 5 — How do you know that Umno is a political party bereft of principles and the ability to tell right from wrong?
When a legislator from Sabah, best known for being a loose cannon in Parliament and for taking a second wife under the cover of secrecy, sounds like the sanest person in the party.
The party that gave us Tunku Abdul Rahman, Tun Abdul Razak, Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah and which boasts more than three million members is dependent on Bung Mokhtar Radin to be the only sane voice on the National Feedlot Corporation.
His critics argue that the MP for Kinabatangan is exacting revenge on Shahrizat Jalil for criticising him when he took a second wife without informing his first.
If we go along with this argument, it is even more damning evidence against the moral decay of Umno, because it shows that even the one voice of reason and sanity against the insanity of the NFC is calling for Shahrizat’s head not because of any principles but for personal reasons.
In the wake of the alleged abuse of government funds in the NFC scandal comes news that the former Perlis mentri besar Hamid Pawanteh and friends received some seven million Swiss Francs from Alstom. It does feel that everywhere you turn and look, there is an Umno politician involved in something unsavoury.