Malaysiakini: DAMNING ALLEGATION AGAINST NAJIB

PKR Ipoh Barat division head Fauzi Muda has leveled the damning claim that Umno deputy president Najib Abdul Razak had tried last year to induce him to secure the crossover of two Pakatan Rakyat representatives in Perak.

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Fauzi said he had been offered a total of RM50 for his services and to pay off those he managed to convince, but that he had remained non-committal.

While conceding that he has no concrete evidence to back his allegation, he nonetheless dared Najib (left) - also the deputy premier and deputy head of ruling coalition Barisan Nasional - to deny the claim.

Reading from a three-page statutory declaration at a press conference in Ipoh this morning, Fauzi said a friend Suleiman Mansor, an ordinary member of Umno, had invited him to Kuala Lumpur on a business matter on March 11, 2008.

This was three days after the momentous general election that dumped BN out of the Perak government, and brought a Pakatan coalition into power, albeit with a slim majority of five seats.

However, Suleiman took Fauzi to meet three men, “including former deputy defence minister Zainal Abidin Zin at the Jalan Duta toll plaza”.

“Thereafter, I was taken to Najib (Abdul) Razak’s residence in Putrajaya, where he tried to persuade me to lobby for the crossover of two PR assemblymen to BN,” said Fauzi.

“I was promised RM50 million in return for my services and told that I would be allowed to allocate (part of) the money (to the asseemblypersons) as I wished.”

Fauzi, however, did not name any representatives in the document or during the press conference. He would not distribute copies of the statutory declaration either.

“Najib assured me that if I succeeded, the appointment of the menteri besar for Perak would be delayed. However, I left his residence without making any promises as I feared for my safety.”

He further claimed that Suleiman approached him once more last year, after PKR assemblypersons Jamaluddin Mat Radzi (Behrang) and Osman Jailu (Changkat Jering) were charged with corrupt practice.

“I was told that if I succeeded in lobbying for their crossover, the charges would be dropped. But this time, the reward for their defection dropped to RM5 million per person. Again, I refused the offer.”

(Source: Malaysiakini)

MMM...will be there more juicy stuff coming...? Can't wait lah...Now we know WHO the CON ARTIST IS...

Waking up is hard to do...

Wish there was no one-week holiday...

As one one of my colleagues said this morning, had to jump start the engine again...

Malaysiakini: TWO BIG BUFFALOES, TWO BY-ELECTIONS

Perak state assembly speaker V Sivakumar said that he had received letters of resignation from both Behrang assemblyperson Jamaluddin Mat Radzi and Changkat Jering assemblyperson Osman Jailu. He said that he received their faxed letters at about 5.45pm at his house. "They have stepped down as state assemblypersons with immediate effect," he said in a statement today. With that, Sivakumar declared both the Behrang and Chankat Jering state seats vacant, necessitating two by-elections soon. He added that he will be informing the Election Commission tomorrow about the vacancy. The by-elections for the two state seats will have to be held within 60 days. The two PKR state representatives have been missing for the past five days, prompting speculations that they have defected to Barisan Nasional. (Perak speaker: Duo have resigned - Malaysiakini)
Obviously, Umno has been scheming since the day ex-Umno Bota assemblyperson Nasarudin Hashim jumped ship. The two missing "big buffaloes" just have no guts - are they willing captives to BN or have they been coerced or have they simply been taken in by the confidence artist, Mr. Denial & Perception?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, EVERYONE!

Traditionally, the seventh day of Chinese New Year is also known as Renri (Chinese:人日, literally Human Day) refers specially to the 7th day of zhengyue (正月, the first month in the Chinese calendar). According to Chinese customs, renri was the day human beings were created. It is celebrated not only in China, but also other regions influenced by Chinese culture. (Source: Wikipedia).

I blogged about Renri last year. Click here to read the post. Today, I am reminded of Renri by my wife who wished everyone 'Happy Birthday' in church this morning.

Interesting to note that there is a day to commerate the creation of human beings in Chinese customs similar to the sixth day of creation in Genesis - So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. (Genesis 1:27). As we celebrate Chinese New Year, let us also remember that God is the Creator of all - He is the ONE. 8)

9 going to 10

Janson is officially 9 months old.
Thank You Jesus for a strong and healthy baby.

Malaysiakini: NIZAR MULLS SNAP ELECTION

The Perak Pakatan Rakyat government is ready to swing into action after waiting for five days to hear from its two missing state exco members.Menteri Besar Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin today said that his government would be lodging a 'missing person' police report after consulting with the families of the two PKR state representatives...The MB also said that neither state official nor family members were able to contact the two men. They have not been seen in public since last Monday, the day after Nasaruddin defected to PKR. Mohamad Nizar also urged the two state excos to come out and state publicly if they were going to join the BN. However he added the state government would not be jeopardised even if there was a crossover involving the two...At present, Pakatan has 32 seats in Perak with DAP (18), PKR (8) and PAS (6), while BN has 27 with Umno (26) and MCA (1). Menteri Besar Mohamad Nizar may however exercise his option of dissolving the state assembly and call a snap election in Perak.
Better dissolve lah. Time to vote out reps who can be easily bought and bound by money and vote in new reps who are clean and committed to the rakyat.

Revelation 5:9