Anwar:Another Mother Of All Lies!

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Happy Malaysia Day!

Let's rewind back to 16 Sept 2008 the day the nation was told the mother of all lies, the formation of a new Federal government by Anwar Ibrahim through what he claimed massive defection of MPs from BN, mostly from Sabah. 

Today, exactly four years later, another mother of all lies is being told by the same man, a promise to the Labuan people to build a bridge from mainland Sabah to Labuan, if PR takes Putrajaya. The story here. 

You don't have to be a genius to conclude that building a bridge is not a viable proposition. Labuan is only 87.52 Km2 with a population of around 60,000 people and one-third of the population transients. 

What kind of economic output that Labuan is likely to produce to justify such huge capital investment which cannot generate sufficient traffic to generate reasonable rate of return. At current cost of construction the bridge pay back period would be well over 100 years. That money have better use upgrading Sabah poor road infrastructure than serving the interests of a little dot in the sea and 60,000 inhabitants that lack resourcefulness. 

He promised the people of Labuan on his recent visit there and brought along with him a long lost son of Labuan who looks as alien as a Martian to the Labuan people, to be a PR candidate for Labuan in the 13th GE as reported here. 

Menudin seated right next to Anwar looking uneasy.

Can Ibrahim Menudin win Labuan for Anwar? 

........but with Anwar you'll never know, it may be Menudin today and someone else tomorrow.

Menudin, has one disadvantage, not many people in Labuan know he is from Labuan considering his long hiatus from the island.

Forced To Wear A Tudung

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The Daily Express today reported how a student in a Labuan mission school was traumatised when forced to wear the tudung or headscarf by a teacher who threatened her with bodily harm by brandishing a cane.

On Aug 17 the student was bullied into wearing one and was fined RM1 for not complying.On Aug 19 the parents found her in distress when they went to collect her because she was held back for 20 minutes and forced to wear the tudung by the teacher.

The parents have written a protest letter to the Director-General of Education.

The question is who empowered the teacher to execute such authority? Shouldn't she be removed from her job for exceeding her scope of duties?

My last question to my fellow Muslims, does it makes one not wearing a tudung less moral?

It is high time the government clamp down on this kind of rogue teachers who are better suited to teach in a madarasah than a secular school.

We had complaint of a racist teacher in a school in Johore now we have an over-zealous religious bigot who exceeded the bounds of her duties.

Corruption:Let's Troll For The Big Fish.

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There seems to be a sudden spate of investigations and arrests of cases of corruption.Is it because the ACA has been given more teeth to bite or our Prime Minister has decided it's time to clean up the mess or is it just another showbiz?

It's good if he has, but to be fair to all, just make sure it covers the whole spectrum of the rainbow, from the one that sits on the horizon to its apogee in the skies, the bigger the catch the better it would be for the nation.

The latest arrest was for a miserable RM13,860.00 and for a man of that stature that was really a shocker. That stupid indiscretion is going to give him a terrible toothache .

The gist of the story is, if you want to be a buzzard, think big, take millions and it will take million years to investigate your case and more often than not it would be so messy they would give up as they couldn't find sufficient evidence to charge you.

The other case in Labuan was even more interesting, not so much the amount, which is much bigger, about RM40 mil in projects and fraudulent bank loans, but the person involved.None of the newspaper that reported the case had mentioned the name of the politician concerned because the case was still being investigated by the ACA.. Two prominent UMNO politicians had voluntarily gone to the press and denied their involvement.

Both Labuan MP Yusof Mahal and former Labuan MP Dato Suhaili Abdul Rahman have denied their involvement.However, Yusof has admitted he was the one who got the contract to build a market and a school costing RM24.8m and RM10.5m respectively.

Both men are currently fighting a big battle to be the Labuan UMNO divisional head.So, it comes as no surprise that the mud are flying from both directions.

In another case in Kota Baru Kelantan, a state director of a government department lodged a police report alleging he was slapped by an ACA officer while under interrogation. This is not good news.Stepping over the limit of decent human behaviour.The officer concerned should be hauled up and taken off the case.The ACA have no right to use violence in its scope of work and to remand someone for 7 days.... ?

As a sport fisherman I find nothing is more satisfying than catching the big one, I usually released the small one. That's game fishing ..... in corruption have to take both, big and small.

Will there be more big fish on the way? Who's next?

Update:

ACA has denied the allegation in a police report made by the State fisheries director that he was slapped by an ACA officer.Its director Mohd Jaafar Hussen said from internal investigation conducted, the claim was untrue. The ACA has lodged a police report.