Raja Petra Kamarudin
The ex-number two of the Special Branch, Abdul Hamid Bador, has asked
the ex-Attorney General, Gani Patail, to come out and sing like a
canary. In the same breath Hamid has suggested that Gani is involved in
some sort of scandal but then that should not stop the latter from
singing his heart out. After all, said Hamid, Gani’s scandal is not as
serious as allowing RM42 billion to disappear into thin air, as how Tun
Dr Mahathir Mohamad would describe it.
It is quite interesting that the second highest man in the Special
Branch is acting like Tony Pua and Rafizi Ramli considering their age
difference. I mean greenhorn and wet-behind-the-ears politicians can be
forgiven for having what the Malays would call ‘mulut laser’ or verbal
diarrhoea. But for a seasoned and mature person like Hamid this
definitely comes as a surprise.
In the past not many people other than those in the ‘industry’ would
know who the top guns of the Special Branch are. They are usually what
in the UK we would call spooks (meaning ghosts). Ghosts are normally
never seen although you may suspect that they exist and are there hiding
somewhere in the shadows. But now Malaysian spooks seem to be no longer
ghosts but flesh and blood and very visible and loud.
History has proven that civil servants, police officers, military
personnel, etc., (especially those who have just retired or are about to
retire) who suddenly start acting like Lim Kit Siang are ‘lobbying’ for
a seat in the general election.
Can we assume that Hamid is about to join PAN (or maybe even DAP) and
will be contesting the next general election? I am sure with the way he
is ‘scoring points’ Hamid could win whatever seat he contests hands
down. Sigh…everyone wants to become a Yang Berhormat. We might need to
create more seats. The current 800 or so parliament/state seats are just
not enough with so many aspirants ‘fighting hard’ to make their mark in
politics.
Anyway, according to Hamid, Gani is plagued with scandals and that is
why he is keeping mum and refuses to talk about 1MDB. I am sure the
Special Branch would know since it is their job to keep tabs on scandals
involving VIPs.
But what is most puzzling is if the Special Branch is aware of the
Attorney General’s wrongdoings and transgressions why was it not
revealed earlier? Should an Attorney General not be above scandals? If
an Attorney General is infested with scandals would this not open him to
the danger of being blackmailed?
And this is what begs answers. Is Gani actually embroiled in
scandals, as Hamid says, and was he being blackmailed into joining the
conspiracy to oust the Prime Minister because of it? Was Gani told that
if he does not join the conspiracy to oust the Prime Minister then they
would expose all his wrongdoings and transgressions?
Yes, that is most interesting indeed. So Gani is scandal-infested.
And he is being blackmailed because of it. And Hamid says he is being
blackmailed into keeping quiet and to not talk about 1MDB. But could it
have been the other way around? Was it instead he was being blackmailed
into joining the conspiracy or else he would be exposed?
And one very important point that should not be overlooked is that
the Special Branch knows about Gani’s wrongdoings and transgressions and
yet he was protected all this while and allowed to continue as the
Attorney General.
Hmm…did not Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi say that Malaysia is a country
with first-world infrastructure but third-world mentality? Only a
country with a third-world mentality would allow a scandal-infested
Attorney General to continue in office under the protection of the
Special Branch.
I was told that Gani is not the only scandal-infested senior man in
government who was protected and allowed to continue. It seems there is
another very senior scandal-infested man in the MACC who had sex with
one of his staff right there in his office. Talking about turning the
boardroom into a bedroom.
It makes one wonder whether the allegation of all the other scandals
involving all the other conspirators is true after all. Anyway, that is
another story for another time and we shall come to those stories in due
course. After all, that is what Malaysia Today is for, is it not, to reveal the untold stories?
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