Latest report of the Asia-Pacific Fraud Survey
Series 2013 has ranked Malaysia as one of the most corrupt nations. Malaysia’s corruption is said to be
doubled the average Asian Pacific rate of 21%. Hence, the opposition media was fast
to pick up the report and elaborate it as per their preference.
103 executives in Malaysia had participated in
the poll. Overall, there
were 681 executives, senior managers and working level employees had responded
to the poll from March to May 2013 across the Asia-Pacific.
Since there is no such thing as squeaky clean
government or organization anywhere, anymore - even those bearing the names of
religion, therefore, refuting the findings would make a person an
apple-polisher, if not the most pathetic un-informed person on earth.
However, concluding the findings from
feedbacks of 103 executives out of 29 million population is almost ‘slapstick’. Which only led us to a question
on ‘how ‘un-corrupt’ is the organizer of the survey’? Or how do we know that the questions
in the polls are not misleading, biased? And who are these executives who
responded - the race, background and etc.?
In Malaysia, background and race play the most
important role in terms of ‘opinion’ and ‘perception’. One must either be the most naïve or
the greatest hypocrite of all, to deny the fact.
As expected, the oppositions decided to make a
‘groovy party’ out of the report by noisily calling the government weak and
corrupt to the core. Sarawak’s
Taib Mahmud, Minister Nazri
Aziz’s son’s million ringgit house and even Datin Seri Rosmah’s Permata project
were quoted as prove of corruption of the government.
But the opposition chose to forget about Anwar
Ibrahim’s luxurious lifestyle or Lim Guan Eng’s sPICE project or Nik Aziz’s
son-in-law’s assets or Khalid ‘the sandman’ Ibrahim’s business.
These are perceived as corruption too, and the
103 executives who answered the poll could have referred to these issues for
all we know.
We can tell that the government is very
serious about combating corruption. Where
there is proof, even the BN leaders could not get away with it. Khir Toyo is just one of the many BN
leaders who had to face the music for involving in ‘fishy’ deals or
transactions.
On the other hand, the oppositions have no
problem with corruption involving their leaders. As a result, up till this date, many
of PR leaders and members have chosen to quit the party when they could not
compromise the internal manipulation and corruption any further. And let’s not forget that one
actually had to die, most probably to save his leaders of corruption charges,
and that was Teoh Beng Hock .
Isn’t it interesting to note that corruption
rate in Malaysia increases as PR increases its power? Any lay man is able to link the rising
of ‘immoral business’ with corruption. And
isn’t it interesting that the rising numbers of these dark activities are
palpable in a few states as soon as the oppositions obtained the power in those
states?
Rather than pointing fingers, the opposition
might as well work together with the government to fight corruption. And that, can be done by first, not
closing the eyes on corruption involving opposition leaders.
Still, we cannot deny that there are so much
room for improvement on this whole ‘fight against corruption’ cause. If the fights are going
steadily, then why do we find ourselves readily listing out issues that are
perceived as obvious corruption on the side of the opposition, as well as the
government?
Therefore, it would be wise for the government
to take note of the warning derived from the survey, which pointed out the
failure of Pemandu (the government’s Performance Management and Delivery
Unit) in its role to transform things to the better. It’s about time the government tackle
the matter from the very root, right to the outer surface – from perception
right to the end result.
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