The BN member of parliament for Kinabatangan Bung Mokhtar was recently on his 'best behaviour' again in our august house.

Not only did he utter an unparliamentary word towards the opposition bench but he was also caught on TV making a lewd gesture as well which prompted the speaker of the house to comment 'tidak senonoh Yang Berhormat'.

Even when he was caught with his pants down, this man from Kinabatangan still maintained that he had not made any lewd gesture and that he had merely slapped the back of his left hand with his right palm.

Who is he trying to kid?

His constituents may have had high regards for him and voted him again into office on March 8 but frankly, I was disappointed that the BN re-nominated him to stand for election.

Together with the former MP for Jasin, Mohd. Said Yusof (the famous close-one-eye chap), they behaved terribly in the last parliament session making a sexist remark against a fellow woman MP.

When pressure mounted upon him to make an apology through the former women, family and community development minister Shahrizat Abdul Jalil, he made an iffy one.

Thankfully, he is the last of the notorious trio that still remains in parliament.

The former MP for Jerai Badruddin Amiruldin, famous for his 'I can see a tunnel' comment, lost in the recent general election whereas the close-one-eye chap was not even considered for re-election.

I fully agree with the Deputy Speaker Dr Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar when he commented that 'despite many years of university education, MPs were still finding it difficult to maintain decorum in the House.

‘We want to aim for a first class Parliament but we seem to be only going backwards.'

The majority of Malaysians who voted their MPs into Parliament in the recent general election want their elected representatives to be of the highest quality.

If they keep their emotions in check I am sure they can perform their duties admirably.

However, with the likes of the Kinabatangan MP happily going round doing what he known for, it will be a long while indeed before we can ever see some world-class debates in our Parliament like those in the House of Commons or the US Congress.