COMMENT | Dear Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin,

On April 18 I wrote to you, saying it’s time to stand up again for the good of the nation, identifying problems and issues needing your attention and offering some unsolicited advice.

I concluded: “Are you going to contain this disorder by standing up, speaking up and making the right decisions? Or are you going to allow this government to operate on autopilot or remote control until there is no time to retreat?”

Sixteen days have since passed and during this period, the silence has not only been deafening, but the situation has got worse - the issues have been exacerbating, impairing and intensifying.

It leaves us, the citizens, to ask if you have the ears to the ground and if your aides and minders are telling you what is really happening.

Or, are they telling you what they think you would like to hear? Maybe you may not even be aware that you are called the “backdoor PM” and the ruling people are referred to as the “backdoor government”...