MP SPEAKS | All of a sudden, the buzzwords "national embarrassment" have become so popular.

To his discredit, former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak, unfortunately, has to bear with this painful fact for the rest of his life. After all, it is his 1MDB saga that has been contributing to such an undesired tagline.

Najib's legal team, headed by the microphone friendly Muhammad Shafee Abdullah, took offence on such strong words coming from the Court of Appeal.

Shafee was in the view that those remarks were unnecessary and uncalled for.

To begin with, let us closely examine the genesis of such powerful remarks. To be fair to the court, one might ask whether such remarks came out of nowhere.

Having read the summary of the grounds of the written judgement, a fair analysis of it would lead us to this: such remarks are clearly justified and in fact reflecting the ugly picture of the 1MDB fiasco.

If at all we sincerely intend to search for the ownership of the blame, it would definitely fall squarely on none other than...