On taking office three months ago, Deputy Sports Minister Adam Adli talked about the national sports arena being free of corruption, inefficiency and leakages - in order to raise Malaysian sports to a higher level.
Many sports officials took umbrage, some pretended that these problems were non-existent while a few maintained stoic silence – either too afraid to speak out or not wanting to offend the officialdom - some of its members are prominent political leaders. A few could have been also on the gravy train benefitting from the crumbs thrown by the big boys...