YOURSAY ‘Apandi, we judge you by what you do, not by what you claim to be.’
AG: PM 'has no hand' in how we handle 1MDB
Kim Quek: New attorney-general Mohamed Apandi Ali, we judge you by what you do, not by what you claim to be.
You declared that you are independent and the PM has no influence over how you act with regard to 1MDB. But your actions indicate the contrary.
Immediately after your constitutionally dubious replacement of Abdul Gani Patail, you did two things.
One, you declared that the draft charge sheet against PM Najib Abdul Razak, as published by Sarawak Report, is a fake and a conspiracy to topple Najib. Two, you disbanded the special task force which is investigating 1MDB.
Subsequent events have indicated that the charge sheet is genuine, as proven by inspector-general of police’s (IGP) series of harassment of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) and Bank Negara over the leakage of such evidence to Sarawak Report , and Minister Abdul Rahman Dahlan’s elaboration of PM’s “flurry of actions” as a strike for self-preservation.
And your unannounced action to disband the special task force, which had immediately halted the momentum of probe on 1MDB and Najib’s RM2.6 billion, was obviously motivated to protect the PM, as there is no conceivable justification for such action.
Apandi, you can declare whatever legal credentials and legal professionalism as you like, but your public credibility is zero, particularly after your outburst of threats to the public not to disagree with you.
Be sure that we will watch every move you make.
Tholu: "Don't try to insinuate anything against me. I give a warning to everybody. All right?... Be careful. I will be watching."
Hello Apandi, don't threaten us. We are watching you. You said there is no charge sheet against Najib when we believe there was one. So how can we trust you to be independent?
SemoLina: The AG’s Chambers is independent? We will see how independent you are in the next few weeks or months.
But I foresee that you will be caught between a rock and a hard place. Nothing is for free where the PM is concerned and you have to earn your keep. We will then see how independent you are.
Pemerhati: “To a question on speculation being rife that Najib changed the attorney-general to cover up a charge sheet on corruption prepared against him, Apandi made a vehement denial.
“The questions of cover-up or not is your perception. I have been trained as a judge according to the law," he stressed.
“Don’t try to insinuate anything against me. I give a warning to everybody. All right?... Be careful. I will be watching," he warned”.
If you look at exactly what he said, Apandi did not make a vehement denial regarding the existence of the charge. He just said that the question of the cover-up of the charge sheet was the perception of the Malaysiakini journalist who asked the question and that no insinuations should be made against him.
Previously he did make an outright denial. Perhaps now he is being a bit cautious, after realising that Najib’s lackey, Abdul Rahman Dahlan, had stupidly (in his and Najib’s view) revealed that there was indeed a charge sheet.
Clever Voter: Public trust has to be earned. Sadly it is long gone. Coercive style under the current climate will only reinforce the view that no public agency can be trusted, let alone be legitimate enough to do its job.
We have learned to live with this but in the eyes of the world, the rot has eroded whatever trust and credibility of the government. Even the change of few individuals won't do. The entire machinery is rotten to the core. It's such a disgrace.
Bluemountains: It is very unfortunate that Apandi became AG at a time when the people's trust in the government is extremely low.
One way to regain public trust is to be transparent. The public expect him to order an investigation into the money trail of the purported RM2.6 billion 'donation' right up to the account of the so-called donor, and nothing less.
The ball is now in the AG's court.
Vijay47: Apandi, you claim to "have been trained as a judge according to the law". For all we know, that could well be true. So first point to you.
But that would hardly convince anyone that you are ignorant or innocent of what is going on with 1MDB. As a judge trained according to the law, did it not strike you as highly irregular and suspicious that the incumbent Abdul Gani was suddenly dismissed, just a few months before retirement and on grounds of a medical condition that he himself seemed unaware of?
We also wonder why, instead of working in an open transparent manner to allay the public's fear of bias in the task force, you went and disbanded it. To protect its image?
Worse, despite being a cog in a programme where the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) was incapacitated through its members being removed to other positions, you still want us to consider you, what did you say - a trained judge?
Like the adage goes, you can take a horse to the water but you can't make it drink.
Gggg: An honest man would have asked, why the sudden appointment?
Why did Apandi disband 1MDB task force?
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