MP SPEAKS | Will the Umno annual general assembly pass a resolution on Sunday to condemn and sack Najib Abdul Razak for the international 1MDB corruption and money-laundering scandal and transforming Malaysia into a global kleptocracy?

This is the question on the mind of every thinking patriotic Malaysian, whether in the country or part of the worldwide diaspora.

Where is the credibility about Umno reform when it is not prepared to cut the umbilical cord with Najib and his monstrous 1MDB corruption and money-laundering legacy?

In fact, Najib should be summoned to appear before the assembly for a '1MDB tell-All' special session on Sunday.

During the 14th general election campaign, then-1MDB CEO Arul Kanda Kandasamy toured the country on a national roadshow, covering over 30 locations.  He even challenged DAP leaders to ask him questions about what the government claimed was 'fake news' about the 1MDB money-laundering scandal.

But the scandal was no fake news, despite the Najib administration trying to make it into one with the Anti-Fake News Act 2018 passed hurriedly before the dissolution of the last Parliament.

What the BN-nominated Dewan Negara did not realise when they blocked the repeal of the act was that they were in fact keeping the 1MDB scandal very much alive.

The Umno annual general assembly on Sunday should make a clean break with the past, and publicly apologise for all lies, falsehoods and fake news unleashed against the then-opposition, including DAP.

At one of the assemblies, Umno leaders, then led by Najib, spread lies, falsehoods and fake news about DAP and Pakatan Harapan.

In one of his presidential speeches, Najib had told three colossal lies about DAP: that GE14 would be a contest between Umno and DAP; that DAP was anti-Malay or anti-Islam; and of the “nightmares” Malay would suffer if Umno loses power in GE14.

Would Najib and the assembly apologise for these three big lies against the DAP?

There was also the lies that I would be prime minister, that DAP had an agenda for Christianity to replace Islam as the official religion, and that all the sultans would be abolished to make Malaysia a republic.

Have these developments come to pass?.

A few days ago, former MCA president, Dr Chua Soi Lek called on all former MCA ministers and deputy ministers not to run for the presidency and other important central posts in the upcoming MCA election.

In fact, all former Umno and MCA leaders who had been ministers, deputy ministers and even MPs, whether in the Dewan Rakyat or Dewan Negara, should act honourably and not contest in any party posts in future.

Will the Umno general assembly adopt such a resolution?

LIM KIT SIANG is the MP for Iskandar Puteri.

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