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I do not have confidence in Dato Seri Najib Tun Abdul Razak as Prime
Minister of Malaysia. Do you?

Posted by Haris Ibrahim January 4, 2009

I thought it was pointless sending out good wishes for the year 2009.

If we want 2009 to be the beginning of real change in our country, we must
make it happen.

We can't sit back, leave everything to others and to chance, and just wish
for the best.

We know that come March, 2009, UMNO will have a new president.

Yes, Najib.

And we know that if Pak Lah steps down as PM then, as Najib and so many in
UMNO hope he will, Najib will be making a bee-line to His Majesty seeking to
be appointed as PM.

Frankly, notwithstanding all the things I've written about Pak Lah in this
blog, I'd rather he remain PM then inflict Najib upon us as the new premier
of Malaysia.

Sure, I'd rather see a Pakatan Rakyat federal government come end-March,
2009, with Anwar as PM

If that happens, great.

If it doesn't, though, I do not want Najib running my country.

I have no confidence in Najib.

Why?

If you don't know already, my reasons are as laid out in this PETITION that
is addressed to the 221 other MPs in our Dewan Rakyat, excluding Najib.
http://www.petitiononline.com/pmbersih/petition.html

Well, 221 after the Kuala Terengganu by-election results on 17th January.

This is my gift to all my fellow anak-anak Bangsa Malaysia for 2009.

My dear friend, Nanda, helped me to put it together.

It's long, I know, but that's for the benefit of those who may not be very
clear on the issues, including some of the MPs to whom the petition is
addressed.

If you, too, like me, have no confidence in Najib as PM, give the petition a
read and see if you will give it your support.

If we fail to stop Najib, at least we can look at the next generation of
Malaysians in the eye and say, 'God knows we tried to end the rape of this
country'.
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Kami tidak berkeyakinan terhadap Dato' Seri Najib Tun Abd Razak
sebagaiPerdana Menteri Malaysia

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DiPertuan Agong; and

2) the 221 Members of Parliament to whom this petition is addressed.

This petition is presented here both in Bahasa Malaysia and in English.
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English version

To : the Honourable Members of Parliament of Malaysia, except the
Honourable Member of Pekan.

We, the undersigned, all citizens of Malaysia, remind you :-

1. that by your oath of office, you are all sworn to bear true faith and
allegiance to Malaysia, and to preserve, protect and defend its
Constitution; and

2. that you hold office on trust to represent the interests of the people of
Malaysia and not the interest of your respective parties or their leaders.

We, note that :-

3. Article 43(2) of the Federal Constitution stipulates that His Majesty the
Yang di-Pertuan Agong shall appoint as Prime Minister a member from amongst
you who in the judgment of His Majesty is likely to command the confidence
of the majority of the members of the Dewan Rakyat:

4. subsequent to the 12th General Elections on 8th March, 2008, His Majesty,
in the exercise of his powers and duties under the Article aforementioned,
appointed Dato Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi as Prime Minister;

5. in October, 2008, a power transition agreement was arrived at between
Dato Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and Dato Seri Najib Abdul Razak, by the
terms whereof :-

(a) Dato Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi would not defend his incumbent
presidency of UMNO at the UMNO elections in March, 2009; and

(b) should Dato Seri Najib be duly elected president of UMNO in March 2009,
the matter of the transition of the powers and the office of Prime Minister,
from Dato Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi to Dato Seri Najib, will then be
discussed;

6. at the recent close of nominations of candidates for the forthcoming UMNO
elections in March 2009, Dato Seri Najib was the only individual who
received the requisite number of nominations to be eligible to contest for
the post of president, with the result that, barring any unforeseen
eventualities, Dato Seri Najib will be returned unopposed as president of
UMNO come March 2009;

7. should Dato Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi resign from the office of Prime
Minister subsequent to Dato Seri Najib being confirmed as having been
returned unopposed as president of UMNO in March 2009, it is widely expected
that Dato Seri Najib will seek an audience with His Majesty the Yang
di-Pertuan Agong with a view to representing to His Majesty that Dato Seri
Najib has the confidence of the majority from amongst you and should
consequently be appointed Prime Minister pursuant to Article 43(2) of the
Federal Constitution.

We further note that :-

8. a certain misconception by many in UMNO, in particular, and Barisan
Nasional, generally, which contradicts Article 43(2) of the Federal
Constitution, that the Prime Minister of Malaysia has always to be the
president of UMNO; and

9. all our previous Prime Ministers were, and the current Prime Minister is,
the president of UMNO and that at the time of their respective appointments,
no one seriously thought to question, let alone doubted, whether any of the
previous Prime Ministers or the current one commanded the confidence of the
majority of the members of' the Dewan Rakyat, past and present.

We, the undersigned now note and will ask you, Honourable Members of
Parliament, to likewise take note, of the following matters which have given
rise to serious questions as to the suitability of and leaves no room
whasoever for any confidence in Dato Seri Najib to lead our country as Prime
Minister :-

10. Dato Seri Najib has maintained that he neither knew, was ever acquainted
with nor had any dealings whatsoever with murdered Altantuya Shaaribuu, the
central figure in the ongoing murder trial in Shah Alam. Yet :

i) on 29th June, 2007, Mongolian national, Burmaa Oyunchimeg, a prosecution
witness in the abovementioned murder trial, testified that she had seen a
photograph of the victim, recently acquitted Razak Baginda and a government
official. Newspaper reports give the impression that both the prosecution
and some of the defence went to great lengths to try and not allow this
witness to continue with this line of testimony. However, when she was
examined by Mr. Karpal Singh, who finally managed to get leave to ask the
witness who the government official was, she replied, "Najib Razak. I
remember the name Najib Razak because the name Razak is the same. I thought
maybe they were brothers.". Subsequently, when Dato Seri Najib was asked to
comment on this evidence, he declined to do so, on the grounds that it would
be inappropriate for him to comment further as any statement he made might
be deemed to be on a matter sub-judice, given that the trial was still
ongoing. To this date, Dato Seri Najib has never categorically denied this
piece of evidence and no effort has been made by the relevant authorities to
investigate this piece of information.

ii) On 3rd July, 2008, private investigator Balasubramaniam a/l Perumal
publicly disclosed his own statutory declaration made on 1st July, 2008 in
which he gave details that categorically pointed to Dato Seri Najib knowing
Altantuya very, very well. A careful analysis of the statutory declaration
will reveal that whilst details contained therein related also to the
recently acquitted Razak Baginda and the victim, amongst others, the most
damaging details contained therein related to Dato Seri Najib. The very next
day, in the most suspicious of circumstances, Balasubramaniam publicly
disclosed a newer statutory declaration made by him retracting the contents
of his earlier statutory declaration. Balasubramaniam and his family have
since disappeared and have not been seen by family and friends. A news
report dated 10th July, 2008 has it that Bukit Aman CID chief Mohd Bakri
Zinin confirmed that a team of police had taken a statement from
Balasubramaniam in a "neighbouring country", declined to say which country
he and his family were in but confirmed that Balasubramaniam had said he
left Malaysia because he feared for his life. Mohd Bakri also confirmed then
that police were investigating both of the contradictory statutory
declarations and asked for time to complete the investigations. To-date, we
have not heard on the outcome of those investigations. Meanwhile, as
reported in a media report on 15th July, 2008, the nephew of
Balasubramaniam, R Kumaresan, startlingly disclosed that whilst he had been
in contact with his uncle, he had declined to inform the police of
Balasubramaniam's whereabouts when asked to do so by the police because "I
cannot reveal the full details to the police and by doing this I understand
what the consequences are. but if I do reveal everything I know what will
happen to them".

11. On 26th June, 2007, another Mongolian national, Uuriintuya Gal-Orchir,
who testified at the ongoing Altantuya murder trial, complained in the
course of her testimony that local immigration records of her, Altantuya and
their friend Namiraa Gerelmaa's entry into Malaysia on 8th October, 2006 had
mysteriously vanished. Lead prosecutor Tun Abdul Majid Tun Hamzah and the
defence lawyers protested that this evidence was irrelevant. This matter of
the disappearing immigration records of Altantuya and her friends has never
been investigated to verify if correct and, if found to be correct, who
might be responsible for the same and if it might have a bearing on the
murder trial.

12. Paragraph 52 of the first statutory declaration of Balasubramaniam
details an sms that was allegedly sent by Dato Seri Najib to Razak Baginda
on the day that the latter was arrested. The sms reads : " I am seeing IGP
at 11am today . matter will be solved . be cool". The correctness or
otherwise of this sms is presumably the subject of the police investigation
referred to by Bukit Aman CID chief Mohd Bakri Zinin. However, in another
series of sms'es supposedly between Dato Seri Najib and senior lawyer Muhd
Shafee Abdullah, the authenticity of which Dato Seri Najib has admitted, the
former sent the following sms to the latter on the morning of 16th November,
2006, the very morning that Razak Baginda was charged in court in connection
with the murder of Altantuya : "Pls do not say anything to the press today.
i will explain later. RB will have to face a tentative charge but all is not
lost". These sms'es were publicly disclosed on 11th October, 2008 with an
immediate public outcry for an investigation whether an abuse of power by an
interference with the administration of justice had occurred. On 14th
October, 2008, Dato Seri Najib, in reference to this series of sms'es,
publicly denied that they evidenced any abuse of power, without ever
refuting the authenticity of the same. To-date, there has been no public
statement by the relevant authorities whether these sms'es are the subject
of any investigation to ascertain if indeed any abuse of power has occurred.
If in fact an investigation has been done, no results of the same have been
announced.

13. On 31st October, 2008, Razak Baginda, without being called to enter his
defence, was acquitted of the charge, referred to by Dato Seri Najib as
'tentative', of abetting in the murder of Altantuya. At the time, lead
prosecutor DPP Tun Majid Tun Hamzah intimated that the acquittal might be
appealed, saying, "We will consider appealing the decision. The battle is
not over yet". Yet, 14 days later, the same DPP confirmed that the acquittal
would not be appealed, offering the most spurious of reasons that the trial
judge, in acquitting Razak Baginda, had made findings of fact. A check with
senior criminal practitioners will show that in recent times, there has not
been an occasion where the Attorney-General's Chambers did not appeal
against a decision to acquit, in a murder trial, where the accused was not
ordered to enter a defence. A case in point was the acquittal in the Norita
Shamsuddin murder trial.

We, the undersigned, draw the attention of you, Honourable Members of
Parliament, to some very serious questions, all of which remain unanswered
to this day, which arise from the matters listed above, all matters of
record. These include :-

14. Who did Mongolian national, Burmaa Oyunchimeg, mean by 'Najib Razak' as
the government official photographed with the murdered Altantuya and the one
accused of a 'tentative' charge? Did she mean Dato Seri Najib? And if she
meant Dato Seri Najib, what are we to make of the latter's denial to having
ever known, been acquainted with or had any dealings whatsoever with the
murdered Altantuya? Again, if she meant Dato Seri Najib, would this not
corroborate the assertion by private investigator Balasubramaniam in his
first statutory declaration that Dato Seri Najib was well-acquainted with
Altantuya. Noting that to-date, Dato Seri Najib has never refuted this piece
of evidence, it must be asked why this assertion by Burmaa Oyunchimeg has
never been fully investigated?

15. Have the police concluded their investigation, which commenced in early
July this year, in the matter of private investigator Balasubramaniam's two
contradictory statutory declarations? If so, why has he not been charged for
making a false statutory declaration? Which is the false statutory
declaration? Was he forced to make the false declaration and if so, by who
and how? Where is he and his family now? Are they safe?

16. Is there truth in the assertion by Mongolian national, Uuriintuya
Gal-Orchir that local immigration records of her, Altantuya and their friend
Namiraa Gerelmaa's entry into Malaysia on 8th October, 2006 had disappeared?
If true, who was responsible for this and why was this done? Was the
responsible party acting on instructions and, if so, who and why? Why has
this assertion by Uuriintuya Gal-Orchir never been fully investigated?

17. Given the startling decision of the Attorney General's Chambers not to
appeal the acquittal of Razak Baginda, has there been an investigation into
the exchange of sms's between Dato Seri Najib and the senior lawyer to
ascertain if there was any abuse of power or interference with due process
howsoever by Dato Seri Najib?

We, the undersigned, note with considerable regret that the Honourable
Member of Parliament for Ipoh Timor, Yang Berkhidmat Lim Kit Siang had, in
October, 2008, urged that a Royal Commission of Inquiry be established to,
amongst others, fully investigate the matters hereinstated, but the present
administration has ignored this call.

And we, the undersigned, state now that until and unless the matters raised
herein and the serious questions arising therefrom have been adequately
investigated and findings that fully vindicate Dato Seri Najib of any and
all inferences and aspersions that might reasonably be drawn or made from
the same are disclosed to the public, we have no confidence in Dato Seri
Najib to lead our country as Prime Minister.

Wherefore, we, the undersigned, now direct you, Honourable Members of
Parliament, as our duly elected representatives :-

a) to demand that the Executive forthwith establish a Royal Commission of
Inquiry to fully investigate upon the matters hereinstated and and the
serious questions arising therefrom and to make public the findings and
recommendations, if any, of such a Commission; and

b) should the Executive fail to establish a Commission as aforementioned or
any other credible investigative body to look into and make public its
report on its findings and recommendations, if any, on the matters
hereinstated, with the consequence that the same remain uninvestigated and
the serious questions arising therefrom remain unanswered if and when Dato
Seri Najib should seek an audience with His Majesty with a view to securing
his appointment as Prime Minister, you take all necessary steps to make
known to His Majesty that, as our elected representatives, you do not have
confidence in Dato Seri Najib to lead our country as Prime Minister.

Sincerely,
The Undersigned
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