Friday, 25 January 2013 admin
He
even defended that the project is beneficial to the public because
“Umno members could get a 12 percent discount at the apartments” while
ordinary bumiputras can get 7% discount.
Tony Pua
Despite the Prime Minister’s continued assertion
that UMNO has “transformed” and “learnt from the mistakes of the past”,
its leaders continue to be completely shameless when defending the
obvious wrong doings of their past.
In
the latest expose by Ng Suee Lim and Shuhaimi Shafiei on the land grab
by Kota Raja UMNO, the latter paid only RM1,000 in premium for 4 acres
of land worth at least RM2.8 million in Section 25, Shah Alam. While
the land was originally slated for building a sports and recreation
complex with a community centre, the site visit had found only nearly
completed apartments and shoplots.
However,
when queried by Malaysiakini, former Kota Raja Umno chief Amzah Umar
has denied any wrongdoing over the latest allegations, saying that “the
medium-cost apartments are meant for public interest.” Amzah was also
the former state assemblyman of Sri Muda.
He
even defended that the project is beneficial to the public because
“Umno members could get a 12 percent discount at the apartments” while
ordinary bumiputras can get 7% discount. It appears that the Animal
Farm cannot be more true for UMNO – "All animals are equal, but some
animals are more equal than others".
In
fact, Amzah had the cheek to deny that there isn’t “anything unusual”
in that the Umno division and MBSA only paid RM1,000 in land premiums.
It
is obvious that UMNO is unable to differentiate between the interest of
UMNO, the party, its leaders and members, from that of the interest of
the public. They have shown no remorse over the fact that such actions
is no different from stealing the wealth of the people to profit UMNO
and Barisan Nasional.
Based
on the response of Amzah and other leaders over the earlier land-grab
exposes in Selangor, it cannot be more clear that if Barisan Nasional is
re-elected into Government, they will continue to pillage and plunder
the wealth and assets of the state at the expense of the
man-on-the-street.
The
contrast with the Pakatan Rakyat administration cannot be more stark.
After 5 years of administration, no Pakatan Rakyat component parties or
its elected representatives have received a single piece of land from
the state government.
We
call upon Selangor Barisan Nasional and UMNO leaders, to announce that
if these “projects” were indeed in public interest, then all profits
arising from these projects should be returned to the State Government
so that the monies could then be spent on the welfare of Selangorians as
well as upgrading the infrastructure of the state.
Despite
UMNO having robbed 5.4 million Selangorians, the Prime Minister has
chosen to remain elegantly silent on the above issue. Datuk Seri Najib
Razak who is also the Selangor UMNO Chief must get his house in order by
explaining the land grab scandal and accepting responsility for UMNO’s
sins. Otherwise, his call for “transformation” is nothing by empty
rhetoric to hoodwink Malaysians.
