Post Najib Reforms needed for a better Malaysia

September 2, 2015

Post Najib Reforms needed for a better Malaysia

by Dr.M. Bakri Musa, Morgan-Hill, California

Najib and RosieGoodbye Najib and  FLOM Rosie







Najib's 2015 CabinetNajib’s 2015 Cabinet


Transition Prime Minister and Unity Cabinet







Tengku Razaleigh HamzahThe Prime Minister In Waiting–Good for Malaysia



Fire Key Leaders in the Permanent Establishment





Apandi ampuThe Man behind the Sapuman




Low and AbuLow and Abu–Corruption Busters






Amnesty for Corruptors and Asset Declaration




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Von Mises


20 thoughts on “Post Najib Reforms needed for a better Malaysia

  1. To Bakri Musa’s list of senior public officials who should be replaced I would add the IGP. He has become an authority to himself, of course with the encouragement of the PM. Even to the extend of challenging court orders. But mostly because he just does not use his God given intellect to process and judge situations. All these people have not understood that they serve the people and not UMNO. But Bakri’s assessment and solutions will never pass the UMNO test so we will be stuck with this mob until GE 14. But perhaps parliament can pressure the BN /UMNO government to call for early elections. That would satisfy everybody.



  3. Ku Li is on record as saying that he has no problem with Najib. Why some folks carry on thinking that this Establishment guy is part of the solution is beyond me.
    Ku Li is a politician. What he will do when he comes to power is another matter. Power corrupts unless it is held in check.–Din Merican

  4. If BN were to still be in power, I’d think very strongly that the first two ‘levels’ of each of the component parties have to be ‘cleansed’ off, more gently put would be, to retire off these members who have proven themselves self-serving, dishonest,without integrity, cowardly and without much intelligence. Anyone with any of those traits or all of them in the same person should be removed from position first. The list is so long, it’d clogged up this commentary column. People like Zahid who behave like gangster, Hishamuddin, Syed of Cheras, Liow Tiong Lai, Chew Mei Fun, Azalina, Sharir, Reezal etc etc. I left out the MIC as they are so busy killing each other they are no longer in public service. Any peep from them despite the many wrongdoings on the rakyat by the PM? Nope, they supported him instead. People like Anina should be put in instead. We have so many good people who could have done a much better job but who are not in BN, like Wong Chen, Nazmi, Rafizi, Hannah, Surendran or not even in politics, like Rosli Dahlan, yet we are saddled with those of inferior quality.

  5. No need for such a complicated plan. Exercise of power at all levels must be supervised. We have the framework for that. Just ensure that there is consistent application of the laws that are already there. No one is above the law.
    In this internet age we should also have a keen eye on unintended consequences. Measure four times before you cut once.

  6. Dr Bakri/ pak Din
    This talk after talk of najib resigning anytime have been going on for months already.
    No sirees. No go. You can dream on. He has become stronger. No reason for him to quit. Wait for the GE. The only time you can say bye to him. But between now and 2018, so many things will happen. We will forget. Life goes on with Najib still as our PM. Sorry to kill your enthusiasm.

  7. And Ku Li has decided not to run for election……A reminiscent on the Late Soh Chai doctor… know who la……..St michael boy…..hahahahaha

    Keng Yaik may be ktemoc’s secret admirer…….hahahahaha

  8. “Sorry to kill your enthusiasm.” Pompuan

    Korek, Korek, Korek!

    Jibros has surrounded themselves completely with sycophants, apple polishers and rambutan lickers. Heck, they’ve even built a 0.6 billion wall around with brain-dead loyalists to the Almighty $$, aka zombies. Dunno where the remaining ‘donation’ is, though – probably within easy reach. Fight it won’t be, but flight may have to wait.

    OMG! The toe-sucking KSN’s kontrek has recently been extended by 3 years, and other ‘useful’ functionaries and idiots of certain rank above, by a minimum of 1-2 years.

    The vote of no-confidence during the next Parliamentary session won’t pass for sure. Do any of you have hopes of a lack of quorum during Badjet presentation?

    We ARE Screwed.

  9. >Despite the bravado, Najib Razak’s days as Prime Minister are numbered. <

    That's just the writer's opinion, unless he knows some – perhaps – foreign forces in league with local elements who're out to get Najib (allusions about "the ignominious fate of many corrupt Third World leaders" such as Marcos, Ngo Dinh Diem, Assad, and Gaddafi cannot but suggest foreign involvement). Incidentally, it would be great if he could elaborate how Ngo Dien Diem, Assad, and Gaddafi were corrupted, and if possible compare them with the corruption of other still existing national leaders.

    Ngo Dien Diem is perhaps the best example why we should NOT try to topple with extra-legal means: the number of coups that followed the Vietnamese overthrow should warn Malaysians about the chaos that might follow. For all of Najib's fault, mail in Malaysia, to give but one example, is more reliable than even the US, where it's not uncommon for the post office to take over two weeks to deliver out-of-state mail, and more than a week to send your parcel to a friend living across the street. Seriously, whatever the leaders we have, our country is 1) NOT among the worst in the world, and 2) NOT much better than Libya or even Iraq in terms of people's livelihood before those countries sunk into oblivion.

    If we want to change the government, fine, but do it legally, like getting parliament to give a vote of no confidence. Or, as in the case of Abdullah Badawi, persuade Najib to give up his post. However, as Bernard points out, UMNO isn't likely to cater to our wishes. And, not surprisingly, while the article gives us a prescription for change, it does not tell us which individual or parties could and would do the things it suggested – in short, who would bell the cat.

    So again, Bernard's suggestion is most practical: wait for the next general election and don't try to be a smart alec and do something that Malaysians might not thank you for the possible consequences. Such as floods of refugees trying to get into Thailand, Indonesia, and even China.

  10. My posting above, ending with ” floods of refugees trying to get into Thailand, Indonesia, and even China” will be the last under the name “LC.”

    I’d used my initials “LC” long ago at a DAP website called “Bungaraya.” Since then, I’d written some articles for Malaysiakini with the name LChuah and later Renoir at blogs such as “MalaysiaToday” and Azly Rahman’s “A Republic of Virtue.” I will choose a different name for any further posts on this website. Thank you Din, and I apologize to you and all commentators here.

    LC, from Maryland, USA

  11. Guys and Gals,
    I have watched the series “For the sake of republic” and felt that it would be extremely relevant to Malaysian politics. Though it’s in mandarin, there are english subtitles. Of course, certain aspect may not be accurate but the gist of it is there……..enjoy

  12. Modern politics is like soccer game: you set artificial rules for a civilized competition, which will determine a winner.

    When a soccer player violates a rule, he might be given a yellow card by the referee. The game continues because both teams are still committing to the overall artificial rules, despite violations along the way.

    Now, if a soccer player kicked his rival player between the legs, and the angry referee pulled out a gun and shot the violator dead. Do you think the game could continue with the remaining players? Of course not. Worse still, when the artificial rules lost their credibility, there would be no rule. Players would get into fist fight and gun fight, with the ones having the biggest guns won the fight. Of course no one would be awarded a trophy, which is the original purpose of the soccer game.

    Dr. Bakri Musa alluded the life of a sitting PM is tied to his popularity. But modern politics is premised on protecting the life of the executive head regardless how unpopular or disgusted he/she is. The best of our security apparatus should be deployed to protect Najib’s life if the game is to continue; this is not dissimilar to protecting the soccer player’s life for the game to continue even if the player violates the rule.

    Any slight hint that there is causal relation between popularity and the life of executive head is antithetical to modern politics. Such a hint should be roundly rejected. In modern politics, it is understood that executive head is not likely to be very popular, oppositions are natural, and successful protecting the life of executive head is a function of security apparatus, not a function of his popularity or good behavior or competency. I do not realize Dr. Bakri Musa’s California is so infested with leftism that the rejection of political violence is only feebly uphold.

  13. The writeup is very true and succinct. Unfortunately, the system as it is today, does not draw correlation between mass crowds and the position of the Prime Minister.

    The Prime Minister derives authority by virtue of him being the President of UMNO and the fact that UMNO is the largest party within the Barisan Nasional.

    Hitherto, the President of UMNO is directly voted in by 160 UMNO Division Leaders.

    Therefore, the Prime Minister sees his mandate as coming from UMNO and his division leaders. Street protests do not mean much. Total reform must come from within UMNO and the mindsets of the major population (i.e. the Malays and members of UMNO).
    That is no mean feat, taking into account how much money and livelihood is involved for these party members.


    Seriously where are you getting this from ?

    In democracies pouplarity goes hand in hand with electability. Populist programmes are pushed instead of rational ones because popularity in most functional democracies guarantees re-election. The State’s security apparatus are there to protect the Executive from physical violence while the Executive’s political party is there to protect their asset from political violence.

    Indeed the State Security apparatus should have no part to play from protecting the Executive from his political rivals from within his party or his rivals outside of it.

    Your bizarre claims of leftism is even more confounding where your rhetoric does not even match right wing/ conservative thought. All you seem to do, is label anyone you disagree with as “leftist” while your own words does not match anything resembling conservative dogma.


    Among symptoms of leftism is wobbling words emanated from feeble mind; foundation bedrock is ignored in pursue of derivative benefit. Dr. Bakri Musa has obviously ignored that veiled warning of physical harm to PM is a form of political violence, which is completely unacceptable to the modern politics. A foundation of modern politics is the absence of physical threat, regardless how subtle the threat is. I guess Islamic State has already won when they send our daily news doses associated to political valence; Being bombarded by those news, feeble-minded leftists just cannot resist the effectiveness of political violence that they adopt political violence unintentionally and in veiled form.

    Tell me what part is inaccurate with my assessment. Ignore my intended labeling.

  16. “Tell me what part is inaccurate with my assessment. Ignore my intended labeling.”

    How does one judge your assessments when they are based on the labels you choose to assign to people ?

    What Dr. Bakri pointed out, was that the inevitable fall of tyrants most often involves blood shed. Do you dispute this claim ? Or do you think that merely asserting such amounts to a threat ? Do you think that utterance of such claims is on the same level as that made by the Islamic State ? If yes, what does it say when US presidents make the same claims ?

    “A foundation of modern politics is the absence of physical threat, regardless how subtle the threat is…”

    Really ? So when right wing candidates warn of the threat of “foreigners” or when left wing candidates warn of radical religious groups, these are merely aberrations in modern politics ?

    Tell me again about wobbling words emanating from a feeble mind.

  17. Chillax folks! As despicable as Najib is, we should avoid letting the repulsion to blind side our view of the big picture.
    Remember R.A.H.M.A.N.
    It is already a foregone conclusion that Najib is going down at GE14, followed with the collapse of UMNO B’s house of cards.
    This is the nightmare and worst fear of Mahathir.

    Najib is not unlike an enormous irritating boil that will go away eventually – if we let nature takes its own course, it will burst by itself when the time is ripe. No need to lance. The entailing fever and discomfort are essential for character and nation building.
    Just make sure to cleanse off the pus completely with antibacterial soap to contain the spread of infection! 🙂


  18. Ocho Onda: As any physician – even a first year intern – will tell you, not all boils burst by themselves when the time is ripe. As a surgeon my job is to drain boils so we can have a controlled evacuation of the pus without messing and damaging other tissues. If you do not do it in time or do it incompetently, you risk spreading the infection and killing your patient through sepsis. That is still a major killer even in America.

    History is replete with examples of egomaniacal leaders who think they are invincible but found out only way too late otherwise. I could not care less of the fate of those leaders but I do care of the people who would suffer because of the ensuing mess.

  19. Dr. Bakri.

    Salam from across the big pond. I may not be a medical doctor but I am sure that it does not take a med intern, either, to know that most boils rupture
    , drain and
    heal itself. Most often home treatment will suffice. Professional medical treatment/intervention is only necessary when a fluctuant boil leads to secondary infection such as cellulitis which involves infection of the deeper layer of the skin or where secondary complications like diabetes or impaired immune system, etc, are present that may lead to further complications and sepsis.

    I agree that sepsis is a major killer in America and possibly in Europe but I doubt that it relates even remotely to boils. Do you by any chance, have the percentage of annual deaths in America that is caused by sepsis due to boils?

    Anyway, I was using the boil phenomena as a “oxymoronic” analogy to illustrate the sobering stupor that has seem to permeate the Malaysian political dilemma.
    As much as I appreciate your care of the people who would suffer because of the ensuing mess….I will hazard to say that it’s a bit premature and I will even go further to say that on the contrary, the Malaysian thick and dwindling middle class needs to suffer and dwindle further to jolt them out of their slumbered comfort zone, to get them agitated………

    It is like making good cha, even with the right type of tea – the right time, water temperature and patience are still required to achieve the desired optimum result. 🙂

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