DISHONESTY IN UMNO

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Listening to the the speech of the new President of UMNO recently, I cannot help but to draw one ultimate conclusion, that UMNO is on the brink of collapse if it does not transform fast. Looking at the results of the party election, I am of the opinion that the practice of dishonesty such as money politic, abuse of power or position is still rampant in UMNO. There were many speculation and conclusion that have been made from all sorts of voices, but I am still sceptical of the party direction in future. Mahathir as usual, had made a grand re-entry for the purpose of regaining confidence and support, but it would not generally change the perspective or perception of the peoples in general towards UMNO. I felt like laughing my heart out when witnessing the top leaders of UMNO kissing Mahathir’s hand were the same leaders who urging the party to sack Mahathir from UMNO, the same leaders who were quiet when Mahathir was outcast…that’s a reality of politic in UMNO.

In general, UMNO is comprised of honest peoples, but due to some bad apples, its credibilty has been tarnished beyond repair. There are a basket of dishonest peoples in UMNO, and they are not just the leaders but also the followers. In party election, may be the aspirant contestants did not give any monetary reward to the voters, which i doubt it did not happen, but using one position as a minister to reward a contract, it’s also deemed as dishonest action. By giving a non monetary kick back, it also tantamount to bribery and abuse of power. And normally the contestants who are holding the important positions in government, or being the bankable ministers(good ministries), they would normally win. And the fact that, the divisions which later on, would get a new facility, like a community hall, a school, or a road, would support the said ministers. The culture of “quid pro quo” is strong in UMNO. You scratch my back, i scratch yours. The members would normally support the leader, who they think will eventually help them or privy to powers like can help in getting his children to a good school or may help them to get a better treatment from government agency and so on.

The examples of dishonesty that I mention herein, may be in the eyes of certain quarters, as not serious compared to real act of bribery or stealing, but the amount of this unwarranted acts overwhelms such crimnal acts. This action is amounting to “quasi” to the actual criminal or unethical acts and as a result the abuse of power will be trangressed. This small trangression will lead to a bigger one, until they themselves do not know, what is right and what is wrong. It always a justification to unethical acts and it seems acceptable to everybody. If that so, UMNO will perish a bit by bit from this world. God forbids.

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NEW BRAND FOR UMNO

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Tonight, we have seen a new line up of UMNO top leaders. Assuming that history will repeat, we basically can predict who will be UMNO leaders in future by looking at its line up. The delegates of General Assembly have spoken and at the same times,it is explicitly concluded that the grassroots have also spoken. Notwithstanding the accusation of money politic, UMNO as usual has decided on its leaders based on its own terms like nobody business.

Is UMNO changing? or it is just playing to the current tunes as a result of last election. UMNO is now desperately looking for a new image, tagline and brand. So far, its members become so confused of its direction, they are trying very hard to come up with a solution. May be by changing the top leaders is deemed a first step towards a new brand of UMNO..if it’s so, I am afraid, the step is not really effective. Probably being an UMNO member, we can wait but not the rakyat.

Time is running out, clock is ticking, information is moving digitally, but UMNO is still in its own world. UMNO is urgently and impatiently hungry of a new energised image or brand which can regain not just its own self-confident but more importantly the rakyat confidence in the party. Can Najib do it? Will Muhyiddin help him? Will Zahid, Hishamuddin and Shafie be able to reenergise UMNO? Will KJ be a spoiler? Will Sharizat be a good motherly leader? Will Rosnah defy the odds? Will Majlis Tertinggi be supremely and extraordinarily efficient in shaping the new UMNO?

UMNO will fail if the same old thought being practised by its leaders and members. The entire brand of UMNO must change, and they must change quickly and swiftly. UMNO and Barisan Nasional is difinitely lucky if looking at Pakatan Rakyat. UMNO is lucky because it has Government Servants and the laws on its side. Whatever decisions made by UMNO, rakyat is watching. Eventhough majority of rakyat seems oblivious of UMNO actions, but believe it or not, PRU13 will be the determining factor as to whether UMNO is relevant. As for now, I’m still sceptical.

TOUGH UMNO WITH NO TEETH

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Hahahahahahahahaha….it’s amusing listening to the UMNO Disciplinary Commitee explaining themselves recently pertaining to their action against the selective aspirant leaders. Money Politics
has become an epidemic, it’s hardly curable. It seems harder to eliminate this culture due to ineffective internal mechanism and nepotism.

Although it’s quite late for me to say as the outcome of preliminary results of UMNO election on its Youth, Puteri and Wanita already being decided by so-called delegates of its grassroot. The question is whether the results reflect the real voice of its member…it seems dubious to me, however that’s the price of democracy.

Let’s us hope that the rhetoric speech of UMNO leaders would not aggravate this protracted disease which has been hauting UMNO for so long, but a fact of the matter is, that how hard this Party tries to show off its tough decent and clean image, the damage has been done. But luckily it’s not entirely true when its leaders repeatedly said that UMNO is Malay and Malay is UMNO, because if it’s true, i feel like throwing out.