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Saturday, July 01, 2006

Cyclops, Genie & an impossible Dream

Mohd Said Yusof, MP for Jason, otherwise known as Cyclops, is still around despite his disgraceful call to the Melaka Custom officers to close one eye to a seized shipment of illegal logs handled by his company. That’s the standard of PM AAB's government when such a politician is allowed to insult the House of Parliament by his continuing presence.

Recently Cyclops blabbed again about his nemesis, Customs, selling confiscated expensive cars to favoured people for a song. DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng then poked him in that remaining eye with a sharp rocket. Lim told Cyclops to file an ACA report to show that he is not acting out of personal vengeance.

Basically Lim wanted him to act responsibly like an MP, as if he could, given his own boastful and defiant admittance to the 'close-one-eye' conduct. Cyclops should instead stop misusing his position to fling poo around like an irresponsible slanderer.

Now, the senior Lim, opposition leader Lim Kit Siang said the public is entitled to know the full facts about the allegations levelled against the customs department by Cyclops.

Lim Senior warned against any attempts to ‘hush up’ the episode, as he knows full well how UMNO would conduct itself over such matters.

He said: “The public and Parliament are entitled to know the full facts, truth or otherwise. The genie is out of the bottle and it cannot be put back again without a full public and parliamentary accounting.”

“Let is not be said that the ‘close one eye’ syndrome has reached epidemic proportions undermining the national integrity system which Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi had been vainly trying to promote in the past 32 months.”

Lim thought it might be an idea to bodek (insincere or in Lim's case, cynical praising) or shame the PM into acting. I have to admit that the PM hasn’t closed his eyes but only his mouth lately. In the ruling coalition, it’s admirably known as ‘elegant silence’, otherwise translated into plain English as “I dare not say anything because .....”.

Anyway, Lim Senior said he will propose to the Parliamentary Select Committee on Integrity (a ha-ha word), which is meeting on Monday and Tuesday, to call Mohd Said and customs director-general Abdul Rahman Abdul Hamid. He believe the committee would be a suitable forum for the duo to give full disclosures about the allegations, including a full list of the confiscated luxury cars which had been sold, their respective prices and buyers since Abdul Rahman took over.

But wasn’t Johor Baru UMNO MP Sharir in trouble for supporting Lim Senior a month ago on the same issue with Cyclops? Which BN MP dares to now support Lim?

Mr Rocket is certainly into ‘elegant dreaming’.

Related:
(1) Cyclops in Monkey House
(2) From Cyclops to Champion

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