FILE PHOTO: Malaysia's Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin wearing a protective mask arrives at a mosque for prayers, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Putrajaya, Malaysia August 28, 2020. REUTERS/Lim Huey Teng/File Photo
Open letter: Please resign, Muhyiddin; You failed in everything
by Ronnie Liu
by Ronnie Liu
It is indeed with a heavy heart I have to be the bearer of bad news. This is about your dismal performance which has endangered your own legacy, undermined survivability of Malaysia and may erode the peoples’ trust of the royal institution.
I am writing this letter as an individual, not as a state assemblyman of Sungai Pelek or representing the views of DAP. My opinions are reflective and representative of the feelings, fears, tribulations of the rakyat from villagers, traders, businessmen, professionals from all walks of life during this pandemic.
You have publicly said some people had called you “bodoh” and you accepted it. Personally, I feel you are not stupid because you have outsmarted Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamed to become prime minister. You are smart to wrangle, wriggle and wiggle your way to the top. In the process, you betrayed your friends in Pakatan Harapan, for which does not speak well of your own integrity.
To stay in power, you needed more “friends” which you enticed with Cabinet and GLC posts. As a result, you now have the biggest Cabinet in the world – based on population size and gross domestic product (GDP), larger than China, the US and Japan. Of course, all at the expense of taxpayers’ money.
You are now in a dilemma and stuck in quagmire created by yourself. Although you are smart and certainly not “bodoh”, you were gifted with a set of skills in politics, backstabbing, betrayal and other underhanded tactics to climb to the top.
In simple management lingo, you have been “promoted” to your level of incompetence. As prime minister, you need to have different “skills set” to power Malaysia to greater heights.
I would recommend a book for you to read during lockdown – Peter’s Principles. Basically, the author expounds several principles to climb the corporate ladder, political hierarchy or even public service.
One of which is – a person can be “promoted” or sometimes “elected” like former US President Donald Trump, to his or her own level of incompetence. The reason is every person has a different set of skills for a certain type of job.
For example, a good salesman can sell very well but the moment he is promoted to become a marketing director he needs to manage people, make marketing strategies, budgeting etc. In short, he will fail because he does not have the requisite skill sets for the higher job.
It is the same with you, as you have failed big time as you do not have the requisite skills set for a prime minister.
You were appointed as a boss because bosses use people and abuse them and that’s why you have a jumbo-sized Cabinet. You admitted to the country once that you are not the prime minister voted in the last general election.
You are not a leader, Muhyiddin. A man who leads looks out for the people’s wellbeing, inspires and improves his people. You do not even have a vision for our country.
Since our Independence, former Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman taught us that if only we are united, we can shape our destiny and take on the world, becoming a model of success for the rest of the world to emulate.
Unfortunately, you are neither a nation builder nor are your Cabinet members. Most of them are opportunists and have no interest in nation building.
You have failed us on unity, economy and in containing COVID-19. Let me elaborate:
Unity
When Malaya was formed, our Cabinet was multi-racial, with sizeable number of them holding important portfolios.
Your Cabinet now boasts of a Malay-Muslim Government, having little input from the minorities. Your infamous quote “Saya 1Melayu, 2Malaysia” does not spring confidence that you will be fair to the minorities.
On the other hand, Indonesia is the world’s largest Muslim country and yet it is pluralistic under its Pancasila, the principles of which were incorporated in our Rukun Negara.
Economy
Under your watch, our foreign direct investment (FDI) has dropped and even Hyundai has shifted its car production.
Giant corporations like Google and Amazon are investing billions in Indonesia. High tech companies like Dyson making electric vehicles (EV) cars and German BioN are going to Singapore. We are losing or have lost our competitive edge to other Asean countries because of your flip flop and infamous U-turn leadership.
Mismanagement of COVID-19
We can compile a new book entitled “Comedy of Errors Of A Backdoor Government’s Mismanagement of the COVID-19”- things you won’t even learn in Harvard University.
We are the only country in the world that instituted a war-like Emergency Ordinance and suspended the Parliament for this but our total infections have quadrupled to 639,562 confirmed cases and 3,684 deaths as of June 10.
Name of all our lockdowns; MCO 1, MCO 2, MCO 3, EMCO, CMCM, TMCO and whatnot. It is indeed a comedy of errors and guffaws. For starters, Kuala Lumpur KL is a Federal Territories carved out of Selangor.
For example, Taman Tun Dr Ismail is in KL and across the road is Petaling Jaya’s is 1Utama- the world’s 4th biggest shopping mall.
District boundaries within states are not demarcated properly. Anyone with some common sense will just impose a 10km radius boundary from your home address to meet the lockdown criteria, by verifying it on Google maps.
Vaccine transparency and vaccination chaos
The MySejahtera app, though a brilliant idea, did not work as expected due to huge rush for vaccination appointments in tandem with rise in COVID-19 infections. The app crashed or hangs often.
Senior citizens (husband and wife) were separated and directed to different vaccination centers far away from home, with last minute change of centres and overcrowding at the places.
There are more than 8,000 private general practitioners (GP) who offered to help as part of “national service” but received lukewarm response from the Health Ministry. Common sense tells us if each GP vaccinate 20 persons per day, we can have 160,000 inoculations a day.
The pricing of our vaccine procurement has become a “national secret”, which created a lot of suspicion and confusion. When the Belgian Government announced its purchase price of Pfizer, Malaysians wonder why are we buying at higher price.
When a Hong Kong philanthropist wanted to donate two million doses of Sinovac, Malaysians were surprised why the price of Sinovac for two doses sold to Government, reported on social media, to be RM380 while the Hong Kong donor can get them four times cheaper? Malaysians would like to know the truth.
Why Sinopharm vaccines, which are approved by the World Health Organization (WHO), but not approved by the Malaysian Government? Strangely, Sinovac vaccines are approved in Malaysia even before WHO approved them on June 1.
And why is there a need of mega vaccination centres, creating problems with social distancing when we can rope in 8,000 GPs? In the UK, the GPs and pharmacists were roped in to do vaccinations. As of June 8, 61% of its population had at least one dose and 42% had completed two doses of COVID-19 vaccines.
Private hospitals and state governments like Selangor, Penang and Sarawak wanted to buy directly from China but Putrajaya imposed various red tapes to it.
The way forward
I humbly request that Tan Sri should resign because the rakyat are hungry, angry from loss of jobs, sad from the loss of loved ones and financially constrained. The current situation is volatile and may lead to civil disobedience.
You should resign to protect your own legacy, Malaysia’s future and the royal institution which has been the strongest pillar of our foundation.
Your dismal performance has made you the worst prime minister and your continued stay in power will only cement it forever.
Rest assured that your dismal performance is not a reflection of your capability but more of you being promoted to your level of incompetence which requires a different set of skills which you do not possess. Mahathir is another classic example of getting promoted to his level of incompetence.
You can salvage your tattered image by resigning, allowing Istana Negara to appoint another prime minister who commands the majority of MPs at Dewan Rakyat.
You are fully aware who is the anointed successor to Mahathir and it is public knowledge that Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has announced he has the majority support.
On that note, you should know that using race and religion to stay in power is a dangerous explosive cocktail which you and your coalition partners have used before. Coupled with the crumbling economic situation, we should maintain race and religious harmony.
I pray that you will make the gracious sacrifice by resigning for the sake of country. This noble and selfless act will be forever be engraved in the hearts of all Malaysians and that your legacy ended with a supreme sacrifice which will be remembered forever. – June 12, 2021.
I am writing this letter as an individual, not as a state assemblyman of Sungai Pelek or representing the views of DAP. My opinions are reflective and representative of the feelings, fears, tribulations of the rakyat from villagers, traders, businessmen, professionals from all walks of life during this pandemic.
You have publicly said some people had called you “bodoh” and you accepted it. Personally, I feel you are not stupid because you have outsmarted Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamed to become prime minister. You are smart to wrangle, wriggle and wiggle your way to the top. In the process, you betrayed your friends in Pakatan Harapan, for which does not speak well of your own integrity.
To stay in power, you needed more “friends” which you enticed with Cabinet and GLC posts. As a result, you now have the biggest Cabinet in the world – based on population size and gross domestic product (GDP), larger than China, the US and Japan. Of course, all at the expense of taxpayers’ money.
You are now in a dilemma and stuck in quagmire created by yourself. Although you are smart and certainly not “bodoh”, you were gifted with a set of skills in politics, backstabbing, betrayal and other underhanded tactics to climb to the top.
In simple management lingo, you have been “promoted” to your level of incompetence. As prime minister, you need to have different “skills set” to power Malaysia to greater heights.
I would recommend a book for you to read during lockdown – Peter’s Principles. Basically, the author expounds several principles to climb the corporate ladder, political hierarchy or even public service.
One of which is – a person can be “promoted” or sometimes “elected” like former US President Donald Trump, to his or her own level of incompetence. The reason is every person has a different set of skills for a certain type of job.
For example, a good salesman can sell very well but the moment he is promoted to become a marketing director he needs to manage people, make marketing strategies, budgeting etc. In short, he will fail because he does not have the requisite skill sets for the higher job.
It is the same with you, as you have failed big time as you do not have the requisite skills set for a prime minister.
You were appointed as a boss because bosses use people and abuse them and that’s why you have a jumbo-sized Cabinet. You admitted to the country once that you are not the prime minister voted in the last general election.
You are not a leader, Muhyiddin. A man who leads looks out for the people’s wellbeing, inspires and improves his people. You do not even have a vision for our country.
Since our Independence, former Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman taught us that if only we are united, we can shape our destiny and take on the world, becoming a model of success for the rest of the world to emulate.
Unfortunately, you are neither a nation builder nor are your Cabinet members. Most of them are opportunists and have no interest in nation building.
You have failed us on unity, economy and in containing COVID-19. Let me elaborate:
Unity
When Malaya was formed, our Cabinet was multi-racial, with sizeable number of them holding important portfolios.
Your Cabinet now boasts of a Malay-Muslim Government, having little input from the minorities. Your infamous quote “Saya 1Melayu, 2Malaysia” does not spring confidence that you will be fair to the minorities.
On the other hand, Indonesia is the world’s largest Muslim country and yet it is pluralistic under its Pancasila, the principles of which were incorporated in our Rukun Negara.
Economy
Under your watch, our foreign direct investment (FDI) has dropped and even Hyundai has shifted its car production.
Giant corporations like Google and Amazon are investing billions in Indonesia. High tech companies like Dyson making electric vehicles (EV) cars and German BioN are going to Singapore. We are losing or have lost our competitive edge to other Asean countries because of your flip flop and infamous U-turn leadership.
Mismanagement of COVID-19
We can compile a new book entitled “Comedy of Errors Of A Backdoor Government’s Mismanagement of the COVID-19”- things you won’t even learn in Harvard University.
We are the only country in the world that instituted a war-like Emergency Ordinance and suspended the Parliament for this but our total infections have quadrupled to 639,562 confirmed cases and 3,684 deaths as of June 10.
Name of all our lockdowns; MCO 1, MCO 2, MCO 3, EMCO, CMCM, TMCO and whatnot. It is indeed a comedy of errors and guffaws. For starters, Kuala Lumpur KL is a Federal Territories carved out of Selangor.
For example, Taman Tun Dr Ismail is in KL and across the road is Petaling Jaya’s is 1Utama- the world’s 4th biggest shopping mall.
District boundaries within states are not demarcated properly. Anyone with some common sense will just impose a 10km radius boundary from your home address to meet the lockdown criteria, by verifying it on Google maps.
Vaccine transparency and vaccination chaos
The MySejahtera app, though a brilliant idea, did not work as expected due to huge rush for vaccination appointments in tandem with rise in COVID-19 infections. The app crashed or hangs often.
Senior citizens (husband and wife) were separated and directed to different vaccination centers far away from home, with last minute change of centres and overcrowding at the places.
There are more than 8,000 private general practitioners (GP) who offered to help as part of “national service” but received lukewarm response from the Health Ministry. Common sense tells us if each GP vaccinate 20 persons per day, we can have 160,000 inoculations a day.
The pricing of our vaccine procurement has become a “national secret”, which created a lot of suspicion and confusion. When the Belgian Government announced its purchase price of Pfizer, Malaysians wonder why are we buying at higher price.
When a Hong Kong philanthropist wanted to donate two million doses of Sinovac, Malaysians were surprised why the price of Sinovac for two doses sold to Government, reported on social media, to be RM380 while the Hong Kong donor can get them four times cheaper? Malaysians would like to know the truth.
Why Sinopharm vaccines, which are approved by the World Health Organization (WHO), but not approved by the Malaysian Government? Strangely, Sinovac vaccines are approved in Malaysia even before WHO approved them on June 1.
And why is there a need of mega vaccination centres, creating problems with social distancing when we can rope in 8,000 GPs? In the UK, the GPs and pharmacists were roped in to do vaccinations. As of June 8, 61% of its population had at least one dose and 42% had completed two doses of COVID-19 vaccines.
Private hospitals and state governments like Selangor, Penang and Sarawak wanted to buy directly from China but Putrajaya imposed various red tapes to it.
The way forward
I humbly request that Tan Sri should resign because the rakyat are hungry, angry from loss of jobs, sad from the loss of loved ones and financially constrained. The current situation is volatile and may lead to civil disobedience.
You should resign to protect your own legacy, Malaysia’s future and the royal institution which has been the strongest pillar of our foundation.
Your dismal performance has made you the worst prime minister and your continued stay in power will only cement it forever.
Rest assured that your dismal performance is not a reflection of your capability but more of you being promoted to your level of incompetence which requires a different set of skills which you do not possess. Mahathir is another classic example of getting promoted to his level of incompetence.
You can salvage your tattered image by resigning, allowing Istana Negara to appoint another prime minister who commands the majority of MPs at Dewan Rakyat.
You are fully aware who is the anointed successor to Mahathir and it is public knowledge that Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has announced he has the majority support.
On that note, you should know that using race and religion to stay in power is a dangerous explosive cocktail which you and your coalition partners have used before. Coupled with the crumbling economic situation, we should maintain race and religious harmony.
I pray that you will make the gracious sacrifice by resigning for the sake of country. This noble and selfless act will be forever be engraved in the hearts of all Malaysians and that your legacy ended with a supreme sacrifice which will be remembered forever. – June 12, 2021.
Ronnie Liu is the state assemblyman of Sungai Pelek.
chairman moo wansui
ReplyDeleteBe careful you get what you wish for...
ReplyDeleteThe end result is likely UMBO back as the Core Power, Zahid, Najib et.al..
Najib The Thief will definitely be back in power in such an outcome, even if his heavy baggage prevents him from taking the PM seat again.
The opening lines of the song All I Have To Do Is Dream by the Everly Brothers:
ReplyDelete"Drea-ea-ea-ea-eam, dream, dream, dream
Drea-ea-ea-ea-eam, dream, dream, dream"