Statement Archive for September 2017

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2017-09-01 We must re-ignite hope among Malaysians to get out of the prevailing sense of hopelessness by stating the truth and not resort to UMNO/BN tactics of lies, fake news and false information Lim Kit Siang
2017-09-02 Corruption is a word and subject Najib conspicuously omitted in his many speeches, statements and messages during the 60th Merdeka anniversary celebrations although it has become one of the four apocalypses of Malaysia Lim Kit Siang
2017-09-03 Najib is maker of biggest fake news in Malaysia that the international multi-billion dollar 1MDB scandal does not exist and a sheer figment of imagination Lim Kit Siang
2017-09-03 Pakatan Harapan parties must be prepared for three-cornered electoral tests in the 14GE, including in Selangor, and start explaining to PAS members why a vote for PAS is a vote for UMNO Lim Kit Siang
2017-09-04 DAP supports Islamisation based on Constitution which promotes a nation-building process based on tolerance and mutual respect in a plural society and not one which engenders bigotry, hatred and extremism Lim Kit Siang
2017-09-04 A Pakatan Harapan Johore State Government will ensure that Johore will be among the top five states with the highest per capita GDP in the country, and not at present listed as even below Malacca, Negri Sembilan and Pahang Lim Kit Siang
2017-09-05 For first time, Najib’s right-hand man has admitted that UMNO/BN could lose the Federal government in forthcoming 14GE Lim Kit Siang
2017-09-05 Najib’s statement on “Give us two-thirds to end unilateral conversion” is the Prime Minister’s second most irresponsible and morally reprehensible action under his premiership after the international 1MDB money-laundering scandal which turned Malaysia overnight into a global kleptocracy Lim Kit Siang
2017-09-06 International drama of “MO1” visits White House and meets US President Trump begins next week – is it a national honour or a national shame for Malaysia? Lim Kit Siang
2017-09-06 Please grow up, MACC Chief Commissioner! Lim Kit Siang
2017-09-07 Saravanan has given the new IGP the first test of his professionalism on Fuzi’s second day as the No. 1 Policeman in the country Lim Kit Siang
2017-09-07 MACC Chief Commissioner Dzulkifli should accompany Najib to Washington to meet FBI head so that he could report to Malaysians the basis and status of US Department of Justice’s multi-billion dollar kleptocratic investigations into 1MDB scandal Lim Kit Siang
2017-09-08 Attorney-General Apandi should be part of Najib’s delegation to Washington to meet up with US Attorney General Jeff Sessions to ascertain what evidence the US Government has to pursue the 1MDB case against 1MDB conspirators including “MO1” Lim Kit Siang
2017-09-08 Aung San Suu Kyi must end her silence and speak up for justice and human rights for the Rohingyas and protect them from ethnic cleansing Lim Kit Siang
2017-09-08 Which is Which - MCA’s Star Online’s two reports yesterday: “PM's aide: DAP is 'Top Dog' in Pakatan” and “MCA: Dr M controlling Pakatan Harapan” Lim Kit Siang
2017-09-08 Aung San Suu Kyi mesti berhenti membisu, beliau mesti bersuara demi keadilan dan hak asasi manusia masyarakat Rohingya dan melindungi mereka daripada pembersihan etnik Lim Kit Siang
2017-09-09 By clumsy and Luddite block of Steam because of “Fight of Gods” computer game, Salleh has caused greater global embarrassment to Malaysia than all the five Prime Ministers put together in 60 years Lim Kit Siang
2017-09-09 My three personal objectives in the 14th GE: for Pakatan Harapan to capture power in (I) Putrajaya (ii) Johore and (iii) Malacca Lim Kit Siang
2017-09-10 UMNO/BN should stop insulting intelligence of Malaysians thinking Malays can be deceived into believing that Mahathir has become my puppet while the Chinese will believe that I have become Mahathir’s stooge Lim Kit Siang
2017-09-10 Pakatan Harapan Selangor must be all-systems-go to ensure that the four component PH parties win the majority of the Selangor state assembly seats to continue to govern the state even in a three-cornered contest with PAS as spoiler Lim Kit Siang
2017-09-10 Najib should compete with Pakatan Harapan to raise the bar higher for Malaysia to achieve and excel and not to plunge the country into an unprecedented low as reducing Malaysia into a global kleptocracy Lim Kit Siang
2017-09-11 Challenge to Najib to prove he is true democrat: declare he would peacefully and democratically transfer power to Pakatan Harapan if voters in Malaysian voters in 14GE decide on change of government in Putrajaya and that there won’t be riots or any declaration of emergency Lim Kit Siang
2017-09-11 Nation grieves at the passing of Sultan of Kedah, who was twice Yang di Pertuan Agong Lim Kit Siang
2017-09-12 It makes no difference, as after Najib’s White House visit and photo-op with Trump, Najib’s infamy as “kleptocrat” and “MO1” and Malaysia’s shame for being regarded worldwide as a “global kleptocracy” remain Lim Kit Siang
2017-09-13 Najib should open up, invite and answer questions about the 1MDB scandal and Malaysia as a global kleptocarcy when he visits the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations before the end of his three-day visit to United States Lim Kit Siang
2017-09-14 Malaysians dependent on mainstream media out-of-sync with rest of the world – believing Najib’s meeting with Trump at White House “resounding success” when US and world media regard it as a disaster for both countries Lim Kit Siang
2017-09-15 The 5 minute 58 second-exchange in the White House that launched a thousand jokes Lim Kit Siang
2017-09-15 Call on Zahid to immediately head a task force to prevent any more tahfiz school fires and present a White Paper to Parliament when it meets on Oct. 23 on the result of checks on all tahfiz schools in the country Lim Kit Siang
2017-09-16 Will Najib sue former World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz and Newsweek for calling him a “crook”? Lim Kit Siang
2017-09-16 Najib knows he is not telling the truth because he knows that never in the nation's history is UMNO/BN coalition more likely to be turned out of Putrajaya than in the 14th General Election Lim Kit Siang
2017-09-17 Instead of a meaningless "hero's welcome home" in KLIA last night, is Najib prepared to convene a special Parliament on 1MDB scandal to clear and cleanse Malaysia of the infamy and ignominy of a global kleptocracy? Lim Kit Siang
2017-09-17 Call for a Royal Commission of Inquiry jointly headed by Tan Sri Simon Sipaun and Datuk Sri Robert Jacob Ridu into Malaysia Agreement 1963 and Cobbold Commission Report Lim Kit Siang
2017-09-17 Five political disasters in one week - isn't it enough? Lim Kit Siang
2017-09-18 I will propose co-option of Jannie Lasimbang as a DAP Central Executive Committee member when the DAP's problems with Registrar of Societies have been resolved Lim Kit Siang
2017-09-19 Najib’s sixth mistake in one week: the continued RCI hearings into Bank Negara forex losses a quarter of a century ago while no RCI on the elephant in the room - 1MDB scandal which turned Malaysia into a global kleptocracy overnight Lim Kit Siang
2017-09-19 Was RCI into Bank Negara forex losses three decades ago concluded earlier than scheduled to avoid the issue of Najib having to testify why he had opposed my call for an RCI in 1993? Lim Kit Siang
2017-09-20 Najib’s three “political disasters” on the seventh day of his week of “political disasters” totalling nine “political disasters” from Sept. 12 Lim Kit Siang
2017-09-20 The Pakatan Harapan Youth wings should brainstorm to encourage greater youth participation and leadership in effecting the first political change in national politics with the election of a Pakatan Harapan federal government in Putrajaya in the 14GE Lim Kit Siang
2017-09-21 MCA reduced to a party without political principles as well as well as a thoroughly indisciplined one whose President is not respected even by the other MCA leaders whether at national, state or local levels Lim Kit Siang
2017-09-21 Better use of the RM60 billion to help Malaysians, like the closure of KRIMs, economic woes of 100,000 Felda settlers and the 700,000 PTPTN defaulters than the Quixotic objective to “strengthen the American economy” Lim Kit Siang
2017-09-21 Liow Tiong Lai should publicly apologise for being caught red-handed a second time for telling a lie – this time about security/terrorist threat resulting in the City Hall ban on Better Beer Festival next month Lim Kit Siang
2017-09-21 Is this the first blot on the professionalism of the new IGP? Lim Kit Siang
2017-09-22 MACC should change its slogan from “Say No to Corruption” to “Say No to 1MDB scandal” to demonstrate MACC is really leading the fight against corruption and abuses of power in Malaysia Lim Kit Siang
2017-09-22 Najib failed to project a “Malaysia First” image, instead he seemed to have knuckled down under to Trump’s “American First” doctrine, even proposing three “value propositions” to strengthen the American economy when he visited White House! Lim Kit Siang
2017-09-23 Call on the three MCA Ministers and leaders, Liow Tiong Lai, Wee Ka Siong and Ong Ka Chuan to publicly apologise for expelling a former Johore village chief for nine years as a MCA member for being photographed with me Lim Kit Siang
2017-09-23 DAP and Pakatan Harapan are neither anti-China nor anti-America although patriotic Malaysians criticize Najib’s kleptocratic policies trying to use China to save him from the international 1MDB scandal or hope Trump will drop the US DOJ litigation/investigations on 1MDB Lim Kit Siang
2017-09-24 Call on Sarawak and Sabah Chief Ministers to stop their abuse of immigration autonomy powers in illegally and undemocratically barring Pakatan Harapan leaders from entry into Sarawak and Sabah if they are serious in wanting Federal Government to fully respect the word and spirit of Malaysia Agreement 1963 Lim Kit Siang
2017-09-25 Call on Sarawak and Sabah to provide Pakatan Harapan with the two-thirds parliamentary majority in 14GE to ensure “New Deal, New Hope” in constitutional re-arrangements based on fair and equitable review of Malaysia Agreement 1963 Lim Kit Siang
2017-09-25 Is the Prime Minister’s Office going to issue another “transcript” of what Najib said at the White House in his meeting with President Trump to prove that he had been “misconstrued”? Lim Kit Siang
2017-09-26 How long will Najib and his administration perpetrate the charade that there is no 1MDB scandal although it continues to make waves and hog international headlines and turned Malaysia overnight into a global kleptocracy? Lim Kit Siang
2017-09-26 Najib has recently developed very Trumpish habit with a special appetite for chest-thumping about the greatness of his premiership but why has he studiously avoided the subjects of Malaysia turning overnight into a global kleptocracy and the creeping Talibanisation in the country? Lim Kit Siang
2017-09-27 Three FAQs on 1MDB scandal on whether Najib received RM2.6 billion donation from Saudi royalty and returned RM2.1 billion, whether the RM144 million pink diamond necklace for “wife of MO1” came from stolen 1MDB funds all answered in US DOJ kleptocratic suits Lim Kit Siang
2017-09-27 If MACC can recommend that BN candidates involved in the 1MDB scandal, which turned Malaysia into a global kleptocracy, should not be fielded in next general election, I will recommend to DAP CEC that DAP candidates in 14GE be vetted by MACC Lim Kit Siang
2017-09-27 What would Samy Vellu think of his son Vell Pari’s statement yesterday virtually condemning his father’s 29-year political legacy as Federal Minister from 1979-2008 Lim Kit Siang
2017-09-28 A recent upsurge of race and religious issues over beer, shorts, launderette and Christianisation to compensate for the disastrous flops over Najib’s meeting with Trump and RCI on forex losses to target Mahathir and Anwar Lim Kit Siang
2017-09-28 Good questions, Dzukifli – MACC must not only resist Najib hiving off SPRM to Paul Low, it must demand MACC comes directly under an Opposition-headed Parliamentary Committee to ensure its independence and professionalism Lim Kit Siang
2017-09-29 Reply to Dzukifli – people are watching whether you will be the head of the world’s first “kleptocratic” anti-corruption agency Lim Kit Siang
2017-09-29 I have great differences with Mahathir – but I never called him “mahazalim” or “mahafiraun” – but this is time for all Malaysian patriots to unite to save Malaysia and get rid of kleptocracy Lim Kit Siang
2017-09-29 Fa Abdul’s children and Tian Chua are examples today that despite temporary setbacks, change for the better in Malaysia cannot be really be stopped so long as Malaysians are prepared to stand up for their fundamental rights Lim Kit Siang
2017-09-30 Challenge to MACC Chief Commissioner Dzulkifli to explain at the Pakatan Harapan “Sayangi Malaysia, Hapuskan Kleptokrasi” rally in PJ on Oct. 14 what MACC had done about fighting corruption and abuses of power in the 1MDB scandal Lim Kit Siang
2017-09-30 Launch of Johor Pakatan Harapan is launch of campaign to establish new PH governments in Putrajaya and Johor in the next 14 General Election Lim Kit Siang
2017-09-30 DAP will form “senior citizens” branches throughout the country to tap the resources, talents and experience of senior citizens to contribute to the nation-wide campaign to “Save Malaysia from kleptocracy” in contrast to MCA leadership which regards senior citizens as useless deadwood Lim Kit Siang
2017-09-30 Let Dzulkifli of MACC explain at the “Sayangi Malaysia, Hapuskan Kleptocrasi” rally in PJ on Oct. 14 whether Malaysia TI CPI will stagnate and regress or improve in coming years Lim Kit Siang