APRIL 13 — What would the rakyat do if he is released prematurely? A substantial number of Malaysians spent a better part of 10 years to raise awareness and champion the...
APRIL 13 — What would theA substantial number of Malaysians spent a better part of 10 years to raise awareness and champion the successful prosecution of former prime minister Najib Razak. They won after great sacrifices.The cost-benefit analysis to a pardon decision holds a whole government hostage as it increasingly appears aYet, the hullabaloo over Najib sheds light on our fragile present.A straight answer is elusive. It is a triangle of the executive, the Pardons Board and the Agong.
Obviously, those debates fascinate. But to oversimplify them to absolutes and rely on the complexities to reduce the ownership of the decision from any one reeks of political cover.Without political push, pardons for politicians are not accelerated or even processed. The political realities of 2018 post-government change processed his pardon inside a week. The political realities then permitted a pardon.
And here they are, the various Pakatan MPs — Gobind Singh, Nga Kor Ming and Rafizi Ramli for instance — gone silent on the Najib pardon efforts. Should they not speak up and insist that he should serve his sentence to underline the gravity of the issue? The prosecution was a mountain to scale as it is with modern financial cases when it is difficult to link acts with people when paper trails are longer than giant rivers.He has been in prison for less than a year and they want to consider a pardon.Clemency is for the contrite
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