Heading for trouble?

By Amde Sidiki

Of lately many mould hills turn mountains, unnecessarily to be in national limelight but the events did.

We are now bugged. Beg with more questions than answers. For examples, some time ago was big flood in Johore, PM wasn’t with the affected flood victims, instead he went to Australia to officiate his brother’s restaurant-now the restaurant has already closed down in less than a year.

A few weeks it was an incident at Batu Buruk in Trengganu, where police were using life bullets to disperse the gathering, a very rare incident in our country, very dangerous indeed. The government politicians said it was instigated by members of opposition political parties. Weeks turned months the government has not come up with any proof!

Later of the week there was pig farm problem in Malacca turned to be emotional issue and could lead to unnecessarily ugly racial tension. And the most recent is a case of confiscating student’s laptop, hand phone and MP3 by university security officers at University Putra Malaysia.

What I find remarkably silly was the way the University Putra solved the issue when the VC came up with a statement siding his security officer/s, his students are at fault long before any investigation carried out. Where is natural justice? It would, at least seen fair should the VC said that he is on the way to investigate, let blame the blameable once the result is found, rather than giving instantaneous answer blaming the weaker party-students.

Of course I am not on the field to witness the scene in any of those, but reading them from various angles considering left and right as much as trying to be objective, in my opinion, this is manifestation of weak and lame duck leadership. Some even say the country is managed by auto pilot. I am not saying our leaders have no power they the highest power on earth. But such power is used in other areas not in trying to harmonise the people, not doing in the manner expected by majority. If I say, our leaders are not dedicated to look after the welfare of the people, I am probably wrong in their eyes. Perhaps to put it mildly, they, the leaders have different priorities. Their priorities surely them first, otherwise one of them would come up with opinion. No, they all have the same opinion these days. In most account even if they must die by hook or by crook they would stead fast, wrongly or rightly with tight lips to hold on to their power. In this wanting to maintain power they become corrupt, absolute power corrupt absolutely.