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The constitutional crisis in Terengganu over the appointment of Datuk Ahmad Said as the new Mentri Besar has come to an end with the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi backing off from his original nominee of the former Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Idris Jusoh.
As a result, the front-page article of former Prime Minister Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad in The Sun on “Role of rulers in picking mentri besar” has been overtaken by events.
However, Mahathir’s views on two ongoing controversies – Wang Ehsan and the judicial crisis – are very pertinent.
On the Wang Ehsan issue, Mahathir wrote:
Terengganu is blessed with petroleum deposits. It should get 5% of the total earning from oil production. The Federal Government; fearing the previous PAS government might use this money wrongly had withheld payment.
But when the Barisan Nasional (BN) regained Terengganu the money, now called “Wang Ehsan”, was lavishly spent by the Federal Government on Terengganu. It is not a small sum. Over these years “Wang Ehsan” totalled several billion. - more...
1 comments:
Orang tue dah mamai.. "wrong doing" kunun... Tu yang si Derih & Co samun nih ok bang/tok wan? Bukan oghang hangpa ka cekkkk? Toksah lah tokwan berlakun kunun. Kot Tokwan perintah ari tuh, pon sama gakkk...Nyarih aku tak carut..Nengok ghang bagi komen "holier than thou" cek dah nak termuntah dah..
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