Fighting corruption: Stop the sandiwara

By Paul Low

COMMENT Dec 9, 2010 is the United Nations Anti-Corruption Day. It is a day to commemorate and remind nations and their citizens of their continuing battle against corruption.

Corruption must be recognized as not just an economic crime but also a crime against the society at large that undermines and cripples its institutions, including making public services inefficient, costly and unavailable or affordable to the poor, and increasing the risk to safety and health of the people.

For example, a corrupt act of awarding a contract to an incompetent but well-connected builder for the construction of schools can put the lives of our children at risk.

DEEPENING SCANDAL – TAIB’S LAND GRABS EXPOSED !

Progress and Development? - 6 years after Taib
took their land and stripped their forest
these Melanau are left destitute.

Sarawak Report has been piecing together documentation that enables us to prove for the first time that the Chief Minister has conducted land thefts on a  massive scale from the people of Sarawak.   Using a number of sources, many of which Taib has shamefully attempted to keep secret, we are now unravelling detailed information showing the full extent of his seizures of Native Customary Rights Lands for himself and his family and also the extraordinary profits he has made at the expense of his people. 

TAIB MAHMUD SHARE SHOCK ! – EXCLUSIVE

Sarawak Report can reveal that the Chief Minister, Abdul Taib Mahmud, has a major personal shareholding in Sarawak’s highly controversial  Royal Mulu Resort,  a project that has received huge injections of cash from the State.  This means that, as both Chief Minister and Finance Minister, Taib has authorised the diversion of large sums of public money straight into his own pocket.  

Khir Toyo is like talking to a mirror!

SHAH ALAM - Turning the table on his critics, former Selangor Menteri Besar Mohamad Khir Toyo has now accused the current Selangor state government of practising cronyism while distributing welfare goodies for the people.

Khir said the state was biased by prioritising Pakatan Rakyat members in giving assistance.