The DAP National Publicity Secretary said Dzulkifli’s speech in front of 400 MACC officers, warning elected representatives and politicians who are “drunk and drowning in graft”, is simply hot air without actions to follow his words.
“The simple question is, if he, as the MACC chief is aware of elected representatives who were indeed ‘drunk and drowning in graft’, why haven’t they been arrested yet?
“Why is Dzulkifli spending time thumping his own chest when he should waste no time to remove these corrupt leaders from positions of authority and power?” the Petaling Jaya Utara MP said in a statement today.
At the function yesterday, Dzulkili had also reminded politicians and community leaders not to fool the people with fairy tales while at the same time engaging in corruption.
“Don’t be swayed by the desire to be praised and raised on thrones, to the extent of neglecting judgement and public interests. Stop lulling the people with fables and fairy tales which hide the truth, when at the same time you greedily grab the spoils of corruption,” he had said, to thundering applause from MACC officers.
According to Pua, the MACC chief had also demanded that those elected representatives who are corrupt surrender themselves.
“To those still drunk and drowning in graft, heed this warning. For the last time, stop this betrayal of corruption and abuse of power. Surrender. Stop foolishly beating your chest, lest you risk your life and limbs and fall into tragedy,” Dzulkifli had said in his speech.
Pua dismissed all this as rhetoric, telling Dzukifli that the events of the past two years had made Malaysians cynical over such words by those in authority promising to fight corruption.
“If Malaysians had not seen the events of the past two years, including but not limited to, the forced retirement of the former attorney-general, the sacking of the deputy prime minister, the transfers of the Special Branch chief and key MACC senior investigation officials and the promotion of the PAC chairman and his members to the Cabinet, then they might just have applauded the statement of intent by Dzulkifli Ahmad.
“Today, however, he will not be given any benefit of the doubt.”
Pua especially took issue with the use of the term “fables and fairy tales to hide the truth”, asking Dzulkifli if he was referring to the claims of a donation from a Saudi prince to explain the RM2.6 billion deposited in bank accounts belonging to Prime Minister Najib Razak.
“After all, the case submitted by the US Department of Justice has proven that the Arab donor is a figment of the BN Minister’s imagination,” Pua said.
Pua also recalled how Dzulkifli, who while being an officer in the Attorney-General’s Chambers in January this year, sat next to AG Mohamed Apandi Ali at a press conference where the latter cleared Najib Razak of all wrong doings related to the RM2.6 billion.