Today I attended the People’s Congress or Kongres Rakyat at the Shah Alam Convention Centre. I was one of the 19 speakers . The others included Tun Dr Mahathir, Tan Sri Muhyiddin, Dato’ Seri Mukhriz, Lim Kit Siang, Mat Sabu, Zaid Ibrahim, Dato Ambiga and others.
The hall with a seating capacity of about 1,500 chairs was packed with invited people.
My speech has been misquoted by some media, especially on the part of “Feng shui”. I hereby put my speech on my FB: —
In my speech, I said that since end of last year till today, many ordinary folks whom I met told me that they were disappointed with things that were happening in the country and the bad economy. They all asked me whether there is hope in Malaysia. I can’t say much to them.
However, after the Citizen’s Declaration was launched on 4th March this year, many people saw this as light coming into the darkness. The launch of the declaration has drawn attention inside and outside the country, and it has been widely reported in international media.
After the launch of Citizen’s Declaration, we saw that some of the Umno leaders and elected representatives expressed their support to Najib to continue as the Prime Minister. It has drawn a lot of interest and attention of the people.
However, on 17 March, after the UMNO MP of Tasek Gelugor Shabudin delivered the speech on Lim Guan Eng’s house in the parliament, a speech which was based on the old fictitious story that has been spread in the social media, then we saw that the focus of the media has been changed to LGE’s bungalow. The issue has become the biggest news in printed and electronic.and TV news, and has drowned the news of Citizen’s Declaration.
I then said that the company, KLIDH hadt won the bid in theTaman Manggis land by open tender. The open tender committee was composed of civil servants and chaired by the state secretary of Penang.
The original house owner Ms Phang has no shares in KLIDH, her company and KLIDH are two separate companies. According to the statutory declaration of Ms Phang, she was willing to sell the house to LGE because there had been a lot of protests and controversies, and even funeral processions against LGE outside the house ever since LGE moved into the house, because the protestors in Penang like to hold protest outside the CM’s house and unlike in Selangor where protestors did protest outside the state government building of Selangor.
As for Ms Phang, it could be a bad Feng shui. That’s why she wanted to sell it to LGE. The house price is a personal matter between two of them. I believe that as good friends, we normally don’t sell property at a higher price to a friend. It is like if I want to sell my house to Dato Zaid Ibrahim or Mat Sabu, I won’t sell it with two or three million ringgit profit because they are my friends.
The reason this issue has been highlighted by the media for the last ten days is to divert attention from the Save Malaysia campaign.
I went on to say that we all must acknowledge that Malaysia is facing a big problem. When crisis happens, all parties should work together to save the nation from the mess. I cited Tunesia as an example where the party Ennada led by Rached Al-Garnouchi worked with the party that won elections to stabilise Tunesia.
Lastly, I urged everyone who attended the forum to play a role to propagate this declaration, and to ask their friends and relatives to endorse the declaration, so that we can achieve one million signatures as aspired by Tun Mahathir.