Dulu lain, sekarang lain?

Quoted from a very senile-oldman, “This is especially (important) as we now believe in transparency,”. Does it mean that we never bothered with it before or that we, in the context of the quote only refers to him and the few friends who only recently started to believe in the newly-found word, transparency?

Whether MITI is the guilty party approving NAZA as a national car status or not, Mahathir is also responsible. Why? He was the ruling prime minister then, dude!

He could always veto it, couldn't he?

You know one thing about this senile old man? Poooooooooooora chit!


Mahathir raises issue of national car status for Naza vehicles
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The Star Online > Nation

Monday October 10, 2005

Mahathir raises issue of national car status for Naza vehicles

News Updated By SIM LEOI LEOI of The Star

PUTRAJAYA: There must be no cover-up over who initially approved the proposal for the Naza cars to be accorded the national car status, former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said.

Speaking to reporters after launching the Perdana Global Peace Forum here on Monday, Dr Mahathir said it was the International Trade and Industry Ministry, which approved it, and not him (who was then the Prime Minister).

“On the approval of Naza cars as national cars, I think MITI knows very well that it was MITI that approved it and you know, the cover-up is wrong.

“The Government must not cover up and lie to the public, it’s wrong. The Government know that it was MITI that approved it, not me,” he said, adding that any such attempt to “cover-up is very bad.”

“This is especially (important) as we now believe in transparency,” he said.

Dr Mahathir, who was asked whether he was satisfied with the replies given by the International Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Seri Rafidah Aziz to the Parliament over the issuance of the Approved Permits (APs) for cars in Parliament last week, he said:

“Most of the questions were not answered while the MPs too did not ask the right questions.”


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