Thursday, November 4, 2010

Is the EC closing both eyes to Bribery?

I dont get it. Bribery happened in the open and the Election Commission had closed both eyes to this. The Banks in Sandakan had reported large sums of withdrawals so much so some banks had been unable to facilitate such large withdrawals due to technicalities. Recepients of cash, for example,  a taxi driver, said that "they (taxi drivers) are being given RM250 each and ordinary voters are getting RM150 each. Several people said that they were promised RM100 to RM150 more as they cast their ballots. Then huge crowd had gathered at the MCA operation centre here after talk spread that the party was giving “handouts”. When approached the recepients showed brown envelops containg RM250.00. Muhyiddin Yassin was accused of corruption after distributing RM300 each to a group of elderly residents during a visit to Kampung Batu Papan, as reported by Harakahdaily With all these as evidences, shouldn't the EC. at least look into it and start an investigation? Then  UMNO was also quick to claim that the zakat payment given by Tok Guru, to three Orang Asli who embraced Islam was a form of corruption. So if it is, then EC should take action. But to act against Tok Guru means the EC must act against the umnos as well. So best is not to take any action. Thus everyone escaped and cash hand-outs will become more rampant in future buy-elections.

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