Penemuan kandungan alkohol sebanyak 0.5 peratus itu terbongkar selepas pengguna yang meragui minuman itu membuat aduan kepada Jabatan Agama Johor (JAJ) dengan membawa sendiri ‘bir halal’ itu untuk dianalisis, seterusnya mendapatkan kepastian.

Menurut sumber, JAJ kemudian menghantar sampel minuman ke Jabatan Kimia untuk pengesahan dan hasil ujian makmal yang dijalankan mendapati bir halal diperbuat daripada pelbagai perisa buah-buahan itu mengandungi 0.5 peratus kandungan alkohol.

“Berikutan penemuan itu, JAJ memaklumkan kepada Jabatan Kemajuan Islam Malaysia (Jakim) serta Jabatan Kastam Diraja Malaysia (KDRM) untuk tindakan selanjutnya.

“JAJ perlu memaklumkan penemuan itu kepada Jakim kerana difahamkan minuman itu (gambar) menjadi kegemaran ramai dan selama ini dianggap halal. KDRM pula perlu mengambil tindakan lanjut kerana minuman itu diimport dari luar negara,” katanya.

Mufti Johor, Datuk Mohd Tahrir Samsudin ketika mengulas perkembangan itu berkata, Majlis Fatwa Kebangsaan memutuskan kandungan alkohol dalam makanan serta minuman yang dibenarkan syariat Islam ialah tidak melebihi 0.01 peratus.

“Makanan atau minuman disahkan halal jika terdapat kandungan alkohol tidak melebihi 0.01 peratus. Ulama bersepakat menetapkan jumlah alkohol dengan kuantiti itu kerana ia boleh terhasil dalam makanan dan minuman secara semula jadi.

“Kuantiti itu amat kecil dalam kebanyakan buah-buahan serta tumbuh-tumbuhan. Ia bukan najis dan boleh dimakan atau diminum umat Islam,” katanya.

Sementara itu, sumber Jakim berkata, kebanyakan pengguna Islam yang gemar minum minuman itu mungkin tidak menyangka kewujudan alkohol dalam minuman itu berikutan ia dikilang dan diimport dari negara Islam di Timur Tengah.

Menurutnya, tambah meyakinkan apabila label pada luar produk berkenaan tertera tulisan minuman itu bebas alkohol dan hadir dalam pelbagai jenis perisa buah-buahan.

“Ia mula popular sejak lebih setahun lalu di kalangan masyarakat apabila minuman botol itu mudah diperoleh di kedai runcit, restoran termasuk kafe pada harga antara RM3 hingga RM5 sebotol.

“Persoalan bagaimana alkohol ini wujud dalam minuman ‘halal’ berkenaan masih dalam siasatan berikutan ia berkemungkinan di kilang di dalam bangunan sama dengan minuman keras,” katanya.

Gekko: ini kalau betul, amat memalukan kepada umat Islam

Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif Pusat Antarabangsa Kepimpinan dalam Kewangan (ICLIF), Rajeev Peshwaria mendakwa media lebih menonjolkan aspek negatif apabila berbicara mengenai negara Malaysia selain menumpukan kepada pemimpin yang sedia terkenal sahaja.

Katanya lagi, berdasarkan pemerhatian selama 10 bulan berada di negara ini, Malaysia tidak menghadapi masalah kekurangan pemimpin. Jika adapun, ia tidak dicungkil atau didedahkan di dalam media.

“Tiada data atau statistik menunjukkan Malaysia menghadapi masalah kekurangan pemimpin berkualiti untuk dibandingkan dengan negara lain dalam pelbagai bidang,” katanya.

Beliau berkata demikian selepas membentangkan syarahan bertemakan Pemimpin Untuk Pembangunan Mapan yang dianjurkan oleh Dewan Perniagaan Amerika Malaysia (AMCHAM) di sini hari ini.

Ujar Peshwaria lagi, Malaysia yang mengamalkan dasar ekonomi terbuka serta kepelbagaian kaumnya, secara semulajadi membentuk persekitaran sesuai untuk melahirkan pemimpin yang berkualiti.

Beliau juga berpendapat kerajaan negara ini bersungguh-sungguh mahu melahirkan pemimpin di kalangan rakyat tempatan dengan penganjuran pelbagai aktiviti serta penubuhan syarikat.

Beliau juga turut melihat penubuhan Talent Corporation bagi membawa tenaga pakar tempatan yang bekerja di luar negara untuk pulang ke Malaysia sebagai satu langkah yang baik.

“Penubuhan syarikat itu menunjukkan Malaysia tidak menghadapai masalah melahirkan tenaga pakar atau pemimpin bertaraf antarabangsa,” katanya.

Peshwaria menyatakan beliau sendiri mengambil contoh usaha yang dijalankan oleh kerajaan Malaysia itu semasa menyampaikan syarahannya di India di satu forum baru-baru ini.

“Justeru itu, media harus mengetengahkan bakat-bakat pemimpin kerana mereka hanya dilihat berada di belakang tabir sesebuah organisasi,” katanya yang beranggapan Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Idris Jala antara pemimpin berkaliber yang ada di negara ini.

Sementara itu, sejumlah AS$60 bilion (RM183 bilion) dibelanjakan untuk menjalankan program kepimpinan di seluruh dunia setiap tahun.

P/s: Idris Jala pemimpin muda? Hahaha… Dia pandai cut cost je, budak SPM pun tahu strategi macam tu.

Gekko: Tidak adakah pemimpin muda dalam Negara kini. Sampai terpaksa bawa rakyat kita diluarsana sebagai pemimpin atau orang muda di Malaysia ini tidak diberi ruang? Kecuali mereka yang berdarah bangsawan…. Fikir-fikirkanlah….

Peristiwa ini sekurang-kurangnya membuka mata para pemimpin dunia yang lain, terutamanya bagi mereka yang dah terlalu lama memerintah. Tentu soalan yang berligar ligat dalam kepala mereka adalah, apakah rakyat mereka sedang berbuat sesuatu untuk menghumban mereka sama seperti pemimpin Tunisia dan juga Mesir.

Siapapun tak sangka yang rakyat Tunisia akan bangun, begitu juga siapa sangka Mubarak akan merudum. Tahun-tahun sebelum ini banyak laporan dari penganalisis politik Amerika menyatakan tak mungkin Mubarak akan jatuh, Mesir berjaya dikawal dengan baik oleh Mubarak. Begitu juga Tunisia, mereka katakan ia sebuah negara yang amat stabil dan cara pemerintahan di sana membuatkan rakyatnya tidak bangun menentang.

Kejatuhan demi kejatuhan pemimpin mereka membuatkan ramai yang berkata sekarang cakap-cakap serta analisis para pakar adalah mengarut dan tak boleh didengar. Ya!, tak ada siapa yang tahu masa depan, itu adalah satu kepastian, jadi jangan percaya pada sesiapa walaupun dia amat pakar.

Mari kita lihat senarai pemimpin yang sudah pasti tak sedap tidur sekarang ini kerana dah terlalu lama duduk di atas singgahsana.

Nama Pemimpin Negara Memerintah sejak

1. Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah. Brunei 1967
2. Colonel Muammar Gaddafi Libya 1969
3. Sultan Qaboos bin Said al Said Oman 1970
4. Prime Minister Khalifa ibn Salman Al Khalifa Bahrain 1970
5. President Jos. Angola 1979
6. President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo Equatorial Guinea 1979
7. President Paul Biya Cameroon 1982
8. King Mswati III Swaziland 1986
9. President Yoweri Museveni Uganda 1986
10. President Blaise Compaor Burkina Faso 1987
11. President Robert Mugabe Zimbabwe 1987
12. Prince Hans Adam II Liechtenstein 1989
13. Bashir Omar al Sudan 1989
14. Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei Iran 1989
15. President Ali Abdullah Saleh Yemen 1990
16. President Idriss D Chad 1990
17. President Islam Karimov Uzbekistan 1990
18. President Nursultan Nazarbayev Kazakhstan 1990
19. President Isaias Afewerki Eritrea 1991
20. President Emomalii Rahmon Tajikistan 1992
21. Chairman Kim Jong-il Korea, North 1993
22. President Alexander Lukashenko Belarus 1994
23. President Yahya Jammeh Gambia, 1994
24. Emir Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani Qatar 1995
25. Prime Minister Denzil Douglas Saint Kitts and Nevis 1995

Gekko: Nik Aziz pun dah lama sangat dah perintah Kelantan tapi tiada apa yang boleh dibanggakan disana. Kotor dah pasti, mundur selalu… Kalau tidak masakan ramai anak Kelantan di negeri lain cari perkerjaan.

Thus it may come as news that I have declined to sign the report issued by the majority, or the dissent by the three- member minority, or even the dissent from their dissent, written by the now-immortal Peter J. Wallison. I hereby dissent from the dissent from the dissent. My dissent is different from all those other dissents, which is why I am dissenting.

I do this, of course, not to call attention to myself. Still less do I seek to enhance the status of my application for employment with JPMorgan Chase. I seek merely to inform the general public of the true causes of our so-called financial crisis.

The task is not a simple one. In limiting me to a mere two pages at the end of their 633-page book, the majority and the other dissenters have suppressed not only several apt metaphors, but deep truths.

Here, in a far-too-brief executive summary, they are:

Financial Crisis Cause No. 1: Wall Street’s shifting demographics.

In the commission’s report Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke describes recent events as “the worst financial crisis in global history, including the Great Depression.” The event, in other words, was unprecedented. To understand an event that has never before occurred, we must logically begin with those factors that have never before been present. On Wall Street, the most obvious such factor is women.

Distorted Judgment

Of course, the women who flooded into Wall Street firms before the crisis weren’t typically permitted to take big financial risks. As a rule they remained in the background, as “helpmates.” But their presence clearly distorted the judgment of male bond traders — though the mechanics of their influence remains unexplored by the commission (on which several women sat).

They may have compelled the male risk takers to “show off for the ladies,” for instance, or perhaps they merely asked annoying questions and undermined the risk takers’ confidence.

At any rate, one sure sign of the importance of women in the financial crisis is the market’s subsequent response: to purge women from senior Wall Street roles. Wall Street’s gender problem is, for the moment, of merely academic interest. Less academic is…

Moral Collapse

Financial Crisis Cause No. 2: The moral collapse of the American working class.

AIG head Robert Benmosche has recently pointed out that the reason his firm has enjoyed such great success is precisely because it has avoided selling insurance to the large number of Americans who believe, as Benmosche put it, “that the government is responsible for what happens to me.” (As we know, the government is responsible only for what happens to AIG).

The CEO of JPMorgan, Jamie Dimon, has often called our attention to the outrageous amount of banker bashing by Americans outside the financial sector, who seek to blame their troubles on others.

Wall Street leaders now understand that they made a mistake, one born of their innocent and trusting nature. They trusted ordinary Americans to behave more responsibly than they themselves ever would, and these ordinary Americans betrayed their trust.

Amazingly, these ordinary Americans don’t even appear to feel guilty for their actions. Like wild animals that have lost their fear of humans, they continue to wander down from the hills to rummage through our garbage cans for sustenance.

Best Subprime

Frankly, the commission’s report does nothing to improve public morals. In discussing the role of the 1977 Community Reinvestment Act, for instance, the report notes that the loans made by big banks to meet the act’s requirements — that is, loans to poor people in crap neighborhoods — outperformed, dramatically, the general run of subprime loans.

Such nitpicking merely obscures the critical point. For at least two centuries the U.S. government has encouraged people who didn’t work on Wall Street to think of themselves as “equal.” Government policies have emboldened ordinary Americans to borrow money they never intended to repay, just like rich people do, and cowed the financial elite into lending it to them. You can’t forget to bear-proof the garbage cans, and expect the bears won’t notice.

Along these same lines I cannot help but point out…

Blame China

Financial Crisis Cause No. 3: The Chinese.

The willingness of this remote and curious people to sell us goods at ridiculously low prices is disruptive. It encourages our poor to believe they can afford many items which they should not be able to, for instance. And the vast number of dollars these same Chinese people willingly lend to us at absurdly low rates of interest places an unfair burden on our financiers, who must find someplace to put them.

This is a far more difficult job than is commonly understood; it often leaves Wall Street people feeling overworked and underappreciated. If we want our financiers to perform even better than they do, we must cease to expect more from them than they can give.

Which brings me to…

Financial Crisis Cause No. 4: Upon our trusting, hard- working and underappreciated financiers we thrust the impossible task of overcoming impersonal historical forces.

The most distressing aspect of the commission’s report is its attempt to blame actual human beings for the financial crisis: fraudulent CDO managers, greedy ratings companies, Wall Street bond traders and, especially, Wall Street CEOs. Think about this: If everyone on Wall Street is guilty, how can anyone be? If no one on Wall Street saw it coming, how can anyone be expected to have seen it?

Details for Dummies

Anyway, as several Wall Street CEOs tried patiently to explain to the commission, the details were never their responsibility. Martin Sullivan, the CEO of AIG in the three years leading up to its near collapse, even went so far as to prove that he had no idea how much he’d been paid ($107 million).

The commission proved incapable of grasping the point: the rare man capable of running a big Wall Street firm remains focused on the big picture. And in the big picture, from the point of view of their firms and their earnings potential, the so-called financial crisis was a blip. They’ve already forgotten about it.

And they assume that, eventually, you will, too.

Source: Bloomberg

(Michael Lewis, most recently author of the best-selling “The Big Short,” is a columnist for Bloomberg News. The opinions expressed are his own.)

KUALA LUMPUR, 11 Feb (Bernama) — The RM10 million pedestrian bridge linking the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre to the KLCC Impiana Hotel is not a government project.

The cost of building the 153 metre bridge is borne fully by the Petronas subsidiary, KLCC (Holdings) Sdn Bhd, the Federal Territory and Urban Wellbeing Minister, Datuk Raja Nong Chik Raja Zainal Abdidin, clarified today.

The government is not at all involved in the project, and neither is he or the Mayor of Kuala Lumpur, Raja Nong Chik said in a statement.

“The appointment of the contractor was by rigorous tender and 100 per cent handled by the KLCC,” he said.

The pedestrian bridge, which would be air-conditioned and have escalators and lifts for senior citizens and disabled people along with security features such as CCTV, was being built as a corporate social responsibility, he said.

As such, the allegation by Lembah Pantai MP Nurul Izzah Anwar that the project cost too much and was a waste of money was baseless, Raja Nong Chik said.

Nurul had also asked whether the contractor had been appointed by open tender.
Raja Nong Chik had said the bridge was the first phase in the overall project of building 12km of pedestrian bridges to link all major roads in Kuala Lumpur to public transport stations.

Tunku: She had questioned why the bridge cost is so high etc. By right as a responsible MP, she should had find out what materials will be used or what type of bridge it is before making fuss about the construction cost. It is a bridge with escalators, lifts, air conditioners and covered. So what does she expect the cost will be? RM7,000 – 8,000 per meter? Now Raja Nong Chik has revealed that it is not the government money, so I guess Nurul will shut her mouth and concentrate to help the people rather than talking on issues without knowing the facts.

Source: The Unspinners

Gekko: Bukan semua yang Kerajaan laksanakan mendatangkan keburukan. Nurul ibarat anjing yang suka menyalak walau tak tahu hujung pangkal.

Ini tajuk ucapan YB Khairy Jamaluddin selaku KETUA PEMUDA UMNO MALAYSIA.

P/s: Sentiasa kagum dengan ucapan Ketua Pemuda UMNO Malaysia.

The MSCI Asia Pacific Index declined 1.9 percent to 111.33 as of 11:04 a.m. in Tokyo, the lowest level since Aug. 21. Crude oil for July delivery dropped as much as 2.1 percent, to $69.31 a barrel. The cost of insuring Asia-Pacific bonds against non- payment soared to the highest in at least six months. The euro rallied from a four-year low, climbing 0.3 percent to $1.2517, on speculation governments will act to halt the currency’s slide.

Global equities are set for the biggest monthly decline in market value since October 2008 as confidence was rocked by Germany’s crackdown on speculation and plans to tighten U.S. finance industry regulation. Jobless claims in the world’s largest economy unexpectedly increased to 471,000 last week and the Conference Board’s index of leading economic indicators posted a surprise drop of 0.1 percent.

“A combination of events has made investors reassess the outlook for the global economy,” said Stephen Halmarick, Sydney-based head of investment-markets research at Colonial First State Global Asset Management, which holds about $138 billion. “There’s clearly been a major reduction in risk appetite globally and it’s difficult to see the situation stabilizing in the near term.”

Equity Corrections

Japan’s Nikkei 225 Stock Average sank 2.5 percent. Honda Motor Co., which gets about 81 percent of its sales from overseas, declined 4.1 percent to 2,776 yen. Canon Inc., a camera maker that counts Europe as its biggest market by revenue, dropped 2.9 percent to 3,715 yen. Stock markets in South Korea and Hong Kong are closed today for holidays.

Benchmark indexes in Taiwan, Singapore, Vietnam and Indonesia fell more than 10 percent from their recent peaks today. Taiwan’s Taiex fell 2.5 percent, bringing its decline since April 15 to 11 percent, even after the government yesterday reported an 13.27 percent economic expansion in the first quarter, the fastest growth in more than 30 years.

Singapore’s Straits Times index dropped 11 percent since its April 14 high, losing 2 percent today. The government said yesterday the city’s economy grew an annualized 38.6 percent in the first quarter from the previous three months. Vietnam’s VN Index dropped 3.3 percent. The benchmark measure is 11 percent lower from its May 6 peak this year.

Losing Confidence

“Investors are losing confidence,” said Robyn Hsu, who helps manage $3 billion at Capital Investment Trust Corp. in Taipei. “Taiwan’s growth will slow through the year despite a very stunning first-quarter figure yesterday. Falling commodity and gold prices suggest investors are retreating even from relatively safe markets.”

Oil extended its decline after crude inventories rose for the 15th time in 16 weeks in the seven days ended May 14. Copper for three-month delivery fell 0.9 percent to $6,548.75 per metric ton and headed for its sixth weekly decline. The metal has slumped 16 percent in the past month.

BHP Billiton Ltd., the world’s largest mining company, slumped 2.4 percent to A$35.85 in Sydney. Rio Tinto Group, the world’s No.3 mining company, tumbled 4 percent to A$59.78.

U.S. stocks plunged this week as President Barack Obama said a financial regulation overhaul is moving through Congress despite efforts to block its progress by industry lobbyists.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s unilateral effort to control what she called “destructive” markets rattled investors. The German ban on some bearish bets against financial companies and government bonds wasn’t replicated in other European states. Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner will visit Germany and the U.K. next week to discuss the crisis.

Euro Rallies

The euro rallied against the dollar amid speculation the Swiss National Bank sought to support the franc drove traders to theorize that the European Central Bank may do the same for the shared currency. The Australian dollar rebounded from a 10-month low versus the greenback on speculation the nation’s central bank is also prepared to intervene.

Futures on the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index gained 0.1 percent after the index plunged 3.9 percent yesterday, its biggest drop since April 2009. Ten-year U.S. Treasury yields, which sank to the lowest level of the year yesterday, rose 2 basis points to 3.24 percent.

European Union President Herman Van Rompuy will host a meeting of finance ministers in Brussels today to discuss reforms to economic governance. German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble will present a nine-point plan to his euro-area counterparts aimed at avoiding a repeat of the fiscal crisis touched off by Greece’s budget deficit.

Intervention Suspected

Australia’s dollar reversed earlier declines of as much as 1.2 percent to trade up 1 percent at 82.53 U.S. cents.

“The spike of the Aussie, which took place amidst all the gloom, suggests that there was some unnatural act,” said Takashi Kudo, Tokyo-based general manager of market information at NTT SmartTrade Inc., a unit of Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp. The Reserve Bank of Australia doesn’t comment on speculation, according to a spokesperson.

Malaysia’s ringgit slid 0.9 percent to 3.3170 per dollar, leading declines in Asian currencies on speculation China will offer no concessions on yuan appreciation at the Strategic & Economic Dialogue with the U.S. in Beijing May 24-25.

Yuan Expectations

Yuan twelve-month non-deliverable forwards dropped 0.1 percent to 6.7579 per dollar, reflecting bets the currency will strengthen 1 percent in the year ahead, the least in more than eight months. The central bank may delay raising borrowing costs, revaluing the exchange rate and implementing property taxes amid deepening woes in Europe, BNP Paribas said in a research note.

The Markit iTraxx Asia index of 50 investment-grade borrowers outside Japan jumped 18 basis points to 157.5 basis points. Credit-default swap indexes are benchmarks for protecting debt against default and traders use them to speculate on credit quality.

“This correction is only the start of the end-game,” said Mark Bayley, a Sydney-based credit strategist with advisory firm Aquasia Ltd. “Markets are only slowly grasping that we cannot continue to finance deficits with more debt. At some stage governments, and consumers, need to stop spending, re-jig finances and plot a more austere and cautious future path.”

The Shanghai Composite Index has failed to regain its 2009 high while industrial commodities and shares of Australian resource exporters are acting “heavy,” Faber said. The opening of the World Expo in Shanghai last week is “not a particularly good omen,” he said, citing a property bust and depression that followed the 1873 World Exhibition in Vienna.

“The market is telling you that something is not quite right,” Faber, the publisher of the Gloom, Boom & Doom report, said in a Bloomberg Television interview in Hong Kong today. “The Chinese economy is going to slow down regardless. It is more likely that we will even have a crash sometime in the next nine to 12 months.”

An index tracking Chinese stocks traded in Hong Kong dropped 1.8 percent today, the most in two weeks, after the central bank raised reserve requirements for the third time this year. The Shanghai Composite has slumped 12 percent this year, Asia’s worst performer, as policy makers seek to rein in a lending boom that’s spurred record gains in property prices. China’s markets are shut for a holiday today.

Copper touched a seven-week low and BHP Billiton Ltd., the world’s biggest mining company, fell the most since February on concern spending in the world’s third-largest economy will slow and after Australia boosted taxes on commodities producers. Rio Tinto Ltd., the third-largest, slid as much as 6 percent.

Chanos, Rogoff

Faber joins hedge fund manager Jim Chanos and Harvard University’s Kenneth Rogoff in warning of a crash in China.

China is “on a treadmill to hell” because it’s hooked on property development for driving growth, Chanos said in an interview last month. As much as 60 percent of the country’s gross domestic product relies on construction, he said. Rogoff said in February a debt-fueled bubble in China may trigger a regional recession within a decade.

The government has banned loans for third homes and raised mortgage rates and down-payment requirements for second-home purchases. Prices rose 11.7 percent across 70 cities in March from a year earlier, the most since data began in 2005.

The government has stopped short of raising interest rates to contain property prices. Within an hour of the central bank announcement on reserve ratios, Finance Minister Xie Xurensaid that officials remained committed to expansionary policies to cement the nation’s recovery.

Stocks ‘Fully Priced’

The nation’s economy grew 11.9 percent in the first quarter, the fastest pace in almost three years. The government projects gross domestic product growth for the year of about 8 percent.

The clampdown on property speculation may prompt investors to turn to the nation’s stock market, Faber said. Still, shares are “fully priced” and Chinese investors may instead become “big buyers” of gold, he said.

BlackRock Inc. is among money managers reducing their holdings on Chinese stocks on expectations that economic growth has peaked. The BlackRock Emerging Markets Fund has widened its “underweight” position for China versus the MSCI Emerging Markets Index to about 7.5 percent from 4.6 percent at the end of March, the fund’s London-based co-manager Dan Tubbs said.

Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd., China Construction Bank Corp. and Bank of China Ltd, the nation’s three largest banks, are trading near their lowest valuations on record as rising profits are eclipsed by concern bad loans will increase.

Local Governments

Citigroup Inc. warned in March that in a “worst case scenario,” the non-performing loans of local-government investment vehicles, used to channel money to stimulus projects, could swell to 2.4 trillion yuan by 2011.

Housing prices nationwide may fall as much as 20 percent in the second half of the year on government measures to curb speculation, BNP Paribas said April 23. Under a stress test conducted by the Shanghai branch of the China Banking Regulatory Commission in February, local banks’ ratio of delinquent mortgages would triple should home prices in the country’s commercial center decline 10 percent.

Shanghai is projecting as many as 70 million visitors to the $44 billion World Expo, more than 10 times the number who traveled to the 2008 Beijing Olympics. More than 433,000 people visited the 5.3 square-kilometer (3.3 square-mile) park on its first weekend.

Source: Bloomberg

HULU SELANGOR:

Beliau berkata, PKR sudah tersasar daripada perjuangan asalnya dan kini lebih mementingkan kuasa.

“Secara amnya sebab saya meninggalkan PKR kerana saya sudah tidak kenal lagi parti itu.

“Ramai antara mereka hanya sibuk mencari kuasa, gila kuasa sampai terlupa tujuan asalnya (penubuhan),” kata beliau ketika berucap pada ceramah umum Barisan Nasional (BN) di Taman Sri Liam, Ulu Yam Baharu, di sini semalam.

Hadir sama ialah Timbalan Perdana Menteri, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin; Menteri Pertanian dan Industri Asas Tani, Datuk Seri Noh Omar yang juga pengarah pilihan raya kecil bagi kerusi Parlimen Hulu Selangor; Menteri Wilayah dan Kesejahteraan Bandar, Datuk Raja Nong Chik Zainal Abidin dan calon BN P.Kalamanathan.

Kelmarin, Dr Halili, 58, seorang pakar bedah saraf dan pernah menjadi doktor peribadi kepada Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, mengejutkan banyak pihak apabila mengisytiharkan keluar daripada PKR dan menyertai Umno kerana sudah hilang kepercayaan kepada parti itu.

Beliau sebelum ini disebut-sebut sebagai tokoh yang bakal menjadi calon PKR pada pilihan raya kecil kerusi Parlimen Hulu Selangor sebelum parti itu akhirnya memilih seorang tokoh kontroversi Datuk Zaid Ibrahim.

Pada majlis itu, Muhyiddin yang juga Timbalan Presiden Umno turut menerima borang permohonan Dr Halili untuk menganggotai Umno.

Tanpa mengulas lanjut mengenai dakwaan bahawa PKR mencemaskan orang Melayu, beliau bagaimanapun mengatakan kenyataannya itu bukanlah bermakna beliau seorang rasis.

“PKR mencemaskan orang Melayu, saya bangga menjadi orang Melayu dan saya bangga menjadi anak Malaysia, saya bukan amalkan perkauman, saya bukan rasis. Macamana saya nak anti perkauman sebab 80 peratus pesakit yang saya rawat adalah orang Cina.

“Walaubagaimanapun saya dapati PKR mencemaskan orang Melayu, Umno juga parti Melayu tapi kita tahu parti itu tidak menafikan hak-hak bangsa lain,” katanya sambil disambut oleh tepukan gemuruh penonton yang hadir.

Dr Halili juga berkata beliau tidak akan mendedahkan keburukan parti yang turut sama diasaskannya dahulu kerana mahu maaju kehadapan.

“Ia sama seperti orang bercinta, dan kemudiannya berkahwin. Lama-lama bila kita dah tak suka, kita bercerai dan lepas bercerai tak eloklah kita nak memburuk-burukkan janda kita.

“Kita tak boleh canang (keburukan), barang yang lepas jangan dikenang, saya tak boleh burukan mereka kerana nanti orang kata saya fitnah… apa yang berlaku saya tak akan bangkitkan lagi, saya akan bergerak ke depan dan teruskan perjuangan saya bersama Umno” katanya.

Source: The Star Website

Gekko: PKR ajak Ahli Parlimen BN lopat masuk PKR tali la ni ramai pulak yang dah masuk BN. Salah ajar ni… hahaha.