My interest in this affair (MCA, continued from Yesterday's post...) is anchored on the READING THAT THE AFFAIR ALSO AFFECTS THE BIG BROTHER UMNO'S SURVIVAL, and I would even postulate that UMNO has been playing a role BEHIND THE SCENES, like a puppet master...Yes/NO/Maybe, an OBJECTIVE TEST CHALLENGE HERE/HEAR! -- ***CAN MY ESTEEMED READERS TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK?
Since you have been Ms Patience, I'll indulge thee with my frontAL analYSIS:)
The Protagonists:
Tiong King Sing is Bintulu MP; Chairman of BN Backbenchers' Club;
Also besieged CEO of Kuala Dimensi Sdn Bhd, the main contractor of PKFZ project potentially costing us taxpayers RM12.5billion
+++ Co-protagonist to Tiong -- he's the king, remember! --Faisal (somebody), who is KDSB deputy CEO
Ong Tee Keat, besieged current MCA President who replaced Ong Ka Ting, who replaced Dr Ling Liong Sik
Dr Chua Soi Lek, just deposed and besieged deputy MCA President. now on holiday, in Thighwan2?
Behind-the-Sins:
Najib Tun Razak, besieged current UMNO president-cum-Prime Minister of Malaysia
Muhyiddin Yassin, besieged current UMNO deputy president-cum-DPM of Malaysia
DESIDERATA's script:
INTRO:
Newly appointed Transport Minister Ong Tee Keat, confirmed as "superman" MCA president who pledged he would "tell all" on the multi-billion-ringgit albatross around BN-UMNO-MCA's necks they named the Port Klang Free Zone, whose initial RM2.5billion cost ballooned several times over, and dutifully gifted with Letter/s of Support by the previous MCA leaders-cum-Transport Ministers surnamed Ling and Chan. Thus far, Ong has delivered mostly on his word, and this can be a "dangerous" precedent in the UMNO scheme of things...
BODY, not dead yet, nyet!:
Recall that Tiong led some 30-plus members of Parliament from the various Barisan Nasional component parties on an impromptu study-tour of Taiwan pre-916 deadline of DSAI (Anwar Ibrahim), and if you believe Tiong in his capacity as BNBBC chairman, it was to learn about agri-agroculture in super-agriago nationa named Taiwan. My question in Thinking Aloud -- Thinking Allowed eh?! -- is where did all that MONEY come from if not flowing from handling mega projects like PKFZ? Can each and everyone of the MPs who went of the study trip give us a Statutory Declaration detailing their own expenses with receipts to show they came from their own pockets? And how about an OFFICIAL REPORT ON THE AGRI- and AGRO-CULTURAL STUDY TRIP?
The "common denominator" of all the Players or Protagonists and co-actors is they are all "under siege", hence "besieged" -- do you see, even there is no C4!?
So Tiong managed to do the Big Brother in UMNO chief Najib a great favour, so Najib owes Tiong one. This was amply demonstrated with Muhyiddin taking cue-from-PM to chastise the two key players, Ong Tee Keat, and Tiong King Sing, to stop quarreling in public over the PKFZ issue as they are spoiling the BN's image -- do they still have one after March 8, 2008?
The DPM also advsed the two protagonists should just hold a coffee-shop talk and "settle amicably" the potentially-RM12.5billion losing scandal. In Kantonis they call this settlement style "KAU TIM" -- often used by the underworld, for elucidation, go ask MP Wee Choo Keong and ADUN Ronnie Liu.
But the trouble is "superman" (Ong was thus nicked by a woman NS MCA leader called Lee Pit Churn who added this compliment in a less than complimentary reference to Ong being a "Hainanese", but I shall cease and desist here lest I get another RM500million suit... No thanks, I don't wanna a new bride:(
Long story short, Ong ignored Muhyiddin -- See, he even got laid by a disbarred lawyer named Rohaizat Othman!:( -- because Ong knows that MCA must stand up to be counted tall again. Ong knows that UMNO led by Najib is also "under siege"-- and the PKFZ will be his battleground to restore MCA's lead position among BN components -- and his Victory will earn him and for the Chinese community the righful place in Malaysian politics, quite diminished by his predecessors surnamed Ling and Chan.
So when Dr Chua soi Lek was elected as Deputy MCA chief, despite admitting he was the actor in the video sex scandal, Ong knew he could not have an easy ride on Chua, so gave him no important post but a newly formed Bureau -- wan nobody, including Desi!, could recall its nama -- and Dr Chua went around the country whippingup anti-President sentiments, so much so that pre-916, Ong was even rumoured to be among the 30+ MPs who would jump ship from the sinking boat named Barisan Nasional. But Teong stirred the leaking boat to shore, but the Port Klang kept calling him back for an ACCOUNTING. First PricewaterhouseCooper, then PKFZ Special Task Force, Oh no, Ong will not leave him alone! And Najib and Muhyiddin aren't smiling ayether or yeether.
So Najib called Dr Chua in one day and bestowed him the title BN Coordinator of Pakatan-Rakyat-controlled States, giving him a role to play that was denied the good doctor by the bad MCA cheap.
As for that +++Faisal (somebody), he's just another typical UMNO Klang wakil rakyat after the footsteps of Zakaria Mad Deros orchestrated by former Selangor MB-now-suspended ADUN Khir Toyo who think that a RM20-million mansion is equivalent to a squatter hut, and hence could be built without local council approvals.
CONCLUSION: The MCA Extraordinary General Meeting to be called by Dr Chua's supporters (at least 800 MCA delegates' signatures required...)will be a testbed-for survival for Dr Chua Soi Lek and Ong Tee Keat.
Next, the ongoing PKFZ scandal unravelling before the Rakyat's eyes will be more crucial to Ong's survival even if he defaets Dr Chua at the EGM; yes, the PKFZ is the real battleground that will spell the Waterloo for Najib Tun Razak as Chief of UMNO or Ong Tee Keat as chief of MCA.
Can second brother overcome BIG BROTHER? That's the question my ER are invited to answer! Desi watches wit' bated breath the sandiwara at Wisma MCA, Jalan On Pong, where the UMNO-polluted air/pong is not so fragrant.
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