CRONYISM and nepotism are mere words from the dictionary, rather what we should be looking at as a nation is if these acts of cronyism and nepotism had led to the country being defrauded.
THERE is nothing wrong legally in opening up opportunities for the people we know are capable in delivering the final product at an acceptable cost in nation building.
AS the saying goes, better the devil you know the the angel you do not know, have more than a ring of truth to it.
WHAT is not acceptable though, is when you start shifting the debts of your children unto the shoulders of the common men and in a manner that ensures, your children remain billionaires.
FOR me such an act has less to do with cronyism or even nepotism but much more to do with defrauding the taxing paying citizens of this country. READ : The Hidden Cost, the Public had to bear from Petronas via MISC taking over Mirzan Mahathir's shipping assets
FRAUD has criminal connotations to it, which is far more damaging than sluring a personality with the crony or nepotism tag.
IF it was a one off thing, I believe everybody would rather let sleeping dogs lie, rather than kick up a storm, but if the entire act was repeated over and over again? READ : 35 year old Mokhzhani Mahathir, a month after the Thai Bath Crashed in 1997, secretly accumulated 18.8 per cent of Avenue Assets for RM190 million, floating the Bursa Malaysia's Law On Disclosures.