I must assume that these are the people who have not done their home work on my reporting as a reporter and editor on the Syed Mokthar Group, even in the days of Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, when TSM as he is known, wasn't actually the flavour of the day.
SO why all of a sudden this surge against Bernas? Well the rationale behind it is pure logic.
PRIOR to the state elections, I had told a friend of mine people will most likely vote for the party of choice of a business leader whom they do not like who is already invested in the community rather than for a business owner they like, who only plans to invest in the community.
THE reason being, money talks, bullshit walks or to put it in a milder term a bird in hand is much more than two on the bush.
THATbeing said, we cannot run away from the facts that READ: Syed Mokthar donated RM195 million to Bersatu, making him the single largest funder of the political party.
NOW, how many of the people on the ground ie the paddy farmers and their extended family end up thinking that Syed Mokthar is helping paddy farmers with his own money?
WHEN in actual fact, all of it are tax payers money, which in essence has given Bersatu's biggest political funder an open road to win the hearts and minds of the paddy farmers at the expense of UMNO and PKR.
ALSO, we have to look at the timeline of this RM195 million donation landing on Bersatu's lap.
IT was done around the time Muhyiddin Yassin conveniently agreed in principle to extend Bernas concession. READ : Ronald kiandee confirms decision to extend Bernas concession was made on November 2020
WHILE the wide spread feeling was at that point was if Anwar Ibrahim was the Prime Minister then, he would not have extended Bernas monopolistic concession. READ : Anwar tells govt not to extend Bernas’ concession in favour of farmers’ associations
IDEALLY, the government should immediately replace Bernas with a federal agency to do the distribution of incentives but if it insist of using a third party, then use UMNO rather than Bersatu's single largest paymaster.
FAILURE to do so, is akin to an insane person doing all the wrong moves over and over again, with the hope that one day, they desired outcome would manifest itself.
