What has Najib’s transformation programme got to do with Sodomy verdict...

Politicians do say the dumbest things but in this case they may be telling the truth.

After the court’s decision to acquit Anwar Ibrahim of sodomy, many BN politicians have tried to claim credit for the acquittal, saying that it shows that the government’s transformation programme is working and that Najib’s reforms are doing well.

Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin today also gave his two sen worth and said that Malaysians and the international community will have confidence in the Najib’s transformation programme.

But what has Najib’s transformation programme got to do with a supposedly independent judiciary?

By definition, a judge who is independent decides on the merit of a case and on the law. It has nothing to do with government transformation.

Unless of course, Muhyiddin and other BN leaders are implying that Putrajaya:

1) Urged the judge to forget political consideration and rule according to the law;

2) That before the “government transformation programme”, the BN government routinely instructed the courts how to decide sensitive cases.

I mean to claim that the transformation or reform programme should gain credit is to imply that before the GTP, ETP or whatever, this judge did not know right from wrong.

People in the higher reaches of Putrajaya were not surprised or upset over the acquittal. The government even had a press statement prepared in advance of the verdict.

It is called turning a bad and embarrassing situation into an opportunity.

And if the government says this was the result of the GTP, so be it. In previous administrations, getting the outcome you want was called by a less acceptable name.- Sam Peh

source:malaysian insider

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