Instead, we are told of investigations into alleged corruption, and offshore providers that were set up to manage shell companies and trusts in tax havens around the world

Certain high-value assets have been seized, questions have been asked about past acquisitions of various companies, and the hundreds of millions of ringgits being used in dodgy deals and allegedly to “fix” elections, by people in trusted positions of power.

More answers are required about how certain public listed companies had been acquired, as well as other compulsory acquisitions by the government.   

Former prime ministers have allegedly misused their powers, ignored our constitutional rights, and laundered money, while some super-rich people are now taking legal action against their former political mentors.

The Malaysia these greedy people created, most of whom are the main beneficiaries of the NEP, is falling apart.

The NEP created many millionaires and spawned many Ali Baba companies. These Malays didn’t gain any new knowledge, they just became skilled at living a lie.

They didn’t do any work but left it to the Chinese companies in their Ali Baba setup to manage the business and perform.

If the NEP had been properly executed, many Malays would have been motivated to work harder, grasp the many opportunities available and become independent. The NEP would have ended as it should have, in 1990.

Institutionalised racism

Today, the NEP is many decades past its sell-by date because selfish and irresponsible Malay politicians have rebranded and repackaged the NEP, perhaps under a new name, as long as the Malay majority is dependent on the government and cannot compete fairly with the other racial groups.

Politicians have also taken this opportunity to milk the rights and “special position” of the Malays to keep the affirmative action policies going for as long as possible. The pretence of “protecting the Malays” and “defending Islam” are used.

In the past few years, some politicians said that the NEP should be needs-based rather than race-based, and yet, no action has been taken to put this in motion.

Few politicians will admit the NEP is also an excuse for institutionalised racism, and fewer still will agree that some elite Malays have become more greedy and refuse to share their wealth, their knowledge and the opportunities available, with their poorer cousins.

Although the NEP has successfully created many middle-class Malays, this “success” also has its downside. During their pursuit of wealth, success corrupted their morals.

Greedy Malays wanted to keep everything for themselves. Money. Power. Property. Recognition. Pretty women. An adoring public. Their social standing in the community.

Critics like me, who have been expounding the same anti-ketuanan (anti-supremacy) and anti-NEP message for years, have little traction with the public. The Malaysian psyche is such that the Malays, especially, will only listen to members of royalty or eminent persons.

The NEP in its current form is not sustainable. It will not bring about economic growth, political stability or peace.

Only you can force your MP to act and stop the rich from robbing the poor and reduce the ever-widening income and educational gap. The super-rich who became wealthy from ill-gotten means do not deserve our support.