Articles, Opinions & Views: Chai made a 'wanted' man as Madani faces growing scrutiny over MACC By Commander S THAYAPARAN (Retired) Royal Malaysian Navy
Fighting Seventh
The Fighting Rangers On War, Politics and Burning Issues
Rudyard Kipling"
āWhen you're left wounded on Afganistan's plains and
the women come out to cut up what remains, Just roll to your rifle
and blow out your brains,
And go to your God like a soldierā
General Douglas MacArthur"
āWe are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.ā
āIt is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.ā āOld soldiers never die; they just fade away.
āThe soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.ā
āMay God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .ā āThe object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
āNobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
āIt is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
The Soldier stood and faced God
Which must always come to pass
He hoped his shoes were shining
Just as bright as his brass
"Step forward you Soldier,
How shall I deal with you?
Have you always turned the other cheek?
To My Church have you been true?"
"No, Lord, I guess I ain't
Because those of us who carry guns
Can't always be a saint."
I've had to work on Sundays
And at times my talk was tough,
And sometimes I've been violent,
Because the world is awfully rough.
But, I never took a penny
That wasn't mine to keep.
Though I worked a lot of overtime
When the bills got just too steep,
The Soldier squared his shoulders and said
And I never passed a cry for help
Though at times I shook with fear,
And sometimes, God forgive me,
I've wept unmanly tears.
I know I don't deserve a place
Among the people here.
They never wanted me around
Except to calm their fears.
If you've a place for me here,
Lord, It needn't be so grand,
I never expected or had too much,
But if you don't, I'll understand."
There was silence all around the throne
Where the saints had often trod
As the Soldier waited quietly,
For the judgment of his God.
"Step forward now, you Soldier,
You've borne your burden well.
Walk peacefully on Heaven's streets,
You've done your time in Hell."
Chai made a 'wanted' man as Madani faces growing scrutiny over MACC By Commander S THAYAPARAN (Retired) Royal Malaysian Navy
Monday, March 09, 2026
Malaysiakini : (Donāt look down on the government because they have power - they
have the television, radio, money, and the media. They also have spy
equipment and the like.)
Umno veteran Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah
Hence,
Madani, as the inheritor of the means and methods of how Umno sustained
power, is in no position to claim that it is unaware of how to contact
Chai.
Any rational person will understand that the intent of this
āwanted personā notice was to intimidate and warn others of the
pitfalls of going against state narratives.
The prime minister and various factotums of Madani have rebuffed
allegations of the supposed ācorporate mafiaā because they are merely
hearsay, but the MACC is quick to smear Chaiās name and a few others in
police reports lodged.
The fact that DAP has said there needs to be a royal commission of inquiry (RCI) on these issues, and Bersih and other prominent longtime activists have argued the same, demonstrates that reformasi is not only dead but buried.
Anwar
made many Malaysians, especially the non-Malay community, believe in
something. And these were not lofty goals. These were baseline
democratic norms and traditions, which were eroded after decades of Umno
rule.
Other ministers must also face questioning
If this were a serious investigation, then perhaps we should pay attention to what Chai wrote, specifically this:
āOn
the first day of KL20, April 22, 2024, Arm Holdingsā team was urgently
invited to see the prime minister at his office. I was not in that
meeting, but from the photos I found on Instagram, several ministers
like Gobind Singh Deo, Zambry Abdul Kadir, Fahmi Fadzil, ex-minister
Tengku Zafrul Abdul Aziz, and other high-ranking government officials
were present.ā
What I want to know is, have all those people in
that meeting been questioned by the MACC? After all, if you are going to
investigate a former minister and his team, would it not be logical to
question every other minister who was part of the proceedings of the Arm
Holdings deal?
And we have to wonder why Fahmi, who was at that meeting, is keeping silent on this issue.
Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil
Investigating
a former minister and his team is not something that a government
should take lightly, but seeing as how this was instigated by a police
report and the MACC takes such allegations deathly seriously, shouldnāt
all ministers involved, either directly or indirectly with this deal, be
questioned?
Or is this solely a Rafizi issue?
Keep in mind
that this was a deal which was signed at a public event attended by the
big cheeses of Madani. So this idea that this was some sort of backroom
deal orchestrated by Rafizi and his team, for self-profit, is, as the
Puchong MP Yeo Bee Yin said, a cerita dongeng (fairy tale) - much like reformasi, I suppose.
Racial and political bias
Another
point to consider in all of this is the racial angle. Chai wrote of the
ātype-C is corruptā angle. Keep in mind that in the alleged corporate
mafia, it was alleged that Azam was colluding with a cartel of Chinese
businesspeople.
Folks have been sending me these screenshots and
narratives on various social media platforms, of how a narrative is
being formed that institutions are being corrupted by the Chinese monied
class. This, of course, is typical ketuanan (supremacist) methodology.
And so is using government machinery and democratic processes to go after detractors. Anwar should know this, and so should DAP.
Remember
in 2017 when the Umno state launched a witch hunt targeting former
premier Mahathir Mohamad and Anwar for the forex losses.
āYesterday,
Anwar, who was the finance minister during that period, denied he had
suggested the need to cover up the actual losses. Anwar refuted former
Bank Negara assistant governor Abdul Murad Khalidās claim that Anwar
told him he would need to resign as finance minister if the figure was
made public.ā
Now I am sure Chai had his eyes opened in his brief
time in the government. But I also know this - the state is targeting
him because it is hoping he is a weak link. But I believe that he is
made of sterner stuff.
