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The MCA president, Dato' Seri Ling Liong Sik, claims he told the Prime
Minister five days earlier he wanted to resign as transport minister.
The MCA presidential council begged him, at its day long meeting amidst
which he walked out, to stay. Today (23 May 00), he refused to say if
he had resigned, would attend tomorrow's cabinet meeting, and hold a
post-cabinet press conference. He has, it appears, not resigned. In a
separate development, the Nanyang Siang Pau reports the arrest of the
fugitive business man, Dato' John Soh Chee Wen, in an African country on
an Interpol warrant. If he should be put to trial, his police report,
before he fled, implicating Mr Ling Hee Liong, the son of the MCA
president would loom large. Reports Dato' Soh negotiates with Malaysian
authorities for a settlement could well implicate the Lings. Dr Ling
had appointed Dato' Soh as a member of his presidential council, after
he linked up with Ling Jr, and sacked him when this pack of cards fell.
But he is confident of the Prime Minister's support, though one report
says the MCA presidential council rebelled at a nod from the Prime
Minister to get its president to resign. Dr Ling's role to enable a bin
Mahathir gaining control of Port Klang's Westport, and Ling Jr's
officially approved sinecure there, complicates matters.
Be that as it may, this crisis has its roots in the Bukit Pelanduk
pork culling tragedy. The Nipah virus (or whatever it is) destroyed the
livelihood, and lives, but the MCA held the Chinese in Negri Sembilan to
ransom by threatening to withhold the compensation if an opposition
candidate is elected to parliament or state assembly. None were, but
the MCA did not compensate the farmers as promised. The RM40 million
collected from the public is missing; and a 200 ha site in Sepang,
meant for the pig farmers, was converted into industrial land and sold
for RM200 million, the proceeds not going to the Bukit Pelanduk farmers.
The MCA deputy president, Dato' Seri Lim Ah Lek, complained about this
to the Prime Minister, mentioning several MCA resolutions asking Dr Ling
to account for the RM240 million. This the Prime Minister showed to Dr
Ling, who told his deputy to go fly a kite. Which is why this British
public school alumnus resigned as human resources ministe shortly after.
The cabinet orders Bukit Pelanduk farmers be paid their promised
compensation by next week, but the amount is reduced from the
pre-election RM200 per culled pig to RM70 today. As usual, the tragedy
is forgotten, with the sufferers carrying on without hope, funds or
future. But Dato' Seri Lim wants Dr Ling to account for the missing
RM240 million, and why the promised compensation was not paid out when
it should have. This, with the threat of Dato' John Soh's implicating
revelations in court, unlikely as it is, forced Dr Ling's hand. He
believes MCA forces him out against the Prime Minister's wishes, and
fights on. But the Prime Minister would not want one in his cabinet,
however needed or irreplaceable, who would drag him down, should Ling
Jr's financial mess returns to public scrutiny. Dr Ling, after leading
the MCA for 14 years, believes, like MCA MPs and state assemblymen, they
remain in office with Malay, not Chinese, support. The problem he
mentions is not the sidelining of Dato' Seri Lim's supporters in
cabinet. It is far worse. So much for his pious comment that 14 years
in the cabinet is long enough. But can he remain MCA president when the
presidential council he appointed deserts him? He must explain his
actions, if he would not now, to the MCA delegates meeting later in the
year. The MCA president is about to be culled as deliberately and
ruthlessly as the pigs in Bukit Pelanduk were.
M.G.G. Pillai
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