Two DPMs and a 2Ss- a saiful and a sodomy

The Star, a Malaysian English newspaper, reported on July 24 that Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan, the sodomy accuser against Anwar visited Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak at the latter’s home to seek his view a few days before he lodged a police report against Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim. ( see http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/7/4/nation/21741173&sec=nation)

The Malaysian public are a bunch of lucky fellas and yet they are still ungrateful to the government of the day. The above report reveals how caring and how compassionate the government minister is? Knowing his boss was to pass on the batton to him, Najib leads by example.

Najib, despite holding the second most senior political office in Malaysia and despite his wife being implicated in a gruesome murder in a statutory declaration, still found time to entertain visit from a confessor of sex abuse or a confessor of illicit sexual practice and gave him personal counsel. Kudos to Najib before we revert to criticising him.

On Najib's advice to the poor Saiful, the poor saiful has knocked on to the wrong door. Instead of getting some common sense advise like what every Ali, Bala and Chong in the Malaysian streets would do to a person who has a crime committed against him or her, that is, going to lodge the police report, the YAB, said it was up to him.

Not being trained as a counselor or a lawyer, Najib advice to the poor saiful can be said to be either inapt for lack of common sense or condescending to the intellect of a university dropout.

Maybe the Malaysian government ministers are inapt or condescending in dealing with these sort of uncommon situation, the fact of the matter is that we cannot take away the fact that their caring attitude in openning the their door to counsel sex victims is something they deserve applause.

Perhaps Najib shouldn't stop at counselling at Saiful alone. He should offer himself at says, Lorong Haji Taib, counseling other sexual victims or illicit sexual practictioner.

It is also noted that the DPM office is opened to any scholarship aspirant never mind that the DPM is not the Minister of Education (you may wonder what the MOE is doing that DPM has to do his job)and never mind that the aspirant is a university dropout. Such a compassionate government is indeed rare (much better than the Bush's no child left behind legislation), such much kudos we must give to the government, particularly Najib.

On Saiful, the Malaysian has a lot to learn from him - never mind that one is a university dropout, just goes to the DPM office and ask for the scholarship. Even if one fails, one still get a photoshoot with the power-that-be as a memorabilia.

Certainly if one has ever engaged in any illicit sexual practice such as oral sex besides the anal, which is also a crime in Malaysia and feel the need to repent or simply want to live by the rule of law, one is free to knock on Najib's home to get personal counsel.

Finally, let's deal with whether the sodomy allegation was politically conspired, as Anwar claimed. Najib's admission of Saiful's visiting him days before lodging the police report, ummmm, do give rise to suspicion of political conspiracy, using the standard among every Ali, Bala and Chong (aiya Bala is a sensitive name now) in the Malaysian streets. No question Najib's admission was tactically smart to pre-empt Anwar's allegation of conspiracy before Anwar reveals the Najib-Saiful meeting. It is already sensational to allege a former DPM the second time of sodomy! It is even more sensantional for a sitting DPM to meet with the sodomy accuser before the allegation goes public! don't you think so?