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The fourth National Congress on Integrity was held at the University College Sedaya International Campus on last Saturday. It reflected on the issue: Federal Accountability, Local Governance . The implicit question was whose responsibility was local governance? Notice, we did not say \”local government but rather governance\”. Around 100 people attended; the smallest ever. Rather discouraging. Furthermore, […]

Good public service depends on three Rs, according to my theory of Good Public Administration. These are: doing the Right things, in the Right way and with the Right attitude or political intent. Exactly 365 days ago today, I was in Parliament before the special committee on integrity to \”whistle-blow\” on seven \”infringements\” against \”this […]

Disingenuous. That is the one word I can use to describe Khairy Jamaludin\’s article in the Sunday edition of the New StraitsTimes (NST). It appears that the infamous KJ, the Umno Youth deputy chief, is again playing to the gallery of general public opinion, even as an apology remains conspicuous by its absence for the keris-waving […]

I can only feel the predicament of my friend Zulkipli Mat Noor, the embattled senior public servant now being accused publicly and being tried by the court of public opinion. While I support the need for \’new and transparent investigations about the allegations, and the subsequent trial and conviction, if need be\’, I think we […]

Transparency International Malaysia (TI-M) has released the findings of the first perception survey by Malaysians, of Malaysians, and for Malaysians on the transparency and integrity of government agencies. The report concluded that corruption is still an acute, serious and real problem. It looks like former premier Dr Mahathir Mohamad was right – corruption is now […]

On Thursday morning a week ago, while at the Institute of Integrity for an informal meeting, I received an urgent phone-call from my friend, a 62 year old mechanic whom I have known since 1975. His third business home (as a small business operator in PJ) was again going to be demolished. The first one […]

Our Federal Constitution \’constitutes the federation of three states\’, of the Peninsular Malaya, Sabah and Sarawak (Singapore left Malaysia in 1965). Today, we also have three other constituencies called the Federal Territories, inclusive of Kuala Lumpur, Labuan and Putrajaya. The Federal Constitution therefore remains both our \’social and legal contract\’ for the formation of Malaysia. […]

In a framework where whistleblowers are not protected, but are instead charged for some other minor offence, or sidelined, it is totally healthy to argue for a more transparent and open environment. Therefore, I fully agree with Tunku Abdul Aziz\’s thesis in New Straits Times last Saturday that \”there is no accountability without transparency.\” The […]

The New Sunday Times this week featured two very interesting opinion pieces in its centrepage spread. One by Abdul Razak Ahmad highlighted integration issues related to our first 50 years as a nation and the other by Khairy Jamaluddin who defended the socio-economic integrity of the Iskandar Development Region. This past week, I also happened to have […]

On Wednesday last week, I received an SMS from my brother-in-law and one of my theological guides, which simply requested me to see the headlines of the New Straits Times , with the words: \”it is everything you have been saying!\” The specific content of this excitement was the 7-S theory of Integration with Integrity which The […]