The dumbass DPM that we have

By Haris Ibrahim,

I’m almost certain that if there was a turnaround in UMNO policy tonight, as a result of which, starting tomorrow, all UMNO members must undergo an independently conducted IQ test as a prerequisite to retaining their party membership, Muhyiddin would wake up the next day to find himself party-less.

This national embarassment now wants BN’s Permatang Pasir by-election candidate and disbarred lawyer Rohaizat Othman to make a statutory declaration to clarify the actual position on the cancellation of his licence to practice law.

Look, Najib swore on the Qur’an that he had nothing to do with ‘that Mongolian woman’ and nobody believes him, so what are we to make of Rohaizat’s SD, if ever he has the audacity to swear out one?

Ignore the findings of an Inquiry Tribunal and a Disciplinary Tribunal established by law to look into complaints against advocates and solicitors?

Ignore the decision, based on the facts, of the Disciplinary Board, to strike Rohaizat’s name off the rolls?

Ignore the decision of the High Court to dismiss Rohaizat’s appeal against his being struck off the rolls?

Because of one SD to clarify the position?

What position?

The ill-gotten gain from the dastardly act has been returned to its rightful owner?

The rightful owner is no longer interested in pursuing the complaint, because there has been restitution?

And therefore, no harm done?

Is that the position?

If so, dumbo, listen carefully as I’ll only explain this once.

Unlike UMNO, the Malaysian Bar does not care to suffer dishonest fellows in their ranks.

With more than 13,000 members on the rolls today, it should not surprise anyone if there are many more ‘Rohaizats’ who have been called to the Bar and who, even as I bang away at my keyboard now, are surreptitiously helping themselves to clients’ monies.

So when a complaint such as the one against Rohaizat is brought to the attention of the Bar, one involving a criminal breach of trust reposed in men and women who hold themselves out as worthy of being trusted by folk unlearned in the law, even if the complainant chooses not to take his complaint any further, the good men and women at the Bar, comprising the majority of the members, step into the shoes of the complainant and will see the complaint through.

Why?

They have a duty to weed out the ‘Rohaizats’ from the roll so that these ‘Rohaizats’ do not go on to fleece other unsuspecting members of the public.

And, again, they do not care to suffer dishonest fellows in their ranks.

We do not expect you to understand this, dumbo.

You are, after all, UMNO.

Were it otherwise, having only lately discovered, as it would seem, that your choice of candidate is unfit to hold any office of trust, you would, in the interest of the good people of Permatang Pasir, have withdrawn from the by-election rather than ask the voters to vote in a rogue and a thief.