I DELAYED my trip to the office last Monday (May 21) to watch on television Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s first address to government officers in Putrajaya. It was his first meeting with the civil servants after he took office as Malaysia’s seventh prime minister. He reminded the civil servants that Malaysia’s administration was once the best in the Commonwealth, but sadly it is not so now. By that swift unexpected move, he was telling the people that they now have an open government, which is indeed a good start to rebuild public trust. The declassified report revealed, according to Dr Mahathir, “more wrongdoings committed than what was known to the public and me”.

Source: New Strait Times May 25, 2018 02:26 UTC