IF you’re not sad or angry after hearing Mohd Shukri Abdull’s story today, you are either dead or you have a heart of stone.

Here was a top civil servant, the chief of operations at MACC, trying his darnest to tell the powers that be that the RM2.6 billion found in the prime minister’s bank account was money stolen from Malaysians.

Only to have the prime minister, Najib Razak, dismantle the task force set up to investigate the scandal surrounding 1MDB.

Shukri then tried the cabinet, urging them to replace their leader, but only three ministers spoke up. The rest played dumb.

He and his boss Abu Kassim Mohamed next went to the Conference of Rulers to plead with them that the RM2.6 billion case was for real. They, too, gave him the snub. Twice.

And to add insult to injury, the very law enforcement officer who had worked with him to expose the scandal, inspector-general of police Khalid Abu Bakar, turned on him.

Shukri was forced to flee to the United States after Khalid and his goons started arresting MACC officers involved in the case. Shukri was told that he would be arrested and charged with treason for trying to bring down the government.

Everywhere he went, he was followed. A bullet was sent to his house. An MP from up north (no prize for guessing who) went to see him twice to offer him bribes to drop the investigation.

It was proof of what Dr Mahathir Mohamad had warned Malaysians about in the run-up to GE14: There is no rule of law in the country. That the powers that be know what is going on, but they choose to close both eyes.

From the highest office in the land to even the monarchy, with a bloated cabinet full of self-serving ministers, the police, judiciary, Parliament speaker and public accounts committee in between, nobody gave a damn.

Is it any wonder Malaysians kicked Barisan Nasional out in GE14? – May 22, 2018.