NEP is just a scam

Malaysia Today

Face reality: NEP is no more around. It was never around right from the beginning. It was just a scam to make some UMNO leaders rich. It was a system of patronage that bred cronyism and corruption. It was a means whereby some UMNO leaders became rich quickly without having to sweat it out. It created a commercial class of Ali Babas.

Although Tun Razak initiated the affirmative action to eradicate poverty among all irrespective of race and also to eliminate the racial imbalance in economic activities, it was misused after his untimely demise. Thus this affirmative action programme died with him.

But the leadership in UMNO after Tun Razak and Tun Hussein Onn retained this affirmative action plan, firstly to mislead the Malays that UMNO was intent in helping them to lift their status to be at par with the other communities economically and secondly and this is the true intention,to feather their own nests using this well intended strategy as the vehicle. How else can one explain the many UMNO leaders becoming millionaires almost overnight? And yet the rest of the Malay community remains poor?

How was it that this action plan which was intended not to be a permanent feature had been retained for over forty years with no visible effect at all and yet still being begged to be retained?