It was announced that 2/3 of the complaints on the use of money politics is just incorrect and just to create uneasiness among the UMNO candidates. UMNO Secretary-General, Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor who spoke to reporters after a function at Putrajaya, claimed he was advised by the Investigation Committee on the outcome of their preliminary inquiry.
What is money politics and what forms it. Money politics is where a certain individual or group are offered physical cash or some form of monetary value for in return for his or her undivided support or vote.
Many reports have indicated that since cash is involved, the existence of such an act is impossible to be detected unless the receiver testifies receiving them.
Most often, these people are induced by foreign trips in the name of 'study trips' where their stay overseas is full taken care of.
It is a known syndrome in UMNO or BN that if there is no handouts the candidate would not survive any nomination or elections.
Taking for example at Kubang Pasu, delegates were given by the UMNO leadership handouts to ensure their ex-chairman, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, the former UMNO President and Prime Minister does not obtain sufficient nominations to be a delegate to attend the UMNO General Assembly. Now there are reports that BN lawmakers were paid handsomely so that they would not defect to the Opposition and to fail Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim's mission of forming the federal government.
To overcome any investigation and to ensure only competent and reliable people are elected, all the members of UMNO or any other party should be allowed to be done. Then it would be impossible for someone to pay everyone.
Is UMNO going to open its door's to its members to elect its leaders or are they going to continue with this unhealthy and 'tested' corrupted practice? But whatever the final results, Malaysian especially ordinary UMNO members are fully aware that money politics is rampant and has eroded the true spirit and aspiration of the role of UMNO in our nation.
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