From: Ravinder Singh, via email What a great business idea from the former MACC deputy chief commissioner Zakaria Jaffar, now chairman of the Yayasan Anti-Rasuah Malaysia (to install mirrors bearing anti-corruption messages). I don’t think he would be so naive as to believe that looking into a mirror bearing a message such as ‘Did you help prevent a corrupt practice today’ or some other anti-corruption message, will change devils into angels. The timing of his brainwave is very significant. It came only after retirement and after he became chairman of the Yayasan Anti-Rasuah Malaysia (Malaysian Anti-Corruption Foundation). If Zakaria Jaffar’s idea is picked up by someone, for example, by an MP who then promotes it in Parliament, it is more likely to get approval for implementation. Remember the suggestion for a law to protect teachers, which was made during a recent by-election campaign? No sooner was this suggestion made than the ministry said it would look into it! Remember another Yayasan that was given the exclusive right to sell “Patriot” number plates for its own coffers? Money from the selling of number plates belongs to the government. On what basis did the government give that money to the Yayasan Patriot? This time a turnkey contract might be awarded for the supply of hundreds of thousands of mirrors bearing anti-corruption messages, at prices befitting these magic mirrors. After all, millions have gone down the drain on other campaigns, such as the “tak nak” anti-smoking campaign that did nothing to reduce the number of smokers. Now, who might get the contract to supply such magic mirrors?

Ravinder Singh is an FMT reader.

Source: Free Malaysia Today