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BEFORE the tabling of Budget 2021, Parliament issued a notice that only 15 media agencies were allowed to attend and report on the budget, including Berita Harian and Astro Awani.
According to them, the decision was made with Covid-19 in mind and in line with the SOP set by the Health Ministry and National Security Council.
Following that, Lembah Pantai MP Fahmi Fadzril questioned why there was a limit to the number of agencies.
Speaker Azhar Harun answered that physical distancing would be undoable if the media room was too crowded.
He added that they were not restricting media freedom. “People say we blocked (the media) but we didn’t. If we did, we won’t even allow any media agencies at all,” he told the Dewan Rakyat.
Rooting out the mother of all evils Corruption is the gangrene that will eventually destroy the whole body if pre-emptive action is not undertaken.
IT’S BEEN sagaciously said that the love of money lies at the root of all evils. Experience tells us that this is so and therefore, it could also be said that the vice of corruption or bribes as an element of the “original sin” of the love of money constitutes a root – as part of the wider root – of all evils.
Corruption, understood and defined properly in broad terms and inclusively ranges from the simple giving of a bribe to misappropriating and embezzlement of public funds through the procurement process under the cloak of authority, is a cancer that eventually enervates and corrupts society as a whole considered in relation to the entire political and administrative system that enables it to thrive.
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