Beware Pakatan of 'thy enemies in the Blanket'

Events of the past week and month have revealed one undeniable fact. The whole present government apparatus from the police, judiciary, attorney-general’s chambers and the civil service to the whole gamut of all BN government-appointed bodies are all infiltrated with their supporters and cronies.

Although Pakatan Rakyat may have taken over the five states, many of BN appointed people are still comfortably embedded in the government machineries. Many of them are lying low and waiting for just the right opportune moment to betray their newly-elected masters.

When Perak fell on Feb 5 as a result of the betrayal of the three Pakataan assembly persons, we saw the state secretary arrogantly chasing out the previously elected government from the state secretariat building when they were holding a press conference.

His rudeness and lack of respect for the deposed menteri besar was something we would least expect from a civil servant. But it typifies the behaviour of all those civil servants who were appointed by the previous BN government

.Further, when Pakatan Rakyat speaker of the Perak state assembly V Sivakumar called for an emergency state assembly meeting, the state legal advisor, Ahmad Kamal Mohd Shahid, immediately directed the house secretary not to send out notices for the emergency sitting.

This was obviously an attempt to block state representatives from being notified of the emergency sitting of the state assembly tomorrow. DAP Perak chairperson, Ngeh Koo Ham was correct to comment that, 'The legal advisor has no business to intervene in the process of the house' and that he has no authority to stop the notices being sent out.

In tandem with the legal adviser, the house secretary, Abdullah Antong Sabri, said that the calling of the emergency sitting was ‘illegal ‘because it did not obtain the consent of the sultan.

What transpires from these events remain very clear. The state secretary, the legal advisor and the house secretary are all Umno appointees and they will do all in their power to frustrate Pakatan’s recourse to seek a return of the Perak government.

And from this lesson learnt, Pakatan Rakyat in the remaining four states must cleanse their governments of all Umno appointees in the civil service and from all bodies associated with the previous regime.

It must be clear by now that the Umno appointees serving in the respective Pakatan state govermnents are waiting for an opportune time to betray their new masters. If the Pakatan state governments continue to place their trust in these Umno appointees, they will be doing it at their own peril.