Ezam: Anwar insulted NEP

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Ex-PKR Youth Chief Ezam Mohd Noor ticked off former mentor Anwar Ibrahim for wanting to replace the New Economic Policy (NEP) with one that represented all races.


He said the New Economic Policy, which protects the rights of the Bumiputera and accused Anwar of being multiracial at the expense of the Malays. He is the first leader among the Malays and the non-Malays who insult the NEP as the affirmative action policy was never a source of corruption.


He questioned Anwar's commitment in fighting corruption, his stand on the New Economic Policy and even chided him for being ungrateful to Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and ‘disloyal' to his own race.


Ezam lashed out at Anwar at the ceramah held on Saturday night at the Kampung Tanah Liat, Permatang Pauh.


Ezam also claimed that Anwar handed out projects worth RM1 billion each to 15 Bumiputera companies when he was deputy prime minister and finance minister, before ex-premier Dr Mahathir Mohamad sacked him from the BN-led government in 1998.


"These projects were given out under direct negotiations under the finance minister's (Anwar) instruction. Now he talks about open tenders, but when he was in the Finance Ministry, he gave (these projects) to cronies."


The projects were awarded under the ‘skim kontraktor wibawa', which exempted these 15 firms from having to go through open tender.


Ezam lambasted the opposition icon and his wife PKR president Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail for being ungrateful to Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi in accusing the latter of having a hand in the latest sodomy charges against Anwar.


"Anwar and Wan Azizah should know better than anyone else that Abdullah would never condone such cruelty to anybody because he is not that type of person," he said.


It was Abdullah who gave instructions allowing Anwar to be sent for treatment for his back pain while still in jail, Ezam recalled.


"Abdullah told Azizah that he was a Muslim leader and he has never been cruel to anyone, what more to Anwar and Wan Azizah, when he knew their parents," he said, adding that Abdullah kept his word and freed Anwar subsequently.