We often
hear complaints about how time is getting shorter and that it is hard to get
anything done in a day. Years passed by so suddenly that we
barely notice that our child has turned into a teen.
A year, basically feels like a month especially when we
talk about putting our plans into work or even draw a plan itself.
For
leaders, 3 years is usually considered as mere ‘warming up’ stage.
Putting things and people at their right places, drafting
goals and drawing plans and eventually implementing them sometimes would take
more than three years. Sometimes a leader can only see the
results after he has retired and sometimes won’t even have a chance to see his
plans being executed at all.
However,
such is not the case for Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak. He has been
warming up long enough, in fact since his childhood days as he witnessed his
father serving the people day in and day out as Prime Minister.
Therefore, Datuk Seri Najib has been in full gear when he was assigned to
the cabinet at the age of 25 as Deputy Minister of Energy, Telecommunication and
Post in 1978.
When he
succeeded Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi in 2009 as Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib
was more than ready to make things happen for Malaysia. In order
to do that, he has been whole-heartedly serving us with undoubted dedication and
commitment. And come this 3rd April 2012, which is
exactly three years in power, Datuk Seri Najib is not only able to witness how
his ideas are being implemented, but how some of them have actually shown
positive results. In other words, he not only got to witness the
process of transformation, but the final transformed products itself.
In his Government Transformation
Plans (GTP), Malaysian government has implemented many
measures to increase transparency and government accountability. These measures
include the use of Key Performance Indicators (KPI) to hold ministers
accountable for their work, using new media such as Twitter and Facebook to
communicate with citizens about happenings in the government, opening previously
closed government tenders to increased public participation and scrutiny, and
soliciting public feedback on government spending.
In merely 3 years, Datuk
Seri Najib’s hard work and brilliance can be judged clearly from the table
below:
GTP
performance 2010 and 2011
NKRA
Overall Performance
|
NKPIs
|
2010
(%)
|
2011
(%)
|
|
|
Urban
Public Transport
|
107
|
108
|
·
Introduction of Bus Expressway Transit (BET) services has
resulted in 547,669 passengers using bus routes.
·
30 new four-car trains on the Kelana Jaya LRT Line has
increased rail ridership by 13%
·
Opening of a new integrated transport terminal at Bandar
Tasik Selatan that has diverted over 500 buses away from the Kuala Lumpur city
centre daily
·
Old Puduraya terminal has been refurbished and renamed
Pudu Sentral.
|
|
Crime
|
168
|
130
|
·
Street Crime reduced by 39.7%
·
Index Crime reduced by 11.1%
·
Reduction attributed to omnipresence programme and public
and police partnership
·
Malaysia has also been ranked 1st both in terms of safety
and security in South East Asia by Global Peace Index, and 1st amon gst 19
middle income countries by World Justice Report.
|
|
Rural
Basic Infrastructure
|
91
|
123
|
·
1013.4 rural roads were built and upgraded across the
country resulting enhanced road connectivity
·
73,227 additional houses supplied with clean or treated
water
·
27,004 additional houses connected with 24-hour
electricity supply
·
14,365 houses for rural poor built or
restored
·
Affecting the lives of more than 3 million Malaysians
living in rural areas (2 million in 2010, 1 million in
2011)
|
|
Education
|
156
|
188
|
·
The Education NKRA was conceived to safeguard our
nation’s future by developing the minds, talents and capabilities of the next
generation in a more advantageous manner as we move towards these
ambitions
·
In order to make quality basic education more accessible
to all students, more than 3, 000 pre-schools classes has started in 2011. This
saw the pre-school enrollment rate of 77%
·
Via the LINUS (Literacy and Numeracy) Programme, Primary
2 students have achieved a 97.5% rate for literacy and 98.6% rate for numeracy
in the second screening this year
·
The start of 2011 saw the introduction of the School
Improvement Programme, a new initiative which helped all 10,000 schools
throughout Malaysia to improve their performance, thereby elevating the overall
school system
·
For the first time in Malaysian history, a national
pre-school information system (Sistem Maklumat Prasekolah Kebangsaan) or SMPK
was developed to collate data on pre-schools and
students
|
|
Low
Income Household
|
79
|
103
|
·
Having achieved the target of taking more those 44,000
households out of the extreme poverty category last year, the focus in 2011 is
ensuring more poor households participated in the 1AZAM (Akhiri Zaman Miskin)
programme.
·
The 1AZAM programme centres on providing economic
opportunities that enhance the productive capacity of low-income households so
that they are lifted out of poverty and become self-sustaining. To date, 66,243
poor households are participating in the 1AZAM programme.
·
2011, also saw another new NKPI being introduced – that
of ensuring 100% of the backlog cases pertaining to eKasih verification had been
processed (eKasih is the sole designated database for low-income households). To
date, 81,000 backlog cases pertaining to eKasih verification has been
processed
·
1, 000 women entrepreneurs have been
developed
·
2,465 abandoned houses restored and 2,500 Rumah Mesra
Rakyat built.
|
|
Corruption
|
121
|
134
|
·
Building blocks are in place to combat
corruption
·
Introduction of the Whistleblower Protection Act. Under
the provisions of the Act, the whistleblower will have confidentiality of
identity, immunity from civil and criminal action, as well as other detrimental
action.
·
Implementation of Corporate Integrity Pledge (CIP) which
is a documented pledge by corporations to commit to upholding the
Anti-Corruption Principles for Corporations in Malaysia. In 2011, 64 companies
have committed to the pledge
·
In addition to that, the Ministry of Finance has issued
an Integrity Pact directive for all project tenders. Under the pact, bidders are
to refrain from offering, demanding or accepting bribes to influence procurement
decisions. The MRT Project is the first project to implement an enhanced
Integrity Pact with the Auditor’s-General Chambers acting as the oversight
body.
|
|
Overall Composite Scoring
|
121
|
131
|
|
Datuk
Seri Najib is also quick to react to the rising cost of living.
In order to ensure that it would not affect the rakyat, from 2010 to July
2011 alone, a total of RM36.7bilion was spent on cash hand-outs, subsidies and
other form of assistance to the rakyat. Among the initiatives
introduced under CoL are Kedai Rakyat 1Malaysia, 1Malaysia Rakyat Menu,
1Malaysia Clinics and Bantuan Rakyat 1Malaysia.
It is a shame that despite all these, the
Oppositions of Malaysia continue to deny the goodness and the blessings that we
consistently enjoy in Malaysia under the care of our leadership.
Instead of spreading words about their accomplishments,
the Oppositions keep trying to demean and degrade whatever that Datuk Seri Najib
has achieved.
However, the facts laid out above and
before our eyes are undeniable no matter how hard they try.
Because figures don’t lie. But the Oppositions - the
enemies of Datuk Seri Najib, do.
And lie
is all they can do as they have proven to the rakyat that in 3 years, the
Oppositions have not accomplished anything significant at all, in all 4 states
under their rule.
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