YOURSAY | Nooryana, Najib is serving time for crime committed

YOURSAY | ‘No one is above the law.’

On Hari Raya, Najib's daughter rues 'meaningless' celebration without him

Apanama is back: I was wondering why the attention seeker Nooryana is so quiet this Hari Raya. Here you come.

First thing first, Selamat Hari Raya Adilfitri to you and your mother, Rosmah Mansor. Please ask your mother to say something. She is so quiet, I miss her voice.

By the way, I have a suggestion here to clear your dilemma of your father, Najib will not be around for this Hari Raya. He may not be with you all for the next 12 Hari Raya. But you can visit him with rendang and ketupat.

If you and your mother miss him so much for Raya, you can join him in Kajang. Every year can celebrate Raya in Kajang. Ask your mother to withdraw her appeal. You too may have some cases of tax evasion. Plead guilty and your wish comes true. It is that simple.

However, in Kajang, all will be wearing the same uniform, so there will be no headache to choose what colour of shirt to wear. Satay will be served for two days.

No murukkus and ladoos.

Whether Najib is at home after 12 years or you both join him at Kajang is the same for your family. Both ways can celebrate Raya as a happy family.

Betul Malu Bukan MaluApa: Nooryana, your father committed the crime, and he deserves to serve his time in Penjara Kajang.

No one is above the law and while your father's crime involved billions, a poor woman who was caught stealing powder milk to feed her hungry child, a very much less crime, was jailed for several months.

Stop whining and complaining about your poor father spending Hari Raya in prison, the present Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim also spent time in prison for Sodomy 2, which was the time when Najib was PM.

Nooryana, millions of honest and hard-working Malaysians are struggling daily to repay the billions stolen from 1MDB, which was lost during your father’s tenure as PM.

Salvage Malaysia: When Anwar was jailed a second time, did you think that he has a family too? When lawyer Matthias Chang and former Umno leader Khairuddin Abu Hassan were locked up under Security Offences (Special Measures) Act 2012 (Sosma) for asking international authorities to investigate 1MDB, did you stop to think that they have families too?

When your parents pressed ahead to have the government appeal against Hijjas Kasturi’s daughter for merely releasing yellow balloons bearing words they didn’t like, did you stop to think that the 30-plus-something lady has a family too?

But at least I know all the above did not steal the rakyat’s money.

Vijay47: Every son and daughter, wife and family member will feel the pain that a senior relative is unable to participate in an important festival. So, I can understand your anguish, Nooryana Najwa Najib, that your father Najib Abdul Razak is not with all of you during Hari Raya.

But my sympathy for you ends here. Being the lost, confused pampered brat of a daughter that you are, you continue to argue that Najib was unfairly even cruelly deprived of his liberty to spend his time as he deems fit.

Your father was judged by every level of our courts and every judge bar one who heard his case found him guilty; the sentence of 12 years imprisonment laid on him was similarly held to be sound, fair, and in accordance with the law.

What is the basis upon which you claim that this is unfair? The fact that some may apply for his pardon merely proves that it takes all kinds to form a nation.

Our prisons are full of convicts, I don’t see them complaining about the just desserts they were served.

Are you suggesting that they all deserve to be within four walls except Najib who should be allowed to be a free bird or jailbird despite the millions he has filched? Remember, there are a few more items on his plate yet to be resolved.

At least be grateful, Nooryana (I hope you don’t mind me not referring to you as Yana - my poor stomach would be unable to take it.). Najib can enjoy all the satay he wants. At least for a day or two.

Coward: You can still wear the same colour as the prison robe and visit him during special Raya visitation. I believe you can pass food across to him.

What your father experienced is no different from the other convicted prisoners. While I can understand he is special to you, I hoped now you have a better understanding of how the other convicts feel.

Your dad is a convict now, and all of us here do not think he was wrongly convicted. Hence, it is only fair that he does his time the same way other convicts do.

Sure, he did not expect this day to come. But it did and he deserves it.

Koel: Well, Yana, yours is the lament of every family with a convict family member. But you should think of other families where people do not have the resources to sew matching outfits or even have a proper meal.

Many families also have no money, or food, and are jobless family members. And many in the family are affected by the country's economic problems. They are affected because evil men in high places stole billions of taxpayer monies to buy expensive property, Birkin bags, and jewellery. So, show some dignity, shame, and remorse even if it is hard for you.

Just shut up and go eat your fabulous meals while sitting in your mansion. Enough playing victim. We are all full up here.

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