What Datukship?

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What Datukship? Well, it is just a piece of metal and a piece of nylon cloth to be hang on the person's body when he or she receives such award.

What so great of this title nowadays? Even a triad boss, loan-shark taiko, illegal sports betting kingpin, pimp master, smuggling tycoon, AP rent-seeker, corrupted government official, or a 20-year-old girl who happens to play squash very well or a very young badminton player could get a Datukship.

If you really serve the people and community, your track record speaks for itself and you really do not need all these titles to say that ooh, you did this or you did that. People who saw and observed will tell what you have done for them.

Datukship is now already being on sale in the Southern Philippines and some parts of the grand old sultanate in Indonesia, if you had already tried hard and could not get one in Malaysia.

So, is it an honour to receive a Datukship nowadays? When the Perak state government was toppled in the early of February last year, the key players in the Umno-sponsored rebellion were all awarded Datukship during the recent Perak Sultan's birthday.

But when Datuk Chua Jui Meng who left the tainted BN and MCA to join the Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) to continue his quest to seek justice, his titles DPMJ and SPMJ were withdrawn with no reason at all.

Yes, they have the right no to reveal the reasons but the people have their constitutional rights to know the truth as well. We all knew very well the withdrawal of these titles from Jui Meng was a very well-engineered political conspiracy.

We would like to urge Jui Meng to take out his two pieces of round metals and those long nylon cloth and simply pack it into a box, send it straight to the reception of the Johor state secretariat.

Alternatively, you can also send it by Poslaju or ordinary mail parcel to them. You do not need to go there personally.

The Datukship is no more worth to be honoured today.

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