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Wednesday, July 8, 2015

May be the PM should hire more moms!

Where were the PM’s advisors and handlers when he was being duped?
COMMENT
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By Ann Martinez
The Sarawak Report has photos of the Prime Minister, his wife and two of his children on board the luxury yacht Tatoosh in the south of France just three weeks before the joint venture between 1MDB and PetroSaudi was launched.
This got me thinking…
As a single working mom I was always dependent on a small, close circle of friends to pick my young son up from school or other activities and keep him till I could get him at the end of the work-day.
Everything was planned meticulously but even the best laid plans had a way of falling apart and there would be frantic phone calls to others to help with pick-up or drop-off duty.
I had read somewhere that child safety experts recommend a code word for situations like this. So my son and I agreed on a code word. If someone new was to pick him up, he would ask them for the code word and he would only go with them if they gave him the correct one. That would be the sign that this person was “mom-approved”.
Since I was from Malaysia and since we lived abroad our code word was always something like “roti canai” or “kupu-kupu”…which few would be expected to have in their vocabulary. This worked on two counts. It was another layer of safety that gave me peace of mind. My son in turn, was very proud to have a few Malay words under his belt. It worked for both of us.
I remember also the endless conversations we would have about “stranger danger” ─ how to be wary of those who came bearing gifts like a piece of chocolate candy, or those who approached him with a sob story “Please help me find my dog. Here’s a photograph of him…he looks like this “. We talked about what to do in situations like this. Who could he trust? Who could he turn to for help?
My son is now 14 going on 41 and we still have those conversations. Now they’re about those who may offer him drugs or alcohol for free in the hopes that he may be hooked and then dependent on them for supply. We continue to have these conversations even though his response is often a frustrated “I know, Mom”.
I know I am not the only mom who does this. For most moms it is common sense. We think ahead, plan, consider alternatives, work out the “what ifs” and do the due diligence. It is part of our modus operandi.
So it was mind boggling for me to read the Sarawak Report’s suggestion that the Prime Minister Najib Razak may have been misled into allowing 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) to enter into the ill-fated joint venture with PetroSaudi International.
Really? Duped you say?
Where were his advisors and handlers? Was there no due diligence? Were there no cautions about strangers bearing gifts with strings attached?
All I can say is … “Mr. Prime Minister, maybe you should hire more moms!”
Ann Martinez, an FMT reader  is a Malaysian who resides in the United States.

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