SYED Nadzri’s commentary “Slickly sliding into the slime” (NST, Oct 14) is thought-provoking. He quoted another NST writer Zubaidah Abu Bakar as saying “a candidate now needed between RM2 million and RM3 million to secure the post of divisonal head” and “talks of a senior leader who has been giving duit raya since a week before Hari Raya”.

Some thoughts come to mind.

Why is a person so keen on a certain political post that so much money is dished out to secure it? Is it out of an all-consuming passion or love to serve the people ? If so, he or she deserves our respect.

Where does the millions of ringgit come from? If it was from their personal coffers, how did they come to be in possession of such a large sums of money?

Couldn’t such large sums of money be put to better use for the benefit of a large number of deserving rakyat, more so in this difficult time of a global recession?

Tam Yong Yuee

Source: NST – October 15, 2008