{"id":2580,"date":"2010-09-23T12:26:27","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T04:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/?p=2580"},"modified":"2020-02-18T14:59:27","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T06:59:27","slug":"i-want-awang-to-know-that-i-am-always-sure-who-my-boss-is-its-not-lim-kit-siang-nor-datuk-seri-anwar-ibrahim-because-they-are-not-prime-minister-of-malaysia-the-chairman-o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/i-want-awang-to-know-that-i-am-always-sure-who-my-boss-is-its-not-lim-kit-siang-nor-datuk-seri-anwar-ibrahim-because-they-are-not-prime-minister-of-malaysia-the-chairman-o\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter to Nazri and Awang Selamat: Who\u2019s the Boss?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">By Nurul Izzah Anwar<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>20 September 2010<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018&#8230;I want Awang to know that I am always sure who my boss is. It\u2019s not (Lim) Kit Siang nor (Datuk Seri) Anwar (Ibrahim) because they are not prime minister of Malaysia, the chairman of BN or president of Umno.\u2019<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0-Dato&#8217; Seri Mohamed\u00a0Nazri<em>\u00a0<\/em>bin Tan Sri Abdul\u00a0Aziz in his open letter to Awang Selamat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dato\u2019\u00a0<\/strong>Seri Nazri\u2019s open letter to Awang Selamat mentioned many things that caught my attention, which include: his courage in facing criticism by the opposition, his call for Utusan Malaysia to meet its KPI of increased readership and refraining from subverting the 1Malaysia concept by promoting Ibrahim Ali\u2019s narrow racism, his claim of his \u2018parliamentary civility\u2019 that led to five opposition MP\u2019s crossover and finally, his closing remark of being a Malaysian first and Malay next.<\/p>\n<p>BUT the most significant was his definition of <strong>\u2018Who\u2019s the Boss?\u2019<\/strong>, which in his case is the Prime Minister.<\/p>\n<p>I believe that the\u00a0<strong>Real Boss<\/strong>\u00a0of our nation is the rakyat and the Federal Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>If all members of the Malaysian cabinet under Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak subscribed to this same belief, then Malaysians in general will benefit from clearer (and firmer) policies, a more sustainable environment for better ethnic relations, and a country where the rights of the many are held high above the interests of the few. First and foremost to living this belief is the commitment to free media, which I urge the administration of Datuk Seri Najib to hold as sacred.<\/p>\n<p>So UTUSAN MALAYSIA has to decide if Datuk Seri Najib, Datuk Ibrahim Ali or even Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad is their boss.<\/p>\n<p>So where UTUSAN MALAYSIA is allowed to choose who their bosses are, the government can only choose to satisfy their only boss, which is the rakyat.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, I call upon Dato\u2019 Seri Nazri and Awang Selamat to support the call for a Free Media, as a show of loyalty to the real boss of the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>Nurul Izzah Anwar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Nurul Izzah Anwar 20 September 2010 \u2018&#8230;I want Awang to know that I am always sure who my boss is. It\u2019s not (Lim) Kit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2580","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-education"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2580"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2582,"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580\/revisions\/2582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}