PUTRAJAYA, Jan 22 — Datuk Seri Najib Razak today said he had “gargantuan” or huge tasks every day and was too busy as prime minister of Malaysia to scrutinise 1Malaysia...
File photo of jailed former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak at the Kuala Lumpur High Court Complex November 27, 2024. — Picture by Yusof Mat Isaas a first-time user .
“I think he doesn’t understand the nature and role of a prime minister, that you have to manage the entire country. The entire country is not 1MDB, the entire country is much, much larger than that,” he said. Najib replied that when someone is at the top of the government or any organisation, they would have to depend on others to do the work and gather the facts to offer options to this leader.
But Najib disagreed: “No, because as prime minister, you have so much things to do on your plate, you know. I mean I don’t have one, two labels on the scope of areas of responsibilities as prime minister, but there are simply gargantuan tasks on a daily basis, and sometimes there are crises that happen from time to time like MH17, MH370, Lahad Datu, etc.”
Najib explained that even an intelligent person could be misled: “It depends on the quality of advice that you get, but if you are misinformed, it doesn’t matter whether you are intelligent or competent or somebody less like that, but you can be misled.”
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