Sunday, September 13, 2009

THE SUDDEN DEPARTURE OF THE ARMED FORCES CHIEF IS ABNORMAL

The change over of leadership of the Armed Forces recently had come as a surprise to most and to some, it was expected. I have to wait a while to understand why this sudden an 'abnormal' departure of the former Chief of Defence Force (CDF) Tan Sri Gen Abd Aziz Zainal who apparently left without the grandeur of the military parades, dinning out, farewell visits to formations as well as a call upon his foreign counterparts, especially those from within ASEAN.

I did seek an explanation from some serving officers and those retirees regarding the sudden departure of Gen Aziz Zainal, but many agreed that for whatever the reason, it was improper for the government to have allowed Gen Aziz Zainal to leave in such a haste. Never has there been an occasion where a CDF had left the military service in a manner that Gen Aziz Zainal did. The least would have been for the Armed Forces to honour him in a farewell parade that all outgoing CDF truly deserve.

I do not wish to speculate nor do I wish to say anything that will embarrass Gen Aziz Zainal. But I sense that there is something seriously wrong, and this will only allow serving officers and especially those retired senior military officers to come in defence of their kind, and to perceive that the government has not given due recognition, respect and honour to a retiring CDF. Certainly, I am one of those who have a similar perception.

I am told that Gen Aziz Zainal was to have retired in August 2007 at the age of 56 then, but upon his appointment as the CDF in February 2007, he was offered to serve for one year considered from his effective date of appointment as the CDF, that would expire end of January 2008. He was once again offered another year of service that expires end of January 2009, just short of approximately 6 months to his 58th birth date, that is now the new compulsory retiring age of all senior military officers. On completing his second extension at the end of January 2009, he was again offered to serve until his handing over on September 1, 2009. I am told too that he is now on 5 months resettlement leave until 31 January 2010. In all, Gen Aziz Zainal had served as the CDF for approximately 2 years and 6 months.

I am baffled as how the government, in particular the Ministry of Defence could announced Gen Aziz Zainal's handing over to the newly named CDF just within days after the Armed Forces Council sitting. My experience tells me that the Armed Forces Council decision on the appointment of the new CDF will require the prior sanction of His Majesty the King before an official announcement can be made, and this usually takes a bit of time.

Whatever the circumstances that led to a decision regarding the appointment of the new CDF, I deemed that the departure of Gen Aziz Zainal as abrupt and does not conform to the military norms that have been accorded to all previous CDFs. One must understand the status and standing of the CDF in the Armed Forces and our society, and it only leaves a bad taste to know the manner in which Gen Aziz Zainal had departed from the military service.

Let there not be a similar occurrence like this, and having served as a staff in the Armed Forces Personnel Division, it would not be wrong for me to say that the blame should be shouldered by that Division as well as the Ministry's Chief Secretary, who is also the Secretary to the Armed Forces Council.


CRUSADE AGAINST CORRUPTION

11 comments:

tuahjebat said...

Ucapan takziah kepada Angkatan Tentera Malaysia kerana gugurnya segala penghormatan dan tradisi tentera yang selama ini TIDAK pernah seorang Panglima Tertinggi
ATM diberi tempoh 3 hari untuk menyerah tugasnya kepada pengganti.

Disebalik perbuatan hina ini, jelaslah juga menunjukkan bahawa pemimpin politik negara TIDAK menghormati ATM langsung dan TIDAK
sensitif dengan budaya dan tradisi
tentera.

Kalau seorang PAT, panglima yang tertinggi dalam ATM, dihina begitu rupa apatah lagi pegawai dan anggota lain dibawah!

Saya rasa KSU Mindef dan PAT baru juga bersekongkong dengan pemimpin
politik dalam membuat keputusan yang memeranjatkan ramai dikalangan
kita dan juga rakan sejawat Jeneral Tan Sri Aziz di dalam negara ASEAN dan seluruh dunia.

Jika dibuat alalisa dalam bulan Ramadhan ini, apakah dosan Jeneral
Aziz yang beliau dihina begitu rupa
sehingga tidak boleh dimaafkan?
Adakah ini balasan negara terhadap
beliau setelah menerajui ATM lebih
dua tahun dan berkhidmat dalam ATM
hampir 40 tahun??

FMZam said...

There was a person I knew he went to Mecca for his Umrah and in front of Kaabah he said his heart out in silent in praying that Allah hear his plight over his sorrow of two particular generals who had caused his suffering since 2005 and he prayed that Allah bring down His "balasan" onto those two generals and their "kuncu-kuncu" right here on earth. Then on he vowed to keep fighting and prayed that Allah give him the strength and courage against those powerful and rich tormentors with his only weapon - the truth. He now see and take it that Allah has answered his prayer, one down and one to go. For he had made a prayer right in front of Kaabah he could have prayed very deep that his thought at that time was full of those faces he remembered so well in his submission to Allah.

hussin said...

too much of politics hence back-bitings and bickerings. when one cannot differentiate between professionalism and pleasing the political masters, one has chosen to be at the mercy of those whom one's pleases.

FMZam said...

Dear all,

When I first joined this blog, I saw at that very moment people in this blog were commenting very vigorously on the two persons they have so vehemently attacked for alleged corruption in the military, and with their photos pasted over the thread side by side.

Now unless we all have short memory of that particular thread posted by this blog, please go back down the memory lane so that before any of us would talk with hypocrisy about what you all feel on what had happened to one of those persons now, to have any meaning of your stand for crusade against corruption.

Guderian said...

Salam tuan2, sebelum nak letak komen yang beperasangka buruk yang boleh menghakis pahala2 di bulan Ramadhan yg mulia nie, sila periksa fakta2 yang blogger nie tulis. Jangan ambik bulat2 je yang blogger nie tulis. Dalam bulan Ramadhan semua aktiviti dikurangkan. Sedangkan sambutan Hari Kemerdekaan dibuat kecil daripada sederhana, ini kan pula upacara perlantikan PAT baru. I'm sure Mindef did the right thing and I'm very sure that Gen Dato Aziz wouldn't mind at all. Lagipun perbarisan memang ada dan Dato Aziz memang ada buat farewell tour kat counterparts dia, so please don't assume that the blogger tahu semua. Satu lagi, kenapa nak ucap takziah?! Takde sapa pun yang ditimpa malang, jauh sekali mati! Again, sila semak dulu cerita blogger nie sebelom terikut2 rentak dia. Wasalam.

tuahjebat said...

Saya telah memberi komen saya berasaskan fakta-fakta yang betul.

MAT bersidang pada hari Khamis 27 Ogos 2009 dan membuat keputusan bahawa Jen TAN SRI AZIZ ZAINAL akan digantikan oleh Jeneral Tan Sri Azizan TUDM pada 1 Sep 2009.
Pengumuman tentang penggantian PAT
itu juga dibuat oleh Menteri Pertahanan pada hari yang sama, diluar kebiasan sebelum mendapat restu dan persetujuan DYMM Seri Paduka Baginda Yang DiPertuan Agong.

28 Ogos hari Jummat, 29 dan 30 Ogos
hari cuti dan 31 Ogos Hari Ulang
Tahun Kemerdekaan.

1 Sep 2009 Jeneral TAN SRI AZIZ ZAINAL serah tugasnya kepada PAT baru.

saudara Guderian,

Jen Aziz Zainal seorang "TAN SRI" kecuali darjah PMN itu telah ditarik daripadanya tanpa pengetahuan kita semua!
Semua lawatan keluar kenegara asing
oleh pegawai tinggi tentera MESTI mendapat kelulusan MAT terlebih dahulu dan ini prosedur dalam ATM.
Saya bukan ahli MAT tetapi saya tahu Jen Tan Sri Aziz TIDAK sempat membuat apa-apa dalam masa hari minggu/cuti sebelum menyerah jawatan, kecuali berhubung
melaui talipon, sms, fax atau email dengan rakan-rakan sejawatnya
( satu keadaan yang terdesak)!

Ini TIDAK pernah berlaku semenjak Jen Tengku Osman Jewa!
Bila saya bercakap dengan bekas-bekas PAT dulu dan pegawai tinggi tentera juga menyuara perasaan dan pandangan yang sama.

Tatacara, tradisi dan penghormatan tentera dalam ATM telah gugur dan terkebumi begitu saja oleh kerana pemimpin politik dan pemimpin tinggi tentera sendiri yang telah TIDAK sensitif dan gagal menyelamatnya.

Dato Arshad dan FMZam ada memberi ulasan dan "cerita" masing-masing tentang perkara ini. Saya percaya
"kawan" FMZam TIDAK menadah tangan berdoa didepan Kaabah memohon kepada Ilahi supaya amalan dan tradisi tentera yang murni di dalam ATM dinodai!
Sebaliknya doa kita semoga hambaNya yang berdosa dikuatkan iman, insaf dan kembali kejalan benar.

Saudara Guderian dan tuan-tuan,

Sesiapa mahu mengesahkan segala-galanya boleh ke Setia Wangsa, menanya Jen Tan Sri Aziz dimana beliau sedang membina dan menyiapkan "istana"nya yang memakan belanja sangat tinggi, katanya dibayar melalui simpanan setiap sen gaji beliau semasa berkhidmat dalam ATM yang melebehi 37 tahun.

Salam Aidil-Fithri kepada bloggers yang berugama Islam

Tuahjebat

FMZam said...

TuahJebat,

U are more brave than any of us to say so blunt in your charge against Aziz Zainal, I believe Guderian has no mean to come to Aziz's aid to make his stand on that matter you've said.

That shows one thing very clear that this Guderian in saying we are writing with all "prasangka buruk", he simply could not comprehend why in the first place those people we talked about did things that had aroused all those "prasangka buruk".

In fact Guderian is the one with all "prasangka buruk" towards those who post here against corruption and in doing this god probably will not “menghakis pahala2 di bulan Ramadhan yg mulia nie” as he said, we leave it to god to decide that, it is not for Guderian to say about “pahala” and merely use religion to cover the asses of his corrupt IDOLS. Guderian better worry about his own pahala than worrying about other people’s pahala.

Afterall, readers are never as Guderian has feared to take what bloggers write "bulat-bulat" into their mind. But readers are intelligent enough to take "bulat-bulat" what Guderian has depicted himself, by his writing, as an associate of his corrupt masters.

Let me put it this way, the reason why Aziz Zainal didn't mind at all with the treatment he received at his termination as PAT was because of his conscious of guilty feeling and better for him to lie as low as possible rather than making himself a conspicious target for now his "istana" has cropped up into the picture.

And if it is not because of Guderian who has poked too much to make TuahJebat responded in the heat of the moment with Aziz Zainal's istana.

Thank you Guderian.

Shhh!!!! Bunny said...

Hangpa semua tak tau. Itu semuanya lakonan yg terancang. XP AT bagi tau PAT baru dia sanggup berhenti dgn syarat faraid pembelian eurocopter bagi sikit kat anak dia.Kan ke anak dia terlibat dgn PUTD sdn bhd. PAT baru setuju sebab bila dia naik dia leh naikkan pangkat adik2 dia. Sowang lam renjer, sowang lagi tudm. Hangpa tengok la nanti adik2 dia akan pakai 1 bintang bila balik dari luar negara. Kalau betul kiraan falak dan hisab masa kat obersi dah pakai 1 bintang. Hangpa pikiaq la sendiri kengkawan kita kat kwsn operasi kena jalan kaki ke location nak sustain operation depa sibuk nak beli combat sar helikopter. Beli nak buat combat sar. Bagi data involvement ATM lam combat sar. Involvement yg ada masa CIW membenteras komunis. Tu je yg aku tau

Anak Sungai Derhaka said...

Salam Tuan..

Minta Izin copy and paste coretan ni masuk blog saya..

Pak Oncu said...

Panglima, sey raso elok Dato mula kumpul kan bekas bekas untuk menentang UBN di Bagan Pinag nanti,,
sey dah raso, ketika dalam perkhidmata kito di sanjung bilo dah tamat perkhidmatan kito BEKAS TENTERA di ibaratkan sampah olih UBN ,,, kecual;i BEKAS TENTERA yg kaki ampu dan bodek,,,, kalau mereka kaki ampu dan odek dalam Perkhidmata dah pasti bilo menjadi org awan juga perangai mereko macam itu,,,,,,,

sakariya said...

Salam tuan,
Seorang PAT boleh dipelakukan sebegitu rupa....
Apalah nasib anggota-anggota bawahan tentera yang menjadi cacat semasa operasi??
Ini semua angkara UBN!!