{"id":16458,"date":"2020-10-09T06:18:19","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T22:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/?p=16458"},"modified":"2020-10-09T06:18:20","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T22:18:20","slug":"covid-19-cases-spike-muhyiddin-failed-to-show-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/covid-19-cases-spike-muhyiddin-failed-to-show-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19 cases spike: Muhyiddin failed to show leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"510\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/C113193E-40A2-4D21-8B6C-97E57C78EC39.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/C113193E-40A2-4D21-8B6C-97E57C78EC39.jpeg 510w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/C113193E-40A2-4D21-8B6C-97E57C78EC39-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/C113193E-40A2-4D21-8B6C-97E57C78EC39-465x310.jpeg 465w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin\u2018s latest speech on 6 October failed to show even an ounce of leadership. A leadership, that is sorely needed in this critical moment for our nation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Liew Chin Tong, DAP Senator in the Dewan Negara iterated that the rapid increase in Covid-19 cases require solutions, not awkward inappropriate humour. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>\u201cAnd yet the PM saw fit to joke about \u2018abah\u2019s rotan\u2019; when he in fact should have been cracking the whip on VIPs like Minister Khairuddin Aman Razali who failed to adhere to SOPs.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liewchintong.my\/posts\/10157591688215911\" data-show-text=\"true\" data-width=\"\"><blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liewchintong.my\/posts\/10157591688215911\" class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\"><p>Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin has just conceded that the sharp spike in Covid-19 cases was caused by the Sabah&#8230;<\/p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liewchintong.my\/\">Liew Chin Tong<\/a> on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liewchintong.my\/posts\/10157591688215911\">Tuesday, 6 October 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>For the record, Khairuddin was reported to have failed to follow mandatory 14 days quarantine ruling after coming back from a trip overseas to Turkey. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Chin Tong, Muhyiddin\u2019s speech also courted the rakyat\u2019s fury as during the same day, a one-year-old baby was reported to be the latest victim to the pandemic in our country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>\u201cWhat is sorely lacking from the PM&#8217;s address is an apology. We are not here to find fault, but an apology for launching the coup would at least soothe public sentiments, aside from an apology for his ministers who flaunted SOPs.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his televised speech from his home, Muhyiddin conceded that the increase in Covid-19 cases was due to the recently held Sabah State Election. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In case you missed it, the 16th Sabah State Election was held because there was an attempt at a coup from the Minister of Home Affairs, Hamzah Zainuddin along with former Sabah Chief Minsiter, Musa Aman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin\u2018s latest speech on 6 October failed to show even an ounce of leadership. A leadership, that is sorely needed in this critical moment for our nation. Liew Chin Tong, DAP Senator in the Dewan Negara iterated that the rapid increase in Covid-19 cases require solutions, not awkward inappropriate humour. \u201cAnd yet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":16459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[366,260],"tags":[867,866,516,865,76],"class_list":["post-16458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-current","tag-apology","tag-hamzah-zainuddin","tag-lct","tag-liew-ching-tong","tag-muhyiddin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16460,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16458\/revisions\/16460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}