KENYATAAN MEDIA GERAK MENGENAI KELAYAKAN AKADEMIK YB SENATOR DATUK HAJI MARZUKI BIN HAJI YAHYA, TIMBALAN MENTERI LUAR MALAYSIA DAN BEBERAPA PEMIMPIN PAKATAN HARAPAN YANG LAIN
Pergerakan Tenaga Akademik Malaysia (GERAK) terkejut dan kecewa dengan isu penipuan kelayakan akademik oleh YB Senator Datuk Haji Marzuki Yahya dan beberapa pemimpin Pakatan Harapan (PH) yang lain iaitu Menteri Besar Johor Datuk Osman Sapian dan Menteri Besar Perak Datuk Seri Ahmad Faizal Azumu. Tindakan pemimpin PH ini jelas melanggar agenda urus tadbir baik dan reformasi kerajaan PH yang dahulunya lantang mengkritik kerajaan Barisan Nasional (BN) yang turut terpalit dengan perbuatan yang tidak beretika dan tidak berintegriti ini.
GERAK akur bahawa kelayakan akademik bukanlah satu-satunya kayu pengukur kepada kebolehan dan keupayaan seseorang termasuklah dalam kalangan ahli politik. Tetapi ini bukannya polemik utama yang timbul dalam kes penipuan kelayakan akademik oleh pemimpin PH.
Persoalannya kenapa Datuk Marzuki, umpamanya, memberi andaian seolah-olah beliau adalah graduan daripada University of Cambridge? Pemimpin Bersatu ini hanya membuat penjelasan bahawa beliau sebenarnya graduan daripada Cambridge International University (CIU) setelah menerima tekanan daripada pelbagai pihak.
Penjelasan Datuk Marzuki ini, walau bagaimanapun, menimbulkan satu lagi kontroversi apabila CIU didapati tidak diakredetasi dan yang lebih teruk dikenali sebagai degree mill. Ini bermakna beliau tidak memperoleh “kelayakan akademiknya” dengan cara yang sah.
Kesemua persoalan dan kontroversi ini membawa kepada isu integriti yang sepatutnya menjadi dukungan kerajaan PH yang lantang mencanangkan agenda Malaysia baharu yang sama sekali tidak sama dengan Malaysia di era BN.
GERAK menggesa supaya Perdana Menteri Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad memecat YB Senator Datuk Haji Marzuki Yahya selaku Timbalan Menteri Luar dan pemimpin PH lain yang terbukti menipu kelayakan akademik mereka untuk membuktikan bahawa kerajaan PH sememangnya mendukung prinsip integiriti dan urus tadbir yang baik. Dan yang lebih penting adalah supaya ianya menjadi pengajaran kepada pemimpin PH bahawa budaya dan amalan Malaysia lama sewajarnya tidak wajar menjadi ikutan lagi dalam era Malaysia baharu ini.
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GERAK PRESS STATEMENT ON THE ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS OF YB SENATOR DATUK HAJI MARZUKI BIN HAJI YAHYA, DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER OF MALAYSIA AND A FEW OTHER PAKATAN HARAPAN LEADERS
The Malaysian Academic Movement (GERAK) is shocked and disappointed over the issue of academic qualifications fraud by YB Senator Datuk Haji Marzuki Yahya and a few other Pakatan Harapan (PH) leaders involving, for example, the Chief Minister of Johor, Datuk Osman Sapian and the Chief Minister of Perak, Datuk Seri Ahmad Faizal Azumu. These PH leaders’ actions clearly violate the good governance and reform agenda of the PH government that were also formerly most vocal in criticizing the Barisan Nasional (BN) government for being embroiled in such unethical actions.
GERAK is cognizant that academic qualifications are not the only measure of the ability and capability of a person including politicians. However, this is not the main concern that arises in the case of academic qualifications fraud by PH leaders.
The question is why did Datuk Marzuki, for example, gave the impression that he is a graduate of the University of Cambridge? The PPBM leader only explained that he is in fact a graduate of Cambridge International University (CIU) after much pressure from various parties.
Datuk Marzuki’s explanations, however, stirred up another controversy when the CIU was discovered to be an unaccredited university and still worse known as a degree mill. This means that he did not obtain his "academic qualifications" in a legitimate way.
All these issues and controversies revolve around the issue of integrity that should be upheld by the PH government as it has been vocal in promoting a new Malaysia agenda that stands in stark contrast to the Malaysia in the BN era.
GERAK urges Prime Minister Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad to sack YB Senator Datuk Haji Marzuki Yahya as Deputy Foreign Minister and other PH leaders whose academic qualifications deceptions are proven to send the message that the government of the day does indeed support the principles of good governance and integrity. More importantly, it is a lesson to PH leaders that the culture and practice of the old Malaysia should no longer be embraced in this era of the new Malaysia.
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https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2019/02/13/academic-group-demands-pm-remove-marzuki/1722514?fbclid=IwAR2jZok8UaX9VPAaSURU9Ty9cVhfuRJC0sOhjEBIw1erQZ6lA9eHcM-HwZk
https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2019/02/17/malaysia-haunted-by-fake-degrees-the-recent-spate-of-revelations-of-senior-government-politicians-fa/
