Tuan Tuan Puan Puan,

Unless you have been appointed since the last general election you will have entered a service which had been deliberately trained to assume that the government of the day, representing the electorate as it did, was acting as honestly and efficiently as it was capable of doing to forward the public interest.

Thus, except for the corrupted, for many in the higher echelons of the Service, work and policy implementation proceeded on traditional lines.That is not to say that some, mainly at the higher levels, were unaware of the illegal, and often criminal actions of many of the politicians forming the government of the day but much may be forgiven to those who put personal and family interests ahead of their public duty to denounce crime; particularly as they will have known that in a corrupted establishment they would have no prospect of fair treatment; let alone credit, for exposing crime.

The last general election changed all that and public servants will have seen the worst criminals arrested and in the dock or awaiting their turn to be tried. In due course the most senior of corrupted civil servants will follow them there, as they should. Following illegal orders may be an excuse but only for the purposes of mitigation.

No one expects the PH government to carry out a wide scale witch hunt for corrupt public servants. They can safely rely on the example of what is and will be happening to those whose illegal collaboration with Najib and his fellow criminals now brings them into the criminal dock. What is needed, however, is a general recognition at all levels of the Service that things went very badly wrong and partly because those who should have spoken remained silent. The whole Service shod be united in a determination that that cannot happen again.