Tiga ‘ta’

Seorang ketua jabatan sentiasa mengingatkan ahli-ahli mesyuarat mingguan di jabatannya tentang integriti. Agar selamat bersara dalam bersih, tenang dan diredhai, maka seharusnya difahami implikasi mengabaikan aspek-aspek ‘takhta, harta dan wanita’ dalam mengendalikan amanah awam yang dipertanggungjawabkan.

Tiba-tiba, belekenku hari ini melintasi pula kata-kata Harry S. Truman: “There are three things on this earth that’ll ruin a man—power, money and women. If a man can accept power as temporary thing, he’s going to be all right. But if he thinks he’s the cause of the power, that’ll ruin him. And money, if a man makes too much money, too quickly, it can separate him from the rest of the human race who have to work most of their lives just to earn a living. And if a man is disloyal to his family, that’ll ruin him. ‘Cause if you’ve got the right partner in life, you’re not going to have much trouble.”

“.... : No man can get rich in politics unless he’s a crook! It can’t be done.”

(Bacalah, Samuel Gallu, “”Give ‘Em Hell, Harry!””, Reader's Digest, Vol. 31, No. 186, September 1978, pp. 91-96).

Semalam, setelah beberapa tahun tidak berjumpa, dalam satu upacara peringkat kebangsaan di Putrajaya, aku terserempak dengan ketua jabatan itu. Kami bersalaman.

14M Jusoff Taib, Rismayanti Idris and 12 others

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