What Uhuru should do to make Big 4 a reality

One day in the late 1990s my friend Raja Maimuna walked into her office in one of Kuala Lumpur’s top banks and found a letter from the Prime Minister of Malaysia summoning her to a meeting in his office at 11am the same day. No reasons or explanations were rendered. One hour later she walked into a boardroom in the PM’s Office and found 10 of Malaysia’s top business executives sitting there in silent apprehension.

PM Mathir Mohamed was a no-nonsense man. In a few minutes, he walked in and told them: “Our economy and our country are under siege. Some people want to buy our prime companies for a song and I will not allow any Malaysian company to be stolen from us. Malaysia will not be auctioned by anyone. I will not allow it’’. Then he informed them that they were all being inducted into public service immediately.