Nazir questions if Malaysia has lost faith in young leaders

PETALING JAYA: Datuk Seri Nazir Razak has questioned if Malaysia has lost faith in its generation of young leaders.  

In an Instagram post on Sunday, the CIMB group chairman shared a montage depicting some of the country’s well-known leaders in the 60s and 70s who had been appointed to their positions at a young age.  

“Have we lost faith in young leaders? Razak (DPM at 37), Razaleigh (MOF at 39), Thanabalasingam (Navy Chief at 31), Sulaiman (Air Force Chief at 33), Hanif (IGP at 35),” he said in a caption accompanying the image.  

Nazir was referring to his late father and former prime minister Tun Abdul Razak Hussein, who was made the country’s first deputy prime minister at an early age.  

He also referenced Gua Musang MP and former finance minister Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, former navy chief K. Thanabalasingam, Datuk Sulaiman Sujak, who was Malaysia’s first non-British air force chief, and former inspector-general of police Tun Hanif Omar.      

“Yet (the) average Malaysian is much younger today,” added Nazir, who is the younger brother of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.