Najib dedicates honorary doctorate to his father


  • Nation
  • Sunday, 20 Apr 2008

CYBERJAYA: Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak has dedicated an honorary doctorate he received from a private college here yesterday to his late father.

Najib said he shared the doctorate of social transformation with Malaysia’s second prime minister Tun Abdul Razak Hussein, who was instrumental in introducing the Felda scheme as one way of helping the rural poor 50 years ago.

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