KUALA LUMPUR, April 12 — Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak had broken his promise to construct the “Crooked Bridge” linking Johor to Singapore’s side of the Causeway, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has claimed. The former prime minister told blogger Din Turtle in an interview, which was uploaded on the blog yesterday, that Najib had said to the media at one time that Malaysia would build the bridge, with or without Singapore’s agreement.
“I was a little bit unhappy that he didn’t do it; he’d promised,” Dr Mahathir said. “It’s not like I wanted to get the contract. I didn’t want to get the contract. “But my attitude is, I don’t want to ‘kow tow’ to Singapore,” he added, using a colloquial term that means “submit”.
