KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 11 — PKR’s Rafizi Ramli announced today his plan to author a book on the RM250 million National Feedlot Centre (NFC) scandal, saying he hoped to inspire more Malaysians to join the fight to end corruption.

The Pandan MP said the book would reveal what happened behind the scenes of the high-profile cattle farming project, which he had linked to former Minister Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil’s family.

“I will be writing the book because the evolution of NFC scandal involved a lot of people, the information did not come from one source,” Rafizi told reporters at the court complex here.

The book plan appeared to be Rafizi’s attempt at leveraging on the success of a mutual agreement with Shahrizat to drop her RM100 million defamation suit against him and fellow PKR colleague, Zuraida Kamaruddin today.

Rafizi said the book would focus more on the human aspects of the NFC matter including the contribution of “a lot of faceless Malaysians”, rather than the facts of the scandal.

“What people do not know is the human aspect behind the scenes — who stumbled upon it? How we did it? How we concealed identities, all these little things,” the Pandan MP said.

The book is expected to contain previously undisclosed information as well as the “personal experiences” of those involved in exposing the NFC scandal, Rafizi said.

Rafizi said the book is also meant to assure the public that it is worth taking a risk to expose corruption and that they do not have to fear lawsuits over their whistleblowing activities.

“Usually as in the case of NFC, almost everyone who contributed to it was out of reach as far as lawsuits were concerned. Only two or three of us were within reach.

“People do not have to be afraid because finally it’s only two to three people who are visible to the public, who will have to take the risk.

“And because of that, I think everybody should try their best to come in and help and understanding what really happens behind the scenes in NFC hopefully will educate Malaysians about what they can do to combat corruption,” he later added.

Zuraida, who was also present in court, said they hoped to produce the book in both English and Bahasa Malaysia, saying that the latter will be important to reach those in the rural areas.