KOTA KINABALU: NGO Angkatan Perpaduan Sabah (APS) supports Umno MP Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz’s call for the federal government to be stern in eradicating corruption so can restore the good image of the country.
Its Vice President, Paul Kadau, said the central government should not be selective between “big fish” and “small fish” but respect and follow the rules of law.
“The rakyat (people) knows there are individuals including leaders involved in corruption who seems to be “protected”…so their cases were seems to have been put to one side.
“The rakyat are frustrated when such leaders were just let free especially when they have many cases against them..why?
“The time has come for the central and state government administrations to be empowered once again like during the time of late Tunku Abdul Rahman’s era so Malaysia can restore its good image in the eyes of the world,” he said in a statement Monday.
During the debate at the committee stage on the Supply Bill 2021 at the Dewan Rakyat, Nazri who is Padang Rengas MP has urged enforcement bodies not to carry out “selective prosecution or investigation” against individuals to avoid incurring the wrath of the rakyat during the 15th general election.
He said the Perikatan Nasional (PN) coalition must fulfil what it had promised to do.
“What is wrong is wrong. Two wrongs don’t make a right,” he said, urging the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), the Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC) and police not to indulge in selective prosecution or investigation.
Nazri was asked by Shamsul Iskandar Akin (PH-Hang Tuah Jaya) for his opinion on the investigation involving a video clip linked to a senior minister as the case “is now seen as closed”. Shamsul Iskandar did not name the individual.
After an investigation, Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Abdul Hamid Bador had said the results of the facial recognition and analysis came back negative, adding that the identity of the other man in the video could not be linked to the minister.
Nazri had also said that the PN had gone through several challenges and an “acid test”, further urging the governing coalition to keep to its promise to be “clean”.
He said the rakyat had hoped the Pakatan Harapan coalition would fulfil its manifesto but he claimed there was selective prosecution, with some cases withdrawn.
“But this is not good as it was part of their manifesto,” he said.
Due to that, he disagreed with any selective prosecution and urged the government to give a free hand to the MACC and AGC to carry out their duties without any interference. – Pr/BNN
