Kit Siang: Parliament appears ‘one-sided’ on contempt

KUALA LUMPUR: If senior government people cannot be referred to the Committee of Privileges for lying, for example, and the Speaker was only a “yes men” to such breaches of parliamentary privileges, the question that arises was whether the Malaysian Parliament was one-sided and partial, said DAP Parliamentary Leader in a statement.

“The Speaker cannot be ‘blind, mute and deaf’ to Azalina’s double contempt of Parliament.”

“Hasan has also committed grave breach of parliamentary privilege in unilaterally and arbitrarily tampering with the PAC Report on 1MDB.”

Lim, who is also Gelang Patah MP, cited Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Azalina Othman Said’s “double contempt of Parliament”.

Firstly, she “lied” when replying to Bagan MP Lim Guan Eng on Monday that the parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) members were informed about the deleted lines from the PAC Report on 1MDB following correspondence from Bank Negara on April 6.

“Apparently, Bank Negara said the information was ‘confidential for the purpose of intelligence only and not for court usage or public report’,” noted the DAP veteran.

Secondly, Azalina defended her “first lie with another lie” on PAC Member and Petaling Jaya Utara MP Tony Pua’s statement that “PAC Chairman Hasan Arifin never at any point of time communicated with PAC members on any developments subsequent to the meeting on April 4” before the PAC Report on 1MDB was presented to Parliament on 7 April 7 2016.

In their joint statement in Parliament on Thursday, recalled Lim, Deputy PAC Chairman and Kepong MP Tan Seng Giaw and the four opposition PAC members confirmed that they had never been informed of any Bank Negara correspondence of April 6 before the tabling of the PAC Report on 1MDB on April 7.

Hasan committed a grave breach of parliamentary privilege in tampering with the PAC report on 1MDB, reiterated Lim.

The deleted sentence referred to the disclosure from Bank Negara that Good Star’s owner is not PetroSaudi but a private individual.

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