Urgent motion rejected for tribunal on Gani, Musa
An emergency motion - to debate the setting up of a tribunal to investigate attorney-general (AG) Abdul Gani Patail and former police chief Musa Hassan - has been rejected in the Dewan Rakyat speaker's chambers.
An emergency motion - to debate the setting up of a tribunal to investigate attorney-general (AG) Abdul Gani Patail and former police chief Musa Hassan - has been rejected in the Dewan Rakyat speaker's chambers.
The motion by R Sivarasa (
left
) (PKR-Subang) was rejected on grounds that it was not specific and against Standing Order 23(1)(i), which states that questions cannot posed on news reports, the accuracy of which could not be determined.
Sivarasa had filed the motion yesterday under Standing Orders 18(1) and 18(2), which are specifically for the discussion of matters of public importance that are of an urgent and specific nature.
He expressed his dissatisfaction to deputy speaker Wan Junaidi Jaafar after Question Time this morning, saying that the issue must be dealt with because it involved the country's "highest ranking legal adviser".
However, Wan Junaidi
(left)
said the motion, apart from being rejected for the reason given, also did not follow the proper format as it exceeded the 300-word limit for a motion.
"If this is not specific, I really don't know what specific means because we raised a specific case," Sivarasa later told reporters at the Parliament lobby.
"My motion has nothing to do with whether the (news report) is accurate. We categorically stated that Malaysiakini's report is based on statutory declarations... it is credible.”
Issues linked to status
He also said the AG could only be tried before a tribunal as the latter’s status is similar to that of a High Court judge.
"So that's why we said we need a tribunal to investigate this allegation, to see whether it is true or not.
"This is most unfortunate because it concerns the AG himself, who is basically being implicated in criminal offences and therefore it is appropriate for this House to discuss it.”
Malaysiakini had reported on Sunday that, in 2007, deputy internal security minister Johari Baharum had bypassed Musa and instructed the Commercial Crimes Investigation Department head Ramli Yusuff to investigate Johor-based underworld figure Goh Cheng Poh.
Ramli had claimed his investigations had revealed that Musa (
left in picture
) was in cahoots with Goh and had assisted in covering up the latter’s gambling and money laundering businesses.
Gani ( right in picture ) was said to have instructed the Anti-Corruption Agency (now the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission) to access highly-confidential files on the case.
He is further alleged to have ordered its officers to hunt down the informants in the Goh case and coerce them into changing their statements to implicate the CCID team investigating the case.
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