The DAP is furious that Inspector General of Police Khalid Abu Bakar wants to act against the party's senior leader Lim Kit Siang for sedition .

 

DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng said Khalid had never ceased to "serially baffle and confuse" Malaysians when he forgets his statutory role as a IGP and talks instead like an extremist Umno politician, the Penang chief minister said in a statement.

 

Guan Eng said Khalid should be ashamed for not being remorseful even after failing to find those who caused the death of deceased DAP political aide Teoh Beng Hock.

 

Teoh was found dead on the fifth floor of the Selangor Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission in the morning of Jul 16, 2009, after giving a statement on the 14th floor.

 

Guan Eng said the IGP is now trying to divert attention for his failure by taking action against Kit Siang for sedition.

 

Khalid had said that Kit Siang ( left ) had committed an offence under the Sedition Act by stating that Teoh was murdered and that the real perpetrators had yet to be arrested in an article in The Rocket , published on July 16. 

 

The IGP claimed that Kit Siang's article on the fifth-year anniversary of Teoh's death was an attempt to incite people to think that he was killed.

 

"What is wrong for Kit Siang to write in his article that "Malaysians will not rest until justice is done for the killing of Teoh Beng Hock” and both DAP and Pakatan will continue to highlight the injustice of Teoh's unresolved murder?

 

"Is it now a crime in Malaysia to seek for justice to be done and that the killers be punished?" he asked.

 

Guan Eng said the IGP is "callous and inhumane" for not feeling or understanding the pain and loss to the family members and friends from the death of an innocent man. 

 

He added that Teoh's family had rejected in no uncertain terms any suggestion or implication that he caused his own death because he was happily about to get married and was about to become a father.

 

"It is the duty of the authorities, including the police, to solve this murder and find Teoh’s killers," Guan Eng ( left ) asserted.

 

He added that Khalid might as well act against the entire party leaders - 37 MPs and 105 state assemblypersons - who take a similar principled position as Kit Siang.

 

"Khalid should decide to act responsibly and professionally in his statutory role as IGP by stopping such a politically motivated witch-hunt against Kit Siang or else he should resign as IGP and be an extremist Umno politician if he so wishes."

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