A fortified Official Secrets Act 1972 (OSA) will surely push the country on the path towards a communist state, where citizens are afraid to criticise their leaders, says MCA Youth.
The wing’s legal bureau chief Ng Kian Nam describes attorney-general (AG) Mohamad Apandi Ali’s suggestion to increase the penalty for OSA on those who whistleblow ‘state secrets’, as well as on journalists who report these stories, as excessive.