Malaysians read with great interest the development of the revelation by a Sabah High Court judge that he had received an inappropriate directive from an alleged "superior" at the material time. Reports also indicate that he would reveal the name of the caller to the Chief Justice in due course.

In my opinion this is a matter to which the police and Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA) must immediately take cognizance. They should not fold their arms and wait. It is extremely easy to detect the caller and I for one, will not doubt the capability of the Special Branch to get whatever is needed to bring the caller to book, if there is a valid case.

Caller logbook system is maintained. You can detect which telephone received a call from which number and for how long and at what time. You can detect how many calls were made to the entire Sabah telephones on a given date and during what period of time.

This is so basic that even as we arguing and guessing, foreign embassies in Kuala Lumpur are laughing at us. This is a 80-year-old operational method, which has been refined a thousand times.

I'm sure "on the need to know basis" includes the giving of such information by the SB to the appropriate authority (accepting that the "appropriate authority" it itself can sometimes be vague).