Kini Roundup: More behind PAC report, S'wak boots 'undesirables'
Here’s a recap of major headlines yesterday you may have missed.
Malaysiakini went beyond the Public Accounts Committee's (PAC) report by scrutinising the Hansard of the committee's proceedings with several interesting findings.
Among them was the fact that the Finance Ministry had no idea what was going on at 1MDB, the company it wholly-owns, and had to rely on the newspapers to find out.
The Hansard also recorded then PAC chief Nur Jazlan Mohamed as saying that 1MDB had bypassed the government's due process framework by directly reporting to Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak.
“1MDB has their own source of authority not from the (Finance) Ministry (MOF) but directly from the prime minister, and...
Posted by Malaysiakini on Friday, April 8, 2016
It was also revealed that the 1MDB board of advisers, of which Najib chaired, had never met .
Based on the PAC report, Malaysiakini also put together a chronology of events that led to 1MDB's unaccounted RM1 billion in its joint-venture PetroSaudi International.
Meanwhile, Najib urged Malaysians to move on and not let the 1MDB saga impede national development.
S'wak keeps kicking out opposition reps
The list of opposition leaders and activists getting kicked out of Sarawak continue to grow ahead of the state election, the latest being DAP party staff Ooi Leng Hang.
Constitutional lawyer Ambiga Sreenevasan said the deportation of politicians from Sarawak for legitimate political activities was not legal .
However, the Election Commission claimed it is powerless to stop this.
Posted by Malaysiakini on Saturday, April 9, 2016
Meanwhile, Sarawak Chief Minister Adenan Satem expressed confidence that BN can win 70 to 85 percent of the 82 seats being contested.
Other Kini bites
Former premier Mahathir Mohamad who had never been fond of foreign governments, have called for foreign intervention to oust Najib. A federal minister called this a desperate act .
A defiant PKR vice-president Rafizi Ramli said he will not apologise for his remarks about the prime minister's wife Rosmah Mansor, who is set to sue him.
Johor Menteri Besar Khaled Nordin said he is focussed on his job amid speculations of a plot to oust him.
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