DAP’s Kulai MP Teo Nie Ching has called Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak a hypocrite for his announcement of a RM5 million allocation to the MACC.

This is because, she said, the government had cut MACC’s budget by almost RM5 million at the beginning of the year.

“If Najib truly appreciates the efforts of the MACC, why did he, in the first place, cut the budget of MACC by almost RM5 million in the beginning of the year?” Teo questioned in a statement today.

She was referring to a written parliamentary reply by Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Paul Low in answering Umno’s Kulim Bandar Baru MP Abd Aziz Sheikh Fadzir's question on the MACC’s budget...