DAP pledges help for rep who exposed 'enticements to defect'
DAP has pledged legal assistance for its Kapayan assemblyperson Jannie Lasimbang after she has been threatened with a lawsuit over her allegations regarding attempts to entice Sabah ruling coalition assemblypersons to defect.
The party’s secretary-general Lim Guan Eng said DAP will support Lasimbang and any of its Sabah representatives who refuse to be bought over by money...
DAP has pledged legal assistance for its Kapayan assemblyperson Jannie Lasimbang after she has been threatened with a lawsuit over her allegations regarding attempts to entice Sabah ruling coalition assemblypersons to defect.
The party’s secretary-general Lim Guan Eng said DAP will support Lasimbang and any of its Sabah representatives who refuse to be bought over by money.
He said he has asked DAP deputy chairperson Gobind Singh Deo and legal aid bureau chairperson Ramkarpal Singh to provide assistance to Lasimbang.
“DAP strongly condemns such politics of fortune and posts […]
“DAP is proud that our Sabah state assemblyperson has publicly asked these frog peddlers or political mercenaries of fortune not to harass them anymore but to stay away because DAP leaders are not frogs to be bought and sold,” he said in a statement today.
Lim urged authorities to take stern action against those enticing elected representatives to defect to prove that state institutions are not being used as political tools of intimidation.
He also reiterated DAP’s support for Sabah Chief Minister Shafie Apdal’s leadership.
Previously, Lasimbang and DAP’s Elopura assemblyperson Calvin Chong had lodge police reports over attempts to entice them to defect.
Lasimbang (above) was quoted in the Borneo Post claiming that she was approached by political agents at her home.
She said the agents claimed to be representing the sons of former foreign affairs minister Anifah Aman, and they tried to entice her to join the state opposition.
Anifah’s sons Ahmad Firdauss, Ahmad Zachry, and Mohammad Azzidyn have reportedly instructed their lawyers to send legal notices to Lasimbang and Borneo Post to demand a retraction and apology over their claims.
“Our clients deny that they were involved in any manner whatsoever in attempting to induce assemblymen or any other member of the state legislative assembly to switch political parties.
“Nor did they appoint any agents to make an offer to the said assemblyman or any other member of the state legislative assembly to switch political parties," the trio’s lawyers were quoted as saying.
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