Center to Combat Corruption & Cronyism (C4 Center) has raised concern over Putrajaya’s proposal to mandate whistleblowers having “clean hands” as a prerequisite for them to be accorded protection under the law.

This followed the tabling of a bill to amend the Whistleblower Protection Act (WPA) yesterday, where the government wants to add the word “willfully” in Section 11(1)(a).

This amendment, if it gets passed by Parliament, will give power to an enforcement agent to...