Umno Youth chief Dr Akmal Saleh has torn into Dewan Rakyat speaker Johari Abdul, accusing the latter of snoozing in luxury and spouting “stupid statements” on a fat salary while doctors lose sleep to save lives.

The Merlimau assemblyperson said this in a scathing condemnation of Johari’s reasoning behind his dismissal of a suggestion for a 50 percent cut to lawmakers’ allowances to fund an increase in doctors’ on-call allowances.