SERDANG, Oct 22 — Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said Lim Guan Eng denying sexual harassment claims against his son was inadequate.
The deputy prime minister told reporters today that if the Penang chief minister “thinks it is important to correct the information, then he has to come up with a strong statement.
“Mere denial is not enough,” he said.
Pro-Umno bloggers had claimed that Lim’s son had assaulted a 16-year-old schoolmate and tried to escape punishment by using his father’s name.
Lim had denied the allegations on Tuesday, saying he was furious with the “barbaric lies” made about his teenage son by “pro-Umno ferocious beasts”.
The DAP held a press conference on Wednesday claiming the photograph of the purported “victim” used by Umno bloggers was that of 21-year-old chess grandmaster Anya Sun Corke who is studying at Wellesley College in the United States.
Corke denied yesterday ever having met or heard of the 16-year-old schoolboy.
Lim’s colleagues in Pakatan Rakyat (PR) also came out strongly in support of the DAP secretary-general against what they call “the lowest gutter politics” seen in decades.
Muhyiddin (picture) added today the opposition should not “blame others” for the allegations but “if there is a fault, we have to find out what is the main cause of it”.
“Don’t blame anybody. This is a tendency for Pakatan Rakyat (PR). Anything that has a problem, their own problem, they will blame,” he said.
The Umno deputy president, however, admitted that he did not have information on the claims.
But he said that in such matters, “if we want to clear this up, we ask the police to investigate. If it is true that it had never happened, what do you have to worry about?”
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