Ahmad is not "Safe"

 

My views herein are based on my personal experiences and knowledge during my time as the lawyer for the current Sultan of Johor. I verily believe that the Johor Palace has a big say in Ahmad’s arrest and they are interfering with the Johor Police in this matter. The Police in Johor has to bow to the Palace in matters relating to the Johor royalty. They have“no choice”, they cannot say no.  

Kamal Hisham Jaafar

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

I am making this press statement in response to the re arrest of AHMAD ABD JALIL by the JOHOR police on Monday  Nov 5, the same day after the Johor Magistrate freed him from a three day remand order.  

It was reported by The Malaysian Insider today that Ahmad’s father, Abd Jalil, informed them that he still feared for his son’s safety, complaining that he was in the dark as to what would happen next. In the report  by The Malaysian Insider, Abd Jalil pointed out that since the Magistrate had freed Ahmad from remand, the police should not have carted his son back to a lock-up. 

It was further reported by The Malaysian Insider that even then, the youth was brought to court by three men, only one of which was dressed in full police uniform. The others, he said, were in plainclothes. It was also stated that when Ahmad was freed, the driver, a big guy dressed in a red shirt, looked particularly unhappy. The driver pulled aside the inspector and they had a discussion for a while before they took Ahmad back to their car, instead of releasing him to Ahmad’s family.  

“That was when we were told that they were acting on orders from above,” Abd Jalil said to The Malaysian Insider. 

My views herein are based on my personal experiences and knowledge during my time as the lawyer for the current Sultan of Johor. I verily believe that the Johor Palace has a big say in Ahmad’s arrest and they are interfering with the Johor Police in this matter. The Police in Johor has to bow to the Palace in matters relating to the Johor royalty. They have “no choice”, they cannot say no. 

The palace normally gives its ORDER and LODGES its police reports through the Sultan’s ADC, DSP Sugumaran, thus making Sugumaran, the complainant on behalf of the palace. Sugumaran will go out of his way and not within his job scope as he will communicate directly with the investigating officers and telling them about the Sultan or the Tunku Mahkota’s directives. The Palace has too much power and this makes the police officers in Johor unhappy.

What worries me is the Palace’s unruly behaviour, who wants to make the “accused” or “victim” suffer and tormented physically and mentally with so many scary ways of which these will also affect the family members.

What the palace wants is to feel “the proud power of winning, the feeling of “what we can do,” and making the victim feeling so small, being a loser and begging for forgiveness and if needed, to kiss the Sultan and/or Tunku Mahkota’s feet. I really hope that Ahmad need not go through all this experience. I have knowledge of several incidents not favouring the complainant or the witness or when someone that the palace is of the view has crossed the line. One which I will disclose here is the incident where the Investigating Officer, Inspector Fahmi who was physically fit in the morning when he appeared in court but  later in the afternoon with swollen eyes after being beaten by people from the Palace. 

Another example, about 2 years ago a close relative of the palace was charged in the Johor court for beating a complainant with a metal object in the compound of the Johor Bahru Central Police Station in the presence of 2 police officers while the complainant was making a statement.

The incident that involves the Negeri Sembilan royalty in 2008 is another example how powerful the Johor palace is. The people involved in making the Johor royalty escape the punishment now, those who gave instructions, those who tempered and destroyed the evidence, knew what really happened. You can lie now but you know very well what happened and you will be punished when your time comes. 

Those who have experienced what I have gone through with the Johor royalty will know how powerful the Johor palace is and what they are capable of doing.

Therefore, I strongly urge that the administration of the Johor Police force be changed immediately if the Royal Malaysia Police wants the people to have faith in the Johor Police again.

I have also made an application to the police that due to the death threats I have received, my statement be recorded/taken outside Malaysia and the statement recorded/taken by the police from Bukit Aman.

Meanwhile, I am still hoping that whatever cases that the Johor Police has against me, whether I am being called to give statements or whether instructions have been given to charge me even though I have NOT given any statement, all these files to be transferred to Bukit Aman. I have full confidence that the Police in Bukit Aman will never be influenced by the Johor palace. The Police in Bukit Aman will never take any instructions or order or directives from the Johor palace and the Police in Bukit Aman will carry out their duties without fear or favour.Justice Not Only Must Be Done But Must Be Seen To Be Done.