Kuala Terengganu MP Raja Kamarul Bahrin Raja Ahmad Shah has demanded that government minister Paul Low apologise in public for kicking him and another MP out of a briefing session on the Auditor-General’s Report a few days ago.
Raja Kamarul said that two days after the incident on Tuesday, he and PKR Bayan Baru MP Sim Tze Tzin met Low privately at the Parliament house on June 19. Low had then apologised to the MPs in that meeting but that won’t do, he said.
“He expressed his apology to both of us at the meeting, stating he had some ‘housekeeping’ problems on the day,” Raja Kamarul said in a press statement.
“Both YB Sim and myself stated that since what happened when we were ‘evicted’ from the hall was in full public view of the media, senior government servants and national television and audio coverage, and whatever apology has to be done publicly or formally by letter.”
The PAS MP said that he also told Low that he represented 100,000 voters in Kuala Terengganu and therefore had a right to be present for the briefing, where top civil servants were called upon to personally address media queries about problems raised in the second series of the Auditor-General’s Report 2013.
Raja Kamarul said besides the apology, the government and transparency minister, Low, must also now keep his promise to hold the same briefing for all MPs at a later date as he had allegedly announced.
Raja Kamarul said that two days after the incident on Tuesday, he and PKR Bayan Baru MP Sim Tze Tzin met Low privately at the Parliament house on June 19. Low had then apologised to the MPs in that meeting but that won’t do, he said.
“He expressed his apology to both of us at the meeting, stating he had some ‘housekeeping’ problems on the day,” Raja Kamarul said in a press statement.
“Both YB Sim and myself stated that since what happened when we were ‘evicted’ from the hall was in full public view of the media, senior government servants and national television and audio coverage, and whatever apology has to be done publicly or formally by letter.”
The PAS MP said that he also told Low that he represented 100,000 voters in Kuala Terengganu and therefore had a right to be present for the briefing, where top civil servants were called upon to personally address media queries about problems raised in the second series of the Auditor-General’s Report 2013.
Raja Kamarul said besides the apology, the government and transparency minister, Low, must also now keep his promise to hold the same briefing for all MPs at a later date as he had allegedly announced.
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