Kit Siang: Najib has ‘something to hide’ on NSC

The DAP veteran queries why an ex-RMAF officer was denied the right to speak at a public forum on the NSC.

KUALA LUMPUR: Suspended Gelang Patah MP Lim Kit Siang suspects that Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak has “something to hide” on the proposed National Security Council (NSC). “Clearly there’s a lot that Najib was trying to hide.”

“That’s why a retired Air Force officer was instructed by the Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) Chief Jen Roslan Saad not to speak at a forum on Friday on the National Security Council (NSC) Bill 2015.”

Lim, also DAP Parliamentary Leader, described the “ban” as most undemocratic and deplorable. “What could RMAF’s former policy and legal adviser, Lt. Col (Rtd) Mohamad Daud Sulaiman possibly reveal at the forum on the NSC Bill?” asked Lim. “How could his presence at the forum endanger national security?”

It would appear that Najib and his advisers feel such intense “national insecurity” that they are afraid of their own shadows and are prepared to go all out to undermine the democratic and human rights of Malaysians, added Lim. “The NSC Bill is a double ‘national insecurity’ move, caused by Najib’s sense of insecurity and would cause insecurity to Malaysians living in areas declared as ‘security areas’.”

DAP, pledged Lim, would always keep alive the principles and goals which had kept the party going for the past five decades, “never for any personal advancement or material gain, but to see the realization of our principles and ideals and most important of all, the Malaysian Dream”.

“When a band of young Malaysians got together some 50 years ago to form the Democratic Action Party, we did it not because of any thought of becoming MP, State Assembly representative or forming a state or the Federal Government, but because of our patriotic convictions and principles to make our country a better place for all.”

The DAP, he continued, wants to ensure that all Malaysians enjoy freedom, justice, good governance, development, progress and prosperity.

Lim was speaking in conjunction with the birthday on Saturday of the late P. Patto, a former MP, who he hailed as “one of the great Malaysians in the nation’s history”.

The day also marked an important day for DAP, said Lim, “for on this day 50 years ago, the DAP’s founding Chairman Chen Man Hin contested and won the Rahang State Assembly by-election in Negri Sembilan as an independent candidate”.

DAP’s application for registration had not yet been approved then by the Registrar of Societies (RoS), he recalled.