Quarantine violation: Khairuddin urges AG to quickly announce investigation results

 

Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Mohd Khairuddin Aman Razali today urged the Attorney-General to quickly announce the investigation results over his alleged violation of a 14-day mandatory quarantine order.

The minister said that he has not received any news on the progress of his case so far.

"From the start of this issue, I had not said a word and had left it to the authorities to investigate.

"I am waiting for the Attorney-General to announce the outcome of the case investigation and whether I will be charged or not. I am also leaving it to the government to act on me if I had committed an offence," he said.

The PAS Kuala Nerus MP was speaking to reporters in Seremban today, after a ceremony presenting ventilators and face masks to the Tuanku Ja'afar Seremban Hospital (HTJS). The event was also attended by Malaysian Palm Oil Association (MPOA) director of administration and government relations Ramzuz Mohd Rashid, as well as the hospital director Dr Zaleha Md Noor.

Khairuddin received criticism from various quarters, with some urging him to resign, after he failed to undergo mandatory home quarantine following his return from Turkey in July.

On the proposal to create a unity government, Khairuddin, who is also a PAS central committee member, said that as the country is now facing the Covid-19 pandemic, the priority is to strengthen the Perikatan Nasional (PN) government led by Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin.

"We will wait for the right time to dissolve Parliament and return the mandate to the people.

"If we keep blaming people, there will be no end to our problems. What is important is for us to face the problems together for the good of all," he said.

He was commenting on a recommendation by an academician today that a unity government involving PN and opposition parties be formed, for national politics to be re-stabilised.

Meanwhile, on MPOA’s contribution of 20 ventilator units, the minister said that so far, apart from HTJS, other hospitals that have received ventilators included the Kuala Lumpur, Serdang, Selayang, and the Raja Perempuan Zainab II, Kota Bahru hospitals. Each unit costs RM120,000.

- Bernama