DAP challenges Najib to state stand on tribunal

DAP has challenged the prime minister to inform Parliament whether he is prepared to initiate a judicial tribunal to probe allegations against the attorney-general Abdul Gani Patail and former IGP Musa Hassan.

“Najib Razak (right) should heed (former senior policeman) Mat Zain’s warning that he could be held for criminal misconduct if he chooses to continue to ignore or hide other people’s crime which is already within his knowledge,” said DAP supremo Lim Kit Siang.

Lim, who is also Ipoh Timor MP, was responding to Mat Zain’s open letter to IGP Ismail Omar, copied to the PM, saying he was willing to give his ‘no holds barred testimony’ should a tribunal be set up.

The former senior cop said both Gani and Musa were never investigated for “evidence fabrication” and had only been cleared of “abuse of power” allegations, said Lim.

The letter, the MP said, “has brought the long-simmering scandal of serious allegations about the complicity” of the AG and the former IGP into the open.

Mat Zain today said he had presented evidence of Gani and Musa’s “misconduct” in fabricating evidence in the 13-year-old Anwar Ibrahim “black eye” incident, to Najib.

Calling this a “new lead”, Lim (right) said together with former Commercial Crime Investigation Department (CCID) chief Ramli Yusof’s allegations against the duo for a cover up of an investigation into Johor kingpin Tengku Goh, justifies the setting up of such a tribunal

“How long is the prime minister to remain ‘blind, deaf and mute’ to the mounting pressures for a judicial tribunal...?” asked the opposition veteran.

“Would Najib prove Mat Zain right, who predicted that the prime minister would not establish a judicial tribunal as Gani and Musa’s convictions would prove that Anwar had been victimised in the 13-year-old case which led to Anwar’s jail sentence?” quipped Lim.