Don’t use Speaker as excuse to avoid debate, DAP tells 1MDB boss

DAP's Anthony Loke says the 1MDB president should not use the Dewan Rakyat Speaker's ruling to avoid debating with the Pandan MP. – The Malaysian Insider filepic, November 5, 2015.

1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) president Arul Kanda Kandasamy should not use Dewan Rakyat Speaker Tan Sri Pandikar Amin Mulia's ruling as an excuse to avoid debating about the troubled state-owned investment firm with PKR's Pandan MP Rafizi Ramli, DAP said today.

Its national organising secretary and parliamentary whip Anthony Loke Siew Fook said it was clear that Arul Kanda's position as a Public Accounts Committee (PAC) witness in the 1MDB probe would not be affected if he debated a non-PAC member.

"If you want to avoid the debate, just say so, do not have to use the Speaker as an excuse," Loke told reporters at the Parliament lobby today.

Arul Kanda today said he would not debate Rafizi out of respect to PAC and Pandikar.

- TMI