KOTA KINABALU: Datuk Seri Shafie Apdal has arrived in an ambulance at the court house here and is due to appear before a magistrate for a remand order.
The Parti Warisan Sabah president, dressed in a white shirt and black pants, was greeted by a crowd of supporters in orange t-shirts shouting “Happy Birthday” as he arrived at about 2.15pm Friday (Oct 20).
Shafie, who turns 60 on Friday, was admitted to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital for overnight observation due to high blood pressure after his arrest on Thursday (Oct 19) night.
The former Rural and Regional Development Minister had been ordered to turn up at the Sabah Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) office here to have his statement recorded.
Supporters in orange t-shirt gathered outside the court on Friday
Shafie is the 10th person held in connection with a graft probe into the alleged skimming of up to RM1.5bil in federal project allocations in Sabah through the Rural and Regional Development Ministry.The MACC is expected to make more arrests as it sifts through about 350 projects that were given to some 60 companies between 2009 and 2015.
The money was allegedly siphoned from RM7.5bil worth of project funds.
The commission has so far frozen RM170mil in bank accounts and assets of some of the companies involved.
MEANWHILE, according to Malay Mail:
Parti Warisan Sabah president Datuk Seri Shafie Apdal was brought to the court complex here for his remand application while dozens of his supporters gathered outside sang Happy Birthday as he turned 60 today.
It was perhaps one of the most colourful days the court has seen.
The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) had brought the Semporna MP in an ambulance here this afternoon for a remand application after arresting him last night to aid their investigation into a RM1.5 billion embezzling case involving the Rural and Regional Development Ministry he was headed.
Shafie’s wife Datin Shuryani Shaib and their son, Mohd Shezwi Shafie, also brought three birthday cakes to the courthouse and blew out the candles with other family members as a crowd estimated at 300 and gathered some 30 metres away sang the birthday song.
Shafie was put under observation at the Queen Elizabeth I Hospital for high blood pressure measuring 198/120. He arrived at the courthouse about 2.30pm.
The supporters moved from the entrance to the court side nearest to where the ambulance was parked some 80m away. They stood outside the gates and chanted phrases like “Sabah Ubah”, “Tangkap Musa”, “Tangkap MO1” and “democracy”.
They also sang Malaysian songs like Sabah Tanahairku in addition to Happy Birthday complete with a Birthday banner.
Among those in the crowd was Parti Warisan Sabah vice-president Junz Wong, its Youth chief Datuk Azis Jamman and Moyog assemblyman Terence Siambun.
At 3pm, he was still seated in the ambulance which was in clear view of the crowd.
Birthday cakes brought by Shafie’s wife Datin Shuryani Shaib are shared among Parti Warisan Sabah supporters waiting outside the courthouse.
ANN / MALAY MAIL
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