MACC WANTS POWER TO APPOINT ITS OWN CHIEF – OR AT LEAST VIA A PARLIAMENTARY SELECT COMMITTEE: BUT WHAT HAPPENS WHEN MACC TURNS ROGUE -WHO WILL APPLY THE BRAKES?

THE Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission is looking into the possibility of appointing the chief commissioner itself or via a parliamentary select committee (PSC).

MACC chief commissioner Mohd Shukri Abdull said appointment through a PSC will require the MACC Act to be amended.

“If it is difficult to secure two-thirds support in Parliament to enable MACC to pick its own chief commissioner, we can try to amend the MACC Act to insert a clause allowing the appointment to be made through a PSC.

“We want those appointed to discharge their duty without fear. They must also not be dismissed just like that, but like how judges can be removed only by a tribunal,” he told a press conference in Putrajaya, in conjunction with a briefing on the June-December report on efforts to combat corruption in Malaysia.

Present was Abu Kassim Mohamed, director-general of the Governance, Integrity and Anti-Corruption Centre (GIACC).

– Bernama