The Tourism, Arts and Culture Ministry (Motac) has refuted a news portal's report claiming that its minister Mohammadin Ketapi only held the ministry's first post-cabinet meeting after secretary-general Isham Ishak was transferred out last month.
An aide to the minister, when contacted this morning, dismissed the claim saying that the report was wrong.
They have also decided not to issue any statement to respond to the accusation, he said.
"The minister's office would not entertain any false accusation," said the aide in a text message.
This morning, The Malaysian Insight reported that they learnt Mohammadin (photo) was not able to work with Isham since the latter became the ministry's secretary-general in January this year.
The portal had relied on unnamed sources for the story.
"A ministry source said this had more to do with the poor working relationship between Minister Mohammadin Ketapi and senior officials, despite speculation of a “deep state” within the civil service.
"Mohammadin did chair post-cabinet meetings last year but The Malaysian Insight learnt that he was not able to work with Isham Ishak, who was transferred to the ministry in January," claimed the report.
Post-cabinet meetings are a normal practice in the Malaysian federal government where ministers will bring back decisions from the cabinet to brief and discuss with officers at their respective ministries prior to implementation.
According to sources quoted in the news report, this, however, was not a must.
"There is no express provision that a ministry must hold a post-cabinet briefing (for its ministry officials) after the cabinet meeting," the source was quoted as saying.
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