CORONAVIRUS | Umno vice-president Khaled Nordin has criticised Deputy Health Minister Dr Noor Azmi Ghazali for not setting a good example during the movement control order (MCO) after the latter was panned by netizens for flouting the order by visiting a tahfiz school.
“It is not just any deputy minister but the deputy minister of health who is not showing a good example during the MCO.
“In other countries such as New Zealand, their health minister resigned because he violated their lockdown, and the public in other countries are also expressing their anger towards the UK housing minister and the South African communications minister for the same reason.
“We do not want to have a different set of rules. The leadership must show a good example,” Khaled said in the caption of his Instagram post today, which depicted Noor Azmi having a meal with a group of people at a tahfiz school.
In New Zealand, its Health Minister Dr David Clark had offered to resign after he ignored national lockdown rules twice, after being photographed going for a mountain bike ride 2km away from his home and later for driving his family 20km to a beach on the first weekend of lockdown.
However, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern had rejected the resignation. Instead, she stripped him from his associate finance minister portfolio and demoted him to the bottom of the cabinet rankings.
Since yesterday, netizens have been criticising Noor Azmi, Terengganu Menteri Besar (MB) Ahmad Samsuri Mokhtar and former Terengganu MB Ahmad Said for breaking the MCO by making social visits or having meals in a gathering.
Noor Azmi, who is Bersatu's Bagan Serai MP, had posted on his Facebook recently about visiting a tahfiz school to hand out goods and have a meal together.
In the pictures attached, he was shown handing out the goods and then a group of about 20 people were shown having a meal together, including Noor Azmi.
The posting has since been deleted, but screenshots of the posting are making the rounds on social media.
A quick check by Malaysiakini also could not produce any results for the account or page titled ‘YB Dato Dr Haji Noor Azmi’ which had made the posting.
Meanwhile, Ahmad Samsuri posted on his Twitter yesterday that he had visited Ahmad Said’s house to discuss current issues in Terengganu and Malaysia as well as have lunch together, with pictures included.
Netizens have since questioned why PN leaders are publicly flouting the MCO while asking the rakyat to stay home.
They also urged the police to take action against these leaders for breaking the MCO. - Mkini
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