BN reps lodge 31 police reports
(The Star) IPOH: Perak Barisan Nasional assemblymen and three independents have lodged 31 police reports over the ruckus during the May 7 state assembly sitting.
Senior state executive councillor Datuk Hamidah Osman said the reports named V. Sivakumar of Pakatan Rakyat for defying two court orders involving 10 assemblymen.
She pointed out that despite the two declarations favouring the assemblymen, Sivakumar had refused to allow them to remain in the hall.
“He has committed contempt of court. That’s how the ruckus happened,” she told reporters at the Sungai Senam police station here yesterday.
Last month, the Federal Court ruled that Sivakumar did not have the power to suspend Perak Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Dr Zambry Abd Kadir and his six excos from attending assembly sittings.
The court also declared that the three independent state assemblymen, whom Sivakumar considered to have resigned, still remain as assemblymen.
Hamidah lodged a police report against the PKR for slandering and associating her with criminals.
She described as outrageous the accusation by Ipoh Barat PKR division chief Fauzi Muda that she had interfered in a police investigation and had sought to release two suspects involved in the assault on two brothers last Friday.
“They are trying to ruin my reputation by implying that I am ‘the mother of gangsters. This is slander and politically motivated,” she told reporters at the Sungai Senam police station here yesterday.
Fauzi, who had lodged a report against Hamidah at the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission on Wednesday, told reporters that Mohamad Nor Fadhzil Sahul Hamid, 24, and Mohd Faizal, 18, accompanied by their father, had met Hamidah at the Ipoh police station after the investigating officer of the case summoned them.
He claimed that the investigating officer told the duo and the father that police bail was granted to the suspects on Hamidah’s intervention.
Fauzi said the brothers were assaulted by some 40 people at a restaurant in Pekan Razaki, Gunung Rapat here on May 7.
Hamidah said she was at the police station to calm the wife of one of the two suspects who had called her earlier.
She stressed that she was not involved in bailing out the suspects, adding that she knew them only as voters.
Meanwhile, Perak PAS Muslimat (women’s wing) has called for the state assembly to be dissolved so that the people could choose who should govern them.
Its chief Bariah Alang Sapri said the game of musical chairs involving the “two mentri besars” was only giving the people a headache, adding that turning to the courts only caused the matter to drag on.
