Anti-ISA sign vanishes

(The Star) – Just five days after it was put up, the Penang government’s “Tak Nak ISA” signboard opposing the Internal Security Act has been removed by vandals.

All that was left were the metal frame and some rope.

The signboard was put up at a public car park operated by the Penang Municipal Council just opposite the state legislative assembly building in Light Street here on Saturday.

Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng’s political secretary Ng Wei Aik said the state was alerted early yesterday morning; that the 2.4m by 4.8m signboard had gone missing sometime in the middle of the night.

Speaking to reporters at the site, Ng said he believed there was a political motive behind the act.

He later proceeded to the central police station to lodge a report. Ng said he believed there was a political motive behind the act.

He added the state hoped to have it replaced as soon as possible.

Any witnesses to the vandalism, he said, should contact him at 019-2459305.

It was earlier reported that the cost of printing and installing the signboard, complete with spotlight, was less than RM2,000.

However, the spotlight had yet to be installed due to a technical glitch.

The signboard was the first, and only one to date, that the state was putting up in a move to oppose the ISA, following suggestions by a group of bloggers.