Enforce Official Secrets Act against Raja Petra, says newsmen

(The Malay Mail) – The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) Malaysia said it was “totally unacceptable” the Attorney-General Chambers and the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) had not acted against controversial blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin for publishing documents classified under the Official Secrets Act (OSA) on the Internet.

NUJ president Hata Wahari said the Attorney General should ask for the repeal of the OSA if it was unable to enforce the law to ensure justice.

He said this in a statement emailed to The Malay Mail when asked for comments on the flagrant violations of the OSA by publication of classified documents mostly of the MACC on the blogger’s portal, Malaysia Today.

Both the AG and the MACC maintained silence on the veracity of the purported documents.

“NUJ Malaysia see the failure of the Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC) and MACC’s to act against Raja Petra as unacceptable.”

“Due to failure of the AGC and MACC, the NUJ Is demanding no action against any Malaysian media for publishing these documents”.

Since Monday, Raja Petra better known as ‘RPK’ started publishing, among others, he claimed were official MACC documents and marked ‘Rahsia’ (classified).

The latest document is the alleged investigation papers into graft allegations against former Selangor Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Dr Mohd Khir Toyo.

Raja Petra, who now lives in London, claims to have in his possession “hundreds of official MACC documents, including investigation papers marked classified”.

He said he would publish them in his blog to “punish” MACC for its failure to investigate ex-Malaysia Airlines chairman Tan Sri Tajuddin Ramli for his alleged role resulting in massive losses for the airlines.

The documents, he claimed, were handed to him by his informants.

MACC chief commissioner Datuk Seri Abu Kassim Mohamed and its director of investigations Mustafar Ali were unavailable for comments at Press time.