Eskay dares Anwar to a lie-detector challenge

By Sira Habibu, The Star

Kuala lumpur: Businessman Datuk Shazryl Eskay Abdullah is prepared to take a polygraph test to proof he was not lying about Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim being the man in the controversial sex video.

He said he would take the test, if Anwar also agreed to do so.

“I want the procedure to be shown live on TV. I want the world to see who is lying and who is not,” added Eskay, who had sworn in a mosque at Bandar Baru Sentul here last Friday that the man in the video was Anwar.

Eskay had also invited Anwar to take the sumpah laknat with him but the PKR adviser did not turn up at the Amru Al-As mosque.

Following the swearing on the Quran, PAS central committee member Datuk Husam Musa reportedly urged Eskay and two others who had exposed the sex video to take a polygraph test.

The duo are former Malacca chief minister Tan Sri Rahim Tamby Chik and former Perkasa treasurer Datuk Shuaib Lazim.

The trio, collectively known as Datuk T, screened the video to a selected audience on March 21.

Anwar has lodged a police report claiming he was not the man in the video.

Thanking Husam, Eskay said it showed that PAS leaders were willing to accept scientific evidence.

“They must also accept DNA evidence and scientific methods used to identify the man in the video,” he said.

Meanwhile, Human Rights Party leader P. Uthayakumar said he had received a compact disc (CD) containing the sex video in the mail from a Thai address and was convinced the man in the video is not Anwar.

Uthayakumar, who was the leader of the now banned Hindraf movement, said the CD was sent to his home on April 29.

He added that he would send the CD to the Prime Minister’s office “to call for an end to gutter politics.”