No hudud sitting before March in Kelantan
The heavy floods, the worst in decades, upended a scheduled December 29 sitting on the matter.
(Free Malaysia Today) – The Kelantan Government seems more concerned about its hudud than saying how it intends to tackle the floods which have devastated the state.
The floods that hit Kelantan were a “one in 1,000 years event”, according to the National Security Council (NSC).
Kelantan Menteri Besar Ahmad Yaakob, in a statement which blamed the floods, told the Malay Mail Online that his administration was unlikely to hold a special state assembly sitting on hudud laws before Parliament sits in March. The heavy floods, the worst in decades, upended a scheduled December 29 sitting on the matter, he lamented.
Ahmad said the PAS state government has not set a new date for the sitting, which was meant to amend the Kelantan Shariah Criminal Code Enactment II.
“We are still trying to restore everything since the floods. Once everything is back to normal, then only we will do it,” said Ahmad.
The special assembly will reportedly allow PAS to initiate its plan to table in Parliament a private member’s bill to amend the Federal Constitution, which would subsequently allow Kelantan to enforce hudud, a strict penal code that includes punishments like amputation and death by stoning.
PAS information chief Mahfuz Omar, however, has denied this by saying the changes were merely updates as the enactment was passed over 20 years ago.
