Rahman Dahlan’s blunder
Whether or not there is a legitimate charge sheet, it’s still wrong to ‘take people out’.
Scott Ng, FMT
Despite Abdul Rahman Dahlan’s denial that he admitted to the authenticity of a charge sheet against Prime Minister Najib Razak, some members of the opposition and plenty of social media enthusiasts continue to insist that he did.
So did he or didn’t he? After trawling through Rahman’s interview with The Star – which, by the way, has to be a masterclass in unwillingness to grasp reality and to actually answer questions – one cannot find one statement that can be said to be an admission that the charge sheet was legitimate.
He said, “I don’t know. I just look at Apandi (Ali)’s statement. He said the charge sheet was not in the system. So that is suggesting that it was done outside the system.”
Thus, the legitimacy of the sheet is still debatable, though our questions will never be answered until, perhaps, the sacked former AG says something.
Weirdly enough though, Rahman spoke of a plot to “criminalise the Prime Minister” and seemed to think that Najib’s questionable actions to “take these people out first” were acceptable.
First off, Mr BN Strategist, if the AG suspects that the PM is guilty of a crime and wants to bring a charge against him, that is his duty as the country’s highest ranked legal officer. If the PM is innocent, he can prove it in court. Secondly, this practice of “taking people out” has to be morally and legally questionable. The wording alone suggests that it is abuse of power to maintain that power, and that is one way to shoot yourself in the foot.
The message you send implies that our public institutions are not allowed to keep the Prime Minister of our country accountable, and that is a scary, slippery slope to take. The laws of a country must apply to each individual in equal measure. No one is above it, not even the Prime Minister, and our public institutions must enforce that law or risk becoming nothing more than the apparatus of a dictatorship.
