The postponement of Automated Enforcement System (AES) summons cases by the Attorney-General's Chambers and refusal of the cabinet to put the traffic offense enforcement system on hold will create a glut of unresolved cases in the courts.

"It will burden the courts, as old cases are put on hold and more summons still being issued," warned PAS vice-president Mahfuz Omar

NONESpeaking at a press conference in the party's Kuala Lumpur headquarters, the PAS veep believe that the government should scrap the AES summons and cancel the old oustanding ones since the AGC cited cases were affected by legal technicalities.

He was responding to yesterday's report by news portal Malaysian Insider, quoting Transport Minister Kong Cho Ha(above), as saying that the cabinet has decided to continue with AES operations and the issuance of summonses by the controversial traffic enforcement system.

This is despite the AGC's announcement that all cases involving AES summonses will be postponed pending the resolution of the legal problems.

The ministry ,however, refuted the report, saying that the portal had misquoted Kong.

NONEWhatever the case Mahfuz blamed the government for the conflicting AES reports  and what he claimed as inconsistencies on how the postponement is being handled.

He detailed conflicting instructions given to recipients of AES summons with some simply told to go home after JPJ officials collected their summonses when they went to court, while others were to told to await a new court date.

“This is confusing. It is clear that this is pre-election politics to calm the anger of the rakyat (over the system).”

The cabinet’s decision, Mahfuz claimed, is not only a burden to the courts but will also burden the rakyat.