ACA urged to investigate Sarawak CMs alleged abuses
Ajinder KaurPublished: Feb 7, 2001 12:49 AM | Updated: Jan 29, 2008 10:21 AM
The Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA) should set up a special team to investigate the allegations of corruption and abuses of power committed by Sarawak Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud in his 19-year tenure which was highlighted in an Internet website, an opposition leader urged today.
The Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA) should set up a special team to investigate the allegations of corruption and abuses of power committed by Sarawak Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud in his 19-year tenure which was highlighted in an Internet website, an opposition leader urged today.
DAP chairman Lim Kit Siang said that the ACA's inaction in investigating the allegations was "most shocking".
"ACA director-general Ahmad Zaki Hussin should explain whether this inaction was with his knowledge and consent, and if so, why.
"If not, he should immediately set up a special high-level team to complete investigations within a month and make public the findings," Lim said.
Malaysiakini reported yesterday that the ACA would not probe into the various allegations which appeared in the [#1]Sayot Taib[/#] website recently set up by a group calling themselves "Sarawak lovers". ([#2]ACA not probing website's allegations against Sarawak CM's abuses[/#], Feb 6)
Lim stated that if it was true that the agency has very bad Internet connections and has difficulty accessing the website, as alleged by an official, then it "makes nonsense of the invitation by the ACA to Malaysians to report corruption to ACA through the Internet".
Lies and rumours
The Sayot Taib website listed several development projects which Taib and his family were alleged to be involved in.
The site also attached various scanned documents, including what it claimed were letters from government departments, linking Taib and his family to the projects.
In an interview with national news agency Bernama on Jan 14, Taib condemned the reported accusations of nepotism, describing them as lies and rumours. "I have never helped my children ... I have been the fairest chief minister around," he said.
He was also reported by Bernama on Jan 30 as saying that "the people in Sarawak are not influenced by the smear campaign against the state government and its leaders on the Internet allegedly carried out by opposition parties".
He said that people were beginning to see that a lot of things they read on the Internet were not true.
Even the scanned documents on the website, described as confidential government papers, were false, he said.
DAP chairman Lim Kit Siang said that the ACA's inaction in investigating the allegations was "most shocking".
"ACA director-general Ahmad Zaki Hussin should explain whether this inaction was with his knowledge and consent, and if so, why.
"If not, he should immediately set up a special high-level team to complete investigations within a month and make public the findings," Lim said.
Malaysiakini reported yesterday that the ACA would not probe into the various allegations which appeared in the [#1]Sayot Taib[/#] website recently set up by a group calling themselves "Sarawak lovers". ([#2]ACA not probing website's allegations against Sarawak CM's abuses[/#], Feb 6)
Lim stated that if it was true that the agency has very bad Internet connections and has difficulty accessing the website, as alleged by an official, then it "makes nonsense of the invitation by the ACA to Malaysians to report corruption to ACA through the Internet".
Lies and rumours
The Sayot Taib website listed several development projects which Taib and his family were alleged to be involved in.
The site also attached various scanned documents, including what it claimed were letters from government departments, linking Taib and his family to the projects.
In an interview with national news agency Bernama on Jan 14, Taib condemned the reported accusations of nepotism, describing them as lies and rumours. "I have never helped my children ... I have been the fairest chief minister around," he said.
He was also reported by Bernama on Jan 30 as saying that "the people in Sarawak are not influenced by the smear campaign against the state government and its leaders on the Internet allegedly carried out by opposition parties".
He said that people were beginning to see that a lot of things they read on the Internet were not true.
Even the scanned documents on the website, described as confidential government papers, were false, he said.
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