Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Nazri Aziz said that Bukit Gelugor MP Karpal Singh can represent the Attorney-General (A-G) and prosecute controversial lawyer V.K. Lingam.
Nazri stressed that the government has no reason to defend Lingam and that veteran lawmaker can charge him.
“If Karpal is willing to represent the A-G, I will persuade the AG to engage Karpal to prosecute on the behalf of the government,” he told reporters at the parliament lobby here. “Let him charge ... the government has no reason to defend Lingam.”
Nazri should propose the government to do another thing - sack all those legal officers in the AG office if none is found capable or willing to prosecute Lingam despite the royal commission found strong evidence against him.
Nazri should help to save tax payers' money or stop monkeying around with this scandal. No wonder Malaysia is seen as more corrupt than ever.
According to the report, "Malaysia now ranks 56 out of 180 countries in the world with a corruption index score of 4.5 out of 10, with 10 being the least corrupt, said the world corruption watchdog. Last year, it placed 47 with a CPI score of 5.1."
The annual TI CPI measures how corrupt a country is in the public sector based on data sourced from 13 different polls and surveys from 10 independent institutions over a period of two years.
The government must not drag its feet on huge financial scandals such as the PKFZ, the Ipoh double tracking project, the Auditor General's report on financial abuses and others. A lack of action will render its own KPIs useless and irrelevant.
Both KPI ministers, Koh Tsu Koon and Idris Jala, must take this report seriously. It is time for the government to be held accountable for tolerating these abuses and corruption.