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Rela Members Allegedly Offered Bribe By 'Datuk Seri' Should Report To MACC - DPM
Last update: 31/10/2017
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 31 (Bernama) -- The three Rela (People's Volunteer Corps) members claimed to have been offered a bribe by a 'Datuk Seri' to close the case after he had assaulted them, should report the matter to the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC).
Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said this was to enable the MACC and police to investigate the claim that the three were offered RM10,000 each to close the assault case.
"I have been informed of the matter by the Rela director-general. The Home Ministry very much support that thorough investigation be carried out by PDRM (police) and the MACC to give a lesson to others that a person honoured with a title at rather young age should know his social status.
"If they (title recipients) want to be respected, they need to respect other people before compelling others to respect them."
Ahmad Zahid, who is also Home Minister, said this at a press conference after opening the Standard Bahasa Melayu Framework Congress 2017 at the Teacher Education Institute's Malay Language campus in Lembah Pantai, here, today.
In the incident last Friday, three Rela members, Melvin Cheong Mun Khai,19, Leong Jiun Jie, 21, and Lee Weng Poh, 27, were injured, claiming they were beaten up and kicked by a man with the title of 'Datuk Seri'.
Ahmad Zahid stressed that any individual who received an honorific title should not treat it as a licence to rough up others.
On another development, he said the government had no intention to disallow Zimbabwean Islamic preacher Ismail Menk and Malaysian religious speaker Ustaz Haslin Baharim, known as Ustaz Bollywood, from continuing to give talks in this country although the two had been banned from entering Singapore by its Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA).
So far, these two religious speakers have not suggested anything that goes against our understanding of cultural and religious diversity to the point of causing social, racial and religious tensions in Malaysia.
Thus far, Malaysia is satisfied with what they are doing and does not intend to take similar action (as Singapore's) as they are not wrong in our eyes, he said.
According to the MHA, the decision was made following discussions with the Singapore Islamic Religious Council (MUIS), Singapore Tourism Board and the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore.
According to the ministry, Ismail Menk's religious speeches were separative and divisive, while Haslin's expressed views encouraged disharmony between Muslims and non-Muslims in the island republic.
-- BERNAMA
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