ACA - extraordinarily efficient against PR but terribly incompetent against BN

This morning, DAP MP for Kota Kinabalu Dr. Hiew King Cheu, accompanied by DAP’s sole Sabah State Assemblyman, Jimmy Wong Sze Phin (Sri Tanjong) and Sabah DAP leader Edward Mujie was at the Dang Wangi police station to lodge a police report to demand that the Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA) investigate the allegation which had appeared in the press and the Internet about a Hong Kong seizure of RM16 million cash meant for the Umno Permatang Pauh by-election campaign. DAP MP for Segambut Lim Lip Eng and I were also present to witness Hiew lodging the police report.

In the past few days, the Internet had been abuzz with the news and report that Michael Chia, a confidante of the Sabah Chief Minister, Datuk Seri Musa Aman had been arrested at the Hong Kong International Airport on August 14 for alleged money trafficking and laundering with Singapore currency worth RM16 million before boarding a flight bound for Kuala Lumpur.

Although Musa has denied that he had any political or financial connection with Michael Chia, why is the ACA so silent on this issue.

The ACA had been extraordinarily efficient in arresting two Perak Exco members from Pakatan Rakyat and four others in connection with a RM180 million housing project in Seri Iskandar which the Perak Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin has said did not exist.

As far as the DAP and Pakatan Rakyat are concerned, the corrupt whether from Barisan Nasional or Pakatan Rakyat, must face the full weight of the law.

However, the ACA should not become an instrument of the Barisan Nasional to persecute and victimize Pakatan Rakyat leaders – and this is the question uppermost in the minds of Malaysians if the ACA can be extraordinarily efficient against the Pakatan Rakyat but terribly incompetent when the Barisan Nasional is concerned.

For instance, how can the ACA be so terribly incompetent as to stand idly by for more than a week at the swathes of grave allegations and imputation of corrupt practices, abuses of power and money politics swirling in the press and Internet concerning the RM16 million Hong Kong seizure which is allegedly linked to the Sabah Chief Minister and the Permatang Pauh by-election?

What didn’t ACA act on the tip-off in the press and Internet instead of waiting for a police report?

Lim Kit Siang
22/08/08