Shukri Ramli sebelum ini dilapor terima rawatan di Kuala Lumpur akibat sakit dada.
MB Perlis Shukri Ramli maklum beliau telah dibenarkan keluar hospital petang tadi. (Gambar Facebook Shukri Ramli)
PETALING JAYA: Menteri Besar Perlis Shukri Ramli telah dibenarkan keluar hospital petang tadi, setelah dilaporkan menerima rawatan susulan sakit dada sebelum ini.
Perkara itu dimaklumkan beliau menerusi hantaran ringkas di Facebook.
“Alhamdulillah. Saya selamat ‘discharge’ petang tadi. Terima kasih kepada semua yang mendoakan kesihatan saya. Mudahan kita dikurniakan kerahmatan oleh Allah,” katanya.
Shukri sebelum ini dilaporkan menerima rawatan di Kuala Lumpur selepas mengalami sakit dada ketika pulang dari lawatan ke luar negara.
Dalam tempoh beliau berada di hospital, dikatakan timbul pergolakan di Perlis susulan tindakan lapan Adun menyerahkan akuan berkanun (SD) kepada Raja Perlis Jumaat lepas, menyatakan mereka tidak lagi menyokong Shukri.
Keadaan ini dikatakan menggugat majoriti mudah Shukri di DUN yang dikuasai PN untuk terus menjadi menteri besar.
Pengerusi Perikatan Nasional (PN) Perlis Shahidan Kassim hari ini menegaskan, tindakan terbabit hanya berkaitan individu, memandangkan tiada sebarang persetujuan rasmi berhubung perkara itu pada peringkat kepimpinan pusat. - FMT
Kulim Bandar Baharu PKR division chief Yeo Keng Chuan had faced calls to hold an EGM to discuss a no-confidence motion over 'several' governance issues.
PKR secretary-general Fuziah Salleh said the issue has been resolved ‘administratively’ following talks with the stakeholders involved. (Bernama pic)
PETALING JAYA: The turmoil in a Kedah PKR division sparked by a crisis of confidence in its head has been resolved following talks with the division’s leaders, says party secretary-general Fuziah Salleh.
“The matter has been discussed with the various stakeholders and resolved administratively,” she told FMT briefly.
This comes after 24 members of the Kulim Bandar Baharu PKR division leadership penned a letter to voice a loss of confidence in division chief Yeo Keng Chuan due to “several” governance issues.
In the letter to Yeo dated Dec 21, the leaders demanded that he call for an extraordinary general meeting within 14 days to discuss a no-confidence motion against him.
Yeo, a former Kulim assemblyman, confirmed there were rifts within the division but said he would let the central PKR leadership to address the matter, Malaysiakini had reported.
PKR did not field Yeo to defend the Kulim state seat in the 2023 state election.
Instead, the party, which had held the seat since 2008, fielded Teh Lean Ong who lost to Gerakan’s Wong Chia Zhen.
During the PKR divisional polls, Yeo was elected head of the Kulim Bandar Baharu PKR division after he obtained 1,000 votes compared to Teh’s 718. - FMT
Opposition leader Datuk Seri Hamzah Zainudin said the coalition was concerned about court proceedings involving constitutional issues related to the powers of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, the Malay Rulers and the royal prerogative of pardon. BERNAMA FILE PIC
KUALA LUMPUR: Perikatan Nasional (PN) has appointed a lawyer to hold a watching brief in former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak's appeal to serve the remainder of his sentence under house arrest.
Opposition leader Datuk Seri Hamzah Zainudin said the coalition was concerned about court proceedings involving constitutional issues related to the powers of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, the Malay Rulers and the royal prerogative of pardon.
"Perikatan Nasional is of the view that matters of pardon are among the highest prerogative powers of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong and the Malay Rulers, and these must be respected.
"The coalition does not want the Yang di-Pertuan Agong and the Malay Rulers to be seen merely as a 'rubber stamp'.
"On the contrary, Their Majesties' powers are clearly articulated in the Reid Commission Report to preserve the authority and prestige of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong and the Malay Rulers, as reflected in the Federal Court's interpretation in the pardon case involving Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim," he said.
Hamzah added that the power of pardon had been ruled non-justiciable, placing it beyond the scope of judicial review.
"The Chief Justice, in that case, ruled that the power of pardon is an absolute prerogative of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong and is non-justiciable, thereby placing it beyond the jurisdiction of the courts," he said.
He also attributed the controversy surrounding the alleged addendum order to the government's failure to properly manage and address its existence.
"PN urges the government to review provisions in the Federal Constitution relating to the prerogative power of pardon to ensure that the absolute powers of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong and the Malay Rulers, as well as the basic structure of the Constitution, remain intact, clear and protected," he said in a statement today.
However, the Attorney-General's Chambers (A-GC) today dismissed claims that the Kuala Lumpur High Court's dismissal of Najib's judicial review application over an alleged house arrest addendum had curtailed the powers of the King, the Malay Rulers or state governors in matters of pardon.
In a statement, the A-GC said the High Court, in dismissing Najib's application, reaffirmed that the power of pardon is the prerogative of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong as guaranteed under Article 42(1) of the Federal Constitution, consistent with established precedents of the superior courts.
It added that Article 42 also requires the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, the Malay Rulers and the governors to act in consultation with the Pardons Board when deciding on pardon applications.
Yesterday, the Kuala Lumpur High Court dismissed Najib's bid to enforce an alleged royal addendum that would have allowed him to serve the remainder of his sentence under house arrest.
Najib has been incarcerated since Aug 23, 2022, after being convicted of misappropriating RM42 million from SRC International Sdn Bhd. - NST
An aide to a Penang exco member says two traffic cops threatened to arrest her when she was stopped at a roadblock.
The George Town magistrates’ court heard that one of the accused told Mandy Leow, an aide to a Penang executive councillor that he could help her halve the RM10,000 fine for drink driving.
GEORGE TOWN: The trial of two traffic policemen charged with extorting a woman was told that the cops had stopped the 31-year-old at a roadblock before driving her to an ATM and asking her to withdraw RM1,000.
Mandy Leow, an aide to a Penang executive councillor, told the magistrates’ court here that she was stopped at a roadblock along Jalan Anson near the Penang Buddhist Association around 2.25am on March 14.
Leow said she was asked to get out of her car and take a breathalyser test, but she was not shown the printed result. Instead, one of the accused rolled it up and placed it in his pocket, she said.
She said the officer then told her the penalty for drink driving was a RM10,000 fine and jail, before telling her to sit in her car to “think it over”.
According to Leow, another traffic policeman came over saying he could “help” halve the fine amount, to which she replied she only had RM1,000 in savings.
She was then told to sit in the passenger seat of her car while a man in plain clothes drove her to a convenience store along Magazine Road which had an ATM.
“I thought I was being taken to the police station,” she said, adding that she was instructed to withdraw RM1,000 from the ATM.
Leow said she was then driven back to the roadblock, where she handed over the cash. Her phone was also checked to ensure she did not make any video or audio recordings, before she was allowed to leave around 4.15am.
Leow was testifying in the trial of traffic policemen Shahrizal Ali, 46, and Fadzli Jamaludin, 34, who were charged with extortion under Section 384 of the Penal Code.
During cross-examination by defence counsel RSN Rayer, Leow admitted to consuming beer earlier that night but maintained that she was not drunk.
She denied repeatedly stating that she was an aide to Penang executive councillor Lim Siew Khim in the hope of exerting political influence, saying she merely stated her occupation in her police and integrity and standards compliance department reports.
She also denied that a visit to the Penang police chief with Lim was an attempt to exert influence over her case, saying the courtesy call was largely related to her boss’s matters.
Leow added that she only brought up the lack of response to an earlier report she had lodged with the police’s integrity and standards compliance department (JIPS).
She said she filed the JIPS report shortly after the incident on March 14 but had been told there was “no progress”.
Leow only filed a police report on April 23 as she said she felt unsafe prior to that.
She told the court that she had received multiple calls from “different police stations” suggesting that she could get the RM1,000 back if she dropped the matter, prompting her to finally lodge the police report.
The trial before magistrate Nadratun Naim Saidi continues on March 9.
Deputy public prosecutors Ahmad Danial Amir Saad and Lau Shavin prosecuted. Lawyers S Arvind and S Saachithanathan also appeared for the accused. - FMT
Perlis PN chief says statutory declarations signed by eight assemblymen were done independently and not due to orders from central leaders.
Perlis PN chief Shahidan Kassim played down the apparent loss of confidence in the menteri besar to mere differences of opinion rather than a major crisis. (Bernama pic)
PETALING JAYA: Perlis Perikatan Nasional chairman Shahidan Kassim has denied claims there was an orchestrated move to unseat Shukri Ramli as Perlis menteri besar, particularly involving eight PN assemblymen.
Shahidan said the statutory declarations signed by the eight were done independently and were not the result of any directive by central leaders.
“What is happening now is more towards speculation. We will attend a (PN) central leadership meeting soon and decide on the next course of action,” he said, according to Utusan Malaysia.
The Arau MP added that decisions on matters like the menteri besar’s post should be determined by the coalition’s central leadership before being presented to the Raja of Perlis.
Shahidan also played down the apparent loss of confidence in Shukri to mere differences of opinion rather than a major crisis. The priority now was to find a solution to the issue, he added.
“We won the state (in 2022) because the people saw us as united. I do not want this issue to be used by any party to weaken PN.
“I therefore urge all parties to remain calm, refrain from making excessive statements, and give the central leadership room to reach a final decision,” he said.
Yesterday, FMT quoted sources as saying that eight PN assemblymen had submitted statutory declarations to the Raja of Perlis declaring that they no longer supported Shukri.
According to the sources, five of them are from Bersatu – Abu Bakar Hamzah (Kuala Perlis), Izizam Ibrahim (Titi Tinggi), Megat Hashirat Hassan (Pauh), Wan Zikri Afthar Ishak (Tambun Tulang) and Marzita Mansor (Sena).
The other three are from PAS – Saad Seman (Chuping), Fakhrul Anwar Ismail (Bintong) and Ridzuan Hashim (Guar Sanji).
The 15-member Perlis assembly comprises nine PAS assemblymen, including Shukri, five from Bersatu and one from PKR.
Shukri was reportedly receiving treatment in a hospital in Kuala Lumpur after experiencing chest pains upon returning from an overseas visit.
The investigation is being conducted under Section 323 of the Penal Code for voluntarily causing hurt.
Daniel (centre) holding a picture of his injuries, flanked by lawyers Latheefa Koya, Rajesh Nagarajan and Mahajoth Singh during a press conference in Petaling Jaya yesterday.
PETALING JAYA: Police are investigating claims that police officers beat a man at a house in Kampung Sungai Ingat, Banting, Selangor, last month.
Kuala Langat deputy police chief Sufian Amin said the authorities received a report from the victim’s mother on Nov 18, reported Bernama.
He said the 39-year-old woman said her son was slapped several times, with her husband also stating that he witnessed the incident.
Sufian said the investigation is being conducted under Section 323 of the Penal Code for voluntarily causing hurt.
Lawyers representing the 20-year-old man yesterday urged Bukit Aman’s integrity and standards compliance department to initiate immediate disciplinary proceedings and criminal charges against the officers involved.
The man, who asked to be known as Daniel, was arrested on Nov 15 at his grandfather’s home in Banting. Officers allegedly entered the home on the pretext of seeking help to fix their motorcycle.
He said that upon entering, the three men identified themselves as police officers and assaulted him until he confessed to a robbery. - FMT
