MB & EXCO SUSPENSION: A JOKE & A COMEDY

“I have decided that Dr Zambry is, with immediate effect, suspended and barred from attending State Assembly sessions for 18 months while the six exco members are barred for 12 months,” said Perak State Speaker.

Perak State Speaker

V.Sivakumar

State Legislative Assembly Speaker V. Sivakumar, who headed the Committee of Special Privileges which summoned Perak MB and six Exco to answer to a complaint, made the order on grounds that they had failed to give any explanation on their actions of contempt for the House.

However,the suspension has been described as a joke and a mockery of the system.

Perak Mentri Besar Datuk Dr Zambry Abd Kadir said he and his exco members would take appropriate steps following the suspension order by V. Sivakumar.

He said the Committee of Special Privileges which suspended him was not allowed to make such decisions without referring the matter to the state assembly.

“The committee’s decision is in total disregard of the Sultan’s power in appointing the Mentri Besar and excos,” he said, adding that the committee’s actions were deemed sub judice as there was a court case pending at the Kuala Lumpur High Court on his appointment.

Dr Zambry also ticked off Sivakumar for lying that he (Dr Zambry) and his exco members failed to give satisfactory explanations to the committee during the inquiry yesterday afternoon.

State Industry, Investments, Entrepreneur Development, ICT, Tourism and Women Affairs Committee chairman Hamidah Osman laughed when she heard of her suspension through a text message. She found it humorous.She agreed that Sivakumar had no right to act outside the House and had disgraced it.

Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Nazri Abd Aziz described the move as a joke and a comedy.The Padang Rengas MP said Sivakumar had taken it upon himself to become a judge when he had no jurisdiction to do so at all. - The Star Online