Bestfbkl: BESTFBKL feels it is not appropriate to withdraw the police escort for for former PM Tun Mahathir. He has been Prime Minister for most of us for more than two decades. Whatever it is many of us still respect him. Just because of political differences, his security detail should not be withdrawn. Doing this shows how our political scene has not matured. In the US whether the President is a Republican or Democrat he is always referred to respectfully as Mr. President and the Secret Service provides the security for him albeit in smaller numbers as long as he is alive. Lets show some maturity here. If anything happens to Tun Mahathir the government will be surely blamed. PM Dato Seri Najib does not need another controversy.
Appropriate to withdraw Dr Mahathir’s police escort, says Nazri
KUCHING: The move to withdraw the police escort for former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad is appropriate, says Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz (pic).
Tourism and Culture Minister added that the security privilege should have been terminated long ago.
“I think it is out of place to provide him with escorts when he is moving around only to condemn the Government that gave him the privilege.
“The decision ought to have been made long ago. But we hope he realises that what he has been doing was not in the best interest of the country,” he said.
Nazri said that should Dr Mahathir continue doing so and in the course of it, offend certain quarters thus putting himself at risk, then the Government would not want to be responsible for it.
“From the aspect of logistics, why give this privilege to people who are against us. If he wants to get us in a fighting match, we’re game. I am prepared to have a match with him anytime,” he told the media when met at a community programme at Sekolah Kebangsaan Buntal, here on Sunday.
A local news portal recently reported that police would no longer provide Dr Mahathir with a police escort effective April 28.
Touching on other matters, Nazri denied claims by the opposition that federal ministers coming to Sarawak were promising all kinds of allocations to fish for votes for Barisan in the state election on May 7.
“There is no rule in our Elections Act which forbids the Government from continuing to do what should be done by the Government,” he said.
Furthermore, he said he and the other Cabinet ministers were only carrying out their duties as Federal ministers.
Nazri also took to task Kota Raja Umno vice-head Hamidi Abu Bakar for saying
that Nazri’s plan to table a motion calling for the sacking of former party deputy president Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin and former Kedah menteri besar Datuk Seri Mukhriz Tun Dr Mahathir at the party’s next supreme council meeting would be catastrophic for Umno.
“(Former prime minister and former Umno president) Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad as a medical doctor used to advise us that if there is any part of the body with cancer, you just cut it,” he said. – Bernama
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