Azalina takes a veiled dig at Ismail for retaining Idrus as AG
Umno Supreme Council member Azalina Othman Said spoke on the wide-ranging and unquestionable powers of an AG.
KUALA LUMPUR: Umno Supreme Council member Azalina Othman Said took a veiled dig at Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob over the retention of Idrus Harun as Attorney-General (AG).
In a speech in front of over 3,000 Umno members at a special briefing in the party’s headquarters, Azalina spoke on the wide-ranging and unquestionable powers of an AG.
“Whoever becomes prime minister will (usually) appoint one of their own to become the AG,” she said to thunderous applause from the floor.
Idrus was appointed as AG after Muhyiddin Yassin took office as the eighth prime minister.
Today’s gathering has seen several Umno leaders and lawyers speak on former prime minister Najib Razak’s jailing.
Najib was sent to Kajang prison on Tuesday after the Federal Court upheld his conviction and sentence of 12 years’ jail and RM210 million fine in the SRC International case.
Earlier, Umno secretary-general Ahmad Maslan called for justice for Najib to cheers from the crowd.
Others in attendance were Najib’s children Nizar and Nooryana Najwa, who also addressed the crowd to cries of “Hidup Bossku”.
KUALA LUMPUR: Umno Supreme Council member Azalina Othman Said took a veiled dig at Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob over the retention of Idrus Harun as Attorney-General (AG).
In a speech in front of over 3,000 Umno members at a special briefing in the party’s headquarters, Azalina spoke on the wide-ranging and unquestionable powers of an AG.
“Whoever becomes prime minister will (usually) appoint one of their own to become the AG,” she said to thunderous applause from the floor.
Idrus was appointed as AG after Muhyiddin Yassin took office as the eighth prime minister.
Today’s gathering has seen several Umno leaders and lawyers speak on former prime minister Najib Razak’s jailing.
Najib was sent to Kajang prison on Tuesday after the Federal Court upheld his conviction and sentence of 12 years’ jail and RM210 million fine in the SRC International case.
Earlier, Umno secretary-general Ahmad Maslan called for justice for Najib to cheers from the crowd.
Others in attendance were Najib’s children Nizar and Nooryana Najwa, who also addressed the crowd to cries of “Hidup Bossku”.
If I look at the record, Idrus as AG has done many favors for UMNO ...numerous DNAAs (discharge not amounting to acquittals) for UMNO figures ... collapsing the case through the Government declining to prosecute further.
ReplyDeleteIn the case of Bossku...it was a bridge too far.
The evidence against Bossku in the SRC case was cast solid.
Related cases had been prosecuted in USA all the way to imprisonment. The case had gone international.
Malaysia would have been the laughing stock of the world if Bossku had received a DNAA just to let him off the hook.