thank you, raymond tan…

for confirming to us what we suspected all along – that the ACA is not independent, that the PM control the ACA.

malaysia boleh!

from malaysiakini:

An English-language daily in Sabah quoted Tan as saying that Abdullah Ahmad Badawi had wanted Yong arrested by the Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA). This was after Yong spearheaded a no-confidence vote against Abdullah’s leadership.

raymond tan (picture above, taken from malaysiakini) is former deputy president of the sabah party, SAPP. he seemed so proud to reveal to everyone this fact after he made up his mind not to leave BN when his party left BN.

continue from malaysiakini:

In an immediate response, Sapp newly-appointed information chief Chong Pit Fah described this as a “a shocking revelation […] that he can influence the prime minister to stop ACA action”.

“This is an admission by a BN deputy chief minister that the prime minister can interfere with ACA work,” Chong said in a statement issued yesterday.

He also wanted to know if the same influence could be used on other persons such as serving ministers, or similarly abused.

nicely put, chong. hey malaysia boleh…. i’m sure this same influence had happened already.