Statement Archive for November 2015

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2015-11-01 Support for the call by G25 Group of Eminent Malays for the separation of the powers of the Attorney-General as legal adviser to the government and that of Public Prosecutor to ensure that political influence is not brought to bear on prosecutorial decisions Lim Kit Siang
2015-11-01 Barisan Nasional MPs in the PAC who have been beneficiaries in the RM2.6 billion Najib “donation” scandal should declare their pecuniary interests and withdraw from participation in any PAC discussion, decision or investigation into the twin mega scandals on 1MDB and RM2.6 billion 'donation” Lim Kit Siang
2015-11-02 The infusion of the cream of Dayak community into DAP a major and historic development in DAP’s 50 year mission to be an inclusive all-Malaysian political party representing all ethnic groups and regions in Malaysia Lim Kit Siang
2015-11-03 After three-month derailment, PAC under new Chairman is dragging its feet on 1MDB investigations with no sense of urgency or priority - making total mockery of the concern of the Malay Rulers, 30 million Malaysians and the majority of three million UMNO members Lim Kit Siang
2015-11-03 Parliament has been reduced to a theatre of the absurd with the PAC Chairman wearing the dunce’s cap as the most absurd Parliamentarian with his absurd edict banning Tony Pua from speaking about 1MDB in public Lim Kit Siang
2015-11-04 If Arul Kanda cannot testify before the PAC investigations on 1MDB, will Najib appear before PAC to testify on 1MDB’s behalf as everybody knows that an investigation into 1MDB is in fact an investigation into Najib? Lim Kit Siang
2015-11-05 With protracted and inordinate delays in PAC investigations on 1MDB, would’nt Parliament’s credibility and integrity be undermined if there is no PAC report on 1MDB when Dewan Rakyat adjourns on Dec 3? Lim Kit Siang
2015-11-05 What I had predicted is coming to pass - flouting of parliamentary tradition and conventions to stack and answer all parliamentary questions about Najib’s RM2.6 billion “donation” on the last day Lim Kit Siang
2015-11-06 Call on Najib not to condone Azalina’s unparliamentary schedule but to be in Parliament on Nov. 16 to give full accountability on the 1MDB and RM2.6 billion “donation” twin mega scandals Lim Kit Siang
2015-11-06 Its not just me, suspended from Parliament for six months, but the 30 million Malaysians including the three million UMNO members, who are victims of RM2.6 billion “donation” scandal Lim Kit Siang
2015-11-07 New PAC Chairman Hasan Arifin is more concerned about shutting up Tony Pua on 1MDD than about completing PAC investigations and getting to the bottom of the RM2.6 billion “donation” and 1MDB twin mega scandals Lim Kit Siang
2015-11-07 Police and MCMC raid of Malaysiakini and Star Online must be condemned in strongest possible terms as part of a repressive plan to create culture of fear to stifle freedom of expression and dissent in country Lim Kit Siang
2015-11-07 If DAP and Pakatan Harapan are only interested in our own political interests, we will do everything possible to ensure that Najib will remain as Prime Minister and lead UMNO/BN into the 14th General Elections because he will be an easier target Lim Kit Siang
2015-11-08 Just as Deepavali celebrates eternal battle and victory of light over darkness, the darkness of the RM2.6 billion “donation” and RM50 billion 1MDB twin mega scandals must be exposed by the light of integrity, transparency and good governance Lim Kit Siang
2015-11-08 Five factors why Najib cannot shift responsibility for the country's woes to external causes – twin mega scandals and prolonged crisis of confidence in Najib premiership Lim Kit Siang
2015-11-09 Five things I will do on RM2.6 billion “donation” and RM50 billion 1MDB twin mega scandals if I am Chairman of Public Accounts Committee Lim Kit Siang
2015-11-10 Call for a new political consensus to tackle Malaysia’s multitude of economic, political, good governance and nation-building crisis and restore Malaysians’ self-confidence in our ability to compete with best in the world Lim Kit Siang
2015-11-10 Najib will have to resign as Prime Minister if the 47 Barisan Nasional Members of Parliament (22 from Sabah and 25 from Sarawak) vote down the 2016 Budget in Parliament on Monday on 16th November 2015 Lim Kit Siang
2015-11-11 Has the time come for Sabah or Sarawak to produce a Prime Minister? Lim Kit Siang
2015-11-11 DAP offers to champion and defend Najib if the Prime Minister can prove that he is a “scapegoat” of the RM2.6 billion and RM50 billion 1MDB twin mega scandals Lim Kit Siang
2015-11-11 Najib should not have halved Suhakam's budget from RM10 million but should have abolished the BTN and save over RM50 million Lim Kit Siang
2015-11-12 Call for a national roundtable conference of eminent citizens, community and religious elders, political and civil society leaders to brainstorm to search for an exit for the country's unprecedented quandary and to restore Malaysians' lost self-confidence to compete with the best in the world Lim Kit Siang
2015-11-12 Call on Malaysian public to help the police and AG by producing evidence of Ali Tinju's speech in Low Yat riots to lead to his prosecution under Sedition Act Lim Kit Siang
2015-11-12 Obama should be asked specific question when he visits Malaysia whether FBI and US Department of Justice are investigating Najib under the DOJ's Kleptocracy Assets Recovery Initiative 2010 in connection with the RM50 billion 1MDB scandal Lim Kit Siang
2015-11-13 Some of the unthinkable scenarios which Malaysians must think about and even face in the extraordinary political circumstances Malaysia is in today Lim Kit Siang
2015-11-13 Apandi Ali is tying up the government in knots over the MACC investigation into SRC Interntional Lim Kit Siang
2015-11-14 Call on Najib to declare his stand – whether he will resign as Prime Minister if his 2016 Budget is rejected by Parliament on Monday Lim Kit Siang
2015-11-14 Why has Husni disappeared from the radar after two months as Cabinet spokesman for 1MDB, destroying his credibility and integrity which he had painstakingly built up for over two decades? Lim Kit Siang
2015-11-15 Congrats to Parti Amanah Negara for having 35,000 members in two-and-a-half months when DAP in our first 15 years have not reached this figure of membership Lim Kit Siang
2015-11-15 Zahid should make a Ministerial statement in Parliament on Monday on his role in vouching for the integrity of Paul Phua, international gambling kingpin when in US custody last year Lim Kit Siang
2015-11-15 Parliament should speak in one voice tomorrow on behalf of 30 million Malaysians to condemn the senseless mass massacre by IS suicide bombers in Paris on Friday night Lim Kit Siang
2015-11-16 If Arul can so easily explain away the RM50 billion 1MDB scandal at the UMNO briefing on Saturday, are Cabinet Ministers so intellectually-challenged that none of them could explain it to Parliament for the past month? Lim Kit Siang
2015-11-17 Why did Malaysian Parliament miss the historic opportunity to be the first Parliament in the world to condemn the massacre and carnage in Paris by IS suicide bombers and to call on world Parliaments to speak with one voice against such atrocities? Lim Kit Siang
2015-11-17 Husni’s answer yesterday a “washout” and total disgrace, further proof that Najib government has more to hide than reveal and account about the RM2.6 billion “donation” and RM50 billion 1MDB twin mega-scandals Lim Kit Siang
2015-11-18 Bernard’s beheading open slap in Najib’s face as well as expression of utter contempt for the Asia-Pacific leaders gathering in Manila for APEC Summit Lim Kit Siang
2015-11-18 Ronald Kiandee wrong when he said Parliament only observed minute’s silence for deaths of heads of states or MPs but Parliament must move on to send clear message that Bernard’s killers must be found to pay for their crime Lim Kit Siang
2015-11-18 Attorney-General Apandi Ali should declare whether he accepts the High Court decision on the release of Khairuddin and Chang and would withdraw all prosecutions and halt police investigations based on SOSMA for activities unrelated to terrorism or terrorist activities Lim Kit Siang
2015-11-19 Honour requires Hasan to resign as PAC Chairman for his obnoxious “cari makan” remark or he should be referred to the Committee of Privileges to determine whether his “cari makan” remark had brought shame, disrepute and dishonour to PAC and Parliament Lim Kit Siang
2015-11-19 Johor will head the list of states Pakatan Harapan aims to win and form State Government in the 14GE on the way to Putrajaya Lim Kit Siang
2015-11-20 Education Minister Mahdzir Khalid should declare whether he had a hand in setting the immoral questions in the SPM Moral Education paper and if not, who are the officers responsible for such irresponsible conduct and whether they would be penalised Lim Kit Siang
2015-11-20 Malaysian Parliament should not make world Parliament history by producing the first PAC Chairman with a Press Conference-phobia when his KPI should be to uphold government financial accountability and integrity starting with the RM2.6 billion “donation” and RM50 billion 1MDB twin mega scandals Lim Kit Siang
2015-11-21 Justice, Truth and Reconciliation for the Tamils in Sri Lanka Lim Kit Siang
2015-11-21 Malaysian Parliament must take a stand on Monday whether it wants to have a “cari makan” Chairman of Public Accounts Committee, especially as it is poised to continue its “derailed” investigations into Najib’s RM2.6 billion “donation” and RM50 billion 1MDB twin mega scandals Lim Kit Siang
2015-11-22 Five ways for Members of Parliament to send a clear and unmistakable message to the world that they do not want to a “cari makan” PAC or a “cari makan” PAC Chairman and to redeem the esteem, integrity, honour and good name of Malaysian Parliament Lim Kit Siang
2015-11-22 One Lim Kit Siang can be suspended from Parliament for six months, but let tens and hundreds of thousands and even millions of Malaysians stand up and declare “I am also Lim Kit Siang” to ask the same question: “Najib, Mana RM2.6 billion?” Lim Kit Siang
2015-11-23 Apart from saying “yes” or “no” as to whether he is being investigated as a “kleptocrat” by FBI, there is still a third answer by Najib Lim Kit Siang
2015-11-23 Birth of AMANAH and formation of Pakatan Harapan re-ignited the lost hopes of Malaysians for political change in 14GE which had been dampened or destroyed in the past two years by a mutinous PAS in Pakatan Rakyat Lim Kit Siang
2015-11-24 MPs and Malaysians are entitled to know whether Najib is going to stand up in Parliament to give full and satisfactory accounting of his role in the twin mega scandals or he will continue “pass to buck” to his Ministers and minions? Lim Kit Siang
2015-11-24 Enough is enough, stop playing politics to make a mountain out of a molehill over Nurul’s unplanned meeting in the Philippines as if the country does not have weighty matters on hand Lim Kit Siang
2015-11-25 Has Hishammuddin’s warning that UMNO is suffering from denial syndrome and losing trust come too late? Lim Kit Siang
2015-11-25 Azalina’s motion against Nurul a gross abuse of parliamentary majority and will open the floodgates for majoritarian oppression of the minority in Parliament which should not have been allowed by the Speaker in the first place Lim Kit Siang
2015-11-26 Call for an international investigation into the murder of DPP Kevin Morais following the shock statutory declaration by his brother Charles who raised many disturbing questions Lim Kit Siang
2015-11-26 Is Pandikar's agreement with Azalina's privileges motion against Nurul Izzah the Speaker's quid pro quo for the earlier agreement of Minister in PM's Office to the Speaker's proposal to suspend me from Parliament for six months? Lim Kit Siang
2015-11-26 Let 2015 be another historic milestone in Baling, marking not only the formation of DAP and AMANAH in Baling, but the beginning of the Pakatan Harapan campaign to win Kedah state government in 14GE Lim Kit Siang
2015-11-27 Abdul Azeez should return to Baling to publicly apologise for his “balik tongsan” and other offensive remarks in Parliament or he should be voted out in 14GE as betraying the trust of the Baling electorate Lim Kit Siang
2015-11-27 As IGP and AG have rubbished Charles Morais’ statutory declaration, an independent international inquiry into killing of Kevin Morais provides a golden opportunity to clear Malaysian government’s good name and integrity which have been dragged into the mud by recent scandals Lim Kit Siang
2015-11-27 Three million UMNO members and 21,000 UMNO branches must place “Save the country” as top national agenda as the UMNO President and leadership have lost national purpose and bearings Lim Kit Siang