2 July 2009 - Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim suffered a setback when the Court of Appeal dismissed his appeal for the latest sodomy trial to be heard at the Sessions Court instead of the High Court.
However, what was important in today's decision was the court deeming the Prime Minister incompetent in giving assurances to the public that Attorney-General (AG) would not be involved in the case or any other cases.
Justice Abdull Hamid Embong, who led the three-member bench said the AG was the rightful person to sign the certificate and no one else under section 418 of the Criminal Procedure Code.
"In our view the PM is not the competent authority on matters concerning criminal prosecutions in our country," he said, adding that this authority under Articles 145 (3) of the Federal Constitution is vested solely in the public prosecutor (AG).
"All prosecutions are in his name as the representative of the state and public interest. No member of the executive, not even the PM can interfere or fetter this independent powers of the AG in respect of prosecutions."
By Wong Choon Mei | Wednesday, 1 July 2009 - suarakeADILan
A huge crowd turned up to hear top leaders of the Pakatan Rakyat speak about their plans for the future now that they have unanimously rejected an offer from Prime Minister Najib Razak to form a unity government.
“Umno has failed to bring real unity to the people of Malaysia. Pakatan has decided to reinforce our commitment to each other and together bring about the collapse of the Umno-Barisan Nasional government,” PAS president Hadi Awang told the crowd at the Kelana Jaya Stadium in Selangor.
Despite being a weekday and recent police crackdowns on other Pakatan ceramahs including the DAP’s 43rd anniversary dinner, some 10,000 people turned up at the rally featuring Hadi, DAP’s Lim Kit Siang and PKR adviser Anwar Ibrahim.
They came to see and hear for themselves what the top trio had to say. And they were not disappointed.[more]
Pada hari ini saya telah mengusulkan supaya mesyuarat Dewan Rakyat ditangguhkan untuk membincangkan perkara tertentu, berkepentingan ramai dan perlu disegerakan.
Saya mencadangkan:
“Bahawa Dewan Rakyat membincangkan cadangan projek pembinaan Jambatan Kedua Pulau Pinang memandangkan kos projek tersebut adalah terlalu tinggi berbanding cadangan laluan alternatif yang mampu menjimatkan RM4 billion dana awam.”
Pada Ogos 2006 Kerajaan Persekutuan mengumumkan projek pembinaan Jambatan Kedua Pulau Pinang di bawah Rancangan Malaysia Ke9 dan upacara perasmian pecah tanah telah disempurnakan pada 12 November 2006 [oleh Perdana Menteri ketika itu YAB Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. Ia dibina oleh usahasama China Harbour Engineering Co Ltd dan UEM. Pembinaannya menggunakan laluan selatan dengan jarak 24km dengan kos keseluruhannya melibatkan RM12 billion dan dijangka siap pada pertengahan 2012.
Menurut sumber industri, saya difahamkan bahawa projek yang sedia ada ini tidak wajar diteruskan, kerana ianya melibatkan kos pembinaan yang terlalu tinggi. Saya difahamkan juga bahawa adalah lebih wajar untuk membina projek Jambatan Kedua Pulau Pinang ini dengan menggunakan laluan alternatif melalui laluan utara dengan jarak 10Km yang lebih dekat dengan melibatkan anggaran kos keseluruhan yang lebih rendah berjumlah antara RM7 hingga RM8 billion.
Berbanding dengan projek yang sedia ada, amat jelas bahawa cadangan projek laluan alternatif bagi membina Jambatan Kedua Pulau Pinang berupaya menjimatkan RM4 billion dana awam.
Berikutan itu, saya mencadangkan supaya Dewan Rakyat membincangkan perkara ini bagi membolehkan rakyat mendapat gambaran sebenar mengenai permasalahan dan alasan-alasan kukuh mengapa cadangan laluan alternatif bagi pembinaan Jambatan Kedua Pulau Pinang tidak boleh dipertimbangkan meskipun ianya berupaya menyelamatkan RM4 billion wang rakyat.
Atas perkara yang tertentu ini yang melibatkan kepentingan rakyat umum yang perlu disegerakan, saya telah memohon secara rasmi kepada Yang di-Pertua Dewan Rakyat supaya usul ini dibincangkan pada hari ini.
Kelantan will receive 'wang ehsan' from 2010 onwards.
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