‘Honorific titles not licence to flout law’
KAJANG: Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi has warned individuals with honorific titles not to use them as “a licence” to break the law.
He was referring to an incident on Friday where a suspect with a Datuk Seri title assaulted three People’s Volunteer Corps (Rela) members.
“Honorific titles don’t give individuals the privilege to take the law into their own hands. They cannot use them to inflict injury on people, including uniformed personnel on duty,” he said at the Kajang Prison Complex here yesterday.
“All citizens are bound by the law, whether they have honorific titles or not.”
Zahid was attending the Home Ministry’s Family Day event at the prison’s mini stadium.
Present were his wife, Datin Seri Hamidah Khamis, Deputy Home Minister Datuk Nur Jazlan Mohamed and his wife, Datin Rossana Jaafar, and Home Ministry secretary-general Datuk Seri Alwi Ibrahim.
On the government’s move to allow employers to hire domestic workers from source countries, Zahid said the new policy would be subject to existing regulations. He said the regulations, which included requirements such as biometric identification, name screenings and health screenings through the Foreign Workers Medical Examination Monitoring Agency (Fomema), would remain in effect.
On Datuk Seri Azmin Ali’s claim that the 2018 Budget was copied from the opposition’s alternative budget, Zahid said the Selangor menteri besar was free to raise the issue in Parliament next week.
He said the government was sincere about reducing the people’s burden.
“This is apparent when the prime minister, at the tabling of the 2018 Budget, announced that several tolls in Selangor, Johor, and Kedah would be abolished.”