Kit Siang against RCI’s report because of politics, says Tunku Aziz
KUALA LUMPUR: DAP adviser Lim Kit Siang has been criticised as “unprincipled” following his dissatisfaction with the Royal Commission of Inquiry’s (RCI) report on its probe into Bank Negara Malaysia’s (BNM) foreign exchange (forex) losses back in the early 1990s.
Former DAP vice-chairman Tunku Abdul Aziz Tunku Ibrahim said Lim’s position had changed after forming political alliances with former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad and his ousted deputy, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.
“Back then, this (RCI on the forex losses) is what
Lim had wanted. He wanted the prime minister (Dr Mahathir) to be investigated.
“Dr Mahathir was guilty back then because he was Lim’s enemy. What Lim is practising is dishonest and unprincipled politics,” Tunku Aziz said yesterday.
He was commenting on Lim’s move to link collective responsibility for the forex losses to the cabinet back then, and his allegations that the RCI was formed to persecute Dr Mahathir and Anwar.
“Lim should have accepted the report as it is because he himself had wanted the matter to go public years ago. It is a different story today now that they are friends.
“If this is how it goes, it means that they (Lim and his political allies) are dishonest and without morals,” Tunku Aziz said.