GAUM wants probe on alleged seditious claims against CM
KOTA KINABALU: Gerakan Akar Umbi Umno (GAUM) wants the relevant authority to investigate a certain group or individual that it claims has been allegedly making seditious remarks about Chief Minister Tan Sri Musa Hj Aman with regard to projects under the Ministry of Rural and Regional Development.
GAUM president Datuk Zulkarnain Mahdar said the group or individual had allegedly claimed that Musa had put off most projects under the Ministry of Rural and Regional Development when Datuk Seri Shafie Apdal was the minister.
“But it must be understood that most projects do not have to get approval from the chief minister. Shafie, who was then the minister, could have approved the projects because he was the minister.
“It is only now when Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob is the minister that he has seen to it that all projects would have to go through the chief minister,” he said when met at the Karamunsing police headquarters yesterday.
Zulkarnain also alleged that no second or third party were involved in the Ministry of Rural and Regional Development’s projects.
“This whole issue appeared because Shafie, when he was the minister, was said to have failed to bring development to Sabah and that is why this group or individual is trying to put a proper perspective to the issue and in doing so appear to make the government to be at fault.
“We do not want to point fingers as to who is right and who is wrong. But perhaps the relevant authorities should investigate and take action, if necessary, against this individual or group” he said.