Senai rep ejected from Johor assembly
> Wong refused to retract negative statement about Mohamed Khaled
KOTA ISKANDAR: Senai DAP state assemblyman was ordered to leave the Johor state assembly yesterday for refusing to retract a statement which cast Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin in a bad light.
Speaker Tan Sri Mohamad Aziz had demanded Wong Shu Qi to retract a paragraph in her speech that gave a negative perception of Mohamed Khaled.
Before leaving the hall, Wong said she would not retract her statement.
Shortly after, she was escorted out of the hall by two protocol officers.
Following her expulsion, Tan Hong Pin (DAP-Mengkibol) said Deputy Speaker Datuk Baderi Dasuki had said during the morning session that Wong would be referred to the Rights and Privileges Committee after 10 Barisan Nasional (BN) assemblymen supported the call.
However, Mohamad said to his knowledge, no such decision was made during the session.
He later said Wong would be allowed to attend today’s session.
Mohamad said he used his discretion under Section 50 of the Johor State Assembly Standing Order to ask Wong to leave the hall.
During the morning session, Wong said she would not retract her statement, as it was a statement from a witness recorded by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission in an investigation into a corruption case.
She added that the statement was also available on the internet.
Wong said she just wanted to know whether the statement posted on the internet was true.
However, several BN assemblymen said Wong’s queries had cast a bad light on Mohamed Khaled.
DAP assemblymen said Wong was just repeating what she read online, and added that her query deserved an answer.
This resulted in a war of words between BN and opposition assemblymen that lasted about 15 minutes.