Stop blame game over Covid-19 spike – Armada

KOTA KINABALU: Warisan Plus should own up to being the catalyst for the Covid-19 case spikes in Sabah and the rest of the country instead of shifting the blame to others, said Armada Nasional vice head Ceasar Mandela Malakun.

He said Warisan President Datuk Seri Shafie Apdal should hold himself accountable for wrongly advising the Head of State to dissolve the Sabah State Assembly, a move that led to the snap elections in Sabah in the midst of a pandemic.

Instead of continuously spinning the blame game in the mainstream and social media for political mileage, he said Warisan Plus should fess up to the blunder they committed.

Malakun in a statement yesterday, also said that there was no need for Shafie to send his henchmen to defend the indefensible and run down the GRS government.

“He must be so flustered by his predecessor Tan Sri Musa Aman's open letter that he got Kota Kinabalu MP Chan Foong Hin and Luyang assemblyman Phoong Jin Zhe to do his bidding.

“It is laughable that the two, in a feeble attempt, tried to throw the ball back in Musa's court, accusing him of starting the blame game on who is the real culprit behind the escalation in Covid-19 cases in state and country.

“While we understand the need for DAP to defend their leader in the coalition, they should accept the truth instead of twisting the facts,” he said.

Malakun said Musa had been quiet on this issue all this while, preferring to take the high road instead while the Warisan propaganda machine was in full gear, continuously bombarding netizens with postings of graphics and comments by bloggers and their cytros, pointing fingers at the PM, Musa, GRS and everyone else but themselves for the spread of the virus.

To make matters worse, he said even supposedly learned seasoned politicians in DAP have since jumped on the bandwagon in spreading outright lies and slander on who is responsible for this fiasco.

Musa has denied that he triggered the third wave of Covid-19 infections with his failed attempt to seize the Sabah state government.

In an “open letter to the people of Malaysia”, he instead blamed Shafie for calling a state election rather than “handing back” the government to him.