Abdullah flays perpetrators of slanderous social media posts
This is just another continuous effort by dishonourable ‘political prostitutes’ whose sole mission is to pit the state government leadership against the federal government.
KUCHING: Chief political secretary to the Chief Minister Abdullah Saidol has chided irresponsible netizens for posting false and slanderous statements about Chief Minister Datuk Amar Abang Johari Tun Openg.
He was particularly angry with a posting on Facebook which claimed that Abang Johari had forbidden leaders from Peninsular Malaysia, the media as well as other Malaysians from calling Sarawak a state in order to create confusion among the people, which he said was fake, adding that the chief minister had never issued such a statement be it in written form or verbally.
“This is just another continuous effort by dishonourable ‘political prostitutes’ whose sole mission is to pit the state government leadership against the federal government,” he said in a statement yesterday.
Abdullah, who is also Semop assemblyman, emphasised that the state government has always been serious and firm during discussions with its federal counterpart and not once will state leaders take a rough or rude approach.
“In our community, we have decency and prudence and these political slanderers only want to see us disunited and to have illfeelings so that they can achieve their shallow and fragile political mission.”
Pointing out that this culture of creating lies and distortion in politics will become more common, he thus advised the people to be more careful and mature-minded.
“We have laws that should be used strictly to make sure that those who wish to see disunity and chaos will face serious action.
“Theycanberegardedastraitorsto our rights and desire to live in peace and prosperity in the community. So in any circumstances, we must be united despite our differences in opinions.”
In the Facebook post which went viral yesterday, Abang Johari was purported to have expressed his disappointment that the Malaysia Agreement 1963 was never taught in school.
It also purportedly quoted the chief minister as saying that “Sarawak is not a state in Malaysia but a partner country in United Kingdom of Malaysia.”
Abdullah Saidol, Chief political secretary to the Chief Minister