KUCHING, April 8: Parti Bumi Kenyalang (PBK) president Voon Lee Shan has expressed concern over his safety after he received a visit from the police at his office with regards to an interrogation initiated by Bukit Aman Headquarters.
In a statement today, Voon said a senior police officer appeared at his office in Saradise Kuching yesterday afternoon (April 7) on the instruction of the latter’s superiors from Bukit Aman.
The police officer told Voon that his visit was to fix a date for the Bukit Aman police to come and take Voon’s statement regarding a press statement dated March 18 concerning the rights of citizens to “sue the government for any dissatisfaction in connection with Malaysia Agreement 1963 (MA63)”.
It was alleged that Voon’s statement could cause public disorder which initiated the Bukit Aman police to pursue an investigation and record his statement.
“I can give the statement but why must the statement be taken by Bukit Aman and not by Sarawak police? They had bypassed Sarawak police and this caused much alarm to me for I fear my personal safety could be in jeopardy because I don’t know them.
“What would happen, if they come and bundled me inside a car? I can just disappear without anybody knowing my whereabouts. It is scary,” Voon said, adding that the Sarawak police “may not be aware of the ordeal”.
He further said that during the police officer’s visit to his office, he learnt that the officer was bypassing Head of Criminal Investigation Department of Sarawak.
“I told the officer that my safety as a citizen residing in Sarawak, is in the hands of the Sarawak police and not in the hands of the police from Bukit Aman.
“I told him that Sarawak police should be the more appropriate party to carry out the investigation because if anything happens to me, the culprits could be traceable,” he added.
At the same time, he said citizens are informed that there was a recent court ruling that Sarawakians have every right to speak out against any perceived violation of the MA63 and the accompanying Inter-Governmental Committee (IGC) Report.
“If there is such a right to speak, then, how could it cause a public disorder to educate members of the public of their right to sue the government in connection with breaches of MA63?
“If there is a law to prohibit the government being sued, then, we could not see the government being sued in court often,” he emphasised. — DayakDaily
