Who should sit in the Royal Commission?
Let the Rakyat pick their choice!
A 3 Lawyer-Minister Panel to study the 3-man Report.
Now, Royal Commission?
Anwar Ibrahim exposed the scandal on September 19.
It took 58 days before Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi could decide the need to set up a royal commission of inquiry on the controversial VK Lingam video clip.
What Abdullah announced Friday was that the royal commission will 'soon' be established. But terms of reference and members of the commission have yet to be ascertained
Only two days ago, media reports quoting a minister in the PM's Department said Abdullah had appointed three Umno ministers -- namely Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Nazri Aziz, Home Minister Mohd Radzi Sheikh Ahmad and Culture, Arts and Heritage Minister Dr Rais Yatim -- to study the reports submitted by the 3-man panel led by former Chief Judge of Malaya, Haidar Mohd Noor.
It was Abdullah who made the about-turn yesterday.
Cross-examine past CJs
As early as November 2, Screenshots had warned the lawyers of the following:
1 ) Press on for the setting up of a judicial appointments commission for the appointment and promotion of judges;2 ) Press on for a royal commission of inquiry to examine the claims made in the Lingam Tape, as well as the present state of the judiciary.
For now, the Rakyat should nominate their choice of the right people to sit in the Royal Commission, and the Executive -- aka the Abdullah Administration -- must listen.
It will be good to cross-examine the former, but still-living, Chief Justices -- Ahmad Fairuz Sheikh Abdul Halim, Eusuff Chin and Hamid Omar -- in one go.
Don't let Abdullah, man of the hour, just pass the buck to Mahathir, so conveniently.
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Hi Jeff,
If my vote counts I would like to propose Nazri and Lingam to sit in the Royal Commission.
Nazri because he is the "boss" of all judges and so he must be smarter than all the judges, combined.
And Lingam because he too is so smart since he knows which judge is suitable for which case.
Of course we will also have to appoint another panel to study the results of the Royal Commission. But then that is the next course-lah.
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November 17, 2007 10:42 AM
Jeff, while I agree that it might have taken too long to set up the RC, it is nevertheless a decision which I doubt would be made in the previous adminstration. Instead of giving certain level of credit for such a move, the post might have been over critical and only look at the bad side of things.
JEFF OOI says: Abdullah was supposed to be 10 times better than his predecessor. So, our expectation of him went up in accordance to the spin of the spin-doctors. No?
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November 17, 2007 10:43 AM
There are whispers from RPK that “Penang may soon get a new Governor in the form of the recently-retired Chief Justice and ….. the position of Governor is reserved for those who have no other place to go..”
Now that a Royal Commison is instituted on the Lingam Video Clip and this Dr Ayam (who organized an Anti-Bersih Indoor Protest) is the result of the “fixing of judgment” mentioned; they should go into his case of being rewarded the “MP of Bukit Bintang” when Wee Choo Keong was disqualified. Retrogressively, his MP status should be taken away and deny the pension that he is enjoying. More details at
http://powerpresent.blogspot.com/2007/11/ant-bersih-rally-protest-dr-ayam-bukit.html
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November 17, 2007 01:58 PM
I nominate Raja Nazrin of Perak as one of the persons on the RC. An any distinguish past President of the Bar council.And Tun Haniff our former IGP.
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November 18, 2007 09:13 PM