Guan Eng: Let Tunku Aziz head inquiry
Opalyn Mok (The Sun)
GEORGE TOWN (July 21, 2009) : DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng has proposed that the government set up an independent inquiry committee to investigate the death of political secretary Teoh Beng Hock and that the committee be headed by Tunku Abdul Aziz, a senator.
“Tunku Abdul Aziz was the founder of Transparency International-Malaysia and a special adviser to the secretary-general of the United Nations in 2006, so he is the most credible and reliable person to head the committee to ensure that justice is served,” he said.
Lim urged the cabinet to form the committee immediately and ensure that it is independent, reliable and credible so that the inquiry will reveal the truth.
“There are many questions to be answered and only an independent inquiry will be able to find the truth behind this and bring the culprits to justice so that cases like this will not happen again,” he said at a press conference in his office.
On an unrelated matter, Lim, who is also the chief minister, said the federal government’s announcement that it is reviving the RM1.2 billion Mengkuang Dam expansion project shows the federal government knows that working together with the state government is for the good of the people.
He expressed his gratitude to the federal government for reinstating that project, in addition to other projects such as the Penang second bridge and the Penang Hill funicular train upgrading project, and hoped that there will be more of such infrastructure projects for Penang in future.