Select committee to convene emergency meeting on LTTE Sosma arrests - MP

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Police must answer to the committee on use of Sosma, committee member Lim Lip Eng says.

The Special Select Committee on Defence and Home Affairs will be holding an emergency meeting on the arrests of seven people under Security Offences Act 2012 next week., a member of the committee, further called for police to be summoned to this meeting to “answer” to the committee on its use of the controversial law.

“I have asked the chairman of the select committee, Nibong Tebal MP Mansor Othman for the said meeting to be held on an urgent basis due to the seriousness of the accusations. “The police will have to answer to the select committee the need to use Sosma, a repressive and draconian law which the Pakatan Harapan government has pledged to repeal, on the seven who can be detained without trial for up to 28 days,” Lim, who is Kepong MP, said in a statement.However, no specific date was given.

Yesterday, police arrested seven suspects with alleged links to the defunct Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam group in Sri Lanka during an operation in six states between 9am and 2pm.Among those nabbed in the dragnet includeAll of them are now being held for 28 days to facilitate investigations as allowed for under Sosma.the government and police for using the law, which the ruling coalition has promised to abolish in its GE14 election manifesto last year.

 

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secret pact of umno-pas-ppbm at work.

Look the tail is wagging the dog here.

This select committee must go hold their sessions in the same places where those idiots PDRMsia are cooking up their false stories to validate the arrests.

This select committee must go hold their sessions in the same places where those idiots PDRMsia are cooking up their false stories to make arrests their valid.

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