PETALING JAYA: Umno president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi’s call for the law minister to “go all out” for an inquiry into former attorney-general Tommy Thomas’s memoir is unacceptable and partisan, lawyer Andrew Khoo said.
“It comes across as a very partisan call, as though it is an agenda of Umno to go after the former AG,” he said. Khoo said the inquiry is intended to investigate claims made by Thomas in the book, not his role as former AG or any so-called “secret agenda”.Yesterday at the Umno general assembly, Zahid, who is also deputy prime minister, said law minister Azalina Othman Said would be failing the party if she did not go “all out” in the inquiry.
Ambiga said she supports the unity coalition working together but it cannot undermine key institutions.Thomas’s memoir drew criticism from Attorney-General Idrus Harun, lawyers, politicians, and the general public, leading to the filing of numerous police reports. Among the claims in the book was that he had discussions with then prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad on the appointments of the chief judge, the president of the Court of Appeal and the chief judge of Sabah and Sarawak.
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