Monday January 26, 2009
Syed Hamid warns deputy ministers
By MEERA VIJAYAN
JOHOR BARU: The Government will not hesitate to take action against its two deputy ministers if they are found to have broken the law when they were part of the crowd at the mortuary where A. Kugan’s body lay, Home Affairs Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar said.
He also promised that the Government would investigate fairly any accusations of abuse of power into the death of the 22-year-old suspected luxury car thief who died in police custody on Tuesday.
“No minister or member of the administration is above the law. If you have committed an offence, you have to face the consequences,” he said.
The two deputy ministers in the Prime Ministers Department — Datuk K. Devamany and Senator T. Murugiah — were both present when a group of people entered the Serdang Hospital mortuary with Kugan’s family on Tuesday to see his body.
On a separate matter, Syed Hamid said the American-run Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba should not be compared to the Kamunting detention camp for Internal Security Act detainees.
Unlike Kamunting, he said Guantanamo Bay was located on an island.
“Detainees in Guantanamo Bay have their legs shackled even when they are out for exercise. It is not a comparison,” he said when asked whether Malaysia would review its preventive detention laws in the light of American President Barack Obama’s decision to close the detention camp.
Syed Hamid added that the closure of Guantanamo Bay was the best thing that could happen, adding that the facility operated under such secrecy that nobody knew what went on inside.
On the fate of the two Malaysian detainees held captive there, he said he was not sure whether they were Malaysian nationals.
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