Kinta district MCPF chairman Chung Kok Heung (second left) together with his team members after purchasing items at a KK Super Mart store in Ipoh city.
IPOH: The Kinta District Malaysian Crime Prevention Foundation (MCPF) has come forward to show its support for KK Super Mart convenience stores, which were recently involved in the controversial socks issues.
The district chairman, Chung Kok Heung, said with a third Molotov cocktail attack on the store chain, they hoped that the police would be able to identify and catch the culprits.
He said such acts were creating fear among the general public, and this could deter people from purchasing items from the convenience store.
"It could also affect the business and confidence of not only local but potentially foreign investments.
"Let the law take its own course, and all calls for boycotts, as well as criminal acts, should stop," he said when visiting the outlet on Jalan Raja Ekram here Saturday (April 6)
Chung said that since His Majesty Sultan Ibrahim, King of Malaysia, had told everyone to be more responsible and warned all parties against taking advantage of the incident, including inciting the people, and did not want the issue to be prolonged, Umno Youth Chief Dr Muhamad Akmal Saleh must stop provoking the people.
Kinta district MCPF chairman Chung Kok Heung (left) together with his team members purchasing items at a KK Super Mart store in Ipoh city.
"We urge Dr Muhamad Akmal to stop the call for the boycott and allow the authorities to do their part to carry out their investigations.
"Even the Prime Minister has advised everyone to move on from this and look at other issues concerning the economy and the rising cost of living.
"We thus hope all this will stop to protect racial harmony, and on top of that, Datuk Seri Chai Kee Kan, the owner of KK Mart, is also a MCPF member," he added.
Chung said the role of MCPF is to create awareness in terms of crime prevention. Talks are usually organised in collaboration with associations and schools to be the police's eyes and ears.
"He hoped after Dr Muhamad Akmal was detained by the police in Kota Kinabalu, he would think twice before carrying out calls of boycotting in order to protect racial harmony," he added.
On March 31, a third KK Super Mart outlet in Kuching had been attacked with a Molotov cocktail.
The first incident occurred at an outlet in Bidor, Tapah, on March 26, and the second in Sungai Isap, Kuantan, on March 29.
On Friday (April 5) Dr Muhamad Akmal was arrested in Kota Kinabalu.
The arrest followed criticisms of a picture on social media showing him holding a sword.
