MACC Chief should be Independent and impartial

MACC chief Commissioner Datuk Seri Ahmad Said Hamdam is either not familiar with his work in the agency or he must be acting hastily under the behest of someone in the corridors of power.There is absolutely no legal justification for him to investigate the Perak State assembly speaker decision to suspend seven Barisan Assemblymen last month.

His statement that ' there are elements of misuse of power ' by the speaker does not render him any authority to question the speaker's decision.Article 72 of the Fedral constitution prohibits any court of law to question the decision of the speaker in the federal and state legislature.In other words, whatever decision arrived at by the speakers in the Federal and State legislature is final and not subjected to any judicial review. If the MACC chief cannot even grasp and understand the basic fundamental provisions of the constitution which disllows him from questioning the speaker on his decision to suspend Zambry and his band of Excos then he should not be appointed as the MACC chief.It becomes questionable whether a man of his calibre should even be appointed as an MACC chief.

Now that the speaker in the Federal Parliament have also suspended the DAP M.P for Puchong, Gobind Deo for a year for saying that the DPM is involved in the murder of the Mongolian Model, why have the MACC chief not come forward to say that there was also element of abuse of power by the Parliament Speaker? Is the MACC chief implying that it is alright for the B.N speaker to suspend the opposition member but its not alright for the opposition speaker to suspend a B.N member? The MACC Chief cannot appear to be impartial if its action is only directed at the opposition speaker.It would perhaps be appropriate for the MACC chief to seek the advice of the Attorney-general dept before making a fool of himself.In fact the MACC chief's comments regarding the culpability of the Selangor M.B's purchase of 46 cows and the use of his Lexus car have already cast a serious aspersion on his impartiality.Therefore how can any one expect the MACC to investigate without fear or favour when its Chief have more than one occassion displayed its impartiality in favour of the B.N govt ?