PAS tells Ali, Zabidi to resign over transfer episode

PETALING JAYA: PAS lawmaker Datuk Mahfuz Omar has urged the Chief Secretary to the Government Tan Sri Ali Hamsa and the Public Service Department director-general Tan Sri Mohamad Zabidi Zainal to step down from their respective posts.
Mahfuz, the Pokok Sena MP, demanded that both of them resign for their handling of the two Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) officers – special operations division director Datuk Bahri Mohd Zin and strategic communications director Datuk Rohaizad Yaakob.
The two officers were abruptly transferred to the Prime Minister's Department last Friday, but Ali on Monday said the transfers had been cancelled and that they would be reinstated to their positions in MACC.
"Both (Ali and Mohamad Zabidi) have failed to perform their duties professionally to protect the officers. I demand that they resign from their respective posts.
"The country doesn't need officers like them who are only Najib loyalists, but not to the people and the country," he said in a statement yesterday.
Despite welcoming Ali's decision to cancel the transfers, Mahfuz asked why it took them so long to call up the two officers to provide explanation on 1Malaysia Development Berhad.
"Why is it that only after their transfers on Aug 7 and the commotion nationwide on the issue did Ali and Mohamad Zabidi called them up for questioning? Why not after MACC was raided and interrogated by the police?" he added.
Mahfuz also urged the duo to apologise publicly to the two MACC officers, citing that they, their families and the entire MACC had been humiliated by the incident.