BN MPs avoiding 1MDB scandal like a plague, says Kit Siang

PETALING JAYA: Barisan Nasional (BN) are avoiding he 1MDB corruption scandal like the plague when debating in Parliament, DAP Adviser Lim Kit Siang (pix) said today.
Describing it as a most cowardly act, he said they had been part of the disgraceful and unpatriotic conspiracy and betrayal in muzzling Parliament from probing and debating the 1MDB corruption scandal.
They failed to lift a finger to defend and clear Malaysia of the international infamy, ignominy and iniquity of being regarded worldwide as a global kleptocracy, the Iskandar Puteri MP said.
"Will all the Barisan MPs follow the lead by (Datuk Seri Ahmad) Zahid and (Datuk Seri) Wee (Ka Siong) last week in a conspiracy of silence and avoid the 1MDB corruption scandal like the plague when debating in Parliament?" Lim asked.
"This is the time for them to make amends. Will they do so? Or will they compound their national betrayal in the 13th Parliament by a most criminal silence on the 1MDB corruption scandal in the 14th Parliament?"
Lim also asked if BN MPs who are in Parliament for the first time would join in the conspiracy of silence.
"If they continue to exhibit a collective amnesia to avoid the 1MDB issue in Parliament, the 32 million Malaysians will be entitled to ask if they are so craven, cowardly and unpatriotic as unwilling to address the worst Malaysian corruption in world history," Lim said.
He said the new Parliament will have to appoint a courageous Public Accounts Committee (PAC) which is brave and conscientious to undo the stain of the PAC of the 13th Parliament, which failed to carry out its duties conscientiously by carrying a comprehensive and independent investigation into the 1MDB corruption scandal.