KUCHING: When they were in the opposition and prior to the 14th general election, the Democratic Action Party (DAP) promised that if Pakatan Harapan (PH) took over Putrajaya they would review Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s old account.
So now that they are part of PH’s federal government, Sarawak United People’s Party (SUPP) Stakan Branch chairman Sim Kiang Chiok is urging them to fulfill that promise.
Sim thinks that would be fair considering that PH was concerned about the former prime minister’s wife who they alleged was involved in a large-scale solar panel fraud case affecting Sarawak.
Personally, though, despite his support for any anti-corruption efforts, the case in question is already in court and the law should be left to take its course.
“In fighting corruption, DAP should not be selective or deliberately shift their focus. They must say when they will fulfill their promise to look into the old accounts of Dr Mahathir,” Sim said in a press statement yesterday.
Sim said before Dr Mahathir became prime minister again, DAP leaders had called the police to investigate him for having deposited RM1,194 million overseas.
“DAP senior leader Lim Kit Siang also proposed the establishment of a Royal Commission of Inquiry to look into allegations of loss of RM31.5 billion in foreign exchange,” he said.
He said in addition, the expensive Penang Undersea Tunnel case and the purchase of cheap luxury homes during the time when Lim Guan Eng was chief minister of Penang still requires an answer.
“The people would like to know the truth to these cases, which seem to have been swept under the carpet by DAP,” he said.
He then said it has been more than a year and a half since the last general election and DAP Sarawak has yet to deliver the promises of giving 20 per cent petroleum royalty to Sarawak and the return of 50 per cent of tax collected from Sarawak.
“Every day the delay in the keeping of their promises makes Sarawak poorer,” he said.
As such, he said, DAP has been consistently inconsistent in their fight against corruption and have lost all credibility for being promise breakers.
