MM Online - Mat Sabu now says govt rethinking abolishing NSC Act (extracts):
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KUALA LUMPUR, June 28 ― Despite its electoral promise to do away with the National Security Council (NSC) Act 2016, the Pakatan Harapan (PH) government may be keeping the controversial law.
Defence Minister Mohamad Sabu today described the law that had been criticised for giving the prime minister absolute power as a “good vehicle”, which was only made political by the previous Barisan Nasional (BN) administration.
"We are looking to review, because NSC actually is a good vehicle, especially for government officers to serve the government.
“What we have to control is, we don’t want it to become a party's [tool] where we try to instigate, to pressure them to support Amanah or to support Bersatu or to support DAP,” he said in an interview with select media here.
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Defence Minister Mohamad Sabu today described the law that had been criticised for giving the prime minister absolute power as a “good vehicle”, which was only made political by the previous Barisan Nasional (BN) administration.
"We are looking to review, because NSC actually is a good vehicle, especially for government officers to serve the government.
“What we have to control is, we don’t want it to become a party's [tool] where we try to instigate, to pressure them to support Amanah or to support Bersatu or to support DAP,” he said in an interview with select media here.
Mat, either you are very naive or a big bullshitter. You can't be both so are you a naive Defence Minister?
You have just admitted that the BN made political use of the National Security Council (NSC) Act 2016, so please tell us what is there to prevent the PH coalition from misusing it too?
And please don't swear PH will be more honorable than BN, because the temptation will remain - and you know what happened to God's beloved, namely, Adam and Eve, Jacob, King David, etc, when temptations lie in their paths?
Get rid of it as your coalition has promised so that all may actually avoid the temptation of using that repressive law.
We know Mahathir had earlier voiced his reluctance to remove the Fake News legislation, so is this another of his "reluctance", as voiced by you (under instructions)?