Ministry will help broadcasting dir-gen defend against report lodged by Penang State Govt

Datuk Ibrahim Yahya, the director-general of Broadcasting of the Ministry of Information Communication and Culture has come under fire for his recent blogpost where he wrote an entry entitled ‘Somebody Wants to Jail Me’. Ng Wei Aik, the political secretary of Lim Guan Eng, the Chief minister of Penang has since lodged a report against Ibrahim.

Ng said "In his blog, Ibrahim claimed that an employee of the chief minister's office had threatened him but an investigation found that nobody in the chief minister's office knew him," said Ng when filing his report. Ibrahim should identify the person said to be an employee of the chief minister's office. If the employee exists, then the chief minister will take action but if it is found to be false, then Ibrahim should resign from his post," For that, the minister of Information Communication and Culture, Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim has come to Ibrahim’s defence saying that he will not be facing legal action alone and the ministry will use its experience and what they have to defend Ibrahim or anyone associated with the broadcasting division. Dr Rais said "We will not leave him to fend for himself. Based on the system of government, when a minister, secretary-general, director-general or a member of the administration was sued in his official capacity, the government would give appropriate advice and guidance, especially in the legal aspect. However, if the officers were sued for offences outside of their official capacity, the ministry would not be responsible. For example, if an individual is sued for khalwat (close proximity), we cannot interfere,"


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This is blutant abuse of people's money! Rais will spend gov coffer to protect a private and personal issue! What is going on with UMNO! Please STOP spending our money!

Why UMNO want to defend him if he made wild accusation? What are you made of UMNO? Is it because he is a malay, or UMNO member or you have vested interest in him. Let the police arrest him, get his statement like others too. UMNO did not defend Tiong King sing when he was being sued by OTK. This is the type of policy UMNO have and it did not change like what the PM wish for.