Speaker has power to make Azam Baki hearing public, says MP


Dewan Rakyat Speaker Azhar Azizan Harun has come under fire for declaring that a select committee meeting to discuss the shareholdings of the MACC chief will be held behind closed doors. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, January 17, 2022.

THE Dewan Rakyat speaker may invoke Standing Orders to convene an open hearing on the MACC chief’s alleged misdeeds, Public Accounts Committee chairman Wong Kah Woh said today.

Wong said it is wrong of Speaker Azhar Azizan Harun to hold proceedings in relation to the Azam Baki case behind closed doors as they are a matter of public interest. 


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