THE businessman father of Julau MP Larry Sng is on a viral video clip showing him going berserk at the PKR Sarikei division polling yesterday, where he is contesting for the chairman’s post.

Sng Chee Hua, a one-term Julau MP himself from 1995 to 1999, was seen in a verbal spat with another man, reportedly an election monitor, at the New Fortune Restaurant that had been temporarily turned into the polling centre for the division.

The Sarikei division was one of seven divisions in Sarawak that had their polling yesterday, officially the last day of PKR party election.

Malay language portal Sarawakvoice reported the 61-year-old man had lodged a police report claiming that the former MP, an associate of PKR president-designate Anwar Ibrahim and aligned to the Rafizi Ramli faction in this heated PKR party election, had threatened his life.

The portal quoted Sarikei district police chief Awang Arfian Awang Bujang as saying the man lodged the report after being told by friends that Sng would hire gangsters to kill him.

It was unclear what triggered the 10.50am altercation at the polling centre at Jalan Layang-Layang of this town on the bank of the Rajang River, about 58km from Sibu, but the portal said Sng lost his cool when he was told to observe the election rules.

Police are investigating the incident as criminal intimidation.

Sng has a chequered political history as being a central figure in the leadership tussle in the now-deregistered Parti Bansa Dayak Sarawak, and later the failed attempt to remove the president of Parti Rakyat Sarawak, James Masing, and install his son Larry as president.

He has long been accused, but never investigated or charged, of using his money to buy support.

In the current PKR election in Sarawak, the Sng clan are contesting to take over four divisions, with Larry in the predominantly Dayak Julau division, Sng’s younger brother Chee Eng in Kapit, and a nephew, Sng Wei Hong in Sibu. – November 12, 2018.