PAS leader blames Health, Foreign Ministries for minister’s quarantine breach

Updated 3 years ago · Published on 31 Aug 2020 10:30AM · 9 Comments

PAS spiritual leader Hashim Jasin says the Health and Foreign ministries have been negligent in Plantation and Commodities Minister Mohd Khairuddin Aman Razali recent Covid-19 quarantine breach. – The Malaysian Insight pic by Hasnoor Hussain, August 31, 2020.

PLANTATION and Commodities Minister Mohd Khairuddin Aman Razali should be considered a hero even though he broke Covid-19 quarantine rules as his trip to Turkey had brought benefits to the oil palm sector, said PAS spiritual leader Hashim Jasin.

“He broke the rules but he brought good news, news that brought benefit. He is a hero, like the hoopoe bird that was going to be punished, when it was actually a hero,” he said, referring to verses about the bird in the Quran.

Hashim was speaking at the Ipoh PAS muktamar, or annual general assembly, on August 29. The video of his speech is posted on Facebook.

The Islamist party’s spiritual leader said Khairuddin had been maligned and attacked by opposition MPs, when the fault lay with the Health Ministry and the Foreign Ministry for failing to ensure that the minister complied with the mandatory quarantine after returning from Turkey on July 7.

“The minister went (to Turkey) following all procedures, he came back, he should have been made to wear the pink wristband but no, he wasn’t made to. 

“It’s not his fault… the Health Ministry was negligent, so was the Foreign Ministry, causing him to be attacked. 

“Now he (Khairuddin) is being asked to resign. PAS should not keep quiet. He is a hero of the people who has saved Malaysia and he is getting maligned. PAS members should not keep quiet, don’t let him defend himself alone,” Hashim said.

Khairuddin, who is Kuala Nerus MP, has been under fire from the public since his quarantine breach was revealed by Seputeh MP Teresa Kok in Parliament on August 18.

He reportedly paid the RM1,000 compound on August 7, but is under police investigation after Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said in response to public outcry that authorities should investigate him as no one should be above the law.

Health authorities have also said that top officials, such as the ministry’s director-general and infectious disease control chief, did not know that Khairuddin skipped quarantine and were only alerted when the media reported Kok’s revelation.

Hashim told the Ipoh PAS meeting, however, that the price of palm oil went up after Khairuddin’s return from Turkey, where his meeting was supposedly about Malaysia’s exports of the commodity.

“After he went, the price of palm oil went up… This means that he caused something good to happen. If the hoopoe bird could make something good happen that brought benefit to the country, he shouldn’t be punished.

“We should be voicing our support for him, give him the support as the commodities minister.”

Several opposition MPs have questioned whether Khairuddin’s Turkey visit was paid for by the government and whether it was approved by the prime minister, given the more than 200,000 Covid-19 cases in the country. – August 31, 2020.

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  • All of these monkeys should resign. They don't understand the simplest of things. Even non educated can follow this. Don't try and fool us with some thing stupid about trade with Turkey. Utter rubbish!!! If you want to spin ask the spin master to help you, you guys are too stupid to do even that. Don't blame others for your stupidity.

    Posted 3 years ago by Alphonz Jayaratnam · Reply

  • All of these monkeys should resign. They don't understand the simplest of things. Even non educated can follow this. Don't try and fool us with some thing stupid about trade with Turkey. Utter rubbish!!! If you want to spin ask the spin master to help you, you guys are too stupid to do even that. Don't blame others for your stupidity.

    Posted 3 years ago by Alphonz Jayaratnam · Reply

  • All of these monkeys should resign. They don't understand the simplest of things. Even non educated can follow this. Don't try and fool us with some thing stupid about trade with Turkey. Utter rubbish!!! If you want to spin ask the spin master to help you, you guys are too stupid to do even that. Don't blame others for your stupidity.

    Posted 3 years ago by Alphonz Jayaratnam · Reply

  • He should give up his day job and become a comedian - my toes are still laughing. Hahaha

    Posted 3 years ago by EK Yee · Reply

  • why kind of divine thinking these supposedly well learned people have when they broke the rules....if they control the government, we will only see one kind of people in the jail....... sigh

    Posted 3 years ago by Wei Kuan Tan · Reply

  • Save us the bullsh*t about Khairuddin saving the country, Hashim Yasin. Stop the lies. The fact is Khairuddin lied and broke the law and has shown no accountable as a minister.

    Posted 3 years ago by Rupert Lum · Reply

  • Only people who are less smart than him would buy the argument. But since his level of intellligence is so low, there are not many who are more stupid than him. May be a few orangutans perhaps.

    Posted 3 years ago by No Gostan · Reply

    • Please don't be so insulting.Please give orangutans some respect.

      Posted 3 years ago by Burrd Lim · Reply

  • Seriously dude? Please state facts n figures

    Posted 3 years ago by Khairul Anuar · Reply