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Extracted from Malaysiakini
No need for
another report, ACA tells Mafrel
May
19,
The Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA) today refused to record a
complaint from an independent election watchdog regarding an alleged vote
buying incident in
Malaysians for free and fair elections (Mafrel) chairperson Abdul
Met outside
the ACA office in Kuching later, Malek expressed his disappointment with the
agency and claimed that officers who met him were behaving evasively.
“I argued
that the police report failed to specify the specific law that was alleged to
have been breached but to no avail. Instead, they tried to convince me not to
lodge the report on the basis of redundancy?” he said.
Malek said he will raise this issue with senior ACA issues.
Yesterday, Mafrel revealed
that a police report had been lodged by a Bidayuh farmer from Kampung Tebewang
in Bau claiming that he saw Barisan Nasional (BN) supporters giving money to 12
voters in the village.
Monitor
closely
The report, read out by Malek today, stated that the alleged incident took
place at the village head’s house on May 16.
Each voter was
given an envelope containing five RM10 notes, it was further alleged.
Malek believes that this is not an isolated incident and suspects that such
tactics would intensify during the final hours before polling day tomorrow.
He urged all enforcement agencies to ‘monitor the ground seriously’ in order to
curb such practices.
On the same note, he said members of the public who witness such incidents
should inform the authorities immediately.
In a related
development, PAS vice-president Husam Musa urged the Election Commission (EC)
to act on the findings of Mafrel.
In a statement yesterday, he said all the issues raised by the independent
election body to date - including confusion over the electoral rolls, postal
voters and phantom voters - were serious enough to challenge the credibility of
the election.