COMMENT | In 2019, when Cheras MP Tan Kok Wai accused the Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) of selling 42 plots of land during Annuar Musa’s eight-month tenure as the Federal Territories minister, the denials and related information came fast.
But with DBKL’s denial came more information – 97 transactions of land belonging to DBKL, carried out before 2020, that did not involve the then minister.
Last month, when a balloon seller was injured in a scuffle with DBKL enforcement officers, three officers were put on leave for their involvement in the incident along Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman.
Kuala Lumpur mayor Maimunah Sharif said the decision was made after a meeting with Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Federal Territories) Dr Zaliha Mustafa.
A responsible minister and an equally answerable statutory body, one may think. But what about other issues raised in the past?
In 2019, lawyer Derek Fernandez said the…
