Karpal Demands Nazri's Resignation

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 27 (Bernama) -- DAP chairman Karpal Singh on Thursday demanded the resignation of Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Aziz for misleading the Dewan Rakyat and the people.
He said Nazri had maintained that information on the pension received by the judges sacked during the 1988 crisis had never been disclosed to the public.
"It is indeed difficult to comprehend how Nazri could say that the provision for the pension to these judges was not privy to the public and that for 20 years, no one knew that pension had been paid," he said here.
He said the The Star on Oct 7, 1988 had quoted the report of the five-member judicial tribunal which among others stated that the then Yang di-Pertuan Agong had consented for two of the three judges to be given pension.
The two judges were Tan Sri Wan Suleiman Pawan Teh and Datuk George Seah.
Tun Salleh Abbas was tried separately. Three other judges -- Tan Sri Mohamed Azmi Kamaruddin, Tan Sri Eusoffe Abdoolcader and Tan Sri Wan Hamzah Mohamed Salleh -- had been reinstated.
The 140-page tribunal report was made public by the then Attorney-General Tan Sri Abu Talib Othman on the order of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong.
On Nov 6, Nazri said in the Dewan Rakyat that all six judges were not sacked but advised to take early retirement. He latter admitted that that was not the case as upon checks, he knew they were given pension on the basis of compassion.

tunku : i guess karpal is right on this issue. nazri lied to the parliament and to the whole nation.he was lying again when he said he did not know that the judges were sacked.everyone knew the judges were sacked.