Two Perak excos do not have to quit, says MB

IPOH: The two Perak executive councillors who were charged for corruption do not have to vacate their posts because they are not civil servants.
Perak Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin said the conduct of the two excos, Mohd Osman Mohd Jailu and Jamaluddin Mohd Radzi, was not subject to the civil servants’ regulations in the General Orders.
“The exco positions are political posts so they are not subject to the General Orders. They (the Orders) only apply to government servants, both state and federal.
“State assemblymen are not civil servants, so they cannot hold public positions if they become assemblymen,” he told reporters after the final day sitting of the Perak State Assembly on Thursday.
Earlier, Nizar was replying to Hamidah Osman (BN-Sungai Rapat) who had questioned whether the Pakatan Rakyat government was practising double standards by allowing the two excos to retain their posts.
Nizar replied that the state held to the principle that the two men were innocent if they had yet to be found guilty by the court.
However, he pointed out that the state did sack Perak Tengah district councillor Zul Hassan after he had admitted to the Perak Religious Department about a sex scandal.
“Based on that admission, the government acted firmly (tegas) to sack him as a Perak Tengah district councillor,” he said.

tunku : this is the standard and value of the pakatan assemblyman. they can be crook, gangster etc, they still angel in the eye of pakatan rakyat.what to say when their boss(nizar) is a gangster too.they are definitely practising double standard.