KUALA LUMPUR – Bukit Aman’s Classified Crime Investigation Unit has recorded Tan Sri Lim Kit Siang’s statement after the DAP veteran leader made online posts about Malaysia having a non-Malay prime minister.
Speaking to reporters after the questioning, Lim’s lawyer, Khairil Khalid, said police opened an inquiry by asking Lim a total of 27 questions, as they had yet to determine any offence.
He said that the officers from Bukit Aman recorded the statement today at the Sea Park police station in Petaling Jaya.
“The investigation was conducted under the police’s inquiry, but it has not yet been classified under any act.
“Once there is a statement (from Lim) and if they find that there is an offence, then the police will proceed with further action,” he said today.
Lim was accompanied by his two children, Bagan MP Lim Guan Eng and newly appointed Deputy Finance Minister Lim Hui Ying.
Also present were the newly appointed Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Law and Institutional Reform) M. Kulasegaran, Kg Tunku assemblyman Lim Yi Wei, and Kepong MP Lim Lip Eng.
Meanwhile, Lim said his statement made on Facebook and his blog was to explain that the federal constitution does not bar non-Malays from becoming prime ministers.
“I (only) said a non-Malay can be a prime minister, (but) I do not expect it to happen in the next 100 years.
“Although I said that, I hope it does not take 230 years, as Barack Obama did, to be the first black American president of the US,” Lim said today after giving his statement to police.
During a speech he gave in front of students in the United Kingdom on November 29, Lim expressed hope that Malaysia would not have to wait as long as the United States to have a leader from an ethnic minority.
He also expressed a similar view on his blog and Facebook posts. – December 13, 2023