from: Huan Cheng Guan, via email
With deep regret, I watched the video of the China Press interview yesterday of YB Lim Siew Khim’s over the low-cost housing scandal currently engulfing the DAP Penang state government and her family.
Not only did she attempt to conveniently deflect all blame to her father and her brother, she also pointed a finger at a member of my party and tried to blame this on a conspiracy against her.
She had even painted her own father as “trouble since she was born”.
How can there be a conspiracy when there is clear video evidence of her father and brother engaging in talks with potential low-cost home buyers? Are these not her father and brother with whom she stays and admitted she enjoys a good relationship with them?
Is she suggesting that my party made her family members do what they did?
YB Lim had the cheek to say yesterday that her mother suffers from heart disease and she was worried for her; but she had no qualms in dragging her out to a press conference a few days ago where YB Lim denied all knowledge of her father’s actions.
Astoundingly, just mere days later and on the strength of a second video, she was forced to admit that she had heard about this more than a year ago and had confronted her father but refused to believe it was true.
Does this not merit any investigation?
Do she mean that for over a year, she did not know what was happening in her own constituency or what her father was doing in her own area with the people that she claims to represent?
In her video, YB Lim had also used a threatening tone about the alleged leak, unapologetically saying she talks rough as she is from the “Jiang Hu”, which is a modern euphemism for being from “outlaw societies”.
I would like YB Lim to clarify what she means by that, when she addressed this to my party member? Will there be a need for us to lodge a police report that someone is making threats against a member of my party, a potential witness in the ongoing investigations?
Her language and her attempts to wash her hands of her family members is unbecoming of an elected representative.
Equally unbecoming and disappointing is the DAP which continues to refuse to investigate this scandal even though the persons implicated now include not only their ADUN’s father but now her brother and another well-known DAP member who acted as the middleman.
Huan Cheng Guan is vice-president of Parti Cinta Malaysia.
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