Latiff Abdul Rahman should be given the chance to call a meeting of the PSC on Agencies under the Prime Minister’s Department in the first week of October , and if he refuses, the other seven members of the PSC should move a motion of no confidence in the Chairman so that a new Chairman could be appointed

The Chairman of the Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) on Agencies under the Prime Minister’s Department, Latiff Abdul Rahman, the MP for Kuala Krai, should be given the chance to call a meeting of his PSC in the first week of parliamentary meeting in October, and if he refuses, the other seven members of the PSC should move a motion of no confidence in Latiff as Chairman so that a new Chairman could be appointed.

The PSC on Agencies under the Prime Minister’s Department has many uncompleted and new business which it could not ignore if it is to be a competent and efficient PSC. These uncompleted and new business include:

• The Chief Commissioner of Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) Azam Baki‘s conflict-of-interest in owning a vast amount of corporate equity which had not been publicly disclosed;
• Azam’s statement nearly two month ago that the MACC would soon announce the findings of its investigation into the failed RM9 billion contract for six littoral combat ships (LCS) which began several years ago, but nothing has happened so far.
• Azam’s statement in July that Transparency International (TI)’s Corruption Perception Index (CPI) does not necessarily reflect the actual corruption situation of a country and that the CPI measures the perceptions of corruption in the public sector in different countries and wasn’t factual nor based on evidence. Does Azam’s criticism of TI CPI meant that MACC now does not support the National Integrity Plan target for Malaysia to be among the top 30 countries in the world in public integrity with the least corruption?
• The PSC should ask what MACC is doing to ensure that Malaysia does not lose out to Indonesia, China and India, as well as to more countries in the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) in the TI CPI series by the end of this decade.
• Outcome of MACC investigations into individuals named in the Ultra Kirana Sdn. Bhd. (UKSB) ledger as disclosed during the corruption trial of UMNO President and former Home Minister, Zahid Hamidi.

Will Malaysian Parliament create parliamentary history by having a vote of no confidence in the Chairman of a Parliamentary Select Committee?