Press Statement By DAP Secretary-General And MP For Bagan Lim Guan Eng In Kuala Lumpur On 16.6.2016.
Urban Wellbeing, Housing and Local Government Minister Abdul Rahman Dahlan should stop behaving like a headless chicken trying to chicken out from his own challenge to debate me by entrapping me to sue him for defamation, where he can then rely on the excuse that the debate cannot proceed because it is sub judice. This is a classic tactic of cowards; similar to the explanation used by a person accused of murdering both his parents pleading for clemency because he is an orphan.
To jog the memory of Abdul Rahman, it was Rahman that first challenged me to a public debate televised on TV3 or RTM. When I immediately accepted, Abdul Rahman panicked and fled overseas for 10 days. When he returned home, he relied on the inspector-general of police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar to save his neck, when Khalid adviced that the debate should be called off pending investigations by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission(MACC).
I regret that Abdul Rahman has continued to lie that I called him a political whore. I have never used such vulgar language against him.
As for me filing a defamation suit, I can always do so, after the publicly televised debate. I have 6 years to file a defamation suit and he should be patient. Let us get on with the debate first. I will not allow Rahman to chicken out from the debate and get off the hook so easily.
Abdul Rahman has dishonestly exploited BN media outlets to conduct a public vilification exercise to destroy me politically and distract attention from the real corruption scandal of 1MDB RM50 billion scandal and the RM4.2 billion donation scandal. By using MACC investigations against me as his excuse to call off his own debate, but yet contradicting himself by harping on the matter even though MACC investigations are still ongoing, his continued actions lend suspicions of this Minister’s actions that could influence investigations for political reasons.
LIM GUAN ENG
—-Mandarin Version–
民主行动党秘书长兼峇眼区国会议员林冠英于2016年6月16日在吉隆坡发表声明：
阿都拉曼应该停止像一只无头苍蝇，挑战我辩论之后又变缩头乌龟，以为我会上当告他诽谤，他就可以用“案件正在审理之中，不宜公开评论”为藉口来停止辩论。
乡区福利、房屋及地方部长阿都拉曼应该停止像一只无头苍蝇，挑战我辩论之后又变缩头乌龟，以为我会上当告他诽谤，他就可以用“案件正在审理之中，不宜公开评论”为藉口来停止辩论。这就是懦弱者最常用的伎俩，正如谋杀父母的杀人嫌疑犯以自己是孤儿为理由来求情。
让我来帮阿都拉曼回忆一下，是他首先挑战我在第三电视或国营电台与他辩论。我接受挑战后，他就害怕到出国10天。他回国之后，还依赖总警长丹斯里卡立阿布峇卡来设一个下台阶给他，卡立指出有关辩论必须取消，因为反贪污委员会还在进行有关案件的调查。
对于阿都拉曼一直撒谎指我叫他“政治妓女”，我感到遗憾。我从来没有用那么粗的语言骂他。
我可以随时提告他诽谤，那将是在公开电视辩论之后。我有六年的时间可以告他诽谤，他要有耐心。让我们先辩论吧！我绝不对轻易地让拉曼就此退出辩论，像个缩头乌龟。
阿都拉曼不老实地利用国阵媒体，进行一系列的公众诋毁，企图在政治上毁掉我，转移视线，让人民不再关注一马机构500亿令吉的大丑闻以及42亿令吉的捐款丑闻。一方面他利用反贪委会正审理案件为藉口，取消自己挑战的辩论，另一方面自相矛盾，一直公平评论有关课题，他的行为举止让人怀疑，他是不是可以基于政治因素影响调查工作。
林冠英