Ku Li: Repeal OSA, set up new commission to fight corruption

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 8 Putrajaya should cruise repealing a Official Secrets Act (OSA) to quarrel crime as well as capacitate great governance, former apportion Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah today said.
Tengku Razaleigh, popularly known as Ku Li, pronounced which Malaysians who gave report upon alleged wrongdoings should be stable instead of punished, adding which this is "consistent with a thought of great governance."
He pronounced Malaysia should stop using a OSA, which prohibits a avowal as well as circulation of supervision secrets, against those who move a public's attention to a scandalous wrongdoing.
"Specifically, it is time we seriously thought about repealing a Official Secrets Act. At a really least, a OSA should be reviewed.
"Its existence is akin to carrying a sword of Damocles swinging upon top of a people's necks which instil fright in to them," Tengku Razaleigh(picture)said during a 78th Rotary International District 3300 discussion in Petaling Jaya earlier today.
A copy of a speech, patrician "Leadership in Challenging Times" was done available toThe Malaysian Insider.
The Kelantan king who is additionally a sovereign lawmaker pronounced a OSA's legal provision of prison judgment for those who go against a decades-old law by disclosing state secrets "must be done away with in a name of justice".
He pronounced a open should be legally stable from being charged in court for trying to entrance information, "even if which square of report embarrasses a supervision of a day".
"Only in this approach could transparence as well as great governance be exercised, as well as excesses in a action of a authority be checked as well as eliminated."
Earlier on, he pronounced a government's practice of "sho! oting a messenger" to reduce embarassment was "neither right nor honourable" as well as should be stopped.
Tengku Razaleigh, who is additionally Gua Musang MP, proposed which Malaysia sets up a Truth as well as Reconciliation Commission to tackle corruption.
The elect must have a status of a court of law to give it "enough bite" upon those who are corrupt, he said.
The elect should additionally be empowered to grant freedom to those who own up during a "grace period" to aggregation wealth by hurtful ways as well as abuse of power.
"Upon entrance in to force, a elect could, for instance, acknowledgement a beauty period of, say, six or twelve months or such other in accord with period to allow abusers to come clean as well as have amends for their misdeeds," Tengku Razaleigh said.
No action will be taken during a beauty period, but a full force of a law will be practical if a declarant was later found to have lied, he added.
A hurtful person receiving advantage of this freedom would need to go by rehabilitation, whilst both givers as well as takers of bribes will need to acknowledgement which they will not practise crime again as well as express regret for carrying indulged in it.
Earlier in his speech, a Umno MP had noted which a younger era appear to be artificial over many things together with cronyism, nepotism, corruption, as well as a miss of commercial operation opportunities for those but domestic connections.
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