Nazri big mouth gets him in trouble again!

Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz revealed today that Bukit Gelugor MP Karpal Singh can represent the Attorney-General (A-G) and prosecute Datuk V.K. Lingam.

Nazri stressed that the government has no reason to defend Lingam and that veteran lawmaker can charge him.

“If Karpal is willing to represent the A-G, I will persuade the AG to engage Karpal to prosecute on the behalf of the government,” he told reporters at the parliament lobby here. “Let him charge ... the government has no reason to defend Lingam.”

Lingam was implicated in a scandal involving senior judges and found by a royal commission to be the person recorded “fixing” the appointment of judges.

The royal commission found strong evidence against Lingam and in its report suggested that action be taken against him and others implicated in the infamous “correct, correct, correct” recording.

Other figures implicated include Eusoff, Tun Ahmad Fairuz Sheikh Abdul Halim and tycoon Vincent Tan, a close friend of former premier Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

Nazri explained that Lingam’s action may have been “morally wrong” but stressed that federal prosecutor could not charge him because there are no specific laws against it.

“Give me a section under any Act to charge Lingam. Give me an offence,” he added.

Karpal sounded surprised when he was later asked about Nazri’s offer.
“I am prepared to charge Lingam on the AG's behalf ... what has to be done now is for Nazri to shoot me a fiat (an authoritative order),” said Karpal.

He also hoped that Nazri would not retract the offer and, instead, help expedite the procedures to allow him to take action against Lingam.

Karpal later said that it was common in England for the government to allow private law practitioners to prosecute on behalf of the Queen’s counsel.

“In this country there is a provision in the law for the A-G to issue a certificate which is a fiat to prosecute someone. I call upon Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz to advise the Attorney-General to issue that letter of fiat for the purpose of prosecuting V.K. Lingam,” he told reporters at a press conference in the Parliament lobby.

Karpal pointed out under section five of the Seditious Act (1948), “no person shall be prosecuted for an offence under section four without the written consent of the Public Prosecutor (A-G).

This Nazri is not very smart. He big mouth has put him in a no win situation!

Now if he does not get the AG to allow Kapal Singh to prosecute Lingam, people will say Nazri chicken out!

If he does allow Kapal Singh to prosecute Lingam and KS win, then people will say the AG and Nazri are incompetent!

If KS losses then the people will say that KS tried his best but the courts were bias and corrupted.

But what I guess will happen is that Nazri will hide behind the AG and say that the AG does not agree to this proposition.

A stupid and lame excuse since Nazri is the AG's boss lah!