Hee defends her role, Sivakumar lodges report
- Sun2Surf
IPOH (May 8, 2009): Perak State Assembly Deputy Speaker Hee Yit Foong today defended her role in electing a new speaker during the one-day assembly sitting yesterday, saying that Article 36(a)(1b) of the state constitution empowered her to chair the sitting when it cannot be conducted as usual. 
Hee Yit Foong
(The question is in what circumstances Hee took over, as the speaker is still in power and not disqualified, who is Hee to say that the Speaker cannot control the situation and self appoint herself usurping the power of the speaker when the speaker was still in the house and about to invite HRY Raja Nazrin into the dewan?)
"Although the (former) speaker (V. Sivakumar) was in the House, he had lost the majority support of the House and it (his existence) did not have any effect anymore," she told a news conference. "The motion moved by Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir was clear that once the speaker had lost the majority support of the House, the house will elect a new speaker."
(How can Zambry move a motion as the Speaker had suspended him?)
Hee, who is an independent Jelapang assemblyman, said the assemblymen from DAP (her former party) and Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) surrounded her when she played out her role during the sitting but that the BN assemblymen protected her.
She alleged that an opposition assemblyman threw his copy of the Standing Orders at her but she managed to avoid being hit. She however could not name the person.
She added that she did not leave the chamber for the entire day because she was worried for her safety.
(Worried for safety or worried she being suspended will be thrown out by the Speaker?)
On a report that she tore a RM1 bank note which Aulong assemblyman Yew Tian Hoe "gave" her as an "insulting gesture", Hee clarified that the bank note was torn when she received the money and she had merely shown the House the money by holding up the bank note.
Asked if she had pepper-sprayed Yew during the sitting as reported on television news, she said the device she was holding in her hand was a key chain from her hotel and a pen drive. "I would not give him (Yew) free publicity by pepper spraying him in the House."
Hee, who is a polio victim, also complained she might have been injured during the sitting because of the scuffle among the assemblymen. 
V. Sivakumar
(The question is not about Hee a polio victim, BUT why she did not leave the dewan when the speaker ordered her out? )
"I am disappointed over the negative reports about me and I will not comment on this issue anymore," she said.
( Hee, if you cannot handle simple issue like this how can you manage a dewan in limbo?)
State executive councillor Datuk Hamidah Osman, who was at the press conference, charged that it was the Pakatan Rakyat assemblymen that trespassed the Barisan Nasional territory and attacked the BN assemblymen.
"You can see it from the TV, we had to defend ourselves," she said, adding that it was unfair to blame the BN assemblymen for defending themselves as if they were the ones that created all the chaos.
(Hamidah, did you say PKR cross the borders? What about the 10 BN members who were supposed to be outside the dewan being suspended is still in the dewan creating choas?)
Former Speaker V. Sivakumar yesterday lodged a report at the Ipoh police headquarters on what had happened during the sitting.
In his report, he said he had ordered the 10 suspended assemblymen from BN to leave the House but they had defied his order and illegally moved the motion and created chaos to remove him as the speaker and elected a new speaker for the House.
He also complained about a group of unauthorised personnel who intruded the chamber and forcibly removed him from his speaker seat.
"They dragged me to the floor when taking me away from the seat and I was detained in a room for an hour and against my will," he said.
"I also saw a few assemblymen injured in the process. They were Pasir Pinji's Thomas Su, Pasir Bedamar's Seah Leong Peng, Teja's Chang Lih Kang, Simpang Pulai's Chan Ming Kai and Canning's Wong Kah Woh," he said. 
Datuk Ngeh Koo Ham
Sivakumar also alleged that Hee used a pepper spray to attack Yew.
(Hope the police will take appropriate and unbiased action with intergrity in mind of which we least trust)
Perak DAP chief Datuk Ngeh Koo Ham, who was a senior exco during the PR administration, insists Sivakumar is still the speaker of the Perak Assemby.
"When the speaker has not announced the commencement of the proceedings how can it be legal for the BN elected representatives to unilaterally commence their own assembly sitting within the State Assembly? At that material time and at all material times there was only one legitimate speaker and no other person can commence any proceeding except V. Sivakumar."
(The assembly run by the BN is illegal and therfore null and void, in the eyes of the public, even the assembly under the tree was legal, so what about the sitting in the dewan with speaker in his full attire and power. This episode shows that the BN members blatantly disregard all rules and protocol to garb power)
He said the opening speech of the Regent of Perak was given only at 3.30 pm and the Assembly may begin only thereafter.
"By then V. Sivakumar have been forcibly removed from the House by a group of persons believed to be police personnel. After the opening speech of the Regent of Perak there were no other agenda and the House did not approved any motion or decision."
(The police must investigate why intruders were in the dewan without the Speaker knowledge, and identify all those who defied law to forcefully remove a speaker of the dewan and kidnap him and further detain him in a secret place. This whole episode is criminal in nature as such all those involved must be made to answer charges in an open court witnessed by the public.)
( The bigger question is who orchestrated this rukus in the dewan?)
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