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ALOR SETAR: The committee to end the Declaration of Emergency established by the opposition has no legal power to end its implementation, said Minister of the Prime Minister’s Department (Parliament and Law) Datuk Seri Takiyuddin Hassan (photo).
He said that only the Special Independent Emergency Committee 2021, established under Section 2 of the Emergency (Essential Powers) Ordinance 2021, had the power according to the legal provisions to advise the Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah if the emergency can be ended before or on the stipulated date of August 1 or extended.
“Opposition MPs should use their representatives (in the Special Independent Emergency Committee 2021 to express their opinions), they have representatives from PKR, DAP, Amanah.
“Use these representatives because we give them the opportunity to show that this government is transparent,” he told reporters after attending the Malaysia Prihatin Program today.
He was commenting on the creation of an independent body known as the Committee to End the Emergency Declaration chaired by Shah Alam’s MP Khalid Abdul Samad, who launched a petition calling for an immediate end to the emergency.
Meanwhile, Takiyuddin explained that the Emergency (Essential Powers) Ordinance (No. 2) 2021, which was published on Friday, allowed for immediate compliance measures to be taken to curb fake news about Covid-19, as well as the Proclamation of Emergency.
He said that without the ordinance, law enforcement personnel would have to follow normal procedures, which can be time consuming when investigating fake news cases under existing legal provisions.
“The Minister of Communications and Multimedia (Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah) informed me that even before this ordinance was issued, almost 300 cases (of fake news) had been recorded involving complaints made to the police and the Communications and Multimedia Commission of Malaysia (MCMC). .
“Since the existing law requires a lengthy procedure, the MCMC must verify who is the owner of the (social media) account and such. So sometimes it can take months, but under this ordinance, this can be sped up, ”he said.
For example, he said, there are a handful of people with certain goals, like what anti-vaccines are doing, spreading false and confusing news about the Covid-19 vaccine.
“The government has spent billions of ringgit to bring the vaccines. These vaccines have also been approved by the WHO (World Health Organization). What else should we trust … the world health body has already confirmed that vaccines are good and necessary.
“But there are still some who talk about side effects and things like that. These kinds of things are an example of the spread of fake news that will be addressed under the ordinance, ”he said. – Called
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