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Wednesday, July 16, 2014

DAP Junz Wong suspended for lying in State Assembly

KOTA KINABALU - Likas Assemblyman Wong Hon Jun, or better known as Junz Wong, is facing a six-month suspension following the completion of investigation by the Rights and Privileges Committee.

It was learnt that the Committee had recommended a six-month suspension and a motion to adopt the recommendation would be tabled today (Wednesday).

Wong who was met after the assembly adjourned Tuesday, confirmed receiving a letter informing him about the suspension. It was learnt that the committee found that Wong had lied in the House when discussing the incident involving a young woman who claimed to have been attacked at Suria Mall here last year.

Opposition leader in the State Assembly Datuk Lajim Ukin, when asked for comment, said they would not let the decision on Wong to be meted out just like that.

"All the Pakatan assemblymen will debate the issue and present the facts and evidence on why Junz should not be suspended," he said after chairing the opposition's own "pre-council" meeting at the State Legislative Assembly on Tuesday.

"We hope the Speaker will give us the opportunity before making the final decision," said Lajim. Wong who is also DAP Sabah organising secretary was referred to the committee in the previous sitting after Deputy Chief Minister Tan Sri Joseph Pairin Kitingan raised a point under the Standing Order 90 (5).

"I want to put forth to this House a big blunder, a fiasco committed by our Assemblyman from Likas on the issue of the alleged assault on a woman in Suria KK earlier this year," he said.

"Today, we know for a fact that this assault never took place.

There was no attempted robbery, no assault and no injury happened to this woman. It was all fabricated.

"What is his real motive and more importantly DAP's real motive in jumping the gun on spreading a so-called crime that we all now know didn't happen at Suria Sabah," he said.

Pairin had said Wong's action was reckless and can be construed as malicious in spreading this so-called crime that went viral in the social media.

He apologised later but his apology was a bit too late, said Pairin.

Pairin also raised Standing Order 43(11) © that a member must not say things that incite ill feelings among the communities.

Pairin presented two documents as evidence namely, a copy of the Hansard dated April 15 and a newsclip of the Daily Express on the girl's statement.

According to Pairin, in the Hansard, Wong was recorded as telling the House that he went to the police station after the girl lodged the police report and that he would not have known the woman was lying.

But, Pairin said in the Daily Express report, Wong was reported as saying that the woman finally lodged the report on Jan 7 after she received much persuasion from Wong. "So clearly here, the Likas Assemblyman has lied to the House, so he should be referred to the House Rights and Privilege Committee," Pairin told the Speaker.

The incident purportedly happened on Jan 6 this year where the unidentified woman in her 20s claimed she was attacked and received slash wound to her arm while exiting the mall.

However, on Jan 22, in a press conference that was attended by Wong at Suria Mall, the woman confessed she made the whole thing up but at the same time she had no intention for it to be published.

She claimed it was her friend in the DAP Youth who uploaded pictures of her wound on the social media, Facebook without her knowledge.

Suria Mall had also clarified that the CCTV at the alleged scene did not show any footage of a bleeding woman exiting the mall during the alleged time of the incident.

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