PETALING JAYA: DAP national adviser Lim Kit Siang urged Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak today to set aside the last day of Parliament on Thursday to discuss the disappearance of Malaysian Airline flight MH370.
He said it was now Najib’s responsibility to give the Parliament a more prominent role to play at a time when the nation was gripped in a major crisis.
He added that Najib only had to give the House a one-day notice to table a motion of public interest, unlike Pakatan Rakyat MPs’ 14-day notice.
“It is therefore incumbent on the Prime Minister to have a motion moved and debated for the whole of Thursday on the MH370 tragedy
“As the country whose aircraft with 239 passengers and crew from 14 countries has disappeared without clues after four weeks, it will be a disgrace and shame if the Malaysian Parliament is less concerned than other legislatures on the disaster,” he said in a statement today.
He said MPs should discuss whether the Parliament should initiate a global parliamentary inquiry into the MH370 disaster.
Previously DAP’s Seremban MP Anthony Loke had tabled a motion to amend the motion of thanks to the King to include the formation of a Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC), but it was turned down.
Speaker Pandikar Amin Mulia had said that the formation of the PSC should be tabled separately.
The government has said it would only consider setting up a PSC once the plane is found.
The Malaysia Airline jetliner lost communications and vanished from civilian air traffic radar an hour after take off from the Kuala Lumpur International Airport on a routine flight to Beijing, China.
