KUALA LUMPUR, March 17 — Pakatan Rakyat (PR) leaders are ready to be taken as hostages if the MH370 flight was indeed hijacked, Pokok Sena MP Datuk Mahfuz Omar told the Dewan Rakyat today.
The PAS lawmaker also suggested that Putrajaya knew the exact location of the missing Boeing 777-20ER plane and that negotiations between the government and the hijackers have begun without public knowledge.
“If the plane is somewhere, tell us where it is. We are ready to be taken as hostages to replace the 239 on board.
“All the information showed that the plane was steered off course. This clearly shows that the plane was hijacked… and I suspect negotiations with the hijackers are already taking place,” he said while debating the Parliamentary Royal Address.
The plane has yet to be found more than a week after it fell off civilian radar on March 8 but investigators believe it was diverted by someone with deep knowledge of the plane and of commercial navigation.
Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak said on Saturday evidence pointed to a deliberate diversion of the flight, given the controlled way it was apparently turned around and flown far to the west of its original route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
The Malaysian government has also come under heat for allegedly being slow to release information, and critics have also claimed such information that has been made public is often conflicting, fuelling speculation that Putrajaya was trying to hide something.
The opposition had previously criticised the Barisan Nasional government for what it described as a chaotic lack of coordination in managing the crisis.
Malaysian officials have denied the allegations.
