KUCHING, Nov 7 — Tupong assemblyman Fazzrudin Abdul Rahman filed a police report tonight calling an investigation into a Facebook account that falsely claimed Chief Minister Tan Sri Adenan Satem wants Sarawak to leave Malaysia.
The PBB state lawmaker said the Facebook account titled “Sarawak Keluar Malaysia 2021” smacked of sedition and jeopardised state-federal ties.
“I feel that the posting has given the impression that the chief minister had threatened to pull out from Malaysia and I feel that the posting is seditious in nature and with bad intention to destabilise the security and peace in the state and relationship between the state and federal governments,” he said after filing the complaint at the Satok police station.
The Sarawak Chief Minister’s Office has since denied Adenan had threatened secession.
In a statement issued earlier this afternoon, the CM’s Office described the Facebook posts as false, malicious and misrepresented the state’s attempts to reclaim Sarawak’s rights.
The offending Facebook page seeks to rally Sarawakians to prepare for secession from Malaysia in five years’ time.
Adenan is spearheading a movement to restore Sarawak’s status to what it was prior to a 1976 amendment to Article 2 of the Federal Constitution that rendered it to being just one of the country’s 14 states and territories.
He is also pressing for the state to be given a greater share of the revenue from the oil extracted from its waters.
