KUALA LUMPUR, March 12 ― Umno wants its Parit Sulong MP Datuk Noraini Ahmad to head Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) after the incumbent chairman Datuk Seri Ronald Kiandee quit the party.
Umno secretary-general Tan Sri Annuar Musa told Malay Mail that Noraini's name was submitted before today’s Dewan Rakyat sitting.
“We submitted only one name, because it depends on how the government wants to interpret it, as they want an Opposition member to head the Committee,” Annuar said when met in Parliament today.
In December, Kiandee said that he will not resign as PAC chairman, even though he had left Umno.
The Beluran MP said it will be unfair for the PAC if he vacated the position now when Parliament is taking a break.
“Once the chairman resigns, the PAC cannot call for a meeting. It would be an injustice for the PAC because they cannot appoint a new chairman until the next Parliament session,” he had said.
He said he would leave it to Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad to decide whether he should resign as PAC chairman.
On December 12, Sabah Umno saw the exit of nine out of ten state assemblymen and five out of six MPs, two senators, two supreme council members and a majority of its state committee.
The mass exodus left the party with an assemblyman and one MP in Datuk Seri Musa Aman (Sungai Sibuga) and Datuk Bung Moktar Radin (Kinabatangan) respectively.
Bung is now the Sabah Umno liaison chief.
