MAY 2 — I wish to refer to the case of the four academics namely Associate Prof Shamrahayu Abdul Aziz of IIUM, Fareed Mohd Hassan and Hisham Hanapi of USIM and Prof Rahmat Mohamad of UITM who together offered advice to the Conference of Rulers on the above subject recently.
Being employed by public institutions they are all public servants. As such my contention is that they are guilty on three counts as follows:
First, unless they had received prior permission from their respective vice chancellors, they went over the heads in offering advice to the Conference of Rulers.
Second, they went against government policy which had already agreed to accede to the Rome Statute.
Third, they gave erroneous advice against acceding to the Rome Statute.
Indeed, they were invited to an open forum on April 27 to defend their views but they all either declined or did not respond.
Therefore, I am of the opinion that their positions in their respective universities are no longer tenable.
* This is an open letter from Tan Sri Alwi Jantan to the Minister of Education Maszlee Malik.
** This is the personal opinion of the writer or publication and does not necessarily represent the views of Malay Mail.
