On March 27, I had attended the People’s Congress held in Shah Alam and had delivered a speech. In my speech, I had mentioned how BN had used the sale of the Taman Manggis land and the house purchase by Penang chief minister Lim Guan Eng to divert public attention from the Save Malaysia Campaign initiated by Tun Dr Mahathir.
I had said that the company, KLIDC had won the bid in the Taman Manggis land by open tender. The open tender committee was composed of civil servants and chaired by the state secretary of Penang.
I then explained that the house owner Ms Phang has no shares in KLIDC, her company and KLIDC are two separate companies. According to the statutory declaration of Ms Phang, she was willing to sell the house to Lim Guan Eng because there had been a lot of protests and controversies, and even funeral rites held outside the house ever since he moved into the house.
I then said that to Ms Phang, the house might have bad feng shui after it was rented out to Lim Guan Eng. The feng shui that I mentioned was in the context of what Ms Phang had mentioned in her statutory declaration: “……..However, renting the house to them (Lim Guan Eng and his family) had caused me much distress and stress from the BN and NGOs alleging untrue stories about me. By then I decided to sell the house. There were also more incidents in later years from demonstrations and funeral rites held in front of the house, to even molotov cocktails bomb thrown into the house compound which make the house so exposed and unsafe.”
I used the term “bad feng shui “ as I thought that would be easier to make the Kongress attendees understand.
MCA and Gerakan leaders have intentionally taken what I said out of context to attack me and to accuse me of trying to find a new excuse to defend Lim Guan Eng. I was also accused of being over eager to defend him.
Let me say that I will continue to defend Lim Guan Eng because I believe he is a clean chief minister and I believe that there is nothing to hide in his house purchase issue. I know time and investigations will prove that all allegations and attacks against him are baseless. And that is why there is no need for the DAP to hide anything or to create any excuses.
Let me remind Gerakan and MCA that the public can see clearly that their aggressive pursuit of the house purchase issue is an attempt to divert public attention from the 1MDB scandal , the Save Malaysia campaign as well as their lack of courage to speak up against the scandals.