With the nomination day still 10 days away (28/4/2018), Barisan Nasional (BN) flags have been up in nearly every nook and corner of the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur.
Understandably, this has certainly irked city folks especially when the flags clearly mar the beauty of their residential places, and Taman Tun Dr Ismail which comes under my former Segambut Constituency, is no difference with its otherwise beautiful landscapes.
Anyone would be angry when they wake up the next morning seeing the blue flags flying, when they should not be up yet. By right, the Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) should have acted by removing the flags.
Instead, we have residents who decided to remove the flags on their own accord. By now, the BN leaders should have realised their efforts to be the first ones to put the flags has indeed backfired.
Under no circumstances, three ladies would want to remove these flags unless they themselves are driven by a strong sense of justice that these flags should not have been there in the first place.
Although I do not personally condone the act of destroying the flags of any political parties by anyone, to have the three ladies detained by the police is just uncalled for. They are apparently just ordinary citizens who are frustrated with the BN administration. I believe none of them has any criminal record.
By putting these three ladies under detention for further investigation instead of another politician who was tested positive for drugs is a gross injustice done toward the civil society.
By right, the authorities should have punished those are responsible for putting the BN flags all over KL before April 28 instead of these three ladies who were probably concerned about their Taman.
Put it crudely, they were trying to help DBKL to clean up the ubiquitous flags, since these flags were up before the nomination day; therefore, without the DBKL’s permission. It is definitely wrong of the police to detain these three ordinary citizens who are just being civil minded.
As we understand it, under normal police standard operating procedures, the police would normally not arrest anyone unless a serious offence complaint had been lodged.
In this case, the Kuala Lumpur police chief, Commissioner Datuk Seri Mazlan Lazim is urged to disclose which political party from BN had lodged the police report and what possible serious crimes have been committed by the trio that warranted their arrests.