{"id":15810,"date":"2020-08-26T18:12:24","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T10:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/?p=15810"},"modified":"2020-08-26T18:12:25","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T10:12:25","slug":"khairuddins-trip-to-turkey-was-kept-a-secret-from-dg-tan-sri-dr-noor-hisham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/khairuddins-trip-to-turkey-was-kept-a-secret-from-dg-tan-sri-dr-noor-hisham\/","title":{"rendered":"Khairuddin’s trip to Turkey was kept a secret from DG Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The admission  by the Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah that top Ministry officials were in the dark about Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Mohd Khairuddin Aman Razali’s violation of home quarantine rules until last week is quite a shocker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At yesterday\u2019s press conference, Noor Hisham admitted that he, along with the ministry\u2019s deputy director-general and head of infectious diseases, were not informed about the matter until it made the news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said he instructed an internal investigation to be held and he has received the full report of what happened from the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khairuddin has established quite a number of new political records \u2013 including having close to 50,000 people signing an online petition asking him to resign as Minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Khairuddin\u2019s violation of the Covid-19 quarantine SOP was revealed by Teresa Kok in Parliament, it caused a national furor of anger and outrage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khairuddin then proceed to spread misinformation about the trip, such as: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

1) Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin had approved Khairuddin\u2019s trip<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2) There was a \u201cspecial test\u201d for Ministers and VVIPs so that they could leave and return to the country<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3) Turkey was at the time as \u201cgreen country (zone)\u201d when in fact it was one of the epicentres of the global Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a result, an online petition was started calling on Khairuddin to resign<\/a> as a Cabinet Minister. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Khairuddin completely misread the public mood and sentiment when he expressed his apology and his \u201cdonation\u201d of his salary as a Minister from May to August to the Covid19 Fund  – as if money is the answer to what is morally right and wrong, together with the growing abomination of double standards in Malaysian public life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Prime Minister\u2019s statement one week after the Khairuddin charade and the government\u2019s\u00a0other anodyne responses are just not adequate enough to satisfy the larger Malaysian population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What has Muhyiddin and the government to hide over the public disclosure of the Health Ministry\u2019s internal investigation on Khairuddin\u2019s violation of the Covid 19 quarantine SOP?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I call on Muhyiddin to instantly make public the report of the Health Ministry internal investigation on Khairuddin\u2019s violation of the Covid 19 quarantine SOP and let the axe  fall where it may.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LIM KIT SIANG<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The admission  by the Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah that top Ministry officials were in the dark about Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Mohd Khairuddin Aman Razali’s violation of home quarantine rules until last week is quite a shocker. At yesterday\u2019s press conference, Noor Hisham admitted that he, along with the ministry\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,260],"tags":[775],"class_list":["post-15810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cover-story","category-current","tag-khairuddin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15810"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15825,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15810\/revisions\/15825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}