BUKIT MERTAJAM: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has firmly stated that the government has not concealed any addendum related to former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak’s purported house arrest.
Anwar said the issue surrounding the addendum, which would allow Najib to serve the remainder of his sentence under house arrest, was not discussed during the Pardons Board meeting in 2023.
“I was part of the board in 2023 as I was serving as Federal Territories Minister at the time,” he said.
“During the meeting, this matter (addendum) was not raised while I was present, nor was it brought up when Dr Zaliha Mustafa (Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department [Federal Territories]) was there. That is the reality — nothing was hidden,” he said when officiating the ‘Muhibbah Madani’ programme here today.
The prime minister said he needed to respond to the two-week-old accusation that the government had concealed the documents because they involved legal matters that needed to be fully understood.
