Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe by Email Assemblyman Hee’s version of holding a pepper spray. Looks like she’s ready to use it one someone instead of asking who it belongs too. Do you hold a pepper spray like to use it or to show it? Your guess is as good as mine.
She said it was thrown at her during the assembly. She said she does not know how to even operate such a device, and that she had held it up to Aulong assemblyman Yew Tian Hoe to demand if he was the one who had flung it at her.
From Malaysiakini:
She is now claiming that the canister allegedly used against DAP Aulong assemblyperson Yew Tian Hoe did not belong to her.
Hee claimed that someone from the assembly sitting had thrown the canister in her direction and she had just picked it up from the floor and asked Yew whether the item belonged to him. She said that is all she did.
She denied using the pepper spray on Yew as alleged by DAP and the media.
Earlier, she said it was her hotel key-chain. Funny how key-chain can transform into a pepper spray. Must be one of those new Decepticon add-ons.
On May 8, at a press conference, Hee had claimed that she pointed her hotel key-chain and not a pepper spray canister at Yee.
However, a close-up clip taken during the assembly did show Hee pointing what appeared to be a pepper spray canister at Yew, and not a hotel key-chain as she had claimed earlier.
However she denied using the spray, pointing out that the Aulong assemblyman would have suffered for at least two day is she sprayed on him (hmm…for someone who doesn’t know how to use it, she sure knows how long the suffering is).
One another note, Hee claimed that she had the authority to hold the proceedings in accordance to Article 36A(1) (b) of the state constitution. Malaysiakini notes that:
However, the entire Article 36A makes no mention of the deputy speaker’s powers. Instead, it provides technical details such as the speaker’s renumeration and how the speaker can be disqualified if found to have commercial interests.
However, Article 36A(3) reads: “During the absence of the speaker from a sitting of the legislative assembly, such members as may be determined by the rules of procedure (standing orders) of the assembly, shall act as speaker.”
The question that begs to be answered is when Sivakumar was sitting in the speaker’s chair during the conduct of the sub-assembly, how did Hee assume the power to conduct the sub- assembly?
