Pakatan rep: Police officer squeezed my private parts

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PAKATAN Rakyat assemblyman Nga Kor Ming (DAP-Pantai Remis) is claiming that a police officer squeezed his private parts during a scuffle outside the state assembly hall yesterday.

“It is tremendously shocking and unthinkable that a policeman can assault an assemblyman in this manner,” Nga said after lodging a report against the officer at the city police headquarters here.

Nga told reporters that other Pakatan assemblymen and him were about to enter the House when police stopped and ordered them to surrender their cameras and other recording devices.

“We refused,” he said.

It was then that the scuffle began.

At the same time, former Speaker V. Sivakumar (DAP-Tronoh) also lodged two police reports.

The first is against the police for using excessive force to the extent of manhandling Pakatan assemblymen. Sivakumar told pressmen that shortly after passing though the main gates of the State Secretariat building, dozens of policemen had crowded around him to get him to give up the Speaker’s official robe and songkok.

Sivakumar, who claimed he was strangled by the cops, said the robe he was wearing was eventually ripped off by the policemen.

“Barisan Nasional Speaker Datuk R. Ganesan claims that I had stolen the robe but I did not,” said Sivakumar.

“I was merely protecting the robe as a symbol of democracy. I did not return the robe because I am the legitimate Speaker,” said Sivakumar while waving a strip from the robe.

He claimed that the incident at the car park had been planned.

Sivakumar went on to say that never in history had any elected representative been scanned or had his body searched before entering the state assembly hall.

Meanwhile, former Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin (PAS-Pasir Panjang) pledged to post recordings of the alleged police brutality on blogs and YouTube.

He said Pakatan’s next move would be to organise roadshows to explain to the people about what transpired yesterday.

Nizar added that he and fellow Pakatan assemblymen, Datuk Ngeh Koo Ham (DAP-Sitiawan) and Nga would bring up the matter in Parliament.

The second police report was over a circular purportedly issued by Sivakumar stating that Nizar would be proposing the Budget for 2010 and dissolution of the state assembly at the Heritage Hotel here at 11am yesterday.