It is also the case that members are immune from civil or criminal proceedings for what they say in parliament. The view from the AG’s chambers that even the committees of parliament cannot be convened impedes parliament from carrying out its functions. While the Covid-19 pandemic is a major crisis, an emergency certainly, the declaration of an Emergency in the Malaysian context has specific connotations. When it listed FGV at an IPO price of RM4.50, FELDA received RM6 billion and FGV itself received RM4.9 billion. Again, parliamentary oversight, on top of ministerial and regulatory oversight, could have prevented all this.

Source: The Edge Markets March 02, 2021 04:07 UTC