The Kluang MP responds to report that camp at Sembrong, Johor, won't be ready before the 14th general election.
PETALING JAYA: Kluang MP Liew Chin Tong today challenged the defence minister to ensure there won’t be shifting of voters to areas such as Segamat, Hutan Melintang (Bagan Datuk), Bera, Pagoh, and Paloh (Sembrong) before the next polls.
Liew was responding to a statement by Sembrong Umno Youth chief Onn Hafiz Ghazi, who said the MP’s statement that Defence Minister Hishammuddin Hussein had lied about the construction of a military camp in Sembrong, Johor, was baseless and malicious.
“The general election is just a few months away.
“Hishammuddin should commit to not shifting voters into the yet-to-be-completed camps,” Liew said.
“My statement was in response to Hishammuddin boasting that he would not build a camp in his own Sembrong constituency for electoral purposes,” he said in a brief response to FMT.
Liew, who is also Johor DAP chairman, claimed the defence minister was not telling the truth and said he would issue a full statement later.
Bernama had reported Onn as saying that besides manipulating the answer given by the defence minister, Liew’s statement was also aimed at confusing the people and shaking their confidence in Hishammuddin, who is also Sembrong MP.
“If the plan to build a military camp in Sembrong was politically motivated, as claimed by Liew, Hishammuddin will certainly have made sure the construction of the camp will be completed before the 14th general election (GE14).
“But that will not happen at all as the camp is still under construction and may not be completed before the GE14,” the political secretary to the defence minister said in a statement yesterday.
Liew had earlier accused Hishammuddin of lying when he denied that an army camp was being built in his Sembrong constituency in Johor.
Liew said the camp was under construction in Paloh, a state seat within the Sembrong constituency.
“He is clearly lying because there is an army camp being built in his constituency,” he said in response to Hishammuddin’s denial that army camps were being built for political purposes.
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