Former Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s keen ability to stay in the headlines strikes again, as the still influential icon says he has no problems withbeing charged under the contentious Sedition Act 1948.
Mahathir apparently made the remark in an oblique response to DAP lawmaker Lim Lip Eng’s decision to file a police report against Mahathir for allegedly making seditious remarks against DAP adviser Lim Kit Siang in the run-up to last year’s 13th General Elections.
“Well, I am just an ordinary citizen now. If I am supposed to be arrested under the law, then go ahead,” Mahathir said, as quoted by The Star Online‘s D Kanyakumari.
He added that as a politician, he was accepting of those who condemn him.
Home Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamid earlier stated that the all sedition cases would be probed within 24 hours of being instigated.
In response to the announcement, Lim Kit Siang asked if Mahathir would be among those investigated by the police, as he had made allegedly seditious remarks concerning Kit Siang’s motivations for contesting the Gelang Patah parliamentary seat in the 13th General Elections.
