Kuala Lumpur city police have given assurances that as long as it obeys the law, the #BERSIH4 street demonstration planned for August 29 and 30 may proceed without any obstruction.
KL city police shief Tajuddin Md Isa told The Malay Mail Online‘s Syed Jamal Zahiid that the PDRM will even assist organisers Bersih 2.0 in coordinating the mass rally if they go through the proper channels.
“They can do it as long as it is done according to and with respect to the law. We don’t have a problem.
“In fact we can help facilitate the rally if they write a letter in. As I said, just do it properly,” he said last night.
Tajuddin’s remarks were in stark contrast to his superior’s, as Inspector-General of Police Khalid Abu Bakar gave a “final warning” to the organisers of this Saturday’s #TangkapNajib protest to cancel their plans, and to deny that they intended to “topple the government” by way of inciting the people to take to the streets.
Yesterday, the Bersih 2.0 steering committee announced that it would organise the #BERSIH4 rally in KL, Kuching, and Kota Kinabalu over an unprecedented two days beginning at 2pm on August 29.
The rally will call for the resignation of Prime Minister Najib Razak and the assurance that clean elections, clean government, salvation of the national economy from the 1MDB scandal, and the rakyat‘s right to dissent be enshrined.
