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Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Witness: Anwar conspired against Dr M while pledging support in public


Former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim was conspiring to topple then prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohammad even as he publicly pledged support for him, the Kuala Lumpur High Court was told today.
The witness Lokman Noor Adam testified that Anwar had voiced support for Mahathir at the 1998 Umno general assembly, and he was there to hear Anwar's speech. Mahathir was the Umno president at the time, with Anwar as his deputy.
Hence, Lokman said he was shocked when he learned that soon after the assembly, Anwar's then political secretary Ezam Mohd Nor asked to meet him and three others.
"Ezam asked me to join Anwar's movement to topple Mahathir.
“He said Anwar could no longer work with the prime minister and Anwar is ready to stand for Umno presidency,” he said during his examination-in-chief by lawyer Muhammad Shafee Abdullah as the fourth defendant witness.
He said Anwar was looking for support to run his machinery in the campaign for party presidency.
Lokman was testifying at Anwar’s RM100 million defamation suit against Umno Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin, for supposedly implying that Anwar is a homosexual during a 2008 speech in Lembah Pantai.
Khairy had told the court yesterday his words had a ‘lesser meaning’, and that he actually intended to mean that Anwar is ‘playing’ or ‘betraying’ DAP and PAS for political advantage.
He also claimed as part of his defence that Anwar had betrayed his political allies before.
Meanwhile, Lokman told the court presided by Judicial Commissioner Azizul Azmi Adnan that he wanted to verify the authenticity of what he had been told, so we approached then Umno Youth chief Ahmad Zahid Hamidi’s special officer.
There, Lokman said, he was told the same thing – that Anwar had told him that he could no longer work with Mahathir and intends to run for Umno presidency.
Lokman also told the court that this was the real reason Anwar had been sacked on Sept 2, 1998, rather than the allegations of sodomy and abuse of power that was raised against him.
Shortly after, he too was sack, together with Ezam.
‘Wan Azizah, Azmin sought funds from George Soros’
Lokman said he had been a supporter of Anwar, until he was supposedly betrayed by Keadilan – a party that later became known PKR.
He was a Keadilan supreme council member and Youth secretary at the time.
“He (Anwar) was my idol, until I was betrayed in 2004. I was sacked from the party after I criticised the president Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail and (deputy president) Azmin Ali because they went to Washington to meet (the financier) George Soros to get funds for the 2004 general election,” he told the court.
He added that the Keadilan supreme council was in the dark about the meeting, and that the council had recommended that Lokman be merely suspended.
However, he said Wan Azizah had insisted that he should be sacked.
Anwar’s lawyer J Leela and Latheefa Koya are slated to cross-examine Lokman when the hearing resumes on Thursday.
Earlier today, The Star’s chief news editor Devid Rajah and New Straits Times digital editor Ahmad Najmuddin Abmad Najib testified as the defendant’s third and fourth witness respectively.
They tendered several news articles to the court, including those regarding Anwar’s former associates S Nallakaruppan and Khalid Ibrahim.

However, Leela objected to this on grounds of admissibility, relevance, and the fact that the actual writer for these articles are not being called to testify.
Azizul said the editors’ testimonies are adequate if the defence intended to show the fact that these articles are being written about Anwar, but not so if they are meant to show Anwar’s character, in which case more witnesses would need to be called.
However, he allowed the defendant’s counsel Sarah Abishegam to proceed, reiterating that he would rule on the admissibility of the articles and other defence witnesses’ testimonies that the plaintiff’s lawyers had objected to later, after hearing submissions from the parties.- Mkini

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