As what I told Anwar earlier this week when we quarreled about me being too vocal: you should be happy that I still speak out. That means I still care. When I keep quiet that is when you should start getting worried. That means I no longer care a damn.
THE CORRIDORS OF POWER
Raja Petra Kamarudin
Rahimi under no duress when signing SDs, trio claim
(The Star) - Two PKR Youth exco members and a driver have refuted claims by Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s former aide that he was forced to sign a statutory declaration (SD) implicating Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak and wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor in a sodomy case involving Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan.
They said the aide Rahimi Osman was never under duress when he signed the declaration.
Amirzudin Ahmad, Zulkifli Ibrahim and Dzulimran Md Nasar, who is Rahimi’s former driver, claimed they were with Rahimi when he signed the SD at Quality Hotel in Shah Alam on June 28, 2008.
They also denied Rahimi’s claim that he was held captive in the hotel.
Amirzudin, who spoke on behalf of the other two, said Rahimi even went to watch a live telecast of a football match at TV3’s Seri Pentas and later had coffee at a nearby mamak stall.
“There was no way that he was held captive as claimed,” he told a press conference at PKR headquarters here yesterday.
Also present were PKR information chief Latheefa Koya and lawyer for the three, N. Surendran.
Rahimi last week lodged a police report claiming that he was forced to sign the SD which was prepared by Latheefa.
Another Anwar’s former aide, Mohd Rasid Rosdi had also lodged similar report, claiming that he, too, was confined in the same hotel with Rahimi and made to sign a SD prepared by Latheefa against his will.
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