Facebook posting on petition to Queen untrue, says CM Press Sec

The press secretary to the Sarawak Chief Minister, Ambrose Cheng today made a police report at the Gita Police Station here to deny Chief Minister Datuk Amar Abang Johari Tun Openg has ever divulged information to anyone that a petition had been presented to Queen Elizabeth II.

The petition as claimed by a Facebook posting under the account name Aman Shah is to petition for a review of Malaysia Act 1963.

In the posting it was claimed that the Sarawak Legislative Assembly had unanimously agreed to the review and supported by 630,000 petitions.

"The posting is not true and we leave it to the police and MCMC (Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission) to investigate," he said in a press statement here today.

Cheng was accompanied to the police station by two political secretaries to the chief minister, Buang Bolhassan and Petrus Igat Mathias. - BERNAMA