File class action suit against Tommy Thomas, Asyraf Wajdi tells Umno leaders

KUALA LUMPUR - Umno Youth has called for its leaders exonerated from lawsuits initiated by the Attorney-General Office to band together and file a class action suit against former attorney-general Tan Sri Tommy Thomas.

The call to action was voiced by Umno Youth Chief Datuk Dr Asyraf Wajdi Dusuki, who believed that the legal recourse was apt given Thomas’ selective prosecution against the party during the latter’s tenure.

“Once again, the Umno Youth wants the government to immediately establish the Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) to take strict action for all the revelations Tommy Thomas clearly reveals there is selective prosecution and even political interference in the body’s national judiciary.

“What goes around comes around... What you did, that’s how you are treated,” he said during his speech at the 2022 Umno General Assembly (PAU) at Putra World Trade Center.

Asyraf hoped this action would be a lesson that Umno is a party that did not beg for mercy, threats and cruelty.

The government had agreed to set up an RCI to holistically examine the allegations made by Thomas in his book ‘My Story: Justice in the Wilderness’.

Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Law and Institutional Reform) Datuk Seri Azalina Othman Said said the establishment of the RCI was in line with the Commission of Inquiry Act 1950, which was under the jurisdiction of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong.

A total of 961 youth representatives from all around Malaysia joined PAU, which would be held over a four-day period starting yesterday until Jan 14.