Festive greetings: Ting (second from right) and Yii greeting the public at the Miri Gawai Dayak bazaar.
MIRI: The Sarawak United Peoples Party (SUPP) has called on the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission to immediately lift the freeze on the financial accounts of those timber firms being probed for alleged illegal logging and corruption because of the Gawai Dayak celebrations on Monday.
Thousands of workers from the Dayak communities working in these timber firms would not be able to get their wages if the MACC did not lift the freeze right now, said SUPP secretary general Datuk Sebastian Ting.
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