SPEAKER Tan Sri Ramli Ngah Talib rejected an Opposition request to sidestep House rules to allow an emergency motion about a police detainee having to do ear squats in the nude.
The issue was neither critical nor an emergency which needed him to suspend the Standing Orders, he said, in rejecting Opposition Leader Lim Kit Siang's attempt to have it debated.
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