Wan Junaidi denies 'sensitive' statement


PUTRAJAYA: Deputy Home Minister Datuk Dr Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar has denied saying that non-Malays were accepting of statutory rape when he spoke in the Dewan Rakyat.

His principal private secretary Wan Hamzah Wan Paie, who clarified this on behalf of Dr Wan Junaidi, pointed out that the latter had said that Malays were highly sensitive to these cases and hence, had made police reports.

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