Premiership comes with certain privileges, says Hanipa

KUALA LUMPUR: While there are “strong merits” to the criticism against Tun Dr Mahathir Moha­mad’s unilateral appointment of Latheefa Koya as the new MACC chief commissioner, critics should realise that the premiership comes with certain privileges, says Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Hanipa Maidin (pic).

Nonetheless, the de facto deputy law minister said he did not see how the prime minister could misuse these privileges when Dr Mahathir and his government were “sensitive to the spirit and principles of democracy and the rule of law”.