Don’t punish whistleblowers, Khairy tells IGP


PETALING JAYA: Khairy Jamaluddin has asked Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Abdul Hamid Bador not to go after a whistleblower who claimed that 200 staff members of the Kelantan state secretariat had tried to cut queue to get the Covid-19 vaccine.

The Coordinating Minister for the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme said Abdul Hamid understood as he was “also a whistleblower”.

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