Najib must explain statement on 1MDB debt repayment, says Speaker


KUALA LUMPUR: Former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak (pic) has been told to clarify his "misleading" statement linked to 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) this Wednesday (March 9).

"I have written to Pekan (Najib is the Pekan MP) and asked him to explain himself," Dewan Rakyat Speaker Tan Sri Azhar Azizan Harun said in Parliament on Monday (March 7).

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