GE15: Pakatan posters allegedly vandalised by SMSL, group denies any such action

KUANTAN: Several campaign posters of Pakatan Harapan candidates have been vandalised with Save Malaysia, Stop Lynas (SMSL) stickers, which the group has denied was its work.

SMSL chairman Tan Bun Teet said he discovered on Wednesday (Nov 9) morning that posters of Kuantan parliamentary candidate Fuziah Salleh along Jalan Besar here had SMSL stickers pasted on them.

Likewise, a billboard of Semambu state seat candidate Chan Chun Kuang at Jalan Dato Lim Hoe Lek had been vandalised with the same stickers.

"This is not the work of SMSL. We have always stood as a non-political movement and will never get involved in any political campaign," said Tan after lodging a police report.

He said the police report was lodged to clear SMSL of any possible charges of vandalism during an election campaign.

Tan added that he would give his full cooperation to the police and authorities in their investigations.

"Somebody must have spent quite a bit of money to print all those stickers, in colour no less.

"This looks like it has a sinister motive behind it. We urge the police to apprehend the culprit responsible for the vandalism," said Tan.

SMSL was formed in 2011 as an anti-Lynas movement, when the Australian rare earth materials producer started setting up its operations in Gebeng here.