Chief Justice Zaki Azmi Given A Week To Resign

Chief Justice Zaki Azmi (left) and Karpal Singh (right)

MP for Bukit Gelugor and opposition lawmaker Karpal Singh has given Chief Justice Zaki Azmi seven days to resign or he will move a motion against him under Article 127 of the federal constitution for having ‘misled’ the country when he clarified his position on the New Straits Times report that he bribed court staff.

The English paper quoted Chief Justice Zaki Azmi as saying “It took me six months to be nice, to bribe each and every individual to get back into their good books before our files were attended to. That was my personal experience, and I am telling this to all the clerks and all the registries to stop this nonsense”.

Chief Justice Zaki Azmi had a meteoric rise to his current post where he was just a former Umno lawyer to Supreme Court judge to President of the Court of Appeal and now Chief Justice, the top post in the judiciary in less than 14 months. Well it should raised eyebrows eh.

Karpal Singh

“Zaki cannot, and should not, deny that he had in fact uttered the words. There is a audio recording of what he said in Kuching. In the event Zaki does not step down as CJ within seven days from today, I will have no alternative but to move a motion against him under Article 127 of the federal constitution for having misled the country with his so-called clarification. There is an audio recording to prove that he lied, I think you can take my word for it what has been quoted in Kuching. There is no doubt about it. You cannot have a chief justice who lies. As simple as that”