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KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 22): DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang said Government should give priority to legal reforms to ensure that the abuses of Security Offences (Special Measures) Act 2012 (Sosma) in the last decade could not be repeated.

In a statement on Thursday (Dec 22), he said it was because of these Sosma abuses that 88 Pakatan Harapan MPs voted against then the extension of Subsection 4(5) of the Security Offences (Special Measures) Act 2012 (Sosma) for another five years in July this year.

He said the Home Minister at the time and now the Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Hamzah Zainudin, while winding up the Sosma motion debate in July this year, agreed with the government and opposition lawmakers on the existence of unfair provisions and clauses in the Act.

He added that Hamzah said the cabinet led by Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad agreed on Nov 29, 2019, to make an amendment to Sosma.

“Hamzah said the Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri administration needed more time to execute what the cabinet decided in 2019 as it needed to engage with stakeholders, including the police.

“The Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim Government should complete the Ismail Sabri’s government consultations on the repeal of the draconian provisions in Sosma, and bring the amendments to Sosma  to Parliament in the February session  to prevent  a repeat of the abuses of Sosma in the last decade,” he said.

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