KUCHING: Milton Foo, who is Sarawak United People’s Party (SUPP) Youth Central publicity and information secretary, and Tiang Ming Tee, who is SUPP Pelawan branch secretary, lodged a police report against Agriculture and Agro-Based Industry Deputy Minister Datuk Seri Tajuddin Abdul Rahman yesterday.

The complaint was based on Tajuddin reportedly saying Malaysian Chinese who complain about the government to foreigners and hoped to be protected by foreign governments deserve to be ‘lempang’ (slapped) by him.

“This statement is viewed as criminal intimidation under Section 503 of the Penal Code. Tajuddin’s remark asking Malaysian Chinese not to complain to a foreign country and threatening to slap them is physical assault, hence the decision to lodge a police report after Foo read the news online last night,” Tiang told The Borneo Post yesterday.

Both stressed that the police report was lodged in a personal capacity as citizens of Malaysia.

“I feel that Tajuddin’s statement is a threat to all Malaysian Chinese, including me, and this was made by a cabinet minister of Malaysia. As a minister, he should be more sensitive when making these sort of remarks. We don’t need a minister that can slap, we need a minister that can work,” said Foo.

“We also decided to pass a copy of the police report to the Immigration Department so that the relevant authorities can bar him from entering Sarawak, as Sarawak does not need people that can threaten the racial harmony that we have had all this while.”