Almost everyone was shocked during the trial of Anwar regarding
the Bersih issue this morning. All because of the presence of the lawyer who
represented Anwar, Datuk Mohd Yusof Zainal Abidin, Malaysia's former 2nd
Solicitor, who also led the line of prosecutors in the case of Anwar's sodomy
trial against Saiful Bukhari. The situation is metaphorically like seeing
Mahathir holding hands with Anwar, a day after he was sacked from his position
as Deputy Prime Minister back in 1998.
Yusof officially resigned as the 2nd Solicitor a few days before
Anwar was released from the charge of sodomizing Saiful Bukhari by Kuala Lumpur
High Court in January 9, 2012.
Many thought that the reason why Anwar won the trial was because
the Judge made a blunder in his judgement, and Yusof's actions in this matter
had caused the same doubt that perhaps the prosecution leader may have played a
vital role in Anwar's release.
How and how big is Yusof's role, writer do not know. But writer is
convinced that everyone want Yusuf to explain what is really happening.
Besides, we are now talking about Yusuf being a prosecutor, not a solicitor,
and somehow lawyers nowadays are surrounded with credibility and integrity
issues.
Now we can understand why Anwar's case was delayed for such a long
time without any objections from the prosecutor's team. We can now understand
why were there various silly mistakes made in pushing Anwar to come up with
witnesses' alibis from the names that they had brought to the court by Karpal
Singh as soon as Anwar was forced to defend himself.
The same thing went with the action of naming Deputy Public
Prosecutor, Farah Azlina Latif as a part
of the prosecutor's team even though they knew that she had 'issue' with Saiful
Bukhari. The matter of truth behind the 'issue' is not important, the important
thing in this matter is the failure in understanding the problem which had
caused the case to almost be disposed by the court.
And who should be responsible in this matter? Writer is certain
that Yusof is, because as the prosecution leader, he is responsible in choosing
the right deputy public prosecutor who could really help him to handle the
case.
Writer is sure that all these failure somehow has played vital
role in making the Judge to come out with the decision to release Anwar from
the case against Saiful.
Yusof did not have to explain anything to the media (especially
pro-opposition) like what he did just now. Yusof needs to answer to the rakyat
because the whole time he was working in the Attorney General Chambers (AGC),
he was paid by rakyat's money.
This is not a small matter, this is a serious matter that involves
AGC's integrity as the only organization that has full power in deciding
whether certain cases is qualified to be tried or not. The same thing goes to
whether appeals can be brought to higher court or not.
We are worried of corruption or misuse of power that might have
been involved in the matter. If it is true that Yusof was 'bought' when he was
handling Anwar's case, a re-trial should be held with a new line of
prosecutors.
Perhaps one day, even the Attorney General might have to resign. - BB
11:46 PM
...THIS IS VERY SERIOUS AND VERY INTERESTING...