Letter to editor

LAST year, Prisons Department commissioner-general Datuk Nordin Muhamad said Datuk Seri Najib Razak will not receive any special treatment in jail and will be treated like any other prisoner.

This was repeated by Najib’s lawyer Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah who said allegations that Najib was afforded special privileges were baseless and unfounded which he described as “total nonsense.”

However, during the recent UMNO general assembly, it was widely reported that party president Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi spent nearly two hours with Najib along with several members of the UMNO supreme council.

I may not be a policeman or part of any legal or enforcement agency but I am sure no normal prisoner would ever be accorded such a privilege.

In fact, it is often so disheartening to read about a single mother or father who has to spend time behind bars simply for stealing a loaf of bread or tin of Milo to feed his or her hungry children.

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