Controversial lecturer attached to PMO for past 6 months, says source

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PETALING JAYA: Controversial Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) lecturer Kamarul Zaman Yusoff has been working in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) for the past six months, says a source.

The source told FMT that Kamarul, a political analyst, worked as a special officer to Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob, advising him on policy issues.

The matter came to light after the PMO uploaded a poster today of an event that Kamarul was going to attend. In the poster, the lecturer’s designation was given as “special officer to the prime minister”.

FMT has reached out to the PMO for comment.

Last year, opposition leader Anwar Ibahim urged UUM to launch an investigation into Kamarul for allegedly stoking religious tensions in comments made about DAP MP Steven Sim.

This was related to Sim’s assistance to a Malay youth who was facing some tough times and it was “made an issue” by the academic.

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