DAP man slams school for inviting Najib to speak

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PETALING JAYA: DAP’s Tony Pua has slammed a top Chinese school for inviting former prime minister Najib Razak to speak at its Johor Bahru branch.

Pua, who is Damansara MP, criticised the school’s board of governors for allowing this to happen.

“The school’s board of governors has set the worst possible example for our children,” he said in a Facebook post today.

He said Foon Yew High School, a top Chinese independent school, had invited a “world-renowned kleptocrat”.

Pua said inviting Najib to speak at the school showed the students that “it was acceptable to cheat, lie, steal and abuse power”.

He demanded that the school governors be sacked for “a complete lack of integrity” in failing to set a good example to students.

“Education has always been at the heart of the Chinese community,” he said.

“But if this is the direction the school governors are taking us, then we are on a path to a slow but certain decay and malaise in our culture and dignity.”

Najib is said to have spoken at Foon Yew High School’s Seri Alam branch last Friday and allegedly promoted Barisan Nasional ahead of the March 12 Johor elections.

Source: FMT

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Najib to Pua: Come after me, not Foon Yew school

PETALING JAYA: Najib Razak has accused a DAP leader of “intimidation politics” by criticising a top Chinese school for allowing the former prime minister to visit the school and deliver a talk last week.

Najib said Tony Pua’s criticism of Foon Yew High School was “absolutely unbecoming” and reflected a malicious need to lambast a prestigious school. The attack was nothing more than an election ploy, he said.

“If you have a problem with me, come after me. Don’t go after school directors who have done a good job,” Najib said in a Facebook post tonight.

He questioned what gave Pua the right to judge the integrity of the board, which had turned the high school into Malaysia’s largest Chinese independent education institution with a 71-year history.

Pua is MP for Damansara and national publicity secretary of DAP.

Earlier today, he criticised the school board for allowing Najib to give a talk, saying it had “set the worst possible example for our children” by inviting a world-renowned kleptocrat.

Pua had also demanded that the school governors be sacked for their “complete lack of integrity”.

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