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Saturday, 4 September 2010

'Racist' remarks: PSD to table investigation paper

PUTRAJAYA: The Public Service Department (PSD) will table an investigation paper on the principal, who is alleged to have made racist remarks, to the disciplinary board of the Prime Minister's Department after Hari Raya. Its director-general Abu Bakar Abdullah said it was to determine whether a charge sheet would be filed against the principal.

"I have received the investigation paper from the Education Ministry's investigation committee yesterday and am scrutinising it together with several PSD officials.

"If there is justification (for action to be taken), we will table it to the disciplinary board to get its approval to file a charge sheet against the principal," he told reporters after breaking fast with the press here yesterday.

Yesterday, Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin, who is also the Education Minister, asked Abu Bakar to make an immediate decision on the racist remarks alleged to have been made by Siti Aishah Mansor, principal of Sekolah Menengah Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra in Kulai, Johor, recently.

Abu Bakar said if the charge sheet were filed, the principal would be given the opportunity to enter her defence before any decision was made.

"We will take her defence into consideration before any punishment under the Public Officers Regulations (Conduct and Discipline) was decided," he said.

- Bernama

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