Apologising to his constituents today for his suspension, Lim said he would continue to press for the Auditor-General’s Report on 1Malaysia Development Bhd to be tabled in the House tomorrow.
He would also demand a government White Paper on 1MDB, a three-day debate and a directive to the Public Accounts Committee to re-open its investigations into 1MDB.
Speaking at a constituency ceramah in Gelang Patah, Lim said he had used the past six months to tour all 130 parliamentary constituencies in the country.
He said his suspension arose from his demand for answers from the prime minister about 1MDB.
However, his suspension in October came about when MPs voted 107-77 on a motion tabled against him when he refused to apologise to the Speaker or retract his remarks alleging that Pandikar had exceeded his authority in calling a halt to proceedings of the Public Accounts Committee.
Pandikar ruled that the committee could not function by law without a chairman after four of its members, including the committee chairman, had been made deputy ministers in the Cabinet. The Public Accounts Committee, the parliamentary watchdog on government spending, was to have held hearings into 1MDB.
During the debate on the suspension motion, Lim had said that members of the public would agree that the Speaker’s decision was an abuse of power and that it amounted to sabotage of the 1MDB inquiry.
He denied having accused Pandikar of “deliberately” sabotaging the hearings or that he had intended to berate the Speaker.
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