Debate over Chinese school cancelled after police permit not approved

JOHOR BARU: The debate about a Chinese school slated for Sunday (March 6) has been cancelled after police did not approve the permit for the debate.

Johor MCA secretary Datuk Ng Keng Heng said an official letter has been sent to DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng on the matter.

“Even though you have yet to give a response about your attendance, Johor MCA still has the responsibility to inform you of the police’s decision,” said Ng.

“We hope you can make yourself available for a future debate with our party president before the end of your tenure as DAP secretary-general on March 20,” he added in a letter that included a copy of the police’s response regarding the event.

Ng said to Lim that a debate between both party’s top guns will be in line with Lim’s ‘political hierarchy’ concept

It is understood that DAP’s headquarters acknowledged that they have received the official letter.

The much-anticipated debate was supposed to take place at 2pm on Sunday (March 6) and the stage had been set at the Johor Baru Tiong-Hua Association hall.

On March 1, Dr Wee challenged Lim to the debate over his claims that the former did not contribute as much as him towards the construction of SJKC Kuek Ho Yao in Seri Austin here.

Lim had allegedly made the claim at a ceramah during the second night of the Johor state election campaign.

Back in March 2018, then Penang chief minister Lim was quoted as saying that he would only debate the state’s tunnel-roads issue with MCA president Liow Tiong Lai.

Lim reportedly said then MCA deputy president Dr Wee, who had issued the challenge, was not fit to engage with a debate with him based on the principle of political protocol.