Mp Receives Demand For Rm50m In Damages Over Limkokwing Tweet

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Bangi MP Ong Kian Ming has been served a letter of demand from Limkokwing University of Creative Technology (LUCT) senior vice-president Gail Phung over an allegedly defamatory tweet
This includes a demand that he pay RM50 million to Phung in damages
The offending tweet was in regard to a probe by Sierra Leone’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) involving a LUCT campus in that country
In a statement today, Ong said the legal threat was a "case of intimidation" by Phung against an MP "who is raising a legitimate public interest issue"
He said he was not agreeing or disagreeing with a tweet he had retweeted but was merely referencing it to alert Malaysian authorities so that they can conduct the necessary investigations
"I will not issue any public apologies over my tweets and public statements with regard to LUCT and their senior management as I firmly believe that the issues I have raised are a matter of public interest and consistent with my role as an MP who has spoken and written consistently on matters to do with Higher Education
"I definitely will not be paying 'compensation' of RM50 million to Phung purportedly for my public statements and tweets on this matter," he added
Sierra Leone's ACC ended their probe involving LUCT last month confirming that the country's former education, science, and technology minister Minkailu Bah, since deceased, had enabled a campus to be set up without following due processes
Phung said the issue had been sensationalised by the local media, and that LUCT had assisted in the ACC probe. - Mkini

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