Monday August 25, 2008 MYT 5:10:21 PM

Guan Eng, his political sec to soldier on despite death threat

By NG SU-ANN and ANN TAN

GEORGE TOWN: The state government will continue to expose land scams despite a death threat allegedly sent to Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng and his political secretary Ng Wei Aik.

Lim said they would not be cowed by such threats.

“We will continue to korek, korek, korek (dig into) any land scam issue because we insist the people have the right to know the truth,” he told a noon press conference on Monday.

Ng lodged a police report at the Petani Road police station at 9.13am Monday after receiving a letter purportedly containing a death threat written in Chinese and in red ink.

The letter, which was sent to the Chief Minister’s Komtar office and addressed to Lim and Ng, had threatened that they would not be alive after the “Hungry Ghost Festival.”

The letter, sent last Thursday, read: “You are both mad dogs, smelly dogs who are barking incessantly. Do you know how the word 'death' is written?

“God is seeing everything you are doing. Both of you will definitely get what you deserve, especially Wei Aik, because too many people want to finish you off. Perhaps, you won’t be alive anymore after the Hungry Ghost Festival.”

The writer signed off as a Penangite.