SIBU: Boniface Bujang Akei, who has demanded an apology from the police for mistaking him for the person responsible for @Swakheadhunter twitter account, yesterday issued a press statement to insist that the police should apologise.
The press statement was issued in reaction to the statement of Sarawak CID chief SAC Dev Kumar published in the Aug 16 of thesundaypost under the caption ‘Police claim @Swakheadhunter search based on credible information’.
In the press statement, Boniface countered: “Firstly, SAC Dev Kumar has said there was no complaint or dissatisfaction raised by me at the time of the police search in my house.
“How does one complain or express dissatisfaction when the police came knocking and wanting to search one’s house? Is the Sarawak CID chief teaching us that we have a right to object to or to refuse the police search or to obstruct the police?”
Boniface said he did complain to the police because he was powerless at that moment to stop them.
He said he lodged a police report the following day (July 25, 2015) and that constituted his complaint.
He said the allegation by the CID chief that he (Boniface) did not complain was therefore utter nonsense to justify an unfair police action.
He added: “Secondly, SAC Dev Kumar said the police acted on credible information. What credible information is there when it led them to the identification of an innocent man who has no twitter account and who is not in any way connected to an alleged seditious article? Is it not now shown that the police have not verified the accuracy of the information and have not conducted any proper probe before going to my house?”
He insisted there must have been a mistake but the police refused to admit their mistake.
“Therefore, I would like the police to reveal to me, confidentially if they think it appropriate, what the information is that has led them to my house.
“They know my address and they know how to serve on me what is that credible information that made them connect it to me.
“Otherwise, they must admit their mistake and apologise. To make a bare statement that they have credible information is to add salt to injury,” Boniface said in his press statement.
He also wanted to know if the police have by now, after about a month, established the real owner of that twitter account.
“If they have not, than it shows the police lack the ingenuity to get the real culprit but are merely satisfied with their hitherto cursory investigation that has caused me misery,” he said.