The Education Ministry cannot decide the fate of the ‘racist’ Bukit Selambau principal, said Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin, who is also the education minister.

muhyiddin yasin muhyiddin yassin “The minister cannot make any decision on government officers with the pay grade of 48 and above, I believe principals are grade 52.

“For officers of such a grade only the disciplinary board of the Public Services Department (PSD) headed by the director-general can take action,” explained the Pagoh parliamentarian.

Muhyiddin ( right ) added that the ministry has done its own investigation and had handed over the results to the public service department to consider and mete out their decision.

“It’s their jurisdiction. I have already announced this so just wait for whatever decisions they want to make,” said Muhyiddin.

The Sta r had reported on Sept 4 that the PSD has received a 16cm-thick report from the ministry and are mulling over what decision to take.

Muhyiddin said this during a press conference after opening the 10th regional seminar on ‘The Criminalisation of Bribery’ in Seri Kembangan, Selangor.

The seminar attended by delegates from stakeholders and various national anti-corruption agencies from the region, is part of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Oganisation for Economic and Commercial Development (OECD) anti-corruption initiative.

An apparent lack of disciplinary action against the Bukit Selambau principal who allegedly uttered racist remarks raised the ire of MCA who said that it will protest if no action is taken.