While Home Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi has claimed that there was no need to arrest two Umno leaders for their allegedly inflammatory comments, facts appear to contradict his explanation that this was because police had wrapped up their investigations quickly.

Instead of less than 24 hours within a police report being lodged - as Zahid claimed - it took about a week before Agriculture and Agro-Based Industries Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob was even quizzed by the police on his controversial call to boycott Chinese traders.