KUANTAN Oct. 12 - Kuantan Member of Parliament, Fuziah Salleh...

KUANTAN Oct. 12 - Kuantan Member of Parliament, Fuziah Salleh resigned as the Chairman of the Lynas Revision Executive Committee to prevent his presence being the reason for questioning the transparency of the committee and being considered biased.Fuziah Salleh Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department who has criticized Lynas since the project was introduced in 2008 said he made the decision last Tuesday and had informed the Cabinet."Personally, I do not want Lynas to use me as an issue for them to shift the focus from the real issue." If I was the chairman of the committee, Lynas would be my chin, so it does not tell the real problem."In the end I decided to leave the committee and I did not want to give Lynas a reason," he said when met by reporters after the opening of the Asnaf Entrepreneurial Carnival, which was officiated by Tengku Puan Pahang, Tunku Azizah Aminah Maimunah Iskandariah here today.Recently, Minister of Energy, Technology, Science, Climate Change and Environment, Yeo Bee Yin announced that Fuziah and Bentong MP Wong Tack would head the committee that reviewed Lynas's rare earth processing operations in Gebeng, here. - UTUSAN ONLINE