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KOTA KINABALU: Sabah musician-turned-activist, rapper Atama Katama, is prepared for detention, if the police chose to arrest him under the Internal Security Act (ISA).
Atama, who is chairman of Bersih 2.0 Sabah ad hoc committee, is believed to be on the police wanted list for his unspoken support of the coalition’s call for free and fair elections.
“I have reason to believe that I am a target for arrest. I am prepared for it as I know there’s a price to pay in fighting for what I believe in – that is democracy and civil liberties of this country.
“I also believe there are many like-minded Malaysians who support me and that is what inspired me and keeps me going despite all the challenges I’m facing,” he said yesterday.
The controversial Sabah hip-hop singer said this while leading a group of more than 100 Malaysian Civil Liberties Movement (MCLM) leaders and supporters to the launching of Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) online radio and TV, Sabahtv.net, at its headquarters in Bornion Centre, Luyang here, today.
He was responding to a question from reporters on talk that his name was on the police’s “arrest list” alongside the Bersih 2.0 organisers.
Police in peninsular Malaysia had issued issued a restrictive order on 91 individuals in relation to the Bersih 2.0 rally yesterday. Sixty of them were direct Bersih members.
Blatantly deceitful
Asked about his relationship with SAPP, Atama said MCLM and SAPP shared the same struggle for autonomy for Sabah besides good governance and civil liberties.
He said he has no intention of joining any political party for now and will remain a MCLM member and a social activist.
“We in MCLM will be there whenever required, to help protect and exercise the civil liberty of Malaysians, especially those in Sabah,” he said.
He also proclaimed that despite being prevented from holding the Bersih 2.0 gathering here, MCLM had succeeded in driving home its campaign to push for “clean and fair elections” in this country.
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