PETALING JAYA: Former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak has not been given special treatment as a prisoner, his lawyer Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah stressed today.
On allegations that Najib was given the codename “Merpati” or pigeon as a prisoner and that he is getting preferential treatment as a prisoner, Shafee rubbished this idea, Malay Mail reports.
“What is Merpati? They keeping pigeon in the hospital? Merpati is normally for pondan. Bird. How can you say a man is a bird? I mean, describe she’s a nice bird, I won’t say he’s a nice bird, can you? He will run away,” he reportedly said in reply to reporters when met at the court complex here.
Shafee also dismissed the idea that Najib was given a first-class ward at Hospital Kuala Lumpur or the Cheras Rehabilitation Hospital, saying that he had visited his client and that it was just a standard hospital room.
“No, bullshit, total nonsense, it’s a standard room for anyone who is needing that kind of treatment from the prison, that’s what they gave him, I went,” he reportedly said, adding that he himself had a better hospital room when he was in the National Heart Institute (IJN).