Police have recorded the statement of the person suspected to have sent threatening SMSes to Terengganu assemblymen that saw them boycotting the state assembly and almost plunging Terengganu into political chaos on Tuesday.State police chief SAC 1 Datuk Mohamad Shukri Dahlan said police will also be calling in the state assemblymen who were threatened and others who may aid investigations, and would record their statements as well.Three Terengganu state assemblymen lodged police reports early Tuesday morning over threats they allegedly received via SMS.Saying they feared for their lives, they and seven other Barisan Nasional backbenchers did not attend the second day of the state assembly sitting on Tuesday.Zakaria Abdullah, the assemblyman for Paka and Abdul Halim Jusoh (Permaisuri) lodged their reports at the Kuala Terengganu district police headquarters at about 12.40am while Datuk Rosol Wahid (Ajil) lodged his at the Hulu Terengganu district police headquarters in Kuala Berang 10 minutes earlier.Abdul Halim told reporters that they received the SMS at about 11.20pm on Monday from an individual whom they found to be someone they knew after checking the telephone number from the state government’s official diary, according to a Bernama report.They were warned in the SMS not to pursue their intention, believed to be related to a move to table a no-confidence motion against Mentri Besar Datuk Ahmad Said at the current sitting of the state assembly.“As a senior state government official, he should not threaten anyone, what more a state assemblyman like me. You cannot make threats on people’s lives ... I don’t know why I was targeted,” he said, according to Bernama.The 10 Barisan backbenchers were told to return to proceedings by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, who said that Ahmad had also denied that the threatening SMS had come from the mentri besar’s office.
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