I have been PM's special officer for 6 months, says controversial lecturer Kamarul Zaman
SHAH ALAM - Controversial Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) lecturer Kamarul Zaman Yusoff has confirmed he has been the special officer to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob for the past six months.
He told Sinar Daily: "(I have) been with the Prime Minister's Office for almost 6 months now."
He further said that he is still attached with UUM but seconded to PMO for two years.
His appointment came to light this morning after the PMO uploaded a poster of a symposium on promoting the Malay language on its social media accounts featuring Kamarul Zaman.
The poster had attributed the lecturer as the ‘prime minister’s special officer’.
In 2018, Kamarul Zaman was one of three panelists at a forum organised by Sinar Harian. The other two panelists were a fitness guru and a psychologist.
Midway through the forum, former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad gatecrashed event and in a Twitter posting said, “I am here guys. Say it to my face.”
Before Mahathir arrived, Kamarul Zaman had cited 10 criteria for a person to be the prime minister, and claimed that Mahathir only satisfied two - the legal and intellectual criteria.
