Warisan rep apologises after punching fellow Sabah assemblyman, says didn’t mean to hurt her (VIDEO)

KOTA KINABALU, Nov 24 — Gabungan Rakyat Sabah’s assemblyman Datuk Norazlinah Arif said yesterday she has accepted the apology of her fellow lawmaker from Parti Warisan, Sarifuddin Hata, for punching her earlier this week.

On Facebook, Norazlinah said she hoped roughhousing and disrespecting strangers from other gender will not be a commonplace practice.

“Let us take this incident as a lesson,” she said in a Facebook post.

Sarifuddin, who is Merotai assemblyman, had earlier apologised in a Facebook comment — saying he did not mean to physically hurt the Kunak representative.

He initially claimed that he was merely greeting Norazlinah with a clap while rushing to a press conference, but this was disputed by the latter.