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Published on March 21, 2008

"The shuffling of civil service positions will take place as deemed appropriate and the government will address any grievances arising from the rotations in order to ensure justice," he said during the House session.

Democrat MP Thaworn Senniam had raised a motion from the floor, asking the premier to explain the transfer of Pol Maj-General Chaiya Siriamphankul from the Special Branch, where he was deputy commissioner, to the deep South to fight the insurgency.

He wondered whether Chaiya's reassignment was in reprisal for his linking House Speaker Yongyuth Tiyapairat to election fraud.

Samak said Chaiya had been seconded to the Southern Police Operation Centre in Yala in October, before his government came to power.

In December, Chaiya was called by the Election Commission to assist in probing election complaints in Chiang Rai and since Chaiya had completed his temporary assignment, he was sent back to his work in Yala. The government is not trying to pick on Chaiya, Samak said.

There is no justification in blaming his administration when the interim government was responsible for the original order moving Chaiya out of Bangkok, he added.

The Nation