KOTA KINABALU, April 3 -- Sabah Umno chairman Datuk Seri Bung Moktar Radin last night said that the party has instructed Umno Youth chief Dr Muhamad Akmal Saleh to cease discussing the controversial "Allah" socks case.

Distancing himself from the increasingly heated issue, the outspoken Kinabatangan MP said that the issue was discussed at an Umno meeting and that Dr Akmal was asked to stop going on about the issue since it was already a police matter.

"At the party meeting alone we had asked him to stop the issue.

"The Umno president had asked the youth chief (to stop). Maybe at that point, he didn't know that KK Mart had made plans to deal with it. But after police interrogation and we were given more information, we accepted and agre...