This comes after Fuziah’s aide lodged a police report over a republished video of her “grocery shopping”.

Fuziah had suspected the video, originally uploaded in July, was reposted with political motives.

Ramzah Dambul, a former Universiti Malaysia Sabah vice-chancellor, said the police have more urgent cases to investigate than Fuziah’s report.

“(Now, police) have to open an investigation paper to probe a non-existent crime,” he said in a Facebook post.

Ramzah said Fuziah should focus her efforts on solving the issues Malaysians were grappling with to convince them that the unity government was taking their grievances seriously.

“(She should be doing that instead of) trying to dismiss the sentiments and narratives of the people by pretending to go to the ground.

“Stay away from such simplistic statements. People’s daily needs are more complex than just two packs of noodles or a pack of rice,” he said.

In the video, Fuziah was shown shopping for cooking oil, rice, biscuits, instant noodles, canned sardines and onions, among other things, at a supermarket with the total cost being RM136.30.

“Who said RM200 isn’t enough and that (people) need RM500 (to buy groceries?)” she had said in the recording.

However, the video made its rounds again recently after it was reposted on social media, leading to criticism against her by netizens.

Fuziah later explained that the video was recorded in early July at a time when people were questioning whether RM200 was sufficient to purchase basic necessities.

“My statement in the video referred to the situation at the time,” she said.