Reflect MCA feuding history

February 4, 2014, 6:11 pm

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Grassroot MCA, particularly Wanita had a problem with having Dato Dr Chua Soi Lek as President. However, we have a certain respect and admiration to ours fellow Batu Pahat man. Not so much of his ability to sustain erection, but for several reasons.

First and foremost, he is fearless and not afraid to shoot from the hip. He is not someone to mince his words. For a politician, he is the nearest thing to a WYSIWYG.

Yesterday, we came across a Malaysiakini tweet in which he accused Tun Dr Mahathir for making UMNO strong and BN weak. Read here.

Before we comment on that there is a second quality of Soi Lek we must compliment.

Unlike Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim, who was caught on video and had been twice charged, proven and only free on technicality, but adamantly refuse to admit and called it as political prosecution, Soi Lek is far more honourable gentleman.

He did not prolong the speculation but called a press conference with his wife by his side and admitted to the blurred and unclear video. Subsequently, he resigned his position in government and party, and placed his political fate to party members or more precisely delegates and receive the mandate.

Something many politicians particularly Anwar should emulate.

Before we could comment on what he said, we are quite cautious of the short and suspected to be a spinned report. Not so much it could put our compromising position on video, but our of respect for Soi Lek's ability to argue and debate.

Complimenting his brevity, we personally witnessed how he made mince meat of Lim Guan Eng and silenced the DAP boo boys in the second debate with facts at the tip of his fingers and argument. Guan Eng could only reply by name-calling MCA as UMNO poodle and content-less repetition of "Shame on you".

His third quality.

So we found an expanded report on his comment in The Malay Mail Online:

Malaysia

Soi Lek now blames Dr M for overbearing Umno

February 3, 2014

Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek arriving at Wisma MCA.Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek arriving at Wisma MCA.
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 3 — The Umno-centric approach that drove the non-Malay community away from Barisan Nasional’s (BN) fold began under Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s administration, Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek has said.

Disputing a recent blog entry by Dr Mahathir that faulted the embrace of liberalisation under successor Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi’s administration for the country’s current woes, the former MCA president instead said the problems traced back to the former’s tenure as prime minister.

“However, in the 21 years of Tun Mahathir’s leadership, we see that the growth of Umno’s political strength has made its coalition partners to become powerless in BN.

“Decisions made in the Umno Supreme Council were often become the Cabinet’s decisions and I had mentioned it before in the BN Convention that, to the people, Umno is the ‘taiko’ and if it becomes arrogant and dictatorial, it will have adverse impact on its component parties,” Dr Chua wrote in a recent Facebook post.

Saying that this approach had undermined the previously effective power-sharing model in BN, Dr Chua added that it also allowed the abuse of pro-Bumiputera affirmative action such as the New Economic Police (NEP) that further alienated non-Malay communities.

This and a fear of the growing concentration of power in Umno’s hands as demonstrated by the steadily increasing seats won by the Malay party in successive general elections since 2004 had driven the Chinese, in particular, towards DAP and away from MCA.

In Election 2013, Umno won 88 federal seats from the 133 that BN managed to retain to become by far the most dominant party in both the coalition and Parliament.

Speaking up again for market liberalisation, Dr Chua assured the Malay community that making the economy more competitive was for the benefit of all the country rather than a concession to Chinese businesses.

He also added that the inequality that policies such as the NEP sought to address were not only inter-racial, as often depicted, but was also prevalent even within the Malay community itself.

“Hence, affirmative policy must be based on need, we should help those in need regardless of race; otherwise such policy will be interpreted as an unfair policy because poverty does not exist in just one community,” Dr Chua said.

Earlier last week, Dr Mahathir had targeted the embrace of openness that began under the Abdullah administration for encouraging the increased demand to abandon the political and economic power sharing established in the aftermath of the May 13, 1969 race riots.

“Taking advantage of liberalisation and the weakened BN government, the conflict between the races heated up. The situation in Malaysia is tense as never before.

“Malaysians by and large are not violent people. But for how long can Malaysia remain stable in the face of persistent violation of the good understanding and the sharing of power between the races,” Dr Mahathir wrote on his blog today.

The country’s longest-serving prime minister also said that BN has exacerbated the issue by persisting to move away from the power-sharing ideals from previous administrations to no avail, resulting in its worst electoral performances ever in Election 2008 and again five years later in Election 2013.

Now we appreciate the essence of his comments.

We know Soi Lek is pro-business and adopts a pragmatic attitude to the current globalisation trend. He is rebutting Dr Mahathir's consistent blame on Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi for "liberating" the nation from his brand of policies and leadership.

So much for the three compliments.

Soi Lek have seldom viewed affirmative action directly or indirectly as a hindrance to progress. He argued that NEP was fine in principle and at the early stage but he claimed it's "implementation" was later hijacked.

However, he offers no solution to rectify the problem. He gave the impression that market forces, with unfair and discriminatory monopolistic trade practice imperfections is the answer to solve the Malay's socio-economic woes.

Nevertheless, we agree to disagree. Respectfully, we are not posting this to offer our critic or rebut his arguments which smells of parochial interest rather than a wholesome solution for all Malaysia.

Returning back to his remark, it smarks of selective blame for Soi Lek to blame UMNO for wanting to strengthen their party. He should realise that three fingers points back at anyone pointing fingers to others.

As far as we can recall, MCA and MIC is besieged with endless in-house quarrel. In the case of MCA, we cannot forget the quarrel between Tan Koon Swan and Dato Neo Yee Pan that ever since had culminate into a string of Team A versus Team B phenomenon of factional fight in MCA.

During the tenure of Tun Ling Liong Sik, there was Tan Sri Lim Ah Lek, who now has his boy, Dato Liow as MCA President. Backing Liow is Tan Koon Swan.

After Ling, Dato Ong Ka Ting was Ling's choice to be President. Dato Ong Tee Keat arise to challenge. He won.

Then the rematch with Ka Ting returning back to take on Tee Keat but both lost out to wild card Soi Lek.

Tee Keat is still in fry when he tried the Presidency again. Liow was due for the seat when Soi Lek had earlier announced his willingness to vacate the Presidency. Recently, Tee Keat twittered to suggest Liow run for the Kajang by-election. That suggestion smark of political vengence.

Soi Lek also made some remarks against Liow. The Malay Mail reported sometime back:

Malaysia

Now Soi Lek accuses Liow of reneging on power-sharing deal

BY JOSEPH SIPALAN
January 16, 2014

Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek claims a power sharing-deal was signed on November 28,2013 to ensure party elections proceeded smoothly.. — Picture by Saw Siow FengPETALING JAYA, Jan 16 — Former MCA president Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek today accused his successor of disregarding a power-sharing agreement to instead consolidate power within the ailing party.

Dr Chua claimed that Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai had allegedly turned his back on the deal, which he claimed was negotiated and signed by the two leaders barely a month before the hotly-contested party polls last December.

“The agreement was signed on November 28, 2013, to ensure the party elections proceed smoothly and all voices are represented,” he said at a press conference here.

“We spoke on (appointments of) vice-presidents, on the central committee and state chairmen. Unfortunately, he never honoured his word,” Dr Chua added.

This is Dr Chua’s first salvo against Liow since the election, which was preceded by months of bitter infighting in the run up to the party polls.

During the polls, Liow won the presidency by a slim majority, winning by just 186 votes ahead of challenger Gan Ping Sieu, who secured 1,000 votes.

Dr Chua opted not to defend his post.

The former MCA chief today claimed that this was not the first time Liow had reneged on a formal deal, accusing the current president of having disregarded an agreement of mutual support prior to the previous party polls in early 2010.

Dr Chua claimed that the agreement, which was allegedly signed on March 4 that year, was to give each other support for their respective bids for the presidency and deputy presidency.

“But two weeks later he went and proposed (Tun) Ong Ka Ting for president. He (Liow) can propose anyone, if he did not sign the agreement.

“But I let it go because I thought he was a young man, and that he was under pressure and being told what to do,” he said.

Dr Chua, however, denied that he was trying to reignite previous rivalries barely a month since the new leadership took over, arguing that it was his “right and duty” to reveal Liow’s alleged lack of credibility.

“I’m not trying to start another crisis. I am trying to prevent another crisis from happening.

“I am here to tell MCA members to be careful of the current president’s words. He may say something that you want to hear, but he does not walk the talk.

“From his appointment, I can see that he is only interested in consolidating power... yes, he has the prerogative to make appointments, but what’s important is not the prerogative. It is the wisdom in politics,” Dr Chua said.

MCA has a history of infighting, with factional feuds lasting through successive presidencies.

Prior to his spat with Liow, Dr Chua had survived a bitter rivalry with former president Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat - who went to the extent of expelling Dr Chua from the party over his infamous sex video.

Dr Chua’s expulsion was later overturned, paving the way for a slim victory over Ong in 2010, with the help of Liow and his faction who themselves had an axe to grind with Ong over his alleged authoritarian rule in the party.

Come to think of it, Gerakan was formed out of internal MCA squabble in the early history too.

Names that is synonymous with Gerakan like Tun H.S. Lee, Tun Lim Chong Eu and Tun Lim Kheng Yaik came out of the belly of MCA.

In fighting in MCA never cease to stop and take a breather. If only, Tun Ghaffar Baba is still with us.

There will be those that argue no political party is not without it's own internal squabble.

Yes, UMNO has it's history of squabble too. From UMNO, other political parties came out of it like PAS, Berjasa, Semangat 46 and PKR.

However, Dr Mahathir's "dictatorship", if that is what they wish to describe him as, managed to hold the fort together. With an endlessly feuding MCA as partner, another partner must pick-up the slack to provide the strength and sustainability.

Dr Mahathir is not wrong to blame Tun Abdullah for the cause for weakening UMNO. We do not need to rewind old postings from the 2003-2009 era.

Many today is blaming Dato Najib for prolonging the malaise of Abdullah. To be fair to Najib, he is saddled with problems accumulated by Abdullah which even during the time of Abdullah's administration, it was said Najib need 15 years to reverse it.

Abdullah wanted to bring big ideas but he could only be rhetorical. He could not envisage the end game, the process and the management of that change. That was how it started and the blame to be laid upon.

* Edited 4:50 PM

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Omar Ong link to AES established!

February 5, 2014, 7:35 am

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Over dinner sometime last year, one former mainstream media editor shared an information on the controversial AES. He said someone related told him that Dato Omar Ong has interest in the privatisation of AES.

The editor told a lot of what he heard on grapevine but shared no details or explanation. Only "someone said this" and "someone said that", thus giving an impression of him as someone loves delving in petty gossip.

We did not consider his word as reliable but did not totally put it aside. And we got someone to check and got only an affirmative yes. Still no details was given. Ever since, few other sources confirm the same.

Syed Akbar's posting here on The Star's report confirmed the link to Omar Ong.

An extract of the report below:

In early December last year, a motion was passed in the Dewan Rakyat to allow the Government to take over the project from the companies, paving the way for negotiations between the companies and the MoF.

The companies’ estimated capital expenditure (capex) for the project was to have been between RM300mil and RM400mil, with 60% being spent in the first six months of rolling out the system.

However, up to last year, the companies were reported to have spent just over RM100mil each.

The Government is taking over the two companies via AES Solutions Sdn Bhd, a company owned by MoF-controlled Prokhas Sdn Bhd.

AES Solutions, incorporated on Sept 2, 2013, has two directors – Maamor Che Alias and Datuk Kamal Mohd Ali.

The-then Deputy Finance Minister Datuk Ahmad Maslan had said that the two companies had an estimated investment cost of RM717mil, and that the Government would conduct its own due diligence.

Under the terms of the concession, Beta Tegap was supposed to have implemented the AES for Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya, Selangor, Negri Sembilan, Malacca, Johor, Pahang and Terengganu, while ATES was to have operated in Perlis, Kedah, Penang, Perak, Kelantan, Sarawak, Sabah and Labuan.

According to Syed Akbar, Beta Tegap only has a paid-up capital of RM19mil. They have four shareholders namely; Nik Ismail Nik Mohamed, Yap Kim See @ Yap Ai Lin, Rozana Redzuan and Andreas Teoh.

Rozana is Toh Puan Rozana Tan Sri Redzuan Salim is a former Director of Plantantion & Development Berhad, before Dato Soh Chee Wen turned it into a PN4 company. She was formerly an analyst with Public Securities and came from an influential UMNO family in Batu Pahat.

Andreas Toh is linked a Mediharta Sdn Bhd, a company that had benefited from two lucrative contract from the Ministry of Health and believed to be linked to MCA Johor.

The system was supposed to have been launched nationwide in September 2012, but was delayed due to massive resistance from various quarters.

The major shareholder of ATES is Commercial Circle (M) Sdn Bhd. One of its directors is Chee Chwee Cheong, who also happens to be the founding partner of Ethos Consulting, which is one of the country’s most influential boutique advisory houses.

Apart from Chee, the other director of ATES is Lawrence Foong, who is Chee’s father-in-law.

With Chee and his father in law as directors, it indicate that Omar Ong's partner and his father-in-law controls the company.

Does Omar has interest in Commercial Circle as the cover for his equity?

If so, Chee and his father in law is only Omar's proxy.

According to The Star, the companies claimed to have spent between RM300mil and RM400mil of capex with 60% spent in the first six months. of rolling out the system.

However, the companies were reported to have spent just over RM100mil each for last year.

One of the concessionaires is demanding between RM400-RM500 million based on a big four accounting company valuation. Government valuation only placed it at RM180 million for each company.

Since the shareholders of the concessionaires are politically linked, they better realise the public has no tolerance for paying to much for a controversial privatisation which did not take off.

Shouldn't be paying more to these opportunistic rent seekers.

So damn with their accountants!

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No sex please.... We are PKR

February 7, 2014, 6:27 pm

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"No Sex Please ... We are British" was a 1970s play about a Bank Manager with a young wife. He sent for a mail order of Scandanavian glassware.

However, he ended up getting a stream of pornography, photographs, books, films and eventually girls. The hilarious part of the play, which was later made into a film, was the attempt to get rid of the embarassing paraphenalia.

Before making any guess that this posting is more sexual expose on the sexual escapade of Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim, please read on because your guess could be wrong.

Talk on Anwar's homosexuality must have started sometimes in the mid-1990s when his political career took a meteoric rise. He did a blitzkrieg to takeover late Tun Ghaffar Baba's position as Deputy President UMNO and was appointed Deputy Prime Minister.

It became public coincidentally in the midst of the financial crisis and the Kuala Lumpur Commonwealth Games.

Since then, any election involving Anwar or PKR or other Pakatan Rakyat parties would have his homosexual court cases and extramarital sexual escapades as an issue to question his moral standing and integrity.

Kajang by-election will be no exception and expect it to be another bi-election like Permatang Pauh in 2009.

This time, the ex-Keadilan started the first salvo with their statements that got frontpage coverage in Utusan Malaysia.

They claim the Kajang "bi-election" is merely Anwar's attempt to delay his sodomy case at the Court of Appeal and avoid sentence.

Part of it was touched in our past posting here.

Subsequently, UMNO Chief of Information, Dato Ahmad Maslan repeated the same message.

Then, there was news of an effort to gather 3,000 former Adil or PKR members to campaign against Anwar in Kajang.

Former tennis partner and provider of special services to Anwar back then, Dato Nallakarupan announced his intention to run as candidate.

It is sad.

When the news of the resignation of the PKR Kajang state assemblymen followed by Anwar's announcement to run, there was widespread public resentment.

Certain faction among the liberals within the pro-opposition fold, PAS and DAP supporters have legitimate issues against the necessity of Anwar and PKR using the by-election to solve their internal problem with Anwar assuming the position of MB.

Till today, Rafizi has not been able to give a proper reason and Anwar has to step in to convince his supporters on the reason for the removal of Tan Sri Khalid as Selangor Menteri Besar and replaced by himself.

There is also the point on Anwar's ability to govern and administer. When he was a Federal Minister till assuming the Minister of Finance position, most in the know see Anwar as only a Ministry spokesman and deliverer of prepared speech.

If not for the support of Tun Dr Mahathir and Tun Daim Zainuddin to guide him, Anwar would have been worse than today's Dato Hasan Malek or Dato Nik Aziz.

However, these former foe turned allies seemed concerned only for his overdeveloped libido.

To answer, Anwar merely brushed aside that predicatable line of attack by saying he will not delve into personal character attack. The Malaysian Insider's reported:

Malaysia

Anwar promises to keep it clean, vows no personal attacks during by-election campaign

BY SHERIDAN MAHAVERA AND MOHD FARHAN DARWIS
February 03, 2014
Latest Update: February 04, 2014

PKR defacto leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim will not stoop to personal attacks against any Barisan Nasional (BN) leaders while campaigning in the upcoming Kajang by-election eventhough his opponents have vowed to do just that.

Instead, Anwar pledged to stick to his usual campaign issues such as rising inflation, abuse of power by the BN and government corruption to win over Kajang voters.

"This is nothing new. Since 1998, they have been attacking me on this," Anwar said in response to media reports that the BN will use his two sodomy court cases as issues against him in the by-election.

Read on in MI here.

It is not British humour yet but close to Yes Minister material.

In fact, the excuse is quite funny. It is obvious that he is irritated and can't stand more expose on his personal affairs. He knows there is many more personal issue of sex, corruption and deviant faith.

However, the sex issues will not affect him. He has the advantage and lead in Kajang. It is his long run reputation that he is more worried. His current friends too can become foe and use it against him.

So it is hilarious to see the adulterer and sodomite pretending to be a gentleman.

To claim as gentlemen, was he not the man who design, plan and delivered the endless personal attack against Dato Najib and his wife, Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor?

Despite Rosmah not in a political position or holds any position of power, the attack has not stop.

It has extended to Rosmah's son business affair. No shread of proof could be offered to show government money was chanelled to finance his movie venture but they are still unfairly making him an issue.

His movie Werewolf of Wall Street is banned from showing in Malaysian cinema but there was a demonstration to demand it's ban. The demo used Rosmah as subject of hate. However there is no demo for all the X rated movies entering households through the Internet.

Other than that, there is also a string of names that are victims of Anwar's slanderous game.

Still at it

One can only understand the feeling of betrayal and the desire for revenge by these ex-Adil and Keadilan.

They had spent long number of years of their life and family sacrificing to defend Anwar's so-called innocence and fought for his release from prison but only to found out later that it is true. Upon his release, they saw he not only betrayed their friendship but put the struggle for the faith, race and nation in the back burner for his revenge and quest for power.

They couldn't resist to continue bonking Anwar because not only because Anwar did it but he has not stopped doing it both ways.

Like in the British play, Anwar is endlessly cooking up excuse, denial and returning the blame to UMNO for every of his caught sexual acts. It is like the case of getting Scandinavians sexual paraphenelia for the order of Scandinavian glassware.

It is high time someone write a script for drama or comedy movie. Wonder would Riza Aziz be keen to produce.

In the MI report, it was mentioned that the alleged blogger Papagomo, Wan Azri submitted the name of young man as his witness for the trial in Anwar's lawsuit against him.

The pretty lembut boy is Anwar's partner in the Raja Goyang video. His name initial is AAAA and handphone number .... (sorry secret). However, it was not necessary to call the boy thus avoiding another sexual related controversy for Anwar Ibrahim.

The sum of the lawsuit sounded large but Anwar knows he will not get a single red note from Wan Azri. He only wanted to clean up his name tarnished by the Dato Trio's sexual expose dubbed as the Chinadoll sex video scandal.

The sodomy case on Saiful Bahri is far from over.

Next Tuesday February 11th, Anwar is due to face the Court of Appeal after several attempt to delay the court from proceeding. Their application to remove lawyer Dato Shafee Abdullah has failed.

Their new twist to discredit Shafee is by spinning that he will be the next Attorney Gneral. It serves to pit him against current AG.

Shafee is an able lawyer that Anwar and his team of lawyers fear. As told by someone, Shafee and Anwar goes way back and he knows much of Anwar's intimate secrets.

Before the decision is made, their side has preempted any possible negative outcome. FMT's January 30th report gave a naughty impression that the sodomy appeal will not affect Anwar in Kajang.

However, the report merely quote Shafee's explanation that the execution will only commence after Anwar has exhausted all avenues of appeal at the Federal Court. Read here.

The decision will have a lot of bearing on Anwar's reputation.

Tony Pua's had did a reverse psychology statement to throw some fear factor into the Kajang Chinese psyche by claiming Anwar's lost will end his career. If he loses his sodomy case, many more will begin to believe that Anwar is really bisexual and sodomite.

It will finally be the end for him.

Doesn't work

In the meanwhile sex issue against Anwar will not work anymore in getting votes for BN.

Those who believe already believe it. While those that do not yet believe will never believe. And those who believe but do not see it as the deciding factor, needs to see other offerings.

Having the 3,000 ex supporters play up the old sex issues and have Nalla run against him does not serve any purpose.

A local Kajang UMNO leader expressed opposition to Nalla's intend. FMT report in full below:

‘We don’t want Anwar-Nalla boxing match’

K Pragalath
February 5, 2014

BN leaders and Kajang folks give a big NO to Nallakaruppan.

KAJANG: Even though Malaysian Indian United Party president KS Nallakaruppan leads a BN friendly party, Umno and the local people in Kajang are not in the mood to welcome him.

“Thanks for the offer Nallakaruppan but you are not suitable for Kajang. We don’t want Kajang to be a boxing promotion ground between PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim and Nallakaruppan,” said Sungai Kantan Umno branch chairman, Mohd Said Mat Saman today.

He said this in reference to Nallakaruppan’s offer yesterday to contest against Anwar in the Kajang by-election.

Mohd Said added that the people want more growth and development compared to what Nallakaruppan wants to say about his former tennis partner Anwar.

Hulu Langat MCA division chief Lee Ban Seng also was not happy but stopped short of criticizing Nallakaruppan.

“Kajang is traditionally a MCA seat. I don’t want to comment further,” he said.

Nallakaruppan who is also a senator had said that he wished to reveal the secrets of Anwar to the Kajang voters.

He also said that he would discuss with Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak, who is also BN chairman, to allow him to contest in Kajang.

‘X’ for Anwar, No to Nalla

Sentiments against Nallakaruppan also reverberated from the ground. Some people openly declared their support for Anwar.

“I am putting an ‘X’ for Anwar. Nalla would not get any votes ” said 43-year-old taxi driver T Sakaran.

Another taxi driver, M Krishnan, 39, had this to say about the MIUP leader: “Tell Nallakaruppan to buzz off of from Kajang.”

The Kajang state seat fell vacant following the resignation of incumbent assemblymen Lee Chin Cheh of PKR on Jan 27.

Read on here

FMT is pro-opposition portal but on this issue, that report has it's truth. Our Whass App group too reverberate the same sentiment. One such example:

Nalla ni....Rakyaat pun dah menyampah....Kaki supply pompuan boleh dapat pingat, jadi ahli dewan negara....Bukti Umno dah beli dia. Mcm mana kita nak tangkis persepsi ni?

One young lady commented:

Dari dulu dia cakap saja ada bukti tapi tak pernah tunjuk. Jadi siapa nak percaya?

Whereas, Anwar dok melaung-melaung peoples need! Tanya Nalla ... can he meet peoples' needs besides sex.... hihihi

More provocative comment from another lady, a journalist:

Saya bukan ahli UMNO. Walaupun ada segelintir malaun...tapi we have some good leaders dan ahli yang taat dan setia yang telah banyak berkorban dan menyumbang untuk parti....

Tapi kenapa orang seperti ini tak dihiraukan. Sebaliknya bekas gengster keling, ahli kumpulan mengkristiankan Islam dilantik jadi Menteri/Timbalan Menteri?

Kenapa orang berfikiran liberal/sekular dilantik dalam Majlis Konsultansi Nasional?

Political maturity

There are sufficient issues for Kajang to question his moral conduct other than sex issues.

Let the campaign in Kajang be about issues and not same rib tickling attempt to win voters by giving goodies or announcing goodies allocations.

If he had kangkung-ed PM for barang naik, then let us tauGAY his ability, or more lack of it, in understanding economic issues but boast of his past as a former Finance Minister.

PKNS's sacking of 19 contract staff could highlight the disarray manner of the state administration and governance by these street level politicians.

Anwars talks of National Consensus and spinned his concern for racial and religious disharmony in Selangor as basis for Federal government to do an emergency. Lets' debate and dispute the intention of the agitator himself.

Take-up the Teresa Kok's Chinese New Year video as issue. However do undertand the impact of one's actions.

Teressa's video stunt makes her popular and strengthen her political strength within her target group. The attack on her makes her stronger and more respectable.

But what does PEKIDA hope to achieve by showing their anger?

Their provocative act of smearing chicken blood on her posters and displaying highly provocative banners at Puduraya only to gave bullets for the other side. Not being sympathetic or apologetic of Teresa but being frank and rational.

Not only that it makes them look silly and intellectually challenged. Did they ponder on the impact from their action?

If these bodyguards for prostitutes owned by Chinese pimps are really that brave and macho, why do it on her poster? Do it to her!

Why offer money for others to slap her? Slap her yourself la ...? No one paid money to Kiyai Arshad to slap Karpal Singh for his provocative statement decades ago.

Why demonstrate in front of Maybank but do it at Jalan Petaling or in Seputih?

It is time to end such childish political stunts. Make politics fun and not stupidly funny. It is time to mature to be more sensible and rational in our politicking and campaigning.

Admit it, neither UMNO nor BN these days are any good and effective at such mischievous political psywar and propaganda games. They tend to play those old laughable, predictable and out-dated tricks.

They will do better by being communicator and answer the issues with facts. It is sometimes hurtful but let the truth be told. Good can only prevail over bad based on the truth.

It is time to be bring back rationality in society and end this over done psychological game of perceptions. A rational public will be politically more favourable to BN.

As one Najib supporter told us (and he is not Malay okay?), his disgust with Anwar Ibrahim is his divisiveness on society and acquisition of power at all cost ways that he does. He can't stand him for trying to strut around as though he is innocent and purveyor of good values and decency.

He knows Anwar all too well from his past association. And he knows Najib.

They way he see it the message of Najib vs Anwar is about hope and future versus chaos, breakdown in order and moving the nation backward.

It would be great if Dato Lee Chong Wei or any young Chinese of his generation is placed as candidate. Even if he does not win, it is time to bring hope into our politics through the youth. If he wins, it would be great.

The nation need the young to move it forward.

No more past quarrel of the older generation of leaders like Anwar, Tun Dr Mahathir, Tun Musa, Tengku Razaleigh, Lim Kit Siang, Karpal SIngh, Haji Hadi, Nik Aziz and Taib Mahmud. It is time the new generation takes over the mantle of national leadership.

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PKNS: Intrigues of street-rule government (Part 1)

February 10, 2014, 7:52 pm

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The recent sacking of 30 PKNS Holding staff is being interpreted differently by different groups for various reasons. To correct that, it actually only involved 19 Managers and executive staff.

Upon hearing from an old pier from our Bangsar partying days inside PKNS, who is outside our common circle with former GM, Dato Othman Omar, the issue is understandably more complex than the popular perception formed from the news reports.

There is so much intrigues.

On reflection, one can only expect such from a street-rule government. Even corporate personality like Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim, though lack expertise and expertise in public administration, end up behaving like vengeful street hood.

Great rhetorics, and lofty ideals but unrealistic dreams. PKNS is indication of their ignorance and incompetence in governance.

Unfair Dismissal

To tell the PKNS story till the current sacking of professionals brought in will take long and require several parts. However, it is better to start from the humanitarian angle. Hopefully something can get done immediately.

Azmin’s latest statement said that it is victimisation of staff for political vengeance. Obviously his intention is to whack at Tan Sri Khalid. The statement below:

PRESS STATEMENT | 7 FEBRUARY 2014

PKNS sacking of contract employees illegal and inhumane

The sudden sacking of 30 employees of PKNS Holdings Sdn Bhd (PHSB) under the orders of Menteri Besar Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim is not only a violation of employment laws but is grossly inhumane.

It is completely against the principles espoused by the Pakatan Rakyat government of Selangor that all employees must be treated with dignity and compassion. While the sudden dismissal is harsh and will cause great financial loss to the employees, a severance pay of two months' salary only adds insult to injury.

I call upon the powers concerned to immediately revoke the dismissal letters and apologise to the people of Selangor for such an inconsiderate and high-handed action. In the interest of justice and good governance, Tan Sri Abdul Khalid must stop using the PKNS as a personal weapon against his perceived political rivals.

Mohamed Azmin Ali
Deputy President

Azmin statement reinforced the impression that the sacked staff are Azmin Ali’s boys, in which it is not entirely true.

There was also statement made by Member of Parliament for Ulu Langat and Deputy President of NTUC, Abdullah Sani.

Abdullah claimed the dismissal by PKNS tantamount to unfair dismissal and took a whack at Khalid. He gave his commitment that he fight for them. BNBBC made a report here.

His statement was so spirited. Watch the video below:

New GM

Continuing from the comment of one of the sacked Senior Manager, this aspect of the PKNS issue should be understood from history.

It should start in 2008 when BN government fell in Selangor and was replaced by a coalition of PAS, PKR and DAP with PKR offered the Menteri Besar post.

The then General Manager retired and he was replaced by the next in line Chinese Accountant. It became a public uproar.

How come a “Malay” organisation established under an Act of Parliament meant to play both social and economic role for the lower income majority be under the leadership of a Chinese?

The shock reality from a state government with strong DAP influence was too much for the Malay majority. Khalid and PKR have no problem but had to bow under the pressure from Malay NGO and UMNO to adjust. It is too early to be "liberal".

Khalid covered up by telling the press that she is only Acting GM and he is still looking for a GM.

A new GM will be rigorously selected professionally from the private sector and introduced the position of CEO to wipe out his footprints. The Chinese accountant was redesigned as CFO. Talk is she was financially compensated with contracts through the husband.

Khalid shared his dream of wanting to turn PKNS from a sleepy government organisation into a more efficient, profitable and practising proper governance organisation like a profit oriented corporation.

After several interviews and the HR consultant recommendation from the short-listed three names, then Othman Omar was hired from the construction sector.

It was professionally picked and luckily they did not spot that he was an UMNO member but pragmatic contractor wanting to cari makan. The consultant that picked out Othman was an ANSARA crony and actually removed his UMNO membership information.

Despite his limited experience in development, Othman expressed the ambition to turn PKNS into a RM20 billion worth development in hand.

Our insider who seen it and done it saw it as the beginning of a bigger problem to come. Trying to transform a “government” organisation into a “corporate” like entity within a short time and pumping volume of business is bound to bring in “people” related problems.

Technical man like Othman are pragmatic and used to solving engineering problems. He thinks solving human problem is easier than his engineering issues.

Hiring professionals

With the current staff, it is impossible to turn them around to understand the way of corporate business and more so the ambitious KPI and expectaation of Khalid.

The way to do it is to form a separate company, PKNS Holding to hire the new management team at market rate and transfer them to PKNS.

Off course, their salary is far higher than the government scale staff of PKNS and they response from government staff when they are pushed and shove around by these hired comtractialised professionals are that they will resent these people taking over their position.

There was no cooperation and they ignore instruction. Their attitude is "You are the one with the big salary so do it yourself!"

Since they do not understand the way of the corporate sector, they could not understand the need to hire capable outside consultants or professional service from certain company at high consultancy or fee. They rather pay peanut and get monkey.

Naturally when this commotion in PKNS happened, the staff played the predictable game of disclosing the contractualised Managers and executive salaries. The above is found on pro-PKR blog Anak Omak here.

The total is annual salary is slightly more than RM2 million. Where did Khalid claim they are too costly for PKNS Holdings to be paid at RM7 million or another report reported as RM8 million salary bill a year?

When compared to PKNS's annual salary and staff expenses of RM75 million, is that expensive? If it is not, the total PKNS expenses is RM150 million.

It shows Khalid have lost his corporate sensibility and arguing as shallow politicians or simplistic argument street demonstrators.

Our PKR supporting cousin would usually just brush off when presented with facts that he doesn't know and unable to answer, then raised some debatable issues and linked it to UMNO.

Conveniently, when it is also disputed and told as a seperate issue, he gets increasingly upset and say only you are right. Susah bercakap dengan orang bodoh... and irrational.

The staff game is naturally to defuse public sympathy to the sacked Managers and executives. In the past, there were pissed as hell with Khalid. So they got even with the outsiders. It sounds irrational jealousy but they are not to blame.

The organisational structure as proposed by Othman was not thought through from a human and public administration aspect. However, Khalid nodded, so does various members of committee and members of the Board of Director of PKNS which include Teresa Kok and Azmin.

Off course they should be unhappy. They have been around to build the organisation but a new so-called rakyat champion government came in and put them aside. Unfortunately, the PKNS Holding staff gets the brunt of their dissatisfaction.

Intrigue

Khalid is the Chairman but he is as good as Executive Chairman of PKNS. All matters must get his clearance before being presented to any Committee and Board. Otherwise, he will embarassingly scrutinised the proposal and ensure it gets thrown out.

This is Khalid's management style at PNB. So does the bearded one.

His egoistic ways and back stabbing office politics was infamous. It is the same office politics applied to Azmin which even a politician cannot take him on.

But that is for another part.

The interesting part is the above disclosed pay list was revealed in Angkatan Pemuda Keadilan blog or website. Most PKR blogger like Anak Omak are AMK people and pro-Azmin. Why then did they try to expose these contractualised staff deemed as Azmin's boys?

Only those who know would know but our PKNS insider said it is not entirely true.

The majority of them are non partisan and came in as professionals. Do not be surprise there are UMNO members who view it as professional work in the same manner there are PAS members in Proton and PKR member is Petronas.

Could it be that easy for Azmin to get his boys in when Khalid is always blocking Azmin from getting his way that he would be careful at allowing Azmin placed his boys all over PKNS?

It seems some UMNO members and pro-UMNO bloggers felt it is not for UMNO to take up the issue because it is like championing Azmin's boys who are already kenyang.

Sadly, that is myopic thinking. The PKNS issue is indicative of a chaotic administration filled with vengence, back stabbing and intrigues. It shows poor governance but well hidden from the public using their great ability to communicate, debate and propaganda.

UMNO should raise that and champion them. Help them saman PKNS. Screw the allegation that they are Azmin's boys. Heard from the other blogs that only Muaz Omar, the PR Manager is Azmin man. The rest could be just young executive inclined towards PKR... sympathiser.

What is wrong for UMNO to champion victims of PR bad governance, irrespective who they are? The orang kampung only see 20 profesyenal Melayu being sacked.

To help the rakyat, one has to help also non-UMNO members. Even PAS supporters and members voted UMNO candidates in Kedah during the general election. Bersih is also against Anwar for the Kajang "bi-election".

Please la... UMNO should get out of their tempurong mindset.

Azmin and Abdullah Sani may be defending the PKNS Holding Managers and Execuitive but It is crap acting. On one hand, it is PKR government and politicians victimising agency staff. Then on the other hand, the PKR politicians also defending them.

One can call it democrasy but it is also street-rule government of anarchy without discipline and order.

Now, Abdullah Sani is an Anwar man. Not Azmin or Khalid but strictly Anwar.

If he had been other's, he would have not run for Hulu Langat after he threw his wife with only the clothing she had on before Hari Raya. All for being smitten to a young Serikandi PKR. How heartless can he be?

Anwar has already turn non-commital. He is not politically threatened thus unwilling to make his Kajang "bi-election" Election Director upset. According to The Unspinners here, Anwar pissed on the sacked and salaryless PKNS Holding Managers and executives.

Hmmm ... can one expect Abdullah to be still spirited to save the PKNS staff?

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PKNS: Intrigues of street-ruled government (Part 2)

February 11, 2014, 10:20 pm

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The popular interpretation is that it is the culmination of 5 years of never ending quarrel between PKR’s Selangor Menteri Besar Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim an PKR Deputy President, Azmin Ali.

Some felt it is an act to justify Khalid to make way for Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim to assume the Menteri Besar position. It also serves to address the “Azmin problem” and will be Anwar’s stepping stone to Premiership.

In this second Part, we shall continue with the info from conversation with an old piers from those Bangsar partying days. It promises more intrigues together with endless back stabbing and revenge within the fold of PKR seeking for Anwar's favour.

At the end, it is all about Anwar and his pursuit for premiership. Those seeking Anwar's favour will be left by the wayside.

Rafizi's Revenge

When Anwar was bombarded with criticism for abusing democratic process again by asking State Assemblymen for Kajang, Lee Hih to resign and to make way for him to run, Rafizi Ramli had to front-lined for Anwar.

Rafizi did so by admitting that he was the person to have planned for the move. But, he gave the most foolish reason.

He gave a conspiracy theory that Najib will be removed soon and Tun Dr Mahathir's faction will takeover. Subsequently, BN will bombard Selangor with attack and take it back.

It shows Rafizi hardly know sufficient politics. It was purely derived from only the surface and superficial information of political rumours and gossips. However, Rafizi indirectly admitted that Selangor state government administration is in mess and Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim has to go.

Rafizi joined Khalid's office after leaving Petronas. However, he, Nik Nazmi and few others fell out with Khalid and was kicked out. Khalid suspected them of trying to sabotage him and make way for Azmin as MB.

Back then, it is an open secret that Azmin wants the Selangor MB post badly. Azmin will not settle for second best, not even be exco member to Khalid's "cabinet".

The public will not realise till later but politicians know the political links to see all attack on Khalid be it from within PKR or outside are linked to Azmin. Unfortunately for Azmin, he does not have the support of DAP, which Khalid gets.

The sabotage on Khalid relates to an incident where a video recorder was found in Khalid's room recording him. In a press conference, Khalid conveniently blamed it on UMNO and threatened to make a police report.

However, he did not. Probably he could figure out that it was these boys so he did not push the issue any further. Also, there is said to be a scene where Khalid's long time PA, Rahimah was fixing his tie on him.

Heard there is, but not confirmed, other compromising scene.

After kicking them out, Khalid allegedly got even by returning the dirty play. He was suspected to be involved in the Azmin "ice cream" pictures.

The root of it was Khalid's inability to adjust to political and public office. Corporate people are too much of themselves thus they think that corporate approach to public administration is more ``'professional".

Political position involves popularity and accessibility. And, it is also the creative art of the possible to make things not possible to be possible.

He couldn't appreciate that. Not so much he cannot bisa diatur things, but he is not willing to asal bapak senang with nobodies.

In the first three months of his MB tenure, he already had a fallout with his reformasi veteran Private Secretary. There was an ensuing demo against him by the reformasi in which in one incident, they had his car in the house garage wrapped in banners.

Rafizi left the MB office and was taken into the office of a new outfit for Anwar as Selangor Economic Adviser. That position was probably a way to absorb thisMCKK jambu being groomed by Anwar.

Nik Nazmi was another MCKK jambu of the office till he became exco and in the following term, he assumed the position of Deputy Speaker. Nik Nazmi had admitted to this blogger that he is young but he is straight. He also do not believe Anwar is a homosexual.

Rafizi is the younger piers of Malaysian student politicians of UK in the late 19902 o early 2000s, They were the likes of Khairy Jamaluddin, Omar Ong, Akramsyah, Adlan Benan Omar and the "Tingkat 4" of Pak Lah's side and Anwar's side.

These boys come with the ego of thinking they are the Chosen Ones. As Rafizi moved up in the PKR party hierarchy and get to be elected as first time MP, the so-called whistleblower kept a hidden revenge on Khalid.

Throwing out Azmin

Although Rafizi masterminded the Kajang Move after the May 2013 general election, there is every reason to believe that Azmin was not aware of the plan.

The reason is Azmin did not started this round of quarrel with Khalid involving PKNS. Khalid started it by not reappointing Azmin to the board of PKNS in mid-january but he later blamed it on PKNS then GM, Datuk Othman Omar.

After much commotion and exchanges between Khalid and Azmin, Anwar stepped in. Azmin was reinstated as member of the board of PKNS or was he?

Azmin is not keen to be member of Selangor exco but for whatever reason, he wants the position in PKNS.

One source close to Azmin said they believe later that Khalid and his Personal Assistant, Faekah Hussein got wind of Rafizi's plan. So the two of them decided to do a scorch earth strategy of asal bukan Azmin.

Khalid can be replaced but not by Azmin. These is an old score to settle with Azmin. That is the reason Khalid refused sign for Azmin's reappointment on the board of PKNS.

Maybe it is to make it difficult for Azmin to step into the PKNS Chairmanship which is meant for Selangor MB. We tend to believe Khalid is making his last days in power to do whatever necessary to make Azmins life difficult and ensure he not be MB.

As said in Part 1, any decisions by management must get Khalid's clearance. His clearance, agreement and instruction is never in writing but verbal.

Khalid instruct Othman to sign the letter to inform Azmin that he is no more member of the board of PKNS. Osman sense that it is not proper so he "implicated" executive secretary Norita Mohd Sidek.

When Azmin reacted and exploded the issue, Azmin's former speech writer and now PR Manager for PKNS leaked to the media that Othman was not authorised to issue such letter and it is supposed to be Norita.

There was no decision by "PKNS" or member of the board to dismiss Azmin but merely reappointment within the power of Khalid.

Khalid immediately cold storaged Othman who is due to end his contract anyway, and Norita by transfering them to the State Secretary office and assigned only to read newspaper.

The other person frozen was Muaz Omar.

Khalid wanted to expelled Muaz Omar but Manager for Strategic Human Resource, Rina Sharif said it cannot be done.

In the midst of figuring out how to expell Muaz Omar, a group of permanent staff of PKNS employed as government staff met up with Faekah.

This is one feisty spinster. She defend Khalid as her "husband" and openly in confrontation with both Azmin and Rafizi on Twitter.

When the Kajang move was revealed, she even openly attacked Anwar.

The staff rep was a Controller for Northern Region, Siti Zubaidah and an ex Auditor, Roslan. They suggested to her to sack all the contract staff of PKNS Holdings. They were government staff so their rationale was from a government point of view.

Read Part 1 and a link to AIDC in the commentary to understand their point view. The rebuttal will come later.

While the question the work of PKNS management from PKNS Holding, they also have issues.

An estimated half of the top officers in the original PKNS organisation are corrupted and power abuse was rampant. PKNS Holding presence stand in the way for them to make money from kickbacks and and commissions.Siti Zubaidah herself was investigated by MACC.

Faekah bought into their suggestion and instructed to fire all the reported 23 PKNS Holding staff. Azmin's boy, Muaz has to go. It does not matter that the 23 family of PKNS Holding staff will lose their income.

That's street-ruled government where everything are done for politics without concerned for its ramification. Since public is gullible to their propaganda and PR, they have nothing to worry.

For the 23 staff of PKNS Holding, the spin is they are "all" Azmin's boys and "sudah kenyang". The allegations by Siti Zubaidah and Roslan is used to the hilt.

For them, there is no fear of any legal action for unfair dismissal. They that contract allows them to end their service with sufficient notice but it is not that simple. There must be due reason to dismiss an employee.

There is no corporate restructuring planned. They are in management thus will know about it. At the same time, there was a pledge of integrity made at the end of January and corporate plans for the future was already in discussion with the new incoming GM to replace Othman.

So this sacking was never planned but decision made at the spark of the moment. The interesting twist to why Azmin does know of the Kajang move is that he will likely be slaughtered too after Kajang.

Wait for Part 3.

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PKNS: Intrigues of street-ruled government (Part 3)

February 13, 2014, 9:15 pm

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Leaving the last Part 2 for two days allowed for further development on the PKNS issue.

Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim continued with his cost saving bullshit to say he is tightening PKNS control. He already tightened control when PKNS was under a barrage of attack prior to GE13. Any blame of losing control is no more just Othman but more him.

How successful will Khalid attempt to cover-up by appointing three exco members; Datok Teng Chang Kim, Iskandar Abdul Samad and Roziah Ismail to listen to briefings and explanations of senior PKNS staff? [Read The Star here]

They will be listening to PKNS staff and not PKNS Holdings staff side of the story. Expected issues raised would be duplication of work, high pay but outsource work, and suspicions of cronyism.

However they should hear from the former PKNS Holding staff of PKNS staff's own sordid stories too.

Khalid tightened control on the PKNS GM, when then Encik Othman Omar was getting too close to his rival Azmin Ali. He was in same age group and good looking handsome men tend to flock together.

Khalid only realised too late that Osman had taken in Azmin's speech writer, Nurul Muaz Omar as PR Manager.

Maybe there are few other Azmin's boys but Othman insist to take in professionals to make his job easier, deliverable met and if KPI met, hope to renew contract.

The existing PKNS staff just do not cut it to do purely development work. And more so for high end and high quality development.

Othman took in his former team from his previous projects, and an ANSARA by the name of Azlan Jamil as Senior Corporate Manager. He gets a fat RM23,000 a month salary but PKNS staff see his job function is not clear and specific.

They see him duplicating the non-performing PKNS Corporate Manager, and Acting GM Corporate of PKNS Holding, Norhisham Ghouth.

Norhisham was spending too much time basking in the limelight as President of PKNS FC Bolasepak. Yesterday, Raja Petra exposed PKNS spent RM40 million for PKNS FC. [Read Malaysia Today here]. Intriguing isn't it?

They claim to want to be a top developer and no more do social welfare work but spent such money on football. Yet claimed RM7 million paid to PKNS Holding contract staff was excessive.[Read Edge here.]

Meanwhile, Malay Mail Online yesterday here featured Dr Aiman, Azlan and Rina Sharif filed an appeal to Department of Industrial Relation for unfair dismissal.

In Part 1, we wrote of Rina Sharif being approached for advise on how to sack Muaz but was told it cannot be done. Now she ended up being sacked en-bloc.

Corrupt Complainant

We also wrote about two PKNS staff by the name of Siti Zubaidah and Roslan meeting Faekah Husin, Khalid's feisty PA. They suggested to her to sack all staff of PKNS Holdings. Are they concerned about PKNS?

Not much is heard of ex Auditor, Roslan Mohamed but lots is heard of the Kontroller Northern Region based in Shah Alam, Siti Zubaidah Abu Bakar. Ever wonder why the need to have regional offices complete with Accountant, Managers, Engineers and staff when it is all in one state of Selangor?

Siti Zubaidah was investigated by MACC for having an ATM belonging to a contractor. Money is not transferred to her but only withdrawing an ATM. Smart ... difficult for MACC to prove but why Khalid and Othman kept quiet without any in-house disciplinary action?

Covering up for a staff from the presumably corrupt BN Government? Off course not, they would have went for her. In their second term, blaming BN is no more legitimate. So why no action on corruption?

Siti Zubaidah has lots of conflict of interest positions, kept quiet when JV partner did not meet stipulated time, and together with another Kontroller to secure a PKNS lot with another Kontroller to sell raya clothings.

She aspired and has taken over Chairmanship of PKNS FC and eyeing Financial Controller post. Obviously sincere, isn't she?

Siti Zubaidah was the person that Faekah Husin believed and took her advise to sack all PKNS Holding staff.

The new General Manager for PKNS, Azlan Alfiah had no plans to sack the 23 or 19, depending on who reports. Azlan was the CFO of Kumpulan Darul Ehsan Berhad and worked under Raja Idris Kamaruddin. Name familiar?

During the week before the long weekend of February 1st, there was a ceremony to sign and cite the pledge of integrity by all management and staff of PKNS and PKNS Holdings.

Why would they want to do that if Azlan Alfiah had planned to sack all of them lock stock and barrel? Maybe it is to give a false impression but that is in politics.

In corporate life, they do not waste time to do the unnecessary. On top of that, Azlan had been in communicado with several key people to know PKNS's financial and project status. He even had planned and told few of his plan to promote some.

The sacking is neither planned by Azlan Alfiah nor Othman, but planned by Faekah. Upon the advise of Faekah, Khalid called up Azlan over the long weekend to instruct him of the plan to sack all.

He must have returned back to KDEB to prepare the letters and got some staff fro KDEB or Kumpulan Peransang to prepare the documents. When he came in on his first day on the job on February 3rd, the sacking letters were finalised.

It was signed by Datin Paduka Azlina Zakaria, the Chairman of PKNS Holding and Financial Controller of PKNS and delivered to the sacked staff and management on February 4th.

Azlina is another interesting character. She is dubbed "Mak Tiri" of PKNS for her role as hatchet woman. Heartless and no racial bias. concern. She whacks everyone; JV partners, chinese taukeh, Malay sub-contractor, and staff.

Tan Sri Kadir Sheikh Fadzir, who joined PKR to save his JV projects with PKNS, yelled her, "Apa punya Melayu??!!".

She was seconded from Worldwide Holdings and had returned back. Now the corrupt Siti Zubaidah is salivating for that job and seeing PKNS as goldmine for her family fortune.

Governor of Selangor

Faekah was instrumental also in alerting Khalid that Othman is closed to Azmin. It was her deft touch to get Khalid to use Othman for one last time before he ends his contract on January 31st. The ploy to transfer Othman to State Secretary Office was bullshit. He was on his way out.

After what happened and many controversies, Othman was never going to get renewed. It will be written later. Before he leaves, Khalid used Othman to hit on his own friend, Azmin. Those in the PNB of old knows how ruthless Khalid could be.

Our friend, who left Guthrie with bad blood with Khalid, realised it does not end there. Wherever he goes for interview, Khalid's words reached earlier to block his rice bowl.

At one time, Tan Sri Abdul Rashid Hussein made him wait for 6 hours for an interview before cancelling and not rescheduled. Rashid moved to Anwar and that was a fatal move. Rashid and Khalid went back a long way.

Back to Faekah, such is her willingness for Khalid. Their partnership together is see as both Bonnie and Clyde and Ventriloquists with their puppet.

Khalid has a speaking disability. He stutters and gets mocked as Khalid Gagap on the Internet. So Khalid will only give official-like comments but leave to Faekah to say more than that. He may have given her the greenlight to quarel and take on any of his detractors, even Azmin. He doesn't say so officially but he does not stop or complain of Faekah actions.

Her position is merely as Personal Assistant but she seemed to be making decisions for Khalid. If the British are still around, she would be the British Resident that offer advise which the Sultan must accept and Menteri Besar just execute.

The British have long gone and Anwar has aspiration to overturn the Constitutional Monarchy. He would have preferred calling Faekah as Governor.

It is the talk among the 23 sacked PKNS Holding staff that Anwar described Faekah as Selangor Governor in his meeting with some of the sacked staff. However, he tried to qualify by saying Faekah was close to the family then but not any more.

Despite his bitching of Faekah, Anwar did not step in to help the sacked staff and still left it to Khalid.

The comment was interesting. It is puzzling as to why he would want to bad mouthed someone insignificant in both party and PKR government hierarchy like Faekah?

Is he trying to absolve himself from being seen as working with Faekah and Khalid?

Anwar did not say to them that Faekah worked under PKR President and Anwar's "first" wife, Datin Seri Dr Wan Azizah.

She was seconded to Khalid and remained in contact with Wan Azizah. Wan Azizah-Khalid-Nurul attempted to block Azmin's advancement by pitting Dato Zaid Ibrahim against Azmin in the PKR party election.

It was strange because Azmin is but a spoilt loyalist of Anwar. In the end, Zaid lost but Wan Azizah remain President and Nurul became Vice President. All the quarrel but in the end, the Keluarga 69 still control PKR.

Azmin's Waterloo?

Remember in Part 1, we wrote that Azmin did not know about the Kajang Move but Rafizi, Khalid and Faekah knows. You could guess from who Faekah and Khalid got to know.

Why did Rafizi knows but Azmin was not told?

For one, it is to solve the Khalid-Azmin public spat. Second is about Anwar's premiership plan. However, there is the suspicion is that Azmin is beginning to be a pain in the butt with his demanding ways.

Political writer, Yahya Ismail is detracting Azmin with comments that Azmin was bleeding from his arse whenever Anwar visited him as student in the US.

We heard a different version of the bleeding arse story. Nevertheless, he is making PKR bleed slowly but surely in their arse.

It cost PKR in Sabah. It destabilise Selangor administration. Anwar wanted to be PM but now he has to settle for second best as MB of Selangor. This is to name a few.

Some of Azmin so-called supporters are beginning to get pissed with him. Recently AMK leaders were snubbed for supporting Anwar's plan to takeover MB of Selangor position.

Our reading is Anwar and PKR generally is losing patience with Azmin and his feet stomping demanding ways. He is supposed to be his loyalist and not have an aspiration himself.

Lately Azmin has confided of seeing himself as future PM too. Anwar will not make it due to old age but he see himself making it.

Anwar with Khalid and Faekah via Wan Azizah together with other leaders, thought to be Azmin's staunch supporters but losing confidence with Azmin, could be hatching a plan to knock Azmin off.

Wan Azizah have been quiet, Nurul is quiet because of the divorce, and Saifuddin Nasution is quiet too. Still water does not mean there is no crocodile in the Sarawak river.

Although it is widely believed that Wan Azizah will be passing the Presidency to Anwar, they could be hatching something as one for the road to their mortal enemy.

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. The Islamic empire fell to pieces because of the woman's vengence.

What is heard is that they will weaken Azmin by pitting Saifuddin against Azmin for Deputy President post in the upcoming PKR party election. In PKR, Saifuddin carries more weight and respect than Zaid Ibrahim.

Is it possible?

Azmin disobeyed and broken his mother's heart. Muslims believe Allah will punish an anak derhaka in this mortal world. Could it be it is time for Azmin to face the divine retribution by seeing his political ambition stunted?

The political intrigue parts ends.

There is more sordid stories on PKNS and PKNS Holdings staff and management. It will prove that Khalid and PKR is not as great as the public think they are. All rhetorics.

Just as bad as BN and if not, worse by their open public spat and at times immature behaviour. Maybe will continue. Jeng jeng jeng ....

Part 1
Part 2

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Musical Interlude: Mozart and Mahler by MPO

February 15, 2014, 8:32 am

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Just returned from watching the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra under the conductor Claus Peter Flor at the Dewan Filharmonik Petronas.

Tonight's show started out with Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 22 featuring Till Fellner on piano. There is no recording allowed in the MPO however there is You Tube of another performance of Mozart's concerto:

Making a perfect pair to the successful composer coming to fame in Vienna in the 1780s is another composer out of Vienna in a little over a century later, Gustav Mahler.

The second part of tonight's performance played Mahler's Symphony No. 1 in D which was completed in 1888.

Below is a You Tube video of the symphony performed in five movements conducted by Zubin Mehta at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, Moscow, 2011.

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PKNS home buyers to get land title after 45 years!

February 16, 2014, 5:33 am

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In 1969, more than 100 homes was built and sold by PKNS in Taman Keramat or usually called by local as Kg Datuk Keramat to mostly government employees.

However, things got complicated and messy when Selangor government gave away Kuala Lumpur to the federal government as federal territory in 1972.

As a result of Government bureaucracy, inefficiency, and indifferent attitude to KIV problems, some 30 homeowners had to wait 45 years before there was any hope for them to feel their long paid properties as their own.

According to this architect blog here, Kampung Dato’ Keramat off Jalan Ampang as we know today "started as a low-cost settlement to complement the growing but limited space of nearby Kampung Baru, a Malay reserve land".

As it "became more congested, the area expanded into Taman Keramat across Jalan Jelatek, which subsequently became its main access road. Today, the entire area is known as Keramat. Jalan Dato’ Keramat runs parallel to the river and forms the southern boundary of the village."

Jalan Jelatek as known today is basically the boundary between Kuala Lumpur and Selangor. Some 30 homes sold by PKNS in Taman Keramat ended up in the federal territory and the rest in Selangor.

The land transfer for homes on the Selangor side was completed by 1976 but the home buyers that ended up in the federal territory had to wait for 45 years to finally get their land transferred.

Only last Saturday as told by a second generation owner did the finalprocedureto sign certain documents before the Federal Territory Land Office could proceed on. A gathering was held and the Land Office Officer came to collect the signatories.

PKNS finally confirmed to Land Office the owners for the properties, in which most of the land owner have passed away before getting to own the home they have completed paying decades ago..

There is still the stampt duties to be paid which comes out to about RM9,000 since the home bought at RM15,000 in 1969 has appreciated to almost RM1 million at today's market. They still have to wait for the Land Tribunal to meet and agree to reduce the amount.

For the retirees, it is unfair to pay the market rate. If it had been cleared in 1976, it would cost a hundred or two only.

Hopefully Minister of Finance cum Prime Minister could exempt them from any stamp duties. After all, it is not the mistake of the home buyers but a political decision by Government to turn Kuala Lumpur into a Federal Territory.

The fate of the home they had bought would still be in a quandary if not for an article by Utusan Malaysia and Berita Harian in 2001 to highlight the home buyers plight.

It seemed PKNS and various related Government Department were still dragging their feet and blaming each other after PKNS sold the properties 32 years before.

The then PKNS General Manager was only concerned when the paper exposed this anamolies of history.

At the golf course, he bumped into a PKNS retiree, Haji Zainuddin, who knows of the problem and hired his company, Versatile One Sdn Bhd as consultant to settle the issue.

Supposedly he knows something about land matters but that took 12 years to settle. The cost for his services borne by PKNS.

This incident highlights the organisation that is under the spotlight.

When Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim came in as Menteri Besar in 2008, he had this wet dream of turning the SEDC into a full pledge corporate organisation with KPI set as though it is one of the many property companies under his previous employment at PNB.

Even to solve an issue like this, it took them at least 45 years to solve (not solved yet till land grant issued by Land Office and the replacement for the fired Company Secretary Norita Salleh has to sign some documents first).

Is that a realistic vision in Khalid Ibrahim's dream?

It is like Khalid with his late age and challenged performance, big belly and stuttering speech dreaming to make out with Megan Fox. Hollywood film producer, Riza Aziz stand a better chance.

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PKNS: Intrigues of street-ruled government (Part 4)

February 19, 2014, 1:55 am

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Over the past two days, we were pondering over whether to continue the series or do it in a different posting. Since the Kajang bi-election is in March, we will just continue.

The widely held perception created by Pakatan Rakyat is that Selangorian felt enough is enough with UMNO and BN rule. However, there are reasons to believe that even Chinese media beginning to realise that Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim is not as he seemed to be.

If Khalid is such, Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim will be worse. Khalid's problem was that he applied corporate style management which is only bottom line focused to complex public administration with multiple stakeholders that could determine his political fortune.

Anwar can be impressive on stage, talking and persuading but he is inconsistent and a walking hypocrit. Apart from his political skill, he has no other technical set to claim as his competency. When put in charge, he is likely to falter.

Selangor is not an easy state to administer and the MB is a cursed political position. Although pro-UMNO bloggers and UMNO politicians are avoiding the PKNS issue, it represents everything wrong with the state administration.

Some problems like PKNS FC goes back a long way. If PR talks so much about the wastages and leakages of UMNO-BN ruled Selagor, why didn't they correct the wastages and leakages?

Bloated budget

When Khalid came on to the political scene and brought in now Datuk Othman Omar, he spoke of many lofty ideals of making PKNS a more efficient and profitable outfit as a full fledged developer.

What is strange is that some RM40 million was spent on PKNS FC to play in the Selangor football league as a semi professional club. Is that part of the branding exercise for PKNS?

Taking a passage from RPK's Malaysia Today expose on this:

The RM40 million was the total spent over about six years. Initially, just before Pakatan Rakyat took over in 2008, it was less than RM2.5 million per year. Then it started to increase and over the last three years it has shot up to as high as RM10 million a year today.

The money to finance the PKNS FC comes from two subsidiaries, SIC and Selaman. The problem that PKNS is now facing is that the accounts are in a mess and no one can figure out how the money was spent or what has happened to it. Most of the expenditure is not supported by documentary evidence.

The people involved in the PKNS FC are as follows:
1. Three Senior accountants of PKNS (salaried and full-fledged PKNS staff)
i. Azhar Ahmad.
ii. Nor Hisham Ghouth.
iii. Tuan Hj Ishak Bakri – Juruodit PKNS FC.
2. Sports manager – Raja Mohamad Raja Harun.
3. Sales Manager Shah Alam PKNS – (Azmi Adnan).
4. Land Manager Shah Alam PKNS – (Mahfizul Rashid).
5. Security Manager PKNS – (Roslan Sekin).
6. Clerk from finance department (he has since left PKNS after the fraud issues emerged) – Farid Buniran.
7. Hamzah Jaafar.
8. Suhaimi Hamid.
All these people, who cost the taxpayers about RM200,000 a year in salaries, are paid by PKNS, on top of the allowances they receive to ‘manage’ the PKNS FC. They are, of course, aware of the mismanagement of PKNS FC’s funds but no one wants to be the whistleblower, for obvious reasons — they are being well paid to ‘toe the party line’.

I suppose Pakatan Rakyat is very particular about ‘toeing the party line’. Hence these people are doing just that while enjoying millions in salaries and allowances over the last six years and while the PKNS FC bleeds another RM40 million.

The bill to run the FC is RM9 million and the members are PKNS staff. So what in the world is Khalid and the PKNS staff that spoke to Faekah making a big fuzz over PKNS Holdings salary expenses of only RM7 million to sack all the 23 staff?

It is a dishonest act of government to lie to the rakyat. It shows that the reason the mentioned to sack them is more than that.

On top of that, we had revealed in Part 1 that PKNS's salary expenses amounts to RM75 million and total annual overhead is RM150 million.

If they are to be sacked for salary expenses of RM7 or RM8 millon, then the whole of PKNS should be sacked. PKNS FC with RM9 million a year expenses should be closed!

Embezzlement

AIDC wrote something to this matter about the clerk Farid Buniran. PKNS was an opportunity to "ratah harta PKNS" by a group of staff. One can only assume that it must be so rampant and obvious without any proper system in place that the clerk wanted to help himself too.

An excerpt below:

Isu terbongkarnya skandal ini bermula apabila pihak bank menghubungi salah seorang akauntan di PKNS yang juga AJK kelab untuk mengesahkan pengeluaran wang dari akaun PKNS. Pengesahan ini dibuat kerana pihak bank mendapati terdapat sedikit perbezaan pada tandatangan akauntan tersebut. Namun apa yang dijelaskan oleh beliau kepada pihak bank amat mengejutkan apabila dinyatakan bahawa akauntan ini sudah 6 bulan tidak menandatangani sebarang bentuk cek.

Dengan kecekapan pihak bank, mereka mendapati bahawa tandatangan akauntan pada cek tersebut tersebut telah ditiru dan proses pemindahan wang ke akaun disekat. Soalnya siapa yang berani melakukan kegiatan ini yang pasti satu jenayah yang amat besar sekiranya individu tersebut ditangkap? Adakah tindakan menyelubungi kes ini bagi mengelak dari tindakan keras dikenakan kepada Presiden dan AJK kelab?

Dilaporkan sumber Penulis bahawa perlakuan janayah tersebut didalangi salah seorang daripada AJK kelab yang juga berjawatan sebagai kerani di bahagian Kewangan di PKNS. Kebetulan pula kerani ini bertugas di bahagian yang sama dengan akauntan PKNS tersebut. Dalam jangka masa yang tidak dipastikan, beliau telah menggelapkan dana tersebut tanpa pengetahuan pengurusan dan kakitangan PKNS. Tidak dipastikan samada ada AJK kelab yang lain telah bersengkokol dengan kerani ini.

Setelah kegiatan beliau dapat dikesan pihak pengurusan, sekelip mata kerani ini telah menghilangkan diri dengan membawa bersamanya segala dokumen-dokumen penting yang melibatkan hal ehwal kewangan kelab. Apa yang dilaporkan media bahawa perbelanjaan besar PKNS terhadap PKNS FC gagal diuruskan atau dinyatakan dengan jelas mungkin akibat kegagalan KSSR membentangkan laporan kewangan kepada juruaudit. Ia dilihat sebagai usaha mengolah terma daripada kejadian jenayah kepada salah urus pentadbiran oleh pengurusan PKNS dan KSSR. Jelasnya ia menjadi salah satu faktor utama dalam peningkatan kos pengurusan pasukan PKNS FC secara keseluruhannya.

Mungkin kejadian ini tidak dijelaskan kepada Kerajaan Negeri kerana sebab yang tertentu.

Assuming that as state development agency to give the impetus and stimuli for state economic development, it transcend into sports. Was the money spent serve to develop sports in the state or if not, PKNS?

With the leakage that arise because of the fraud that involved the clerk Farid Buniran, said to forging checks to make payments, it does not.

Taking opportunity

One typical bad habit of government servants is their wasteful tendencies and taking cheap opportunities at the expense of their work. All those involved are being paid allowances and these government servants would be clamouring to be in such committees or board membership.

In the case of PKNS FC, someone must be held responsible for the expenses rise from RM2.5 mmillion a year to now RM9 million a year.

Suspiciously, those in the committee must be benefiting from the kickback or commission to supply sporting equipments, clothings, and various paraphenalia.

To know more of the hanky panky going and the ballooned the budget, AIDC here exposed that:

... pengaruh dan tindak tanduk hampir keseluruhan AJK KRRS di dalam waktu mereka bertugas di PKNS. Mungkin apa yang dijelaskan kepada penulis menggambarkan betapa mereka ini dilihat begitu‘STYLO MYLO’ di kalangan kakitangan PKNS. Maklumlah mereka sentiasa bersama dalam merencana perancangan aktiviti sukan bagi pihak PKNS. Namun yang nyata ada pihak yang melihat antara perlakuan kumpulan AJK ini adalah:-

i. Di kalangan AJK ini gemar bersama duduk semeja di masa minum dan kadangkala dilihat kurang senang sekiranya hadir kakitangan yang bukan AJK duduk bersama mereka keranai mereka, bimbang tindak tanduk mereka diketahui kakitangan lain.

ii. Sentiasa mendapat pelepasan waktu bekerja tanpa sebab yang munasabah sehingga mengganggu kelancaran kerja hakiki di PKNS yang perlu diutamakan. Dikalangan AJK yang wajib mengikuti rombongan sebagai penyokong pada perlawanan PKNS FC setiap minggu sehingga mengabaikan kerja hakikimengakibatkan berlaku kelewatan dalam menyiapkan tugasan.

iii. Merencanakan program yang memberiruang mereka mengaut keuntungan secara individu atau berkumpulan. Contohnya diantara mereka yang:-

- Menubuhkan syarikat perkhidmatan pakar fisioterapi kepada ahli sukan PKNS. Pasti dengan sokongan AJK, tiada halangan untuk syarikat ini dilantik tanpa melihat tahap pengalaman dan kepakaran mereka.

- AJK ada yang menjadi vendor wajib dalam menyediakan khidmat katering pada semua aktiviti yang melibatkan kelab. Ini dapat dilihat dimana ada di antara AJK yang menguasai kafe di Kompleks Sukan PKNS, Kelana Jaya sejak sekian lama.

- Berketerampilan bergaya dan mewah di kalangan AJK yang luar biasa bagaikan artis yang nyata tidak setara dengan jawatan dan perolehan gaji mereka di PKNS.Cuba semak kenderaan yang mereka miliki.

- Kerap menganjurkan lawatan ke luar negara dengan perbelanjaan yang ditanggung sepenuhnya kelab.Badan dan baju sahaja.Walaupon penganjuran tersebut dibuka kepada kakitangan lain, namun pasti mereka tidak berani menyatakan sebarang keistimewaan yang mereka perolehi sebagai AJK kelab.

Apa yang boleh dirangkumkan adalah dikalangan AJK KSSR yang dilihat lebih berminat untuk mewujudkan urusniaga demi keuntungan mereka daripada berkhidmat untuk ahli kelab. Tiada usaha yang menampakkan mereka menjalankan usaha gigih kearah pembangunan sukan di kalangan kakitangan di PKNS sendiri.

Ianya jelas berlaku apabila terdapat beberapa sukan yang menggunakan khidmat atlet import yang dibayar semata mata memastikan sukan tersebut berjaya dengan cemerlang. Ada atlet yang diambil sebagai kakitangan berjawatan tetap serta dibayar gaji penuh walaupun tidak/jarang hadir bekerja sepanjang tahun. Tambahan pula atlet tersebut dibayar elaun latihan yang tinggi walaupun tiada sebarang kejohanan dijadualkan berlangsung. ...

Silence Chairperson

Why is there no complain from Roslan Mohamed and Siti Zubaidah on PKNS FC to Faekah to set things straight as the allegedly bloated salary of PKNS Holding Managers and staff?

FMT wrote a report on RPK's report here. An excerpt of the report below:

When contacted later, a source from PKNS FC denied Raja Petra’s allegations, stating that while it did receive a total of RM40 million since 2008, the money however was shared with other sports agencies in the state.

“Yes, the RM40 million is a huge amount of money, but it has not been used totally on football,” said a source to FMT. “It was shared amongst other sports agencies such as the Futsal Academy”.

FMT was unable to contact PKNS FC President Siti Zubaidah Jabar for her response.

Founded in 1964, PKNS FC is currently in the second season of first tier Malaysian football, the Malaysia Super League. On Tuesday, PKNS FC lost 2-3 to home team Kelantan in the first-leg tie of their FA Cup quarter-final match.

Siti Zubaidah did not complain because she wanted to be PKNS FC President. She managed to assume the position.

Why would a woman, whose not likely to ever kicked a football and does not look like someone who follows football, would want to be President of a football club?

Judging from Part 3 about her, the question is ada masyukkk kaaa???

Wonder why she did not come forward as Chairman to handle the press? Could it be publicity shy or worried more will come out if she s being scutinised?

Any government servant would prefer to just let the story die off. If there is any statement to be made, pass it to the politicians. Most politicians are hungry for publicity that they do anything to get the media appearance without realising they are being used by these government officers to save their skin.

In the past, it is government officers that is supposed to face the media on operational matters while politicians only handle the major policy announcement.

Siti Zubaidah is silence because she is avoiding many issues waiting to explode.

There is Part 5 for tomorrow.

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PKNS: Intrigues of street-ruled government (Part 5)

February 20, 2014, 1:28 am

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Daylight robbery at De Palma

Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim makes it a political war cry to denounce UMNO's Selangor administration as corrupt, inefficient and poor governance.

When it comes to corruption, this blog is not racist or aligned with any party. It has to be addressed without fear or favour. One would expect Khalid to address the low lying fruits first.

In PKNS, it is an open secret that there is openly a conflict of interest and major leakage in the operations of De Palma hotel. MACC have went in, Internal Auditor have went in and name it whose who inside and outside have went in to investigate but nothing happen.

Go ahead and blame the BN because De Palma exist since the time of Tan Sri Muhammad Muhammad Taib who happens be in PAS now. However, PKR and Pakatan Rakyat have taken over Selangor since 2008.

In 2008, Khalid claimed PKNS will be managed professionally and Selangor will ensure a corrupt free administration. Why things remain as usual - open and blatantly corrupt at De Palma Hotel?

GM-owned Hotel Management Company

The General Manager of De Palma since it's inception has been Datuk Haji Ilyas bin Zainal Abidin.

He gets paid RM20,000 a month and one would have the impression that he manages the hotel operation as a hotelier.

Unfortunately not, Ilyas is a shareholder of Biztel Sdn Bhd and conveniently the company is in a JV with PKNS in a company to operate the De Palma Hotel chain called De Palma Management Services.

Gaji dapat, share dapat dan yuran perkhidmatan yang kekal mengalir pun dapat (He gets salary, shares in company and steady stream of management services income.)

On top of that, he has a permanent residence in the hotel. So it seemed that it is common practise among hoteliers. Strangely, PKNS is paying hotel operator allowance to Biztel Sdn Bhd.

Operators only operate hotels but the expenses like mainteinance, refurbishment, repair, ssalary of staff, etc. is borne by the hotel owner. In this case, Biztel operate the hotel and be paid fees but does not have to worry about profit and loss.

If the name of hotel operator is reknown like Hilton or whatever, they would demand a cut of the profit. Not sure of Biztel.

Any work to be done has to be approved by the owner which is PKNS. Since Ilyas is the PKNS GM for De Palma, he can decide.

All removation work seems to favour few companies like Remarkable Design Sdn Bhd, Adika Design, and Accuride Sdn Bhd. The common factor in all these three companies is Callie Lim and Kelvin.

These Melayus gave to Cina because Cina can be in collusion to give kickbacks and keep quiet. What they do not know is Cina talk with other Cina and eventually this Melayu knows.

Colluding Controller

One source gave us information that there is such a thing called committee for tenders headed by the Head of Procurement committee, Hajah Roziah Ahmad who happens to be Kontroller Wilayah Tengah.

The practise of tender is strange and indeed "professional".

In one instance, two or three quotations from companies were using only photostat papers instead of original copies to the approving committee.

Someone can manipulate the committee.

It also means that when MACC or Auditor comes in, nothing can be done and be used as evidence since it is not the original. Those who do not know will say MACC and Auditor is hopeless.

The documents presented to the Committee is a rather shabby work and hardly comply to proper corporate governance, which Khalid talks about a lot before becoming a politician.

There was a case in which the company Selvest Shwan Trading does not have a proper address but merely a PO Box address.

It turns out that in a case one by the name of Allan Mok appeared as Marketing Manager on two quotations for walkie talkie; Unicommercial Trading Sdn Bhd and Allwin Trading Sdn. Bhd. Upon checking, Allwin was a company dealing in textile. The old trick of rigging quotations

As Chief Exco of De Palma Hotel, she gives priority to any payment or claim by De Palma. Suspicious isn't it? Collusion cannot be discounted.

Such practise had been going around for a while and Roziah was dropped before but reinstated as though she would take care of PKNS interest. The problem is De Palma Hotel is not making money but the management company is doing well and getting fatter over the years.

Roziah maybe a Hajah but her marriage and extramarital life is stuff of Hollywood movies with a moderately priced hotel as the setting. It is open secret among the hotel staff that it reflects badly on management.

Rumour has it that she had a supply sponsor for her Umrah. A slut yet spiritual ...

Friday congregation overflow next to the swimming pool

De Palma allowed it's surau, which is big and spacious next to the swimming pool, for Friday prayers. So the hotel and it's management looks good.

PAS gave accolades to De Palma for it's so-called Islamic practise. Read here.

Scandalous

But unknown to all, the pious exterior hides a management that is corrupt and scandalous.

Talking of scandal, this is the hotel in which Wanita UMNO Dato Dr Rozaidah was caught for khalwat by her husband,

It was puzzling how she could be allowed to run for the Ampang seats against Zuraidah in the last GE. The moment her name was announced, the police report of her khalwat was spreading like hot cakes around Ampang. She was a lost case before she could even start campaigning.

Her excuse was also not convincing because she never attempt to clarify when it happened 10-15 years ago?

Selangor UMNO was living in the stoneage. They forgot computers and Internet can do. Rumours has it that Wanita UMNO and the bearded one fought for her. She must have one nice bottom to pinch.

Back to Roziah, she was a partner to Hajah Siti Zubaidah to secure a business plot in Shah Alam presumaby the PKNS bbuilding in Shah Alam to sell clothing for raya promotion.

Instead of helping small business people, they were re-renting their plot to them at exorbitant rent rates. Atas angin they say. Something Jews are very good at.

What did Khalid do about it? Nothing.

All this is known but what did those professionals in PKNS Holdings, who is supposed to be the boss to these corrupt but pious looking government servants, do about this? Nothing!!!

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PKNS: Intrigues of street-ruled government (Part 6)

February 21, 2014, 3:15 am

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Khalid, SELCAT and out-of-court settlement

Yesterday, news reported the Selangor legislative assembly's Select Committee of Competency, Accountability and Transparency (Selcat) will be holding a hearing on the removal of Azmin Ali as PKNS board member and the dismissal of the 23 staff of PKNS Holdings.

Mysteries surrounding the dismissals will be heard on the March 25 and 26 but that will be after polling of the Kajang by-election on March 23.

In the past, SELCAT was seldom used as a political manouvre to cover-up wrongdoings in Khalid-led government. It could be different this time because the suspicion is SELCAT will be used to serve the purpose of removing or justify the withdrawal of Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim as Menteri Besar.

Last week, the financial news reported a mysterious off-court-settlement involving Khalid's Guthrie related outstanding unpaid loan to Bank Islam.

The amount used to be reported as RM66.7 million. Since then, some report claimed the amount has increased to RM80 million. It is probably accumulated interest but Bank Islam will call it by some Arab sounding term to pass it off as halal.

Now the principal of it. What is really going on? Will SELCAT look into it?

Dismissal?

Firstly, the report on SELCAT cover-up. The Star has a report yesterday here but we'll reproduce the updated version below:

Published: Friday February 21, 2014 MYT 12:00:00 AM
Updated: Friday February 21, 2014 MYT 8:21:35 AM

Khalid and Azmin to testify at Selcat inquiry

by Wani Muthiah

Coming clean: Azmin (right) and Khalid will be called to give their accounts at the hearing on March
SHAH ALAM: Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim and Azmin Ali will be called to testify before the state’s Select Com-mittee on Competency, Accountability and Transparency over the removal of the Bukit Antarabangsa assemblyman from the board of the Selangor State Development Corporation (PKNS).

The hearing will be held on March 25 and March 26, Selcat chairman Hannah Yeoh told a press conference here yesterday.

The inquiry will be two days after the Kajang by-election, which will be contested by PKR adviser Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim in what is believed to be a bid to propel him into the Mentri Besar’s office, replacing Khalid.

Sources said Khalid may resign should Anwar win the polls and the hearing would serve the purpose of reinstating Azmin, who is PKR deputy president, on the PKNS board.

Azmin was removed on Dec 4 last year, with the Mentri Besar’s office saying later that then general manager Othman Omar was behind the sacking.

Following Azmin’s removal, 22 contract staff of PKNS Holdings were dismissed. Sources alleged that they had found their way into the company through Azmin’s recommendations.

Yeoh said there were many versions to Azmin’s case.

“So, we would look at his position on the board and what the actual story is,” she said, adding that Azmin, who is a Selcat member, would be testifying as a witness.

Yeoh said the termination of the 22 contract staff of PKNS Holdings and other issues relevant to PKNS would also be brought up at the hearing.

Read on here.

The files on the various issues on PKNS is as thick as several layers of brick. Two days will not be enough. Can you understand now why we suspect it is for a special purpose?

Out-of-court Settlement

It is publicly known that Khalid has an outstanding loan with Bank Islam of RM66.67 million for his defaulted loan related to the Guthrie allocated to him from the assistance of Anwar Ibrahim when he was Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister and Khalid was GM of PNB.

That allocation was questionable because he is a PNB employee. If he was given, then other capable and there are those more capable and intelligent than Khalid, why were they not given?

One suspicion was Khalid had bomoh the late Tun Ismail Ali into liking him. He was going around with a big songkok similar to the victim of the murderous bomoh Mona Fandey, Dato Mazlan. The late Tun would jump on any staff whenever he could not comprehend their written or verbal presentation but not stuttering Khalid.

But that is the stuff of gossip. Khalid got it because of Anwar.

Co-incidently last week, there was an out of court settlement of the loan which has already reached the Federal Court level and Khalid lost twice at High Court and Appeal Court. The Edge broke the news:

Cancellation of Bank Islam - Khalid suit prompts political speculations

Written by fz.com (contributor to theedgemalaysia.com)
Thursday, 13 February 2014 16:16

THE CANCELLATION of a Federal Court hearing of a legal suit between Bank Islam (M) Bhd and Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim has given rise to speculation that the two parties may be opting for an out of court settlement.

The case that was to be heard yesterday pertained to a Bank Islam suit to get the courts to rule that certain issues in the original suit filed by the bank against Khalid can be referred to the Syariah Advisory Council of Bank Negara Malaysia.

In the original suit filed in 2007, Bank Islam had sued Khalid to recover some RM70 million given to the latter under an Islamic loan facility. The money was used by Khalid to buy a 5% stake in Kumpulan Guthrie Bhd of which he was the chief executive officer.

Khalid subsequently counter sued Bank Islam and, among other things, aid the Bank had wrongfully sold the Guthrie shares that were pledged as collateral. The two cases were subsequently consolidated into one.

During the course of the hearing of the original suit, several legal and constitutional issues were raised, one of which was whether the Syariah related matters of the case should be decided by the civil court itself or be referred to the Syariah Advisory Council of Bank Negara.

Bank Islam then filed a case to argue that these matters should be referred to the Syariah Advsiory Council and that its decision should be final and binding.

This case had reached the Federal Court level and was to have been heard yesterday but legal sources it was "vacated" at the last minute.

The lawyer for Bank Islam, Tommy Thomas could not be reached, while the lead counsel for Khalid, Mathew Thomas Philip said "we are not at liberty to comment."

An out of court settlement now will be sure to add more spice and speculation to the drama unfolding over the future of Khalid and whether the Pakatan Rakyat intends to replace him as the Menteri Besar of Selangor following the decision of Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim to contest the Kajang state by-election.

Supporters of Khalid say that any development in the legal case between Bank Islam and Khalid is totally unrelated and should not be used to justify any move to unseat him as Menteri Besar.

The Malay Malay Online and Malaysian Insider's reported o the same story few days later here and here.

Mystery

The timing of the out of court settlement and who and how it was settled will the question in everybody's lips. Khalid has not got his salary increment yet as Menteri Besar.

So where did he got his money?

Knowing so well that disputing bank's action to force sell clients' shares for not topping up margin is standard practise to delay tactic. It means Khalid does not have the money to top-up and he also does not have the money to pay.

On top of that, Bank Islam's lawyer, Tommy Thomas is active in Bar Council and slant towards opposition Pakatan Rakyat.

Did the lawyer cut a deal to save Khalid and Selangor's Pakatan Rakyat government?

Already, The Edge reported Khalid's denial of a political compromise below:

Khalid denies political compromise in Bank Islam RM70m loan settlement suit

Written by Terence Fernandez, fz.com (contributor to theedgemalaysia.com)
Friday, 14 February 2014 12:09

Last Updated: 7:05am, Feb 14, 2014/

PETALING JAYA (Feb 14): Selangor Mentri Besar Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim has denied suggestions that he had compromised PKR and Pakatan Rakyat in his settlement with Bank Islam (M) Sdn Bhd.

In a text message to The Edge Financial Daily / fz.com last night, Abdul Khalid said his settlement of the RM70 million suit was a personal matter which was why he did not inform the party.

It is understood that both parties had reached a settlement almost a month ago but it only came to light recently, following which PKR leaders including de facto chief Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim confronted Abdul Khalid for keeping the party in the dark.

The Kajang move it is said was initiated to remove Abdul Khalid as mentri besar as he could have been "compromised" due to the settlement which has not been officially disclosed but is understood to involve a far lesser sum.

That prominent lawyers linked to Umno were involved in negotiating the settlement also added speculation that the settlement had political undertones.

Abdul Khalid however dismissed these allegations.

"At no stage did I ever get the party involved in the case as it is a personal matter," he said in his text message.

"In this case both parties agreed to settle out of court. Both parties felt that there are areas that can be explored to resolve (the matter). It is all done in a professional manner," he added.

The Federal Court was scheduled to hear the case on Wednesday but the case was vacated a day earlier.

The Edge Financial Daily had front-paged yesterday that Wednesday's case pertained to Bank Islam application for the court to rule that certain issues in the original suit filed by the bank against Abdul Khalid should be referred to the Syariah Advisory Council of Bank Negara Malaysia.

In the original suit filed in 2007, Bank Islam had sued Abdul Khalid to recover RM70 million under an Islamic loan facility, which Abdul Khalid had used to buy a 5% stake in Kumpulan Guthrie Bhd when he was its chief executive officer.

Abdul Khalid also filed a counter claim against Bank Islam for the wrongful sale of the shares that were pledged as collateral.

However, the denial of a compromise is falling on the deaf ears by the opposition media. They are not convinced.

Sold-out?

Malaysiakini published the following letter yesterday:

1:59PM Feb 20, 2014

Why the hush on Khalid- BIMB settlement?

I am getting particularly concerned that Malaysiakini continues to highlight on speculation about a water deal behind the Kajang Move while turning a blind eye to the disquiet in the market of what will be the most controversial out-of-court settlement between Khalid Ibrahim and Bank Islam.

So far, only a handful of online portals have covered the issue. Even then, it was not pursued with the same vigour that it should have been given the implication of the settlement.

Just to recap, The Edge Financial Daily had queried Khalid on the terms of the out-of-court settlement.

Khalid had once borrowed about RM60 million from Bank Islam to purchase shares and when the share price tumbled, he ended up owing that much (plus interest) to Bank Islam.

What is perhaps not known is how Khalid had completely kept all discussions on the settlement from his lawyer, Malik Imtiaz, who was not in the know.

This took place at the most opportune time - after Selangor has announced that it was willing to surrender its water assets to the federal government and Khalid’s reticence in dealing with the race and religion issues in Selangor.

To the inquisitive mind of normal Malaysians, the series of developments is arguably highly suspicious and warrants a closer scrutiny especially on the part of Khalid, at least for the sake of transparency and integrity.

When The Edge Financial Daily queried Khalid, he was quoted as dismissively saying that it was his private transaction that has nothing to do with the state or the party.

When Haris Ibrahim began to publish the issue on his blog, I feel obliged to write to online portals because for the sake of transparency and integrity, Khalid and Bank Islam need to explain what are the basis and terms of the settlement.

Let the people decide for themselves as it is necessary to clear the air immediately. Otherwise, rumours will continue to become the talk of the town.

Which is why I think it is only fair that online portals like Malaysiakini and others pursue the matter more vigorously than it pursues the hypothetical speculation of the alleged water deal.

I understand that Khalid’s image is good in the eyes of the public. To safeguard that image, he must be subjected to a public scrutiny.

I now await to see whether Malaysiakini, The Malaysian Insider, The Malaymail Online, The Malaysian Chronicle, fz.com, The Heat, FreeMalaysiaToday and others will run the story.

If they do not (at which I would not be surprised), perhaps the bigger problem remains the biased media, whichever side they support.

Muhammad Taib's SP Setia

The Malaysian Chronicle did run the story here but copying and paste this letter. They titled it as though Khalid had sold out Tun Daim and added the following comment:

It is a common knowledge in the banking circle that the out of court settlement is brokered by Rashid Manaf who is well known for his connection as Daim’s ex-lawyer and Umno’s crony through Renong and other transactions.

However, the link to Daim is not quite as direct.

Rashid Manaf was a Chairman of SP Setia but not the major shareholder. They did bought a piece of Nusa Jaya land from Tan Sri Halim Saad's then Renong UEM group.

Recently, Rashid's name appeared in Halim's application to sue Khazanah Nasional.

Rashid Manaf and SP Setia's name is being implicated and Daim thrown in too. Unfortunately, Rashid is not quite political. He is just a businessmen whose loyalty is the paper with kepala Agong.

A source within a Selangor SLC notice Khalid's close association with SP Setia. Strange thing about SP Setia is that, although PNB is a major shareholder, the Chinese owner who started it, is still in charge.

A strange phenomena of GLCs who despite staffed by well-schooled and internationally exposed top executives but these days have a mindset of "Melayu serba tidak boleh". It is also happening between UEM and Sunrise, and Sime Darby and P&O.

In case Tian Chua is salivating to run down Khalid with this information, wipe it. PNB did not acquire SP Setia during Khalid's helmship of PNB.

For these alternative media to direct their finger to Daim, they are instigating us to expose the real hand behind SP Setia.

He is none other than the former MB of Selangor who had to resign for breaching Australian foreign currency rule in getting caught bringing a bag full of cash at the airport. He managed to escape conviction by the Australian court by claiming he no spik ingrish.

We are talking of Tan Sri Muhammad Muhammad Taib.

He was also the PKNS Chairman that appointed the current GM of looking Islamic but corrupt operator of De Palma Hotel.

Nevertheless, Muhammad Taib had done much for Selangor but it was under him that PKNS begin to deviate from wholesomely for the rakyat. He was behind the making of Glomac which Datuk Othman later used as the model for more Joint Ventures which never really beneficial to the rakyat and state.

Unfortunately, when the Australian embassment happened, AMLA rules was not tightened yet. But the question remain to how he could have such amount of money. Now that he is baptised into PAS, he has been pardon by their high priest Nik Aziz.

Opposition will stop raising his past sin. If suddenly MACC complete their investigation and charge him, they will come forward to defend him under guise of selective prosecution. Prosecuted for joining PAS.

Muhammad Taib was close to Anwar wen he was in UMNO. This confirms what we already had long suspect that he has never severed his link to Anwar.

In fact, he has not ended any of his business interest with Anwar's boys. He has a company named Semudera Timor in which Dato Zainal Sakom and Dato Kamarul Baharin Abbas, the PKR MP for Telok Kemang sits on the board peacefully.

It seemed that the motivation for his departure to PAS was land and not spiritual as he told one ex-PKR now actively involved with UMNO.

Tian Chua's Chronicle accusation that Khalid's link to Daim has something to do with water deal.

They are infering Khalid took money in exchange for quietly agreeing to go ahead with the construction of the Langat 2 water treatment plant.

Yes sure ... who had always been behind Tan Sri Rozali Ismail and his Puncak Niaga and Syabas if not Muhammad Taib?

With advisers around Dato Najib blaming Tun Daim as behind the attack on Najib, lu ada otak ka, Tian Chua?

PKNS Money

If really Muhammad Taib and Anwar Ibrahim is assisting Khalid to solve his Bank Islam problem, why is Tian Chua whacking hard at Khalid?

Words heard is that Khalid's reputation of being clean will be further smeared.

This blog had written in the past of Khalid's close link to Tan Sri Lim Kin Hong's Kanzen, I Bhd and Sumorwang. Something new is brewing to explode and it involves more than RM50 million state money wrongly spend for I Bhd benefit.

It could probably be PKNS's money. Forget could and probably, it is PKNS money!!!

Does the money spent by PKNS have any socio-economic relevance for the rakyat? If no, we ask again: Does it look like Khalid have interest in Lim Kin Hong?

Someone must also revive the round tripping trick which helped Tan Sri Chan Ah Chye's Talam Corporation immensely. Expose it by not trying to cover anything.

Heard there was instruction to pull the hand brake for fear it will implicate some UMNO leaders, specifically Dato Raof.

Be done with him. Najib should have replaced Mr T shirt and banners long time ago.

Interest in Talam kept changing with the power at be. At one point, there was Muhammad Taib's men, then Tun Lah's men and it is now Khalid's men.

In the round tripping deal involving Talam, PKNS money was used.

Another story brewing is a huge land deal which was sold at deep discount to one of the two Chinese corporate player-brothers. This last came from several sources; one is a highly connected Chinese corporate player and a Land Office officer.

Like the Rothchild Jews who sold arms to Napolean and also British, one brother is very close to the BN side and the other one with Pakatan Rakyat leaders and state governments.

The discounts was said to run in hundreds of millions. For that deep discount, tak akan tak ada apa-apa untuk Khalid?

All this makes it more interesting because state official portal, Selangor Kini here reported Khalid denied linked to Daim.

Jeng jeng jeng .... more to come.

Update and Edited: 22/2/2014 10:00 AM

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Setahun mereka tinggalkan kita ... Al Fatihah!

February 28, 2014, 10:26 pm

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1 Mac 2014..genap setahun terkorbannya perwira-perwira negara di Lahad Datu.
3 Mac 2014..genap setahun terkorbannya perwira-perwira negara di semporna..

Al Fatihah untuk semua yang terkorban semuga syurga milih semua kerna berkorban untuk pemertahankan negara.

Lahad Datu
(1 Mac 2013)
Terkorban
Inspektor 17992 Zulkifli B. Mamat
Koperal 113088 Sabarudin B. Daud

Semporna
(3 Mac 2013)
Supritendan Ibrahim Lebar (Cawangan Khas E1, Bukit Aman)
ASP Michael, (KCKD Semporna)
Sarjan Aziz, (PGA Btn 14 Semporna)
Koperal Azrul, (PGA Btn 14 Semporna)
Sarjan Baharin, (Cawangan Khas E1, IPK Sabah)
Koperal Salam, (Cawangan Khas, IPD Tawau)

Al-Fatihah

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم (١)

الحمدلله رب العلمين (٢)

الرحمن الرحيم (٣)

ملك يوم الدين (٤)

اياك نعبد واياك نستعين (٥)

ا هد نا الصر ط المستقيم (٦)

صر ط الذين انعمت عليهم غير المغضوب عليهم و لا الضا لين (٧)

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Insult to the men and women in blue

March 2, 2014, 5:43 am

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Only yesterday we commemorate the gallant men in blue that died in battle at Lahad Datu to defend the nation from a foreign threat. It pains us today to hear the news that the police is lowering it's entry requirement and offering a higher pay scheme to entice Chinese to join the force.

It shows insensitivity on the part of police management to existing police already serving dutifully and those committed and dedicated to their job. They entered the force despite the low pay and not received their desired pay increment from government to commensurate with their authority, responsibility and risk.

It is also an insult to the serving force that government could discriminate and back backward to attract Chinese whose never considered a profession in security as priority. Will this mean that the Chinese new recruit will be given special passage to fill up higher position for the sake of filling up position and not on merit as happened in organisations like Petronas and MAS?

If so, it is inconsistent with the practise of meritocrasy which is strongly advocated by certain liberal quarter of government.

The Bernama report on the announcement:

02 March 2014| last updated at 01:13AM

Police relax entry rules for Chinese

Deputy Inspector-General of Police Datuk Seri Mohd Bakri Mohd Zinin (left) presenting an award to the best police trainee cadet during the 2/2013 series Cadet Inspector Course Passing Out Parade Ceremony at the Police Training Centre in Jalan Semarak, Kuala Lumpur, yesterday. Bernama pic

LOW-RANKING OFFICERS: Force hopes to take in 5,000 members from the community

THE police have relaxed; conditions relating to recruitment, apart from studying numerous aspects of improvement in its service to attract more Chinese to join the force.

It also hopes to recruit 5,000 Chinese as low-ranking officers beginning this year.

Deputy Inspector-General of Police Datuk Seri Mohd Bakri Mohd Zinin said police would review areas related to salary, promotion opportunities and others to entice the participation of the Chinese.

"We are targeting about 5,000 Chinese in stages."

Bakri said this after the 2/2013 series Cadet Inspector Course Passing Out Parade Ceremony at the Police Training Centre in Jalan Semarak here yesterday.

He said the number of Chinese police personnel currently made up only 1.87 per cent of the force.

He said the force had also formed a special team to ensure the participation of the Chinese could be implemented as soon as possible.

"The team will explain to the public, especially the Chinese community, on the benefits of joining the force. This is to ensure we get suitable candidates."

Bukit Aman Management Department director Datuk Seri Fuzi Harun said the force viewed seriously the boosting of Chinese participation as the community made up about 30 per cent of the population.

"So far, less than two per cent had joined the force. It does not look good, so we have to improve this figure by relaxing the entry requirements."

Bukit Aman Personnel (recruitment) assistant director Assistant Commissioner Saiful Azly Kama- ruddin said recruitment exercise for new police constables for the first session of this year would be carried out tomorrow.

He said requirements relaxed included a pass in Bahasa Malaysia at Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia level.

"We understand the entry requirements before this were too stringent for the Chinese community, such as a credit in Bahasa Malaysia, as there are those who are not fluent at all," he said in an interview themed "2014 Special Recruitment Exercise for the Post of Constable" to encourage the community to join the force here yesterday.

According to Saiful, the relaxed requirements were necessary because the current membership ratio of the force was imbalanced among the Malays, Chinese, Indians and other races.

"Based on statistics, as of Dec 31 last year, membership was dominated by the Malays (90,156 people), followed by the Indians (3,659 people) and the Chinese (1,974 people). The rest were made up of other races."

He said the lack of Chinese participation was because of several reasons, including salary, which was regarded as low. Parents also did not encourage their children to join the force.

"According to a study, most do not realise that a constable can bring home RM3,000 a month, with allowances included."

For the recruitment tomorrow, interesed Chinese candidates are encouraged to download the application form from the force's website at www.rmp.gov.my.

After the form has been filled out, it should be sent to the nearest police station or the Personnel Recruitment Unit at the federal police headquarters in Bukit Aman.- Bernama

The Bernama report did not mentioned the better deal offered to new Chinese recruits in which both side of the political divide are working hard to entice their vote with endless list of cconcessions.

The Star report has the details:

Published: Sunday March 2, 2014 MYT 12:00:00 AM
Updated: Sunday March 2, 2014 MYT 8:47:34 AM

Drive to get more Chinese to be cops

by M. Kumar

A youth's chest being measured by the police recruitment team. - Filepic

KUALA LUMPUR: Entry requirements into the police force will be lowered during a campaign by the police to recruit more Chinese into the force starting tomorrow.

Bukit Aman assistant director of personnel (recruitment) Asst Comm Saiful Azly Kamaruddin said there were currently only 1,974 Chinese among the 111,395 personnel making up the nation’s police force.

“One of the biggest issues is that those who apply do not meet the requirements of having a credit for SPM in Bahasa Malaysia. So now, only during this campaign period, applicants with only a pass in SPM Bahasa Malaysia can apply.”

Another requirement lowered, said ACP Saiful Azly, who is heading the task force set up for Chinese recruitment, was allowing those who wore spectacles and contact lenses to apply.

“This does not, however, mean that the quality of the force is being lowered,” he stressed.

Once recruited, said ACP Saiful Azly, the applicants would be trained and tutored in areas they were lacking in to maintain standards.

“Applicants who do not have a credit in Bahasa Malaysia will be tutored and they will have to retake the test until they get a credit in the subject. We will guide them every step of the way,” he said.

The campaign, which will be launched tomorrow, is aimed at increasing the number of Chinese policemen in the country, especially for rank-and-file positions like constables.

ACP Saiful Azly said the Chinese only made up 1.77% of the force, which was a very small fraction for the country’s second largest ethnic group.

“The disparity is worse in the rank-and-file positions,” he said during a briefing about the campaign at Bukit Aman here. He described the statistics as “worrying”.

“We believe that the force should reflect Malaysia’s diversity,” he said, adding that the campaign ends on April 30.

ACP Saiful Azly said the idea for the campaign was not only to encourage Chinese youths, aged 18 to 28, to join the force but to make it easier for those who did not meet the requirements.

ACP Saiful Azly said studies carried out by the task force found that there was a misconception and stigma tied to being a policeman among the Chinese.

“Firstly, it is a low-paying job and does not offer a good career path. This is untrue as the salary of a constable with an SPM qualification is about RM1,700, which is quite reasonable.

“This amount will then be supplemented by other allowances and perks which can bring the salary to as high as RM3,517,” he said.

Despite the low number of Chinese policemen, ACP Saiful Azly pointed out that most of them were mid- to high-ranking officers, which showed that the force did indeed offer good career paths.

“We will be going all over Malaysia during this campaign period to change this misconception,” he said.

Those who wish to apply can download the form from www.rmp.gov.my or walk in at one of the campaign roadshows.

If money is the limiting factor to attract new recruits, then government should raise the salary and perks of the whole police force in order to attract applicants of all races without discriminating existing members of the force, which also include Chinese and Indians.

It is heard that the Chinese recruit are offered a higher salary scheme and has already affected morale within the existing members of the force.

Whenever police and other public servant seek a review of their salary package, in which given the wider responsibilities and complex manner of their duties deserve to be at par with corporate sector, government's usual excuse is budget constraints.

This announcement of police will only increase resentment against Chinese.

Although Chinese claim to be a higher tax contributor by virtue as their wide involvement in business and commerce, the reality is the bulk of tax contribution came from Bumiputera run GLCs and Chinese controlled corporate sector contribute only 10% of tax income.

One commentator in our Whats App group is more frank.

"Kalau nak tarik cina masuk polis dgn cara naikkan gaji maka cina yg jadi polis ni akan jadi mata duitan..nanti mereka ni yg akan melindungi rumah2 pelacuran dan kongsi2 gelap utk dapat banyak duit lagi setiap bulan...tak ada sifat2 patriotisme...polis jenis ni memang layak dipanggil polis gergaji dua mata dan bukannya mata-mata."

Another commentator see it as a pathetic policy.

Sektor strategik sebegini jangan sama sekali dijadikan alat utk menarik sokongan cina. This is not a smart move but indeed it shows we are getting desperate to gain the chinese favour...this is wrong..

Currently, police force is discouraged by certain actions of government that not only burdened their work but have made public order and security have become untenable. Since the particular release of Simpang Renggam ISA detainees, hardcore crime had been on the rise.

Many could not understand the need to give them special treatment and relaxation. Applicants with only a pass in Bahasa Malaysia will only result in poor quality of work since government department and agencies like police use the national language as medium of instruction.

The lowering of standard is not only an insult to the generally Malay members of the force but to non Malay members that met the minimal requirement.

After getting their feet in, will there be demand for these Chinese recruit to be given easy passage for promotion?

If so, it will be similar to the occurence in Petronas in which capable top Managers and Engineers were purged to make way for Chinese into the high ranks of Petronas. It was an exercise of having Chinese for the sake of having Chinese and not to fill up the position with competent and capable staff.

The lack of self esteem in Malay Government top political leaders and government servants in their race have resulted in Petronas making "coward" and unstrategic actions. Having Chinese does not mean raising competency of the organisation.

It is competency and experience of it's people that make the organisation. Not so much of having Chinese.

Seldom Malays in the top echelon of administration and management are having blurred by their own prejudice to their own race and easily fooled into believing the stereotype that Chinese equates with competency.

Capability and competency has to be judged on the individual and not the race. Many Malaysians irrespective of race had rose up the ranks of the police based on their capability and competency.

If this is the new attitude of the top rank of police or instruction by some empty vessel superior, then the police top management will eventually fell into that same trap of stereotyping which only leads to rising incompetency to the police force.

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PKNS: Intrigues of street-ruled government (Part 7)

March 3, 2014, 8:48 pm

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Who snitched?

Thought we stop at Part 6?

No, we have are not. Still many more to go. Just taking a breather from writing. Had some traveling to do and tight schedule of appointments to meet personalities and meetings to attend, including a whole day retreat at a forest training camp just outside KL.

But it is not BTN bootcamp. It is an insult to need to be trained to be patriotic.

After more than 10 days of keeping the series hanging, bet it is percolating inside PKNS on who leaked the info. We have done this before and that was what happened before. How come all these details are coming out now?

The natural accusation by staff and former staff of PKNS and PKNS Holding would be the former Auditor, Roslan Mohamed. His name was mentioned in Part 3 here for meeting Faekah. Since he is not a big guy in PKNS, he will naturally receive the brunt of the condemnation.

However, Controller for Northern Region, Siti Zubaidah Abu Bakar was spared. Is it because they do not believe it to be her?

But they believe it is when Roslan is mentioned?

Probably it is because she is high up in the PKNS hierarchy. And most likely she seemed to be on the rise to be given the position of President of PKNS FC and presumed to get a monthly allowance of RM2,500 a month.

It is unlikely for the love of sports.

Still waiting on what happened to the RM40 million spent and investigation on forge cheque by a clerk? And her many other hanky panky as exposed in Part 3, Part 4 and Part 5.

Corrupt-laden industry

Decades ago, one MARA officer used to call it as Money Always Run Away. Now Selangor SEDC is Selangor .... So Easy (to) Do Corruption.

Before anyone think we are trying to pre-empt the open attack on Roslan, do perish such thought.

As we see it, no one in the building industry can be trusted. Be they contractors, consulting engineeers, architects, surveyors, developers, government department, enforcement agency, local council, property marketing agent, etc. It usually goes all the way up.

It is THE most corrupt-laden industry.

One seasoned Bumiputera contractor used to tell us of one honest, pious and lunch hour Quran reading Haji was appointed to head PKKK. It is the agency to assist Bumiputera contractors. He resisted as much as he could till the contractors knows of his one weakness of golf.

Since golf is a game for those "golongan orang lemah fikiran", it began when he lost his guard his guard to accept golf ball as gift.

It elevated to have his weekend golf paid for. Then trip to golf courses aboard in the region. He got his diploma in Thailand where he lost resistance to the temptation of Thai women. In 6 months to a year, he graduated with a fast track Phd in corruption and bribery.

Even a chap like Roslan bandied by PKNS to be the whistle blower cannot be trusted. Maybe he is a disgruntled staff for being denied upward opportunity. Probably as crooked as the rest. See if he owns many of PKNS homes.

One never know and could trust. As written in one of the Part, practically half of PKNS Managers and Officcers are corrupt.

The MACC are advocating that government department and agencies undertake internal disciplinary enquiries to address corruption, power abuse and leakage in their system. In PKNS, even the DI committee are manned by the corrupts. Top officers in PKNS will gang up to cover each other.

Whistleblower will not be appreciated in closed service like PKNS.

Some of them wear tudung or kopiah in office and pray 5 times a day and more but they see whistleblowers not as someone who are correcting the wrong and put the waywards one in check but as those who bring shame to the organisation.

Who else?

Since Roslan name is one of the two and the weaker one mentioned in this blog, the whole PKNS is likely to be looking at him. All conveniently forgot that there could be those who left PKNS or PKNS Holdings.

There was this guy by the name of Shamzol Salih, the former Senior Manager of Shared Services. We can't quite figure out what the heck is Shared Services.

Probably something to do with coordinating with the several departments. Otherwise, things that need to be done will have no champion to get done. Usually bosses has a tendency to rely on one or few trusted ones that it overload them to the level of incompetency.

This chap Shamzol too could also be the leak. His contract was not extended. In several reports we received on the wrongdoings and going-ons inside PKNS, his name does not exists.

If KLFM personality Puan Mardihah that left long time ago name is in the report, why would Shamzol who failed to meet the low standard of this street style PKR administration of Selangor not be in the report?

Remember that he left on a sour note. He could be getting even on his former colleagues.

Also ponder this.

The issues on PKNS have been circulating for quite long time. Few months back we bump into Astronaut Dr Sheikh Musfazar and he already has two kids. That is how long it is since PKNS sponsored his wedding for RM500,000.

When we have asked around to politicians from both sides of the divide, they seemed to know quite a bit of the internal problems of PKNS.

For instance, Selangor state assemblyman from UMNO, Dato Satim Diman have raised the PKNS issue and a list of 15 problems with PKR-led Selangor's administration. UMNO have made it an issue in 2011 and 2012.

The leak have been going on for long. Quite sure most of the problems and issues have reached the desk of Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim and Pahang Datok Othman Omar.

For Othman, he probably doesn't care because his mind is focused on the PKNS JV companies and his pest control business. Maybe he knows and had used someone as whistleblower to rant on those he wants out or giving her problems.

It is not impossible. He could used someone through his Chindian wife to write his version of the going-ons. Without defending himself, he directed the blame to others. We are not saying he did but he could.

For Khalid, he is not just a corporate businessman but also a learning politicians. By now he would know that political timing is important. He took the right time to fire salvo at Azmin and made life miserable for Anwar by wanting to contest against Azmin.

He realised that his vision and mission for PKNS is not working and as businessman he is disciplined enough to call it quit. The political timing was necessary to kill few birds with one stone.

As Dato Kadir Jasin put it in his recent blog posting on reconciliation [Read here and here], anything is possible. Anwar could return to UMNO or Khalid could jump ship to UMNO as Azmin supporters are burshing Khalid as.

So there could be many more whistleblowers with their self interest and ulterior motives.

Crazy Ditch

And don't throw out our theory as ludicrous because we are about to claim that the crazy Mak Tiri Datin Paduka Azlina Zakaria [read in Part 3 here] is also a possible whistleblower.

The reason we are calling her crazy has it's story.

This accountant is known for her indecisiveness, flip flop and hati busuk to reverse others' and previous decisions just out of her ego or laziness. Despite that she is both erratic and vengeful person that refuse rationale and reason.

She was the CEO of Worldwide Holdings Berhad, then transferred to be PKNS as CFO. Worldwide is now owned by PKNS via PKNS Holdings after it was delisted. So her transfer to PKNS is considered a promotion but she viewed it as a demotion.

That is the very reason she has been menstruating endlessly in PKNS. Although she had returned back to Worldwide, she was not assigned back to CEO position but CFO of a non listed subsidiary of PKNS.

The menstuating continues as she realised she has to answer to the new PKNS GM, Azlan Alfiah from KDEB. She is said to be resisting cooperation and refuse to transfer money due to PKNS.

Her grumbling on the delisting Worldwide can be heard from a loudspeaker on top of Bursa Malaysia building.

It is her fascination with listing status that PKNS lost in a lawsuit to MRCB and Gapurna last week. For us familar with finance and corporate, her move was really a stupid and a joke of the Malaysia's finance world.

More in later part.

This is the Melayu bodoh that Khalid should know and not assume all Melayu in PKNS or PKNS Holding as bodoh. If the subordinate does stupid things, it could be his or her fault but it could also be the bosses fault or inadequacy.

For that matter, the finger points all the way to the top of the food chain to Khalid. Who is the Melayu bodoh now?

The bloodbath left by Azlina in PKNS has not stoppped.

PKNS is being sued for a RM160 million in a Selangor Polo project. This one is a case of making decision at will and as she pleases. Or as the flowrate of her menstruation.

She was responsible to rent the current PKNS head office at the highest in Shah Alam at RM3.50 per square feet when the going rate in Shah Alam even in the business district was around RM2.50 sq feet.

The owner is the producer of premium priced ECPI mineral water and Radix coffee and friend chicken which is believed to be the funder of an underground syiah movement in Melaka.

Many more stories of her. She may have wanted things that her way but why did Othman and other members of management and Board of Directors includiing Khalid agreed to her way.

Now on the reason we say she is crazy. It has to do with the REIT planned that also failed in her hands.

Maybank made a presentation on the PKNS failed REIT plan and theirs turned out to be the best. But Azlina vehemently refused to do anything to do with Maybank.

The people in Maybank were puzzled as to why she was absolutely irrational. None of them saw any blood stains on the office carpet of PKNS meeting room. Some asked us and we only hinted to them to understand her background.

They still couldn't figure out. So now is the reason.

She and Dato Abdul Wahid Omar studied accounting together and were an item for a while till he dumped her. One of their friend told us that she cried endlessly for three days and three nights. An affair that is over for more than 30 years ago and she is still bitter over it.

To make it crazier, Wahid left Maybank and no more CEO for her to get even when they made the presentation. Is she going to be on a tantrum with EPU? Anyway ... good move AWO.

Azlina has a lot of sore issues with everyone. And she is crazy enough to leak things in order to destroy everything. More so when she is not given back the CEO position and is now lowest in the organisation pecking order.

Who else snitch on PKNS?

We have never revealed our sourced and why should we do that for PKNS. That is why we mentioned so many names to show that we have our own sources and we are telling it as it is.

To answer the question above, frankly everybody from the top to the bottom snitched and have been snitching. Not point trying to guess who. All have their personal interest to snitch on others and employer.

Maybe one or two is honest to want to do good, but we doubt there is. Even the YB Abdullah Sani that is seen trying to champion the PKNS Holding staff is in co-hort in PKNS. He is on the Board of De Palma Hotels and closed his eyes to the going-ons in De Palma [read Part 5 here].

Never believe a man who betrays his own wife.

It only shows PKNS is an organisation in choas and reflective of a PKR street-ruled culture of governing. They can blame the past on BN but PKR and Pakatan Rakyat have been in charge for the last 5 years. Why is it getting worse?

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PKNS: Intrigues of street-ruled government (Part 8)

March 5, 2014, 5:37 pm

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Raising issues from the floor at a corporate governance conference.. Wakaka.... Read The Starhere.

Othman fight back?

Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim knows the going-ons in PKNS and he realised Azmin has much influence in PKNS. The GM, Pahang Datuk Othman Omar is close to Azmin and has few Azmin's boys working for him.

Khalid may have been spreading the rumours that Azmin is behind it and when he dismissed the 23 staff of PKNS Holdings, no help was coming. UMNO side had the perception that there are all Azmin boys.

UMNO and UMNO totok bloggers predictably believed better Khalid than Azmin as MB. The way we see, better Azmin than Khalid. Just like Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim, madujantan to Kak Wan is all politics and no administrative and governance skill. Both Anwar and Azmin will give fodder to PKR downfall in Selangor.

Azmin will be running PKR like UMNO politicians allegedly using institutions to strengthen their support. With Khalid, Dato Satim Diman could present 25 wrongdoings of the PKR street-ruled governance. It will be longer with Azmin.

Not only for PKNS, Anwar and Rafizi Ramli's opposition to the water deal by Khalid has a lot to do with out sourcing sub-contracts of KDEB. They worry their boys could not wet their already made dry beaks by Khalid.

Even street demonstrators cannot soldier when dapur di rumah tak berasap. More so, Azmin's boys are envious of the PAS supporters' Rexton and MPVs, and Azmin's red Ferrari.

We have not touched yet on Datuk Othman Omar and the sacked PKNS Holding Managers and staff. But, an e-mail from a fellow blogger reached us. The message reads: "Oleh kerana abang sedang main isu PKNS, elok abang main e-mail ini."Don't know who sent it but we will just publish in total:

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Hasil Politiking Khalid-Faekah

Prestasi PKNS antah-berantah

Oleh : Red Giant Loyalist

6 Mac 2014 - Hampir dua bulan selepas penyingkiran Pengurus Besar PKNS, Othman Omar dan Setiausaha Kerja PKNS, Norita Mohd Sidek yang juga merangkap Ketua Pegawai Integriti PKNS telah memperlihatkan kesan yang sangat besar. Ini yang dinamakan implikasi politik atas keputusan politik yang semberono dan kacau-bilau.

Penyingkiran Norita dilihat sebagai suatu bentuk penganiayaan kerana beliau bukanlah seorang pembuat keputusan melibatkan urusan-urusan penting syarikat. Beliau yang telah berkhidmat dengan PKNS lebih daripada 20 tahun telah menunjukkan prestasi kerja yang sangat baik, malah beliau telah dilantik sebagai Ketua Pegawai Integriti PKNS dan dilatih oleh Transparency International.

Alasan penyingkiran beliau cukup lemah hanya kerana beliau menjalankan tugas untuk menjelaskan Klausa 4 (1) Enakmen PKNS bahawa pelantikan atau pemecatan Ahli Perbadanan PKNS adalah di bawah bidang kuasa MMKN (Exco) dan bukan Pengurus Besar sebagaimana yang didakwa oleh Menteri Besar Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim.

Norita hanya ditugaskan untuk ‘memaklumkan’ kepada umum tentang isu yang berkaitan, bukan berperanan membuat apa-apa keputusan atau langkah berkaitan pertikaian tersebut jauh sekali untuk bertindak diluar bidang kuasa beliau.

Tragedi ini pastinya akan ‘makan dalam’ kepada mana-mana penjawat kontrak atau tetap dalam GLC kerajaan negeri yang lain. Sudah tentu perasaan tak selamat berbuku-buku dalam hati mereka.

Hasilnya nanti, penjawat awam kontrak atau tetap akan berkhidmat mengikut fraksi politik kerana takut dibuang atau disingkirkan tanpa sebab dan mereka tidak berkhidmat dengan telus, profesional dan berdedikasi tinggi.

Persoalan kedua yang pastinya akan mendatangkan persoalan besar kepada kita ialah, bagaimana seorang Pengurus Besar sebuah syarikat GLC (antara yang terbaik di Malaysia) disingkir dari jawatannya atas sebab ‘profesionalisme’ yang diragui oleh tokoh korporat hebat seperti Khalid Ibrahim, kini ditawarkan kerja oleh syarikat senaraian awam (public listed) Singapura.

Berikutan imej buruk yang dipalit kepada Othman Omar ini, Khalid menjangkakan ia akan turut menjejaskan profail beliau tetapi aneh, dia sebaliknya mendapat tawaran lumayan dari syarikat tersebut!

Syarikat ini adalah antara pemain utama yang meningkat tinggi dalam sektor pembangunan dengan projek di London, Beijng, Guangzhou, Perancis, Singapura, Malaysia dan Cambodia. Apakah syarikat ini buta maklumat hingga sanggup mengupah tokoh yang diragui tahap ‘profesionalismenya’?

Jawapannya mudah, bekas GM PKNS ini dipercayai sebagai seorang yang punya kualiti baik dari segi profesionalismenya dan juga kredibilitinya. Bukankah ini sangat membingungkan kita jika benar alasan MB Selangor bahawa penyingkiran beliau atas sebab kurang mutu profesionalismenya?

Yang jelas, ini satu lagi episod ‘brain drain’ yang berlaku selepas Tan Sri Hassan Merican dilamar juga oleh syarikat Conoco-Phillips yang berpengkalan di Singapura selepas kontraknya tidak diperbaharui oleh Petronas.

Ini satu tamparan besar, bukan sahaja kepada MB, Selangor dan PKNS malah kita seluruh rakyat Malaysia. Umum mengutuk dasar BN yang menjadi punca berlakunya ‘brain drain’, tapi sekarang MB Selangor sendiri yang menjadi punca semua ini berlaku. Ini amatlah memalukan kerajaan Pakatan Rakyat, bukan MB Selangor sahaja.

Blame her too!

Pada masa yang sama, PKNS telah kalah dalam kes samannya terhadap Nusa Gapurna dan MRCB. Mahkamah Tinggi mengarahkan PKNS untuk membayar kos sebanyak RM 150 ribu.

Kemerosotan imej PKNS ditambah dengan akaun bank PKNS dibekukan ekoran kekalahan kes mahkamah dengan Selangor Polo Club mengakibatkan PKNS diarahkan membayar RM 160 juta. Ini memberi kesan besar terhadap semua urusan kewangan yang membabitkan semua bayaran kepada vendor dan kontraktor. Cek PKNS yang dibayar kepada vendor dan kontraktor pun tendang! Cukup memalukan!

Perkara ini sudah pasti akan menjejaskan prestasi syarikat. Tapi mungkin Khalid punya formula ajaib untuk memulihkan keadaan. Mungkin dengan adanya pemangku GM yang baru, akan dapat membantu fasa pemulihan ini.

Dipercayai, Pemangku sementara kerusi GM PKNS, iaitu Hj. Azlan Alifiah yang mana beliau mendapat gaji RM 50 ribu sebulan -benar atau tidak- mungkin hanya Faekah Husin (CEO MBI) sahaja yang tahu. Tapi yang pasti, beliau mendapat upah melebihi gaji GM tetap sebelumnya iaitu Othman Omar.

Jika tugas memangku sahaja sudah bergaji RM 50 ribu sebulan, entah berapa banyak pula gajinya jika memegang jawatan tetap (kontrak). Mungkin PKNS mampu membayarnya kerana sudah untung RM 420 juta hasil dari usaha penat lelah Othman Omar serta pasukannya yakni gabungan kerjasama kakitangan kontrak dan tetap, jadi tak rugi bayar sebanyak itu kepada Azlan!.

Ini suatu tragedi memalukan bagi seorang tokoh yang amat disanjungi dan berpengalaman seperti Khalid.

Reputasi di antara kedua orang penting ini sangat nyata apabila prestasi KDEB dibawah kendalian Azlan Alifiah ini telah mengalami kerugian 6 tahun berturut-turut dan KDEB tidak pernah untung semenjak beliau mengepalainya -- ini juga satu rekod pencapaian hebat Azlan.

Berbanding Othman Omar, sewaktu mengetuai PKNS, GLC tersebut telah merekodkan keuntungan tertinggi dalam sejarah 50 tahunnya apabila mencatat keuntungan sebanyak RM 420 juta. Tetapi mungkin Khalid ingat ini atas hasil usahanya seorang, bukan Othman Omar.

Kini, akibat tindakan politik oleh Khalid, PKNS terheret kearah haluan yang tidak menentu yang antah-berantah; PKNS juga bakal berdepan dengan satu lagi tindakan mahkamah industri dan sivil yang memalukan berhubung penyingkiran 20 orang lagi kakitangan PKNS yang Khalid dan Azlan fikirkan sudah tidak berguna itu.

Jika ini berlaku, ia merupakan episod hitam bagi sebuah GLC yang selama ini mempunyai reputasi dan prestasi yang sangat baik – gemilang dan terbilang.

Dalam situasi ini, mungkin orang-orang kuat serta pemikir-pemikir Khalid seperti Faekah Husin (CEO MBI), Arfa Aziz (Setiausaha Akhbar Khalid) dan Raja Idris Kamarudin (Pengarah MBI) akan dapat memerah otak menyelamatkan imej dan prestasi PKNS yang sudah rosak gara-gara campurtangan mereka sendiri dalam urustadbir korporat PKNS. Mereka-mereka ini pakar memberi cadangan antah berantah.

Krisis ini memualkan dan memalukan bagi seorang tokoh korporat yang disanjung tinggi bernama Khalid Ibrahim. Namun, kita yakin, semua ini akan dapat diselesaikan jika Khalid dilantik menjadi Penasihat Ekonomi Negeri Selangor yang baru dengan upah RM 2 sahaja selepas Pilihanraya Kecil Kajang nanti.

Siapa tahu?

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This email is promoting Othman as though he is fantastic and great. It sounded as though Othman is fighting back. Only the title sounded as though Azmin whacking Khalid-Faekah.

However, it could be Azmin's people beginning campaign to whack at Khalid. Azmin will surely not sit down and allow Khalid to challenge him easily.

From what is written at the end, surely these people want Anwar to be MB. But will Anwar be MB?

We can't say much because it will spoil the fun but do read back our past posting here and here.

It is heard he will not. The only hint we can give is the wide smile of Khalid when signing the water MOU. Why is he happy? What made him happy?

Only a street-ruled government take their fight openly without shame on the reputation and image of their party led state government. Frankly, be it Khalid or Azmin, both are no better.

Wonder if Anwar's connection was used to get Othman the job abroad. He failed big time at PKNS. However, it is not just his fault alone.

Coming next ... hehehe

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PAS for all but justice only for PAS?

March 6, 2014, 6:21 pm

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It came as a surprise to us when Court of Appeal overturn the High Court judgement which threw out the defamation suit by former Menteri Besar of Perak from PAS, Dato Nizar Jamaluddin. He had clearly insulted the Sultan of Johor and TV3 was merely reporting but the Court of Appeal ruled in favour of the Nizar.

Two days ago, another PAS leader, Dato Husam Musa managed to get the Court of Appeal to overturn the judgement of High Court in Kota Baru involving a defamation suit against one Faisal Robhan Ahmad. It is equally strange since Husam's lawyers failed to establish that Faisal is the blogger RBF Online.

In both cases, there is one common denominator and that is the presence of judge Datuk Mohamed Arif, who ran for election under PAS banner in 2004. [Read MyKMU here.]

He should have recused himself from participating in both case in accordance to precedent set by former Chief Justice, Tun Zaki Azmi, who recused from participating in any cases involving UMNO since he had once been the Legal Advisor to UMNO.

If a judge whose provided legal advises to UMNO is not seen as a precedent, since the legal services is full of liars who twist and turn at their whims and fancy to fulfill their interest irrespective of the logic and consistency, then consider this news below:

On December 8, 1998 that is about 16 years ago, Associated Press, not the vilified Utusan Malaysia or TV3, lawyers for General Pinochet seeked to overturn a decision by the House of Lord on the ground that the wife of one of judges was an administrative assistant to Amnesty International.

Amnesty International have indirect interest in the case and judge's wife position is minor, but that was sufficient to provide ground for lawyers to seek to over-turn the decision of the House of Lord and 5-members Law Lord to convene.

It is strange that the judge Datuk Arif did not excuse himself and the fellow two judges would allow for it. In one of the case, the judges viewed it as politically motivated and not legal in nature.

However, it for all to see that as a former candidate for PAS in 2004, he would be deemed as not impartial in both PAS leaders lawsuit.

For justice to be done, the process of law must be fair and also be seen to be fair. Since it affects the life of one party if a bias decision is made, there must not be a shred of doubt in the process of law.

For that matter, the fellow judges are now seen as bias for allowing Justice Datuk Arif to preside.

As of yesterday, TV3 had submitted their application to impune the judge.

We have received a copy of legal document of the motion and affidavit filed to the court yesterday. Below is the reproduced motion:

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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL MALAYSIA
(APPELLATE JURISDICTION)
CIVIL APPEAL NO: W-02(NCVC)(W)-1152-05/2013

BETWEEN

DATO’ SERI MOHAMMAD NIZAR BIN JAMALUDDIN … APPELLANT
AND

1.   SISTEM TELEVISYEN MALAYSIA BERHAD
(Company No : 106645-T)

2.   ROHANI NGAH
(Sued as the publisher of Buletin Utama (TV3)
of 30.5.12)                                                                    … RESPONDENTS

(In the Matter of the High Court Of Malaya At Kuala Lumpur
In the Federal Territory
(Civil Division)
Civil Suit No. 23NCVC-84-07/2012

Between

Dato’ Seri Mohammad Nizar Bin Jamaluddin … Plaintiff

And

1.   Sistem Televisyen Malaysia Berhad
(Company No : 106645-T)

2.   Rohani Ngah
(Sued As The Publisher Of Buletin Utama (Tv3)
Of 30.5.12)                                                             … Defendants

decided by the Honourable Justice Datin Yeoh Wee Siam in the High Court of Malaya at Kuala Lumpur on 12th April 2013)

NOTICE OF MOTION

TAKE NOTICE that on the              6th     day of        March             2014   at     10           am, or as soon thereafter as he can be heard, Counsel for the abovenamed Respondents will move this Honourable Court pursuant to its inherent jurisdiction for the following Orders, namely that:

1.   The Decision of the Court of Appeal given on 25.2.2014 allowing the Appellant’s appeal and setting aside the whole of the Decision of the Kuala Lumpur High Court dated 12.4.2013 and ordering that the action be remitted to the High Court for assessment of damages in favour of the Appellant, be set aside and/or discharged and/or reviewed.

2.   The appeal herein be referred to a freshly constituted panel of this Honourable Court for a re-hearing and determination.

3.   The costs of the application be provided for or be costs in the cause.

4.   This Honourable Court makes such further or other Order or direction as it deems fit and/or necessary.

The grounds of this application are as follows:-

a.   On 30.5.2012, the 1st Respondent aired over its Buletin Utama programme, a report concerning the tweet message sent by the Appellant containing his views on the bid made by the Sultan of Johor for the vehicle registration No. WWW 1.

b.   The Appellant claimed that Buletin Utama report defamed him. He therefore instituted an action in libel against the Respondents by a Writ filed on 13.7.2012 in Kuala Lumpur High Court Civil Suit No. 23NCVC-84-07/2012 (the High Court Suit).

c.   The High Court Suit came on for Trial before the Honourable Justice Datin Yeoh Wee Siam over two days in January 2013.

d.   On 12.4.2013, Her Ladyship delivered her Decision dismissing the Appellant’s claim with no Order as to costs.

e.   The Appellant, being dissatisfied with the High Court Decision, filed the present Appeal in Civil Appeal No. W-02(NCVC)(W)-1152-05/2013 in this Honourable Court on 9.5.2013.

f.   The Appeal was heard on 28.10.2013 by a panel led by the Honourable Judge of Appeal, Justice Mohamad Ariff Bin Mohd Yusuf, and consisting of the Honourable Judges of Appeal, Justice Abang Iskandar bin Abang Hashim and Justice David Wong Dak Wah (the 1st Coram).

g.   At the Hearing, the 1st Coram heard full submissions by counsel for both parties after which, the Appeal was adjourned for Decision.

h.   On 25.2.2014, the Appeal was called up for Decision. The 1st Coram thereupon delivered its Decision allowing the Appeal and ordering that the Decision of the High Court be set aside and the matter be remitted to the High Court for damages to be assessed in favour of the Appellant.

i.   By this application, the Respondents move this Honourable Court for an Order to set aside or discharge or otherwise review the Decision of the 1st Coram on the ground of apparent bias.

j.   To start with, this Honourable Court has residual powers and jurisdiction to review, set aside or discharge its own previous Decision where the Applicants can establish that they have suffered procedural injustice. Where there is a real danger or perception of bias on the part of the coram impugning the Judgment, this amounts to procedural injustice.

The Appellant’s Background

k.   The Appellant is a well known political personality in Malaysia. He is an elected representative of the Perak state legislature. He is also one of the leaders of the opposition coalition party, Pakatan Rakyat (PR) of which, Parti Islam Semalaysia (PAS) is a key component.

l.   The Appellant leads the PAS in Perak.

m.   As the leading member of PAS in Perak and a prominent opposition party personality, the Appellant stood as a candidate on the PAS ticket in the last 3 general elections, namely in 2004, 2008 and 2013.

n.   After the General Elections of 2008, the Appellant, as the leader of the opposition coalition group, became the Chief Minister of Perak. He however lost this position after 3 opposition members defected. A member of the Barisan Nasional (BN) party assumed the position of the Chief Minister. The Appellant challenged the appointment of the BN member as the Chief Minister, but did not succeed.

o.   The Appellant however remained a prominent member of PAS. He stood in the 2013 General Elections on the PAS ticket.

Honourable Justice Mohamad Ariff Bin Mohd Yusuf

p.   The 1st Coram which heard the Appeal was chaired by the Honourable Justice Mohamad Ariff Bin Mohd Yusuf.

q.   Justice Mohamad Ariff was an active member of PAS. The level of his involvement as an active member of PAS included standing as a candidate on the PAS ticket in the 2004 General Elections. As stated above, in that same General Elections, the Appellant also stood as a candidate on the PAS ticket.

r.   Justice Mohamad Ariff did not win in the 2004 General Elections but His Lordship continued to be involved in PAS as an active member.

s.   His Lordship was even an elected committee member of the PAS’s liaison for Selangor for the 2007 to 2009 session.

t.   Amongst His Lordship’s further involvement with PAS was acting as their legal advisor and counsel in several election petitions.

Relationship with the Appellant

u.   His Lordship and the Appellant had been active members of PAS. They both contested on the PAS ticket in the 2004 General Elections.

v.   As fellow active members of PAS contesting in the General Elections, it is reasonable to any objective observer to conclude that they share a close relationship founded on their common political aspirations.

w.   In particular, in the 2004 General Elections, His Lordship and the Appellant would have campaigned substantively to further the interests of their political party. In short, they were comrades-in-arms.

x.   Having regard to their respective positions as fellow active members of PAS, it would be reasonable for any objective and fair minded member of the public to conclude that His Lordship even shared a personal relationship with the Appellant. It is also reasonable to conclude that in view of their shared political ideology and aspirations, this relationship would have been deep-seated, not just casual.

Prior Recusal

y.   After His Lordship’s elevation to his former position as a Judicial Commissioner of the High Court, amongst the cases assigned to him was the matter involving the application for Judicial Review filed by the Appellant sometime in February 2009 for, inter alia, a Declaration that he was the legitimate Chief Minister of the state of Perak.

z.   When the matter came up for Hearing, His Lordship offered to recuse himself from the matter. His Lordship did so on the grounds that he had been a legal advisor and counsel for PAS and had been involved in PAS’s legal matters from time to time.

aa.   As such, His Lordship held the view that his recusal was essential to preserve justice and integrity of the institution.

bb.   It was therefore only less than 5 years ago that His Lordship considered it proper and essential to offer to recuse himself in a matter involving his former comrade-in-arms and political ally.

cc.   Indeed, by any objective standard, that was a proper position that His Lordship took to preserve the integrity of the justice system, to maintain procedural justice and to maintain public confidence in the institution and the judiciary in particular.

dd.   The present case involved the same Plaintiff (Appellant). In the short period of less than 5 years, His Lordship's relationship and affiliation with the Appellant would not have significantly diluted.

ee.   It is notable that there is also a political element in the present case which the Appellant himself raised both in the High Court and in this Appeal. This political element is in the form of his assertion that the 1st Respondent is and has always been a media tool used by the ruling party to unfairly criticise and run down the opposition parties while enhancing the position of the ruling party. The 1st Respondent denied and denies this assertion but for the purpose of this application, it is clear that from this perspective, introduced by the Appellant himself, there is an element of fundamental conflict between the opposition party and the ruling party.

ff.   In the premises, if His Lordship had rightly recused himself in the judicial review application filed by the Appellant to challenge the appointment of the BN member as the Chief Minister of Perak, His Lordship should also have taken the same position in the present case.

Perception of Bias/Apparent Bias

gg.   It is the Respondents' case that the undisputed facts of His Lordship's substantive and active involvement in PAS up to as recently as 2008, any reasonable, objective and fair minded member of the public would form a perception of bias on His Lordship's part in sitting in Judgment in the present case.

hh.   The perception of bias would be even more compelling given that the dispute in the present case involves a political element and issues of politics.

ii.   Against this background, there is a real danger of bias on the part of the 1st Coram in adjudicating this Appeal.

jj.   The fundamental principle that justice must not only be done but must be seen to be done, must be applied in substance and form. The impartiality of the judiciary is a pillar and bulwark of the judicial system. The very fabric of the legal system is anchored on this principle. This also forms the foundation for the administration of the rule of law.

kk.   To preserve the integrity of the system and to maintain the confidence of the public in the administration of justice, there should be no perception of bias or any real danger of bias.

ll.   Having regard to the factual background as set out above, the perception of bias or a real danger of bias clearly exists in the present case.

mm.   His Lordship, with the greatest of respect, should have offered to recuse himself from this case or at least declared his position, just as His Lordship did in the previous case involving the same Plaintiff (Appellant).

Respondents’ Counsel had no Knowledge of Justice Mohamad Ariff Bin Mohd Yusuf’s Connection to PAS and the Appellant

nn.   The Appeal was fixed for Hearing on 28.10.2013. The Respondents' counsel became aware of the constitution of the 1st Coram only in the morning of the Hearing, as in all cases in the Court of Appeal.

oo.   The Respondents' counsel had no knowledge of His Lordship's prior involvement and connection with PAS.

pp.   As such, the Respondents could not have raised any objection on the issue of the constitution of the 1st Coram at that time.

qq.   The Respondents' counsel proceeded in the usual way to argue the Appeal.

rr.   After the Hearing, when the matter was adjourned for Decision, the issue of the composition of the 1st Coram was never drawn to the Respondents’ attention

ss.   It was only the day after the Decision was delivered by the 1st Coram that the issue was highlighted.

Coram Failure

tt.   By law, the Court of Appeal shall consist of at least 3 Judges of Appeal. If this legal requirement is not met, there will be no coram recognized in law.

uu.   Where one member of the coram should have been disqualified on the ground that his inclusion in the coram gives rise to a real danger of bias, this member cannot in law be considered to be a legitimate member of the panel. Since only 2 Judges of Appeal remain, there will be no coram recognized in law. As such, there would be a coram failure in this situation.

vv.   In the present case, the Honourable Justice Mohamad Ariff Bin Mohd Yusuf, with respect, ought not to have been included in the 1st Coram for the reason that his inclusion gave rise to a real danger of bias for the reasons set out above.

ww.   The Honourable Justice Mohamad Ariff Bin Mohd Yusuf should have been disqualified to sit in Judgment of this Appeal.

xx.   In the premises, there was no legal coram recognized in law, resulting in a coram failure. For this further reason, the Decision delivered by a coram which has failed in law cannot stand. It should therefore be set aside.

yy.   It is fundamentally important that in the proper administration of justice, there should be no departure from the standard of even-handed justice which the law requires from the Bench. The integrity of the legal system is founded on the key principle that every single adjudication must be predicated by an independent mind, without any inclination or bias towards one side or other in any dispute. There should not even be a perception of a bias.

zz.   The objective facts establishing the prior involvement and relationship of the Honourable Justice Mohamad Ariff Bin Mohd Yusuf plainly and unmistakably give rise to a real danger or perception of bias on His Lordship’s part in sitting in Judgment of this Appeal.

aaa.   This has fundamentally tainted the Judgment such that it should not be allowed to stand. In any event, there was no legal coram capable of passing Judgment.

Further grounds of this application appear in the affidavit of DATUK MOHD ASHRAF BIN ABDULLAH filed herewith.

Dated this    day of           , 2014.

______________________
REGISTRAR
COURT OF APPEAL
PUTRAJAYA

To:-

The Appellant and/or his solicitors
Messrs Awi & Co
Advocates & Solicitors
No. 28A, Hala Taman Meru II
Pusat Komersial Meru 2B
30020 Ipoh
Perak
(Ref: AFA/MFA/Bm/1868)

This Notice of Motion is filed by Messrs T H Liew & Partners, solicitors for the Respondents abovenamed and whose address for service is at Level 3 Block B, Plaza Damansara, No. 45 Medan Setia 1, Bukit Damansara, 50490 Kuala Lumpur.

Tel   :   03 - 2089 5000
Fax   :   03 - 2089 5001
Ref   :    LTH/STMB-TV3/01649-12

CA.NOM(1649).snpf.050314.lqs.(BI)

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The affidavit as below:

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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL MALAYSIA
(APPELLATE JURISDICTION)
CIVIL APPEAL NO: W-02(NCVC)(W)-1152-05/2013

BETWEEN

DATO’ SERI MOHAMMAD NIZAR BIN JAMALUDDIN … APPELLANT

AND

1. SISTEM TELEVISYEN MALAYSIA BERHAD

(Company No : 106645-T)

2. ROHANI NGAH

(Sued as the publisher of Buletin Utama (TV3)

of 30.5.12) … RESPONDENTS

1. Sistem Televisyen Malaysia Berhad

(Company No : 106645-T)

2. Rohani Ngah

(Sued As The Publisher Of Buletin Utama (Tv3)

Of 30.5.12) … Defendants

decided by the Honourable Justice Datin Yeoh Wee Siam in the High Court of Malaya at Kuala Lumpur on 12th April 2013)

AFFIDAVIT

I, DATUK MOHD ASHRAF BIN ABDULLAH (NRIC No. 670310-05-5561) care of No. 3 Persiaran Bandar Utama, 47800 Petaling Jaya, Selangor Darul Ehsan do solemnly and sincerely affirm and say as follows:

1. I am the Group Managing Editor, TV Networks in Media Prima Berhad in the employment of the 1st Respondent and I am authorised by the Respondents to make this affidavit on their behalf.

2. Unless I expressly state to the contrary, I make this affidavit from personal knowledge and from documents, records and other information available to me in my stated capacity. Such facts as I depose to in this Affidavit are true to the best of my information, knowledge and belief.

3. I make this Affidavit to support the Respondents’ application for an Order that the Decision of this Honourable Court given on 25.2.2014 be set aside or discharged with consequential Orders including an Order that the Appeal be fixed before a freshly constituted coram for a re-hearing.

4. I first set out the brief factual background leading to this application.

Factual Background

5. On 30.5.2012, the 1st Respondent aired over its Buletin Utama programme, a report concerning the tweet message sent by the Appellant containing his views on the bid made by the Sultan of Johor for the vehicle registration No. WWW 1.

6. The Appellant claimed that Buletin Utama report defamed him. He therefore instituted an action in libel against the Respondents by a Writ filed on 13.7.2012 in Kuala Lumpur High Court Civil Suit No. 23NCVC-84-07/2012 (the High Court Suit).

7. The High Court Suit came on for Trial before the Honourable Justice Datin Yeoh Wee Siam over two days in January 2013. I attended the Trial to give evidence as one of the witnesses for the 1st Respondent.

8. I am advised and verily believe that on 12.4.2013, Her Ladyship delivered her Decision dismissing the Appellant’s claim with no Order as to costs. A copy of the Grounds of Judgment is annexed hereto and marked as Exhibit ‘MAA-1’.

9. I am further advised that the Appellant, being dissatisfied with the High Court Decision, filed an Appeal in Civil Appeal No. W-02(NCVC)(W)-1152-05/2013 to this Honourable Court on 9.5.2013.

10. I am advised that the Appeal came up for hearing on 28.10.2013 before a panel led by the Honourable Judge of Appeal, Justice Mohamad Ariff Bin Mohd Yusuf, and consisting of the Honourable Judges of Appeal, Justice Abang Iskandar bin Abang Hashim and Justice David Wong Dak Wah (the 1st Coram).

11. I am further advised that at the Hearing, the 1st Coram heard full submissions by counsel for both parties after which, the Appeal was adjourned for Decision.

12. I am advised that on 25.2.2014, the Appeal was called up for Decision. The 1st Coram thereupon delivered its Decision allowing the Appeal and ordering that the Decision of the High Court be set aside and the matter be remitted to the High Court for damages to be assessed in favour of the Appellant. A copy of the Grounds of Decision given by this Honourable Court has since been provided and a copy is annexed hereto and marked as Exhibit ‘MAA-2’.

13. By this present application, the Respondents move this Honourable Court for an Order to set aside, discharge or otherwise review the Decision of the 1st Coram on the ground of apparent bias.

Jurisdiction

14. I am advised and verily believe that this Honourable Court has residual powers and jurisdiction to review its own Decision where the affected party has suffered procedural injustice.

15. I am further advised and verily believe that the residual powers and jurisdiction of this Honourable Court can be invoked to set aside or discharge a Decision of this Honourable Court where there is a real danger or perception of bias on the part of the original coram.

16. I am also advised that apparent bias on the part of the coram sitting in Judgment of the case and delivering the Judgment is a fundamental procedural injustice that this Honourable Court is empowered to redress.

The Appellant’s Background

17. The Appellant is a well known political personality in Malaysia. He is an elected representative of the Perak state legislature. He is also one of the leaders of the opposition coalition party, Pakatan Rakyat (PR) of which, Parti Islam Semalaysia (PAS) is a key component.

18. The Appellant leads PAS in Perak.

19. As the leading member of PAS in Perak and a prominent opposition party personality, the Appellant stood as a candidate on the PAS ticket in the last 3 general elections, namely in 2004, 2008 and 2013.

20. After the General Elections of 2008, the Appellant, as the leader of the opposition coalition group, became the Chief Minister of Perak. He however lost this position after 3 opposition members defected. A member of the Barisan Nasional (BN) party assumed the position of the Chief Minister. The Appellant challenged the appointment of the BN member as the Chief Minister, but did not succeed.

21. The Appellant however remained a prominent member of PAS. He stood in the 2013 General Elections on the PAS ticket.

Honourable Justice Mohamad Ariff Bin Mohd Yusuf

22. I am advised and verily believe that the 1st Coram which heard the Appeal was chaired by the Honourable Justice Mohamad Ariff Bin Mohd Yusuf.

23. I am further advised and verily believe that Justice Mohamad Ariff was an active member of PAS. The level of his involvement as an active member of PAS included standing as a candidate on the PAS ticket in the 2004 General Elections. Annexed hereto and marked as Exhibit ‘MAA-3’ is a copy of an extract from the Report of the General Elections 2004 containing the results of the General Elections for the Kota Damansara seat which His Lordship contested as a PAS candidate.

24. As stated above, in the same General Elections, the Appellant also contested as a PAS candidate. A copy of the extract from the Report of the General Elections 2004 indicating the results for Kuala Kangsar where the Appellant contested as a PAS candidate is annexed hereto as Exhibit ‘MAA-4’.

25. As the extract in Exhibit ‘MAA-3’ shows, Justice Mohamad Ariff did not win in the 2004 General Elections but I verily believe that His Lordship continued to be involved in PAS as an active member.

26. I am advised that His Lordship was even an elected committee member of the PAS’s liaison for Selangor for the 2007 to 2009 session. A copy of the list of members of the Selangor Liaison Committee Body (Badan Perhubungan) of PAS, which includes the name of the Honourable Justice Mohamad Ariff Bin Mohd Yusuf is annexed hereto as Exhibit ‘MAA-5’. This list is extracted from the PAS Selangor’s website.

27. I am further advised and verily believe that amongst His Lordship’s further involvement with PAS was acting as their legal advisor and counsel in several election petitions. His Lordship’s involvement as the legal advisor and counsel for PAS involved election petitions in 2006 and 2008. In this regard, I annex hereto as Exhibit ‘MAA-6’ an assortment of news clippings concerning His Lordship’s involvement as counsel for PAS in these election petitions.

28. Having traced the reports involving His Lordship’s activities as the legal advisor and counsel for PAS, it appears that His Lordship continued in these activities up until 2008 and just before His appointment as Judicial Commissioner of the High Court.

Relationship with the Appellant

29. From the news reports referred to above, I verily believe that His Lordship and the Appellant had been active members of PAS. They both contested on the PAS ticket in the 2004 General Elections.

30. I further say that as fellow active members of PAS contesting in the General Elections, it is reasonable to any objective observer to conclude that they share a close relationship founded on their common political aspirations.

31. In particular, in the 2004 General Elections, it is reasonable to suppose that His Lordship and the Appellant would have campaigned substantively to further the interests of their political party. In short, they were comrades-in-arms.

32. Having regard to their respective positions as fellow active members of PAS, it would be reasonable for any objective and fair minded member of the public to conclude that His Lordship even shared a personal relationship with the Appellant. It is also reasonable to conclude that in view of their shared political ideology and aspirations, this relationship would have been deep-seated, not just casual.

Prior Recusal

33. I verily believe that after His Lordship’s elevation to his former position as a Judicial Commissioner of the High Court, amongst the cases assigned to him was the matter involving the application for Judicial Review filed by the Appellant sometime in February 2009 for, inter alia, a Declaration that he was the legitimate Chief Minister of the state of Perak.

34. I verily believe that when the matter came up for Hearing, His Lordship offered to recuse himself from the matter. His Lordship did so on the grounds that he had been a legal advisor and counsel for PAS and had been involved in PAS’s legal matters from time to time. As such, His Lordship held the view that his recusal was essential to preserve justice and integrity of the institution. I annex hereto collectively marked as Exhibit ‘MAA-7’ an assortment of press articles reporting on the proceedings in which His Lordship offered to recuse himself.

35. It was therefore only less than 5 years ago that His Lordship considered it proper and essential to offer to recuse himself in a matter involving his former comrade-in-arms and political ally.

36. Indeed, I state that by any objective standards, that was a proper position that His Lordship took to preserve the integrity of the justice system, to maintain procedural justice and to maintain public confidence in the institution and the judiciary in particular.

37. The present case involved the same Plaintiff (Appellant). In the short period of less than 5 years, His Lordship's relationship and affiliation with the Appellant would not have significantly diluted.

38. It is notable that there is also a political element in the present case which the Appellant himself raised both in the High Court and in this Appeal. This political element is in the form of his assertion that the 1st Respondent is and has always been a media tool used by the ruling party to unfairly criticise and run down the opposition parties while enhancing the position of the ruling party. In the Trial, I specifically denied the allegation and I continue to deny it now but for the purpose of this application, it is clear that from this political perspective, introduced by the Appellant himself, there is an element of fundamental conflict between the opposition party and the ruling party.

39. In the premises, I am advised and verily believe that if His Lordship had rightly recused himself in the judicial review application filed by the Appellant to challenge the appointment of the BN member as the Chief Minister of Perak, His Lordship should also have taken the same position in the present case.

Perception of Bias/Apparent Bias

40. It is the Respondents' case that the undisputed facts of His Lordship's substantive and active involvement in PAS up to as recently as 2008, any reasonable, objective and fair minded member of the public would form a perception of bias on His Lordship's part in sitting in Judgment in the present case.

41. It is my honest belief that the perception of bias would be even more compelling given that the dispute in the present case involves a political element and issues of politics.

42. Against this background, I am advised and verily believe that there is a real danger of bias on the part of the 1st Coram in adjudicating this Appeal.

43. I am further advised and verily believe that the fundamental principle that justice must not only be done but must be seen to be done must be applied in substance and form. The impartiality of the judiciary is a pillar and bulwark of the judicial system. The very fabric of the legal system is anchored on this principle. This also forms the foundation for the administration of the rule of law.

44. I also verily believe that to preserve the integrity of the system and to maintain the confidence of the public in the administration of justice, there should be no perception of bias or any real danger of bias.

45. Having regard to the factual background as set out above, I verily believe that the perception of bias or a real danger of bias clearly exists in the present case.

46. His Lordship, with the greatest of respect, should have offered to recuse himself from this case or at least declared his position, just as His Lordship did in the previous case involving the same Plaintiff (Appellant).

Respondents’ Counsel had no Knowledge of Justice Mohamad Ariff Bin Mohd Yusuf’s Connection to PAS and the Appellant

47. I am advised and verily believe that the Appeal was fixed for Hearing on 28.10.2013 when the Respondents' counsel became aware of the constitution of the 1st Coram only in the morning of the Hearing, as in all cases in the Court of Appeal.

48. I verily believe that the Respondents' counsel had no knowledge of His Lordship's prior involvement and connection with PAS.

49. As such, we could not have raised any objection on the issue of the constitution of the 1st Coram at that time.

50. I am advised that the Respondents' counsel proceeded in the usual way to argue the Appeal.

51. I am further advised that after the Hearing, when the matter was adjourned for Decision, the issue of the constitution of the 1st Coram and its implication was never drawn to our attention. This issue was only highlighted the day after the Decision was delivered.

Coram Failure

52. I am advised and verily believe that by law, the Court of Appeal shall consist of at least 3 Judges of Appeal. If this legal requirement is not met, there will be no coram recognized in law.

53. I am further advised that where one member of the coram should have been disqualified on the ground that his inclusion in the coram gives rise to a real danger of bias, this member cannot in law be considered to be a legitimate member of the panel. Since only 2 Judges of Appeal remain, there will be no coram recognized in law. As such, there would be a coram failure in this situation.

54. I verily believe that in the present case, the Honourable Justice Mohamad Ariff Bin Mohd Yusuf, with respect, ought not to have been included in the 1st Coram for the reason that his inclusion gave rise to a real danger of bias for the reasons set out above.

55. As such, I am advised and verily believe that the Honourable Justice Mohamad Ariff Bin Mohd Yusuf should have been disqualified to sit in Judgment of this Appeal.

56. In the premises, I am advised and verily believe that there was no legal coram recognized in law, resulting in a coram failure. For this further reason, the Decision delivered by a coram which has failed in law cannot stand. It should therefore be set aside.

Conclusion

57. It is my honest belief that it is fundamentally important that in the proper administration of justice, there should be no departure from the standard of even-handed justice which the law requires from the bench.

58. I verily believe that the integrity of the legal system is founded on the key principle that every single adjudication must be predicated on an independent mind, without any inclination or bias towards one side or other in any dispute. There should not even be a perception of a bias.

59. I further verily believe that the objective facts establishing the prior involvement and relationship of the Honourable Justice Mohamad Ariff Bin Mohd Yusuf plainly and unmistakably give rise to a real danger or perception of bias on His Lordship’s part in sitting in Judgment of this Appeal.

60. This has fundamentally tainted the Judgment such that it should not be allowed to stand. In any event, there was no legal coram capable of passing Judgment.

61. For all the reasons set out above, I humbly and respectfully pray for an Order in terms of this application.

AFFIRMED by the deponent named )

DATUK MOHD ASHRAF BIN ABDULLAH )

affirmed on this 5th day of March, 2014 )

at Kuala Lumpur )

Before me,

COMMISSIONER FOR OATHS

This Affidavit is filed by Messrs T H Liew & Partners, solicitors for the Respondents whose address for service is at Level 3 Block B, Plaza Damansara, No. 45 Medan Setia 1, Bukit Damansara, 50490 Kuala Lumpur.

Tel : 03-2089 5000

Fax : 03-2089 5001

Ref : LTH/STMB-TV3/01649-12

Aff.(NOM)(1649).snpf.050314.lqs.(BI)

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This is well an good for TV3 who can afford the expensive legal cost but for Faisal Robhan Ahmad, the cost could be prohibitive and he will be denied justice should he not appeal.

It tantamount to bullying by the rich and powerful over the common people.

At the same note, it puts in question the ability of the judiciary to govern themselves.

And this could be seen from the 1988 incident in which few members of the Federal Court were removed on disciplinary ground and questionable judgement. The legal community accused it as encroachment of the executive on the judiciary despite them being removed a panel of independent judges from abroad.

But, if this is reflective of the conduct of judges these days, in this case a pro-PAS judge allegedly shows a bias trend in favour of PAS leaders, their accusation for the 1988 judiciary crisis does not look justified.

Seeing how slanted Bar Council is for the opposition that they turn a blame eye to the indiscretion of the opposition, it would be sad should the same happen to the judiciary.

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PM Najib Razak’s Press Statement on MH370

Seven days ago Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared. We realise this is an excruciating time for the families of those on board. No words can describe the pain they must be going through. Our thoughts and our prayers are with them.

I have been appraised of the on-going search operation round the clock. At the beginning of the operation, I ordered the search area to be broadened; I instructed the Malaysian authorities to share all relevant information freely and transparently with the wider investigation team; and I requested that our friends and allies join the operation.

As of today, 14 countries, 43 ships and 58 aircraft are involved in the search. I wish to thank all the governments for their help at such a crucial time.

Since day one, the Malaysian authorities have worked hand-in-hand with our international partners – including neighbouring countries, the aviation authorities and a multinational search force – many of whom have been here on the ground since Sunday.

We have shared information in real time with authorities who have the necessary experience to interpret the data. We have been working nonstop to assist the investigation. And we have put our national security second to the search for the missing plane.

It is widely understood that this has been a situation without precedent.

We have conducted search operations over land, in the South China Sea, the Straits of Malacca, the Andaman Sea and the Indian Ocean. At every stage, we acted on the basis of verified information, and we followed every credible lead. Sometimes these leads have led nowhere.

There has been intense speculation. We understand the desperate need for information on behalf of the families and those watching around the world. But we have a responsibility to the investigation and the families to only release information that has been corroborated. And our primary motivation has always been to find the plane.

In the first phase of the search operation, we searched near MH370’s last known position, in the South China Sea.

At the same time, it was brought to our attention by the Royal Malaysian Air Force that, based on their primary radar, an aircraft – the identity of which could not be confirmed – made a turn back. The primary radar data showed the aircraft proceeding on a flight path which took it to an area north of the Straits of Malacca.

Given this credible data, which was subsequently corroborated with the relevant international authorities, we expanded the area of search to include the Straits of Malacca and, later, to the Andaman Sea.

Early this morning I was briefed by the investigation team – which includes the FAA, NTSB, the AAIB, the Malaysian authorities and the Acting Minister of Transport – on new information that sheds further light on what happened to MH370.

Based on new satellite information, we can say with a high degree of certainty that the Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS) was disabled just before the aircraft reached the East coast of peninsular Malaysia.

Shortly afterwards, near the border between Malaysian and Vietnamese air traffic control, the aircraft’s transponder was switched off.

From this point onwards, the Royal Malaysian Air Force primary radar showed that an aircraft which was believed – but not confirmed – to be MH370 did indeed turn back. It then flew in a westerly direction back over peninsular Malaysia before turning northwest.

Up until the point at which it left military primary radar coverage, these movements are consistent with deliberate action by someone on the plane.

Today, based on raw satellite data that was obtained from the satellite data service provider, we can confirm that the aircraft shown in the primary radar data was flight MH370. After much forensic work and deliberation, the FAA, NTSB, AAIB and the Malaysian authorities, working separately on the same data, concur.

According to the new data, the last confirmed communication between the plane and the satellite was
at 8:11AM Malaysian time on Saturday 8th March. The investigations team is making further calculations which will indicate how far the aircraft may have flown after this last point of contact. This will help us to refine the search.

Due to the type of satellite data, we are unable to confirm the precise location of the plane when it last made contact with the satellite.

However, based on this new data, the aviation authorities of Malaysia and their international counterparts have determined that the plane’s last communication with the satellite was in one of two possible corridors: a northern corridor stretching approximately from the border of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan to northern Thailand, or a southern corridor stretching approximately from Indonesia to the southern Indian ocean. The investigation team is working to further refine the information.

In view of this latest development the Malaysian authorities have refocused their investigation into the crew and passengers on board. Despite media reports that the plane was hijacked, I wish to be very clear: we are still investigating all possibilities as to what caused MH370 to deviate from its original flight path.

This new satellite information has a significant impact on the nature and scope of the search operation. We are ending our operations in the South China Sea and reassessing the redeployment of our assets. We are working with the relevant countries to request all information relevant to the search, including radar data.

As the two new corridors involve many countries, the relevant foreign embassies have been invited to a briefing on the new information today by the Malaysian Foreign Ministry and the technical experts. I have also instructed the Foreign Ministry to provide a full briefing to foreign governments which had passengers on the plane.

This morning, Malaysia Airlines has been informing the families of the passengers and crew of these new developments.

Clearly, the search for MH370 has entered a new phase. Over the last seven days, we have followed every lead and looked into every possibility. For the families and friends of those involved, we hope this new information brings us one step closer to finding the plane.

END

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Have been taking a break for Kajang and MH370.

Series on PKNS has not stoppped at Part 8. Many more to go. Many more issues relating to PKNS not exposed yet.

The Selangor Polo project, more crap happening in De Palma Hotel, the leaving for Singapore former CEO cum General Manager, Dato Othman Omar, lawsuit lost to MRCB and Nusa Gapurna, crazy mak tiri Datin Paduka Azlina Zakaria, and many more.

Was about to write analysis of Kajang.

There is also issue related to Dato Wan Junaidi and his comments in Parliament on underage rape cases.

Standing by is an expose on Khazanah owned UEM's JV and relationship with -Sunrise that have been building up our curiosity ever since CEO Dato Izzadin refused to be honest and kept brushing off the issue.

Furthermore, Chairman Tan Sri Tajuddin have not held his side of the bargain on the failed Qatar project few years ago.

However, there is a newsbreak related to Kajang and PKNS.

It is related to Kajang because rumours is that in the event of Datin Seri Dr Wan Azizah wins Kajang tomorrow, she will be the new Menteri Besar of Selangor.

SELCAT

There is a SELCAT hearing scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday related to PKNS. Isn't it convenient to have the hearing and details spilled out on only after the Kajang by-election?

Sources told us that he is 100% sure that Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim will be impeached this Tuesday for three reasons:

1. For his manouvre to dismiss YB Azmin from the Board of Director of PKNS,
2. For removing the 20 staff of PKNS Holding unfairly, and
3. Various wrongdoings and mismanagement of PKNS

Although there is different treatment of the information, this blog and Raja Petra's Malaysia Today could claim credit for the third reason for Khalid's dismisssal.

Off course, the impeachment is not merely because of PKNS. It is not that simple. There is a bigger politics in play.

The popular belief is that Khalid has the support of DAP state assemblymen and the DAP/PKR controlled state exco. Unfortunately, there is a deep resentment within DAP with the way Khalid handled the kalimah Allah issue. The evangelist is getting even.

PKR's Anwar and Azmin supporters already went for his hide.

More so, now that Khalid has expressed intention to run for PKR Deputy President against Azmin. This upsets the grand design of the first family.

Khalid thought he could be stubborn to hold on to the MB post in which he alleged received tacit support from the palace, but his faction member, Datin Seri Dr Wan Azizah said the Kajang Move to change the MB still remain.

He may knows his days and methodology in public administration ala corporate management style is coming to an end as a message below is spreading on the social media:

Hari ini, keputusan yang saya buat tidak perlu lagi berdasarkan desakan rakan-rakan yang gilakan kuasa tetapi biarlah rakyat yang menjadi keutamaan dan rujukan saya. Saya sanggup ditekan oleh rakan-rakan parti dan hilang jawatan daripada melihat kesengsaraan rakyat Selangor. Saya berharap, dengan perjanjian projek Langat 2 yang telah saya tanda tangan baru-baru ini mampu menebus dosa akibat kegagalan yang telah saya lakukan sebelum ini. Negeri Selangor bukan milik saya dan bukan juga milik pemimpin parti yang lain, tetapi ianya adalah milik rakyat.

Mungkin anda tidak sedar yang hari ini terlalu ramai yang mahu menjadi ketua pemerintah di bumi kaya ini. Bumi Selangor yang penuh dengan industri adalah antara penyumbang ekonomi kepada Malaysia. Saya sedar secara dalaman juga ada yang mendesak agar saya lepaskan jawatan sebagai Menteri Besar kerana sikap saya yang terlalu mementingkan tadbir urus negari berbanding parti. Jawapan saya mudah, Selangor bukan untuk Pakatan Rakyat mahupun untuk Barisan Nasional tetapi Selangor adalah hak milik watan Selangor. Jangan permainkan hak mereka kerana kepentingan peribadi.

Menolak bukan beerti menentang, tetapi pilihan harus dibuat untuk kesejahteraan bersama.

Saudara/saudari sekalian....

23 Mac 2014 bukan soal PR menang atau BN menang, tetapi ianya jauh daripada itu. Bukan saya mahu PR kalah dalam PRK ini, tetapi kekalahan PR barangkali boleh menyelamatkan amanah Rakyat Selangor selama ini. Saya tidak pasti sejauh mana rakyat Selangor sedar yang selama ini YB Azmin Ali yang sentiasa bermusuh dengan saya kerana beliau tidak diberi tempat dalam pentadbiran negeri Selangor. Pada saya, politikus bukanlah pentadbir yang baik kerana kepentingan parti menjadi keutamaan mereka berbanding rakyat.

Saya bersyukur apabila DSAI tidak lagi calon pada PRK Kajang. Bukan kerana saya suka beliau dijatuhkan hukuman penjara 5 tahun, tetapi paling tidak desakan untuk saya melepaskan jawatan sebagai Menteri Besar tidaklah begitu kuat. Namun beliau mengambil jalan dengan meletakkan Kak Wan sebagai calon PRK Kajang seperti tiada bezanya. Suara Kak Wan adalah bisikan DSAI.

Rakyat Kajang yang saya kasihi...

Pilihan ditangan kita, apa guna jika PR menang tetapi amanah yang diberi nanti akan terus dikhianati. Bukan saya bermaksud untuk menangkan BN, tetapi jika itu jalanya untuk kita menyelamatkan bumi bertuah ini pilihan yang terbaik harus difikirkan semasak-masaknya. Sekali lagi saya ingatkan, suara rakyat adalah suara keramat dan amanah rakyat amanah hikmat.

Janganlah kita membenarkan tangan-tangan ghaib untuk hancurkan harapan masa depan anak dan cucu kita. Ketepi kan sementara soal politik murahan sebaliknya utamakanlah kesejahteraan syumul negeri Selangor tercinta.

Demi Selangor...

[KHALID IBRAHIM]

It could be a fake SMS and just last minute SMS blast psywar but there is a taint of logic.

PKR's internal squabble

Already, Azmin is retaliating by not cooperating to help Khalid as Election Director for Kajang.

If Wan Azizah is appointed MB, Azmin will not be happy to be denied the MB post for the third time. He has waited long enough and could go for the Presidency instead.

Wan Azizah have long been expected to relieve herself from the PKR Presidency and Anwar will take over. With the inevitabe prospect of Sungai Buloh prison, he could not run for the Kajang by-election and his plan to takeover the Selangor post diverted.

Does he plan to assume the PKR Presidency in absentee from prison?

The possibility is for Azmin as PKR President and someone else as Deputy President. Wan Azizah cannot keep the party together at this stage.

Should it be true that Anwar intend to be President in absentee, never rule out Azmin going for broke to take on Anwar for the Presidency. The rationale for Azmin is that his time us due. The longer he wait he will have to face the more hungry younger generation of PKR leaders

Between Khalid and Azmin, Azmin has a close rapport with many quarters; PAS, government officials, SLC officials and PKR party members, except DAP.

However, the odds is against him to win against Anwar.

One option that Azmin has is to sabotage Kajang and make both Wan Azizah and Khalid come out loser. His boys have not been cooperating with Khalid at the balloting areas level.

No one dare to openly sabotage the PKR President and wife to the "saint" as claimed openly by Chegu Bard at last night's Reformasi II gathering at the Kajang stadium. Wan Azizah's fate is left to the voters.

Azmin's sparring partner for Deputy President could be Tian Chua. Only problem with Tian Chua is that it is a matter of time that he will lose his Batu seat and his court cases will catch up with him.

So he need to remain relevent in PKR or the foreign support and funding flowing through him will dry up.

Kajang by-election

How will that affect Kajang tomorrow?

God knows.

The focus of everyone is the 3:00 PM or 5:00 PM MH370 press conference that interest is low on Kajang and more so, Bailingan. It is difficult to read.

Datin Paduka Chew Mei Fun can win if she could improve on the Chinese votes to 25-30% and UMNO managed to get her 65% Malay votes.

Heard Malay votes is swinging back to BN but is it enough? And, heard Chew Mei Fun is improving from the 18% Chinese votes for BN in the last general election, but by how much?

There are sources claiming PKR will win but majority could shrink to 1,500.

There is the optimistic belief that should BN's election day machinery not fuck up like what UMNO did in Sungai Limau, it could tilt to a slim majority for MCA.

After all the issues on the slacks of the state government considered, in which UMNO and BN's machinery failed to exploit, one issue in favour of Chew Mei Fun is for a Chinese opposition as check and balance in the Selangor state assembly.

The opposition in Selangor is only represented by UMNO.

DAP tried to counter by brushing Chew Mei Fun as untrustworthy using the old SRJKC Damansara issue and other dirty tricks by DAP and Red Bean Army.

As for PKR, they have deviated from discussing their promises and manifesto, which only backfire to the state government and poorly conceived manifesto and recycling the reformasi script and drama.

There is no choice but address Anwar's moral issue. They have a conceived a script filled with misinformation to deceive the public into doubting the judiciary and hold a nationwide roadshow which will end with a May 1st demonstration in Putrajaya.

Thus far last night, they are hardly a glimpse of the past reformasi on 1999.

PAS has not been showing much support and cooperation for the Kajang by-election and at Kajang stadium. Their absence is deafening.

Except for Azmin, the family and Saifuddin Nasution, the old players of reformasi are not there anymore and mostly with BN.

The sodomy case this time around is too clear and not convincing for the public to support Anwar.

Thus the loud voices of civil liberties and human rights movements including COMANGO and NUCC these days. Their motivation is to removing elements of religion from the state and law, make LGBT socially acceptable and such social, moral and syariah laws unacceptable.

Hopefully the laws are removed and Anwar release from prison.

Now, will it be easy to remove Khalid and replaced by Wan Azizah?

As written earlier, there is the Sultan factor to consider. Does his Majesty accept Singapore-born Wan Azizah who rumours said is a Korean-adopted daughter to Dato Wan Ismail?

We are living on interesting times.

But can BN put their act together and stop blowing away opportunities by their greed motivated endless factional issues?

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