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MPAJ councillor under scrutiny

July 4th, 2008
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Out of the two (Star) or three (NST) MPAJ councillor nominees alleged to have criminal records or under investigation, one is said to have a criminal record.EXCO Ronnie Liu says that the list was sent to ACA, police and Bank Negara, but no response from them. So, he said that “cannot wait for six months”. So, looks like its not that the new government didn’t send, but the respondents never replied. This makes me think, how can the previous state government elect their councillors so fast? Is it because of good relationship with the ACA/police/Bank Negara (this implies that new state government is not given due cooperation by these organizations) or the previous government never really vetted their councillors. Which is which?

 

Two councillors will be asked to make statutory declarations (what’s with these declaration thing nowadays?) so that they can be jailed if they are found to have made a false statement. Also, the appointment for councillor position is one year, after which it will be reviewed.

 

Meanwhile, according to checks with police, only one of the three (a 50-year old PKR member) had a police conviction (for ROBBERY!). Two others – Supriamany Sinnayapal, 59, and Sooria Narayanan, 38, were clean.

 

Supriamany, a retired Tenaga Nasional Bhd technician, said:

“I am a victim of political assassination. I have no criminal records. I have never dealt in drugs, stolen or committed murder. Why am I being implicated in this?” he said, adding that he was considering legal action.


Sooria Narayanan, of the Ampang Indian Community Charity Bureau, also expressed shock at the allegation, adding that it had tarnished

his reputation. He also said he did not lobby to become a councillor but was offered the post.The Star reported that one of the two nominees to the Ampang Jaya Municipal Council (MPAJ) accused of having been involved in criminal activities has served two years in restricted residence in Gua Musang. It is learnt the nominee was sent as a restricted resident to the remote Kelantan town from 2003-2005 for suspected vice activities.

From robbery to vice. Still unclear on the whole situation.

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Bala changes tune over statutory declaration

July 4th, 2008
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Statutory declaration is plaything is it? Can make and retract as you like? Waste people’s time and money only. Don’t know how many people wasted money buying newspaper today.

Just like Lingam, Bala also causes more misery and bad name for the Indian community. How people want to have faith in you if keep on changing tune as you like?

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Yesterday he was all smiles, today the Malaysiakini photo shows a glum face.

It takes guts to go through this. Unfortunately, not many of us are able to face it when the going gets tough. Bribed, threatened, cajoled, misled?

From his changed declaration, we can see that those that specifically mention Najib Tun Razak have been altered or deleted. Also, do note that the things mentioned are those have been in public knowledge all this while. We have seen emailed photos of the deceased with certain people. We have read emails on the RM500k money. We heard rumors of marriage. Only the Singapore diamond exhibitions sounds new (to me at least).

This can only mean two things – its a lie from the beginning and he was coached/forced to make those declarations, or its true and he was forced to remove those damaging statements. There’s a third possibility – the two declarations were preplanned so as to insinuate that Bala was forced to change his declaration. In other words, purposely make a false declaration, then pretend to be threatened and change it.

Najib obviously denies all the allegations made earlier. All lies he says. Badawi says no comments.

Whatever it is, only one will survive this round of battle – Najib or Anwar. We can expect more lies and half-truths from both parties as they play a dangerous game of chess.

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RapidKL bus price change!

July 4th, 2008
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The news did not say if its an increase or decrease of fare, just “fare for stage buses according to zones”. Obviously, things seldom decrease, so one can expect an increase in prices, perhaps for certain category of users. More pain in the pocket 🙁

CVLB director says this new structure was to replace the current system of tickets
lasting a whole day for many trips.

Sudah jatuh, ditimpa tangga?

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Breakdown of funds for temples and churches

July 4th, 2008
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Earlier, we read about the amount of money spent for mosques and other places of worship in general.

In today’s Star (hard copy) breakdown of the expenses for places of worship is given as below:

RM3.93 million for Hindu temples
RM3.16 million for other temples
RM1.6 million for churches

It is clarified that since 1991, RM1 million for physical development of churches and temples, and another RM1 million for Hindu temples have been allocated since year 2000.

Now, we can see that temples and churches individually receive less money than Hindu temples, but if combined, its more by RM0.83 million (3.16 + 1.6 – 3.93).

I can only assume that there is less allocation for churches since they are located in strategic areas with least disturbance, have good support from the affluent section of community they serve, or the churches have moved into shoplots, thus reducing maintenance cost. However, I wonder if this cost includes assistance to churches located in Sabah and Sarawak, where there are many Christians among the privileged people there.

Other temples most likely refer to Taoist temples, which again usually have an association, foundation or group supporting it.

For Hindu temples, due to the many sects in Hinduism, there is more temples to be maintained. Then, there’s the issue of relocation or compensation when temples make way for development.

For the period between 2005 and 2008, total money received by these places of worship:

RM8.1 million
+ RM8 million (RM2 million x 4)
= RM16.1million.

Mosques and surau got RM428 million in the same period.

As I said earlier, its a major injustice when the total amount given to these temples (RM16.1 million) in the last four years is just 3.6% of the total allocation (RM428 million + RM16.1 million). The mosques and surau are allocated 26.58 times MORE money than combination of all other places of worship.

Whatever happened to “Kepercayaan Kepada Tuhan”?

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RM428 million for mosques and RM8 million for others

July 3rd, 2008
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In a 60/40 population, 428 million versus 8 million doesn’t look balanced no matter how you cut it. And that is just for the period between 2005 and 2008.

 

Let’s do the maths:

 

428/ 42 months (from Jan 2005 until June 2008) = 10.19 million per month.

 

8/42 months = 190,000 per month.

 

That means mosques get 53.63 times more than other places of worship month-wise. Over the said period, its 53.5 times more than the allocation for temples and churches.

 

And bear in mind that this amount is to be shared between temples (Hindus, Buddhists, Taoist?) and churches.

 

The deputy minister for Internal Security also said that the government has been disbursing RM1 million per year for temples/churches and Hindu temples respectively for physical construction projects.

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