Zambry making a cartoon (joke) out of the State of Perak.

 

 

 Media Statement by YB Dato' Ngeh Koo Ham

Najib & Zambry supported by MCA & Gerakan guilty of making a cartoon (a joke) of the State of Perak. The people of Perak suffer in consequence. Inabilility to restore the telephone lines to the State Secretariate & the Director of land and mines buildings after 3 weeks is the latest joke Zambry create out of Perak.

Fresh from the ‘success’ of spinning the ‘Black Metallic Zambry’remark, BN appointed Perak Menteri Besar Dato’ Seri Zambry bin Abdul Kadir in trying to split YB Nga Kor Ming’s one remark into 2 to try to score further political points. The remark made the YB Nga Kor Ming was ‘Hitam Metalik Zambry Menteri Besar Perak Darul Kartun’

‘Black Metallic Zambry’ was a humour adapted from the Black Metallic Camry which the BN opposed when the Perak PR government bought Black Metallic Toyota Camry cars to replace the ailing Proton Perdanas. The phrase was used because it rhymes.The skin colour of a person is never described as metallic. Zambry knew that Kor Ming was referring to the colour of the Camry car but played racial politics by twisting it to say it refers to the human skin colour. He makes a cartoon of himself when he twisted the remark to refer to darker skin people.This in the level BN appointed power crazy Menteri Besar will stoop.

Now Zambry in trying to spin and say that YB Nga Kor Ming is disrespectful of the State when he described the State as ‘Perak Darul Kartun’

Najib & Zambry supported by MCA & Gerakan are guilty of making the Perak State a cartoon (a joke) and yet Zambry is accusing  others of being disrespectful of the State.

I am astonished that Zambry still did not realize that he has made the Perak State a joke due to his actions. Unfortunately, the people of Perak became victims and suffered in misery.

The following incidences have made the Perak State a joke to many people : -

(i)            Democratically elected government ousted by non democratic means

(ii)          Refusal of BN to respect the wishes of the people by calling a fresh election.

(iii)        Not allowing the State Assembly Speaker (undisputed at that point of time) to convence a sitting at the State Assembly Hall and he was forced to conduct the sitting under a tree.

(iv)          The State Assembly Speaker was forcibly removed from his seat in the State Assembly and imprisoned in a room.

(v)            State Budget passed within 20 minutes without debate.

(vi)          Microphones of opposition elected representatives switch off so that their speeches will not he heard and also not  recorded in the Hansard.

(vii)        Using the Police to invade and control the State Assembly.

(viii)      Elected representation not allowed to enter the State Assembly without permission of the police & civil servants stationed at the locked doors of the Assembly.

(ix)         Elected representatives allowed into Assembly only if issued with a pass by the State Secretary. Even former BN Menteri Besar, Tan Sri Dato Seri Di Raja Tajol Rosli was offended and described it as demeaning.

(x)           Judges do not follow the law (precedents) when deciding on Perak crisis cases.

(xi)         Laws are selectively applied (especially Article 72 of the Federal Constitution prohibiting interference of the Judiciary in matters of the State Assembly)

(xii)       A court Registar can appoint a Court of Appeal Judge to sit and stay (suspend) the decision of the High Court judge who has declared Dato’ Sri Nizar Jamaluddin as the legitimate Menteri Besar when there were 2 other panel of 3 judges each of the Court of Appeal sitting on that day. The stay was granted within 24 hours!

(xiii)     The swearing in of Zambly as Menteri Besar was obstructed and spontaneously objected to by thousand of protestors.

(xiv)       BN Government refused to answer questions asked in the State Assembly without valid reason

and the list can continue.

Zambry should stop making a clown of himself and continue to make the Perak State a cartoon by continue to spin falsehood.

Many investors have expressed their unwillingness to invest in the State of Perak until the illeginate government of Zambry is replaced. The Perakeans are unfortunately the victims who continue to suffer in consequent of Zambry continuing to make a cartoon of the Perak State.

The latest joke Zambry created out of Perak is that the telephone lines to the State Secretariate and the Director of land and mines buildings (both buildings form the seat of administration of the Government of Perak) have yet to be restored despite having been down for the last 3 weeks.

Let the people of Perak be reminded of these black days of Perak after the grab of power by BN since February 2009 and be united to oust the undemocratically installed BN government in the coming General Election.

 

Dated this 8^th December, 2011.

YB Dato' Ngeh Koo Ham

State Assemblyman for Sitiawan

&

Member of Parliament for Beruas

Ipoh,Perak.

M Kula : New contract for temporary teachers is too unfair and must be reviewed.

Media Statement by M Kula Segaran, DAP National Vice Chairman and MP for Ipoh Barat in Ipoh on Thursday, December 08, 2011

New contract for temporary teachers is too unfair and must be reviewed.

There are roughly over 400 temporary teachers now in Perak. They are what it is called the Guru Sandaran Tidak Terlatih (GSTT). Many of these teachers have been teaching for 3-4 years. 

All these teachers who are teaching in Perak were recently asked to attend a briefing held on 25/11/11 in a school in Silibin, Ipoh.

At the briefing, they were told that all temporary teachers would be now employed on a “contract for service” basis instead of the traditional contract of service.

This change came as shock to the teachers present. The new contract entails new unfair terms which include among others:

1)      No payment of EPF by the Government;

2)      No payment of COLA;

3)      Restricted medical coverage;

4)      Daily paid instead of the previous monthly paid

Temporary teachers have made immense contribution to the nation, yet the government has decided to implement a new system which removes their right s, rather than protect them.

The change means the relationship of master and servant or employer /employee relationship is done away with and replaced with sort of a self employed relationship. 

With this new arrangement, effective 17th November( last day of school) all temporary teachers will cease to be paid till December 2011 unless the schools request the teachers to report to work and for that they will be paid daily. 

I have been given to understand that at the briefing, top education officers form Putrajaya and Ipoh were present. The meeting was very tense and the temporary teachers felt their years of service had not been appreciated. 

In fact during question time, many questions were posed by the temporary teachers who were shocked with the new terms and conditions. The meeting lasted for over 4 hours. 

At the meeting, a top officer from Putrajaya retorted that the teachers should be “grateful” to the offer as the government had the discretion in not even providing or offering any employment.

How could an officer make such an unfair and unacceptable comment?

He should be hauled up and given a tongue lashing by the Education Minister as not only the officer was rude but he had substantialily damaged the name of the Ministry of Education.  

Instead of asking the teachers to be grateful, the government should be thankful for their contribution to the nation.

To add insult to injury, the change was made without any prior consultation with the teachers.

It was recently reported that Deputy Education Minister Datuk Wee Ka Siong had revealed that about 7,000 temporary teachers were affected and that the move to restructure the contract of temporary teachers was because the Ministry had “insufficient funds”.

If truly the government is cash strapped, then the first thing it must do is for Ministers and Deputy Ministers to take pay cuts.

Wee‘s explanation is therefore unconvincing and in any case, insufficient funds cannot be a justification for introducing such unfair contract for the temporary teachers.

I urge the Ministry to review the unfair terms and to give appropriate opportunities for all the temporary teachers to be trained and be employed on a full term basis. 

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Issue on " Black Metallic" by YB Nga Kor Ming

PRESS STATEMENT BY MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT FOR TAIPING

First, ever since the illegal power grab of Perak in February, 2009, Pakatan Rakyat Negeri Perak had launched a campaign with the main theme known as “1 Black Perak” to express the people’s anger and frustration over the unlawful conduct by the Barisan Nasional to form government without mandate from the people.

As I always believe, the only legitimate government in the world is the : “ Government from the people, by the people and for the people.” Anything fall short of that shall not be legitimate and must be chastised.

In that context, I said that : “ Kini negeri Perak ada Menteri Besar Hitam Metalic yang haram dan masuk ke pejabat SUK menerusi pintu belakang menaiki kapal selam Najib.” In absolutely no circumstances that my speech was referred to skin colour or Indian race as it simply means the Menteri Besar is illegal and the state government is unlawful.

However, my speech was taken out of context, spinned & distorted by the BN cyber trooper coupled with some irresponsible media which play up the issue to inflame racial sentiments which is most regretted.

I wish to maintain that I am a Malaysian. All Malaysians are my brothers and sisters including Dato Seri Zamry bin Abdul Kadir. I have no hatred against him personally but I will never recognize him as Menteri Besar simply he did not have the mandate from the Rakyat.

I always cherished our country’s diversity and I believe diversity is our strength and all races must be united for our nation to march forward.

To all who feel offended by my abovesaid remarks, I wish to say sorry and apologize to them including Dato Seri Dr Zamry bin Abdul Kadir but I will continue to fight any form of undemocratic regime in this country. It must be emphasized that the above apology should not be interpreted as an endorsement of the illegal power grab by Barisan Nasional which all Malaysians must oppose and must never forget.

 

I will continue to soldier on.

 

YB TUAN NGA KOR MING

DAP PERAK

30-11-2011

Irregulari​ties in the award of contracts by Rural Developmen​t Ministry costing the people at least RM 500 million

 

Media Statement by YB Ngeh Koo Ham, Member of Parliament for Beruas in Parliament on the 10^th Nov 2011:

Irregularities in the award of contracts in the Ministry of Rural Development, at least Five Hundred Million Ringgit (RM 500,000,000.00) could have been saved! MACC must conduct investigation immediately.

The Minister of Rural Development must explain the irregularities in the award of contracts in his ministry. There are reasons to suspect the existence of rampant corrupt practices. As much as RM 500,000,000.00 could have been saved had the Ministry followed the proper practice of awarding contract to the lowest qualified tenders.

I stayed up till 10.30pm in Parliament on Monday (8/11/2011) to debate and to wait for the answer from the Ministry of Rural Development with regard to the issues I had raised. I was greatly disappointed when the Deputy Minister of the Ministry refused to answer my questions.

The Rural Development Ministry is awarding 209 projects for the year 2011 and they are numbered KKLW 1/2011 – 209/2011. The Ministry has announced only the award of 129 projects. I have asked what has happened to the other 80 projects. The Deputy has refused to reply.

The projects under the ministry were given by direct negotiation, limited tender or open tender.

I have asked why projects like the Sarawak Rural Water Supply worth RM638,910,000.00 was given through direct negotiation. The Deputy has refused to give an answer. Other projects given through direct negotiation were the Sarawak Rural Water Supply recticulation system worth RM83,860,000.00 and the Sarawak Special Rural water Supply 2011/2012 project worth RM555,050,000.00

I have informed the Deputy Minister that I have received complaints that the companies that submitted the quotations for projects under limited tender category in many cases were in fact submitted by the same person using different names. The Ministry did not invite separate independent companies to bid for the job. The Deputy Minister also refused to answer whether the allegation is true. Projects No. 9–13, 23–40, 43-46, 51-56, 60, 69-75, 82-92, 100, 101, 110, 115 116, 118-124, 131, 132, 143 and 144/2011 (68 of them) were projects awarded through limited tenders.

Although open tenders were conducted for the 68 projects as listed in the schedule hereto, all were not given to the lowest priced bidder except for one. Many of them were awarded at many times more than the lowest price tendered.

The Government lost RM403,857,592.72 for its failure to give to the lowest qualified tenders. The proper way to conduct an open tender is to first determine those qualified to bid for the job. Once the qualifying criteria for the tender have been met, the contract must be awarded to the bidder who submits the lowest bid. Such a system will save the government money and be fair to all those who have make the effort to submit the tenders.

After taking into consideration, the loss the government suffered through direct negotiation and limited tender projects, I estimate the people lose at least Rm500,000,000.00 through the improper way the above said contracts were awarded.

I call on the government to award the balance projects that have yet to be given out to be done in accordance to the abovesaid accepted proper procedure of open tender system.

Unless a satisfactory answer is forth coming from the Minister, I call on the Malaysian Anti Corruption Commission (MACC) to immediately conduct investigation as the facts show prima facie that rampant corruption exists in the award of the above said contracts.

 

Ngeh Koo Ham

Schedule of 68 contracts awarded by open tender. Comparison of contract price awarded with that of the lowest bidder

No.	Project No	Lowest Bidder (RM)	Awarded to	Amount (RM)	Difference (RM)
1	KKLWT1/2011	7,775,000.00	8th lowest	41,736,809.77	33,961,809.77
2	KKLWT2/2011	30,774,266.00	9th lowest	50,000,000.00	19,225,734.00
3	KKLWT3/2011	31,819,957.00	10th lowest	46,479,946.70	14,659,989.70
4	KKLWT4/2011	27,543,000.00	23rd lowest	55,864,389.65	28,321,389.65
5	KKLWT5/2011	12,461,000.00	6th lowest	45,212,680.00	32,751,680.00
6	KKLWT6/2011	9,519,000.00	14th lowest	53,303,701.79	43,784,701.79
7	KKLWT7/2011	25,175,862.90	3rd lowest	25,287,395.00	111,532.10
8	KKLWT8/2011	18,949,394.86	7th lowest	23,007,412.00	4,058,017.14
9	KKLWT14/2011	8,188,000.00	14th lowest	10,606,000.00	2,418,000.00
10	KKLWT16/2011	14,907,734.30	lowest	14,907,734.30	0.00
11	KKLWT17/2011	38,317,840.00	9th lowest	44,753,169.50	6,435,329.50
12	KKLWT19/2011	23,980,000.00	13th lowest	26,906,373.30	2,926,373.30
13	KKLWT21/2011	15,940,880.00	17th lowest	18,998,935.00	3,058,055.00
14	KKLWT22/2011	4,014,525.80	3rd lowest	4,940,029.50	925,503.70
15	KKLWT41/2011	7,903,269.00	8th lowest	10,255,000.00	2,351,731.00
16	KKLWT42/2011	12,658,519.10	17th lowest	17,066,668.00	4,408,148.90
17	KKLWT48/2011	33,200,000.00	11th lowest	44,950,336.22	11,750,336.22
18	KKLWT49/2011	19,564,411.00	10th lowest	24,791,993.20	5,227,582.20
19	KKLWT50/2011	13,632,609.50	10th lowest	16,005,736.00	2,373,126.50
20	KKLWT57/2011	4,453,561.00	4th lowest	4,695,656.00	242,095.00
21	KKLWT58/2011	3,999,000.00	6th lowest	4,280,332.00	281,332.00
22	KKLWT59/2011	1,695,423.00	7th lowest	1,778,590.00	83,167.00
23	KKLWT61/2011	3,964,450.00	6th lowest	4,382,653.00	418,203.00
24	KKLWT62/2011	2,630,000.00	6th lowest	2,920,285.00	290,285.00
25	KKLWT63/2011	5,060,000.00	12th lowest	6,188,888.00	1,128,888.00
26	KKLWT64/2011	5,043,124.00	9th lowest	7,185,650.00	2,142,526.00
27	KKLWT65/2011	5,699,000.00	10th lowest	8,050,500.00	2,351,500.00
28	KKLWT67/2011	37,189,000.00	26th lowest	81,475,281.42	44,286,281.42
29	KKLWT77/2011	21,336,333.40	9th lowest	24,896,997.98	3,560,664.58
30	KKLWT78/2011	19,000,000.00	9th lowest	22,176,223.00	3,176,223.00
31	KKLWT79/2011	21,280,142.40	9th lowest	24,297,795.30	3,017,652.90
32	KKLWT80/2011	18,221,634.00	14th lowest	35,500,000.00	17,278,366.00
33	KKLWT81/2011	20,503,925.50	10th lowest	26,640,000.00	6,136,074.50
34	KKLWT82/2011	6,045,771.00	12th lowest	11,912,202.00	5,866,431.00
35	KKLWT93/2011	741,033.20	4th lowest	1,526,400.00	785,366.80
36	KKLWT95/2011	1,391,941.00	11th lowest	1,782,367.00	390,426.00
37	KKLWT96/2011	1,657,385.00	12th lowest	15,076,251.43	13,418,866.43
38	KKLWT98/2011	7,763,788.00	8th lowest	10,422,536.00	2,658,748.00
39	KKLWT99/2011	12,500,774.00	18th lowest	20,791,446.18	8,290,672.18
40	KKLWT105/2011	8,660,014.25	7th lowest	11,369,684.00	2,709,669.75
41	KKLWT106/2011	3,000,000.00	6th lowest	3,778,933.00	778,933.00
42	KKLWT107/2011	1,100,900.00	9th lowest	1,480,000.00	379,100.00
43	KKLWT108/2011	12,348,370.00	5th lowest	16,537,921.90	4,189,551.90
44	KKLWT109/2011	15,160,246.70	2nd lowest	16,348,147.20	1,187,900.50
45	KKLWT114/2011	13,000,000.00	24th lowest	17,839,488.40	4,839,488.40
46	KKLWT125/2011	13,749,759.45	7th lowest	16,484,752.00	2,734,992.55
47	KKLWT126/2011	4,081,600.00	13th lowest	4,466,627.00	385,027.00
48	KKLWT130/2011	9,358,419.00	9th lowest	10,280,339.00	921,920.00
49	KKLWT134/2011	10,300,000.00	14th lowest	12,140,059.35	1,840,059.35
50	KKLWT135/2011	12,382,391.39	5th lowest	21,954,971.00	9,572,579.61
51	KKLWT138/2011	32,619,302.80	7th lowest	35,887,197.90	3,267,895.10
52	KKLWT139/2011	60,571,391.30	2nd lowest	64,444,000	3,872,608.70
53	KKLWT140/2011	8,361,900.10	lowest	8,361,900.10	0.00
54	KKLWT141/2011	5,570,000.00	5th lowest	5,976,000.00	406,000.00
55	KKLWT142/2011	23,089,683.00	10th lowest	27,468,000.00	4,378,317.00
56	KKLWT145/2011	9,008,104.00	12th lowest	10,237,377.00	1,229,273.00
57	KKLWT146/2011	43,444,000.00	3rd lowest	47,588,012.70	4,144,012.70
58	KKLWT148/2011	17,614,726.10	3rd lowest	18,888,000.00	1,273,273.90
59	KKLWT149/2011	25,587,256.50	12th lowest	27,977,000.00	2,389,743.50
60	KKLWT151/2011	11,818,121.42	5th lowest	13,862,680.00	2,044,558.58
61	KKLWT152/2011	9,144,200.00	7th lowest	9,730,267.00	586,067.00
62	KKLWT153/2011	10,389,789.00	2nd lowest	10,680,000.00	290,211.00
63	KKLWT154/2011	15,460,000.00	16th lowest	23,495,935.00	8,035,935.00
64	KKLWT157/2011	18,811,011.00	10th lowest	23,888,888.00	5,077,877.00
65	KKLWT163/2011	1,193,316.80	4th lowest	1,373,282.20	179,965.40
66	KKLWT178/2011	5,039,694.60	5th lowest	6,150,279.00	1,110,584.40
67	KKLWT179/2011	5,648,991.90	4th lowest	6,975,249.00	1,326,257.10
68	KKLWT183/2011	1,846,160.00	4th lowest	1,999,142.00	152,982.00
				Total wastage:	403,857,592.72

 

YB V. Sivakumar : Let’s Move On Approving The SRJK (T) Gunung Rapat’s Land Application

MEDIA STATEMENT BY YB V.SIVAKUMAR, ADUN TRONOH, DAP PERAK DEPUTY CHAIRMAN, ON 10TH OCTOBER 2011 ON

LET’S MOVE ON APPROVING THE SRJK (T) GUNUNG RAPAT’S LAND APPLICATION

Referring Dato’ S. Veerasingam’s to media statement in the Tamil daily Makkal Osai on 10th October 2011, I would like to stress to him that the SRJK (T) Gunung Rapat’s land application is not a new application. This matter has been dangling for many years. What is MIC doing all these while on this matter? Are they sleeping with silent snores on it?

Because of MIC’s total inefficiency, the school’s 2 (two) other land applications which were initially applied, had not been successful.

The latest application was made in April 2011 and now it is October 2011. Why does it take a very long duration to work on this issue? When many hundreds and thousands of acres of lands can be issued in various places, why can’t SRJK (T) Gunung Rapat’s be issued and approve a 4-acre land in a period of 6-months’ time? This clearly shows that MIC is good for nothing. As what as Dato’ S. Veerasingam said proudly, the file pertaining the school’s land matter is at the Land Office, but why is it moving slower than a tortoise?

The recent land which was identified and applied by the PIBG, had been physically constructed by Majlis Bandaraya Ipoh with, some kiosks and a walking track. Has Dato’ S. Veerasingam visited this land recently? Now, with these structures been set up at this land, it will definitely be an excellent excuse to be given as a reason to the school. The school’s authorities will be told to identify another land and submit the application as usual. There will be repentance in the procedure which will be back as status quo. In the long run, with the entire process takes place as a roller-coaster, the school will not be able to get any piece of land for its own in the near future.

I am worried that the MIC leaders will do nothing about it. This worry had led me to call for the peaceful demonstration. There is no bad intention as what was mentioned by Dato’ S. Veerasingam.

The recent peaceful demonstration held was to highlight the issue to the entire nation so that a special attention will be given to this particular application. The news had been captured widely in the local media. And I am glad to say that it was a fruitful occasion for the school itself because I was told that now, the Ministry of Education has asked the school’s authorities to provide full information on what is actually going on about the land matter. At least now, after by the lit up of firecracker at it’s tail, the tortoise has begun to move a little faster.

The Perak MIC should be ashamed when the MCA president, Datuk Seri Dr. Chua Soi Lek had announced that he will help to get a piece of land for the SRJK (T) Gunung Rapat school. It is a transparent indication that the MIC had failed and MCA daringly wants to put their head in and work on this Tamil school matter.
How long does Dato’ S. Veerasingam and Perak State Government needs to approve a small piece of land to the SRJK (T) Gunung Rapat school? Can it be resolved in the next 3 weeks?

I call upon Dato’ S. Veerasingam to give us the details of what work has been done so far pertaining the SRJK (T) Gunung Rapat land application matter apart from sending that 1(one) letter? Please tell us in which stage is the land matter now? Is it in the initial, middle or the final stage?

MIC constantly shouts its favourite team chant “continuously put in effort”.

But I do not understand Dato S’ Veerasingam’s remarks, ‘put in effort’ or ‘work on it’ as though the land belongs to some foreigners. I would like to remind him that this piece of land belongs to the Perak State Government and can be approved by the state immediately. The statement by Dato’ S. Veerasingam undoubtedly shows that he is helpless and powerless in the Perak State Government.

I am sure that if Pakatan Rakyat comes into power, we will solve this issue within 2(two) months. I will personally take the responsibility on completing this Tamil school matter within the said period.


YB V. SIVAKUMAR
ADUN TRONOH
10 OCTOBER 2011

YB Dato' Ngeh Koo Ham : ‘We Can. We Must. We Will.’

Speech by Sdr Ngeh Koo Ham, DAP Perak Chairman at the DAP Perak 16^th Annual Convention at Ritz Garden Hotel, Ipoh on 9^th October 2011 at 10.00 am

‘We Can. We Must. We Will.’

1.              We can take back State authority in Perak and also to take Putrajaya.

Immediately after BN’s grab of power in Perak on 6^th Feb 2009, a survey conducted showed that Pakatan Rakyat (PR) would be able to win 40 out of the 59 State Assembly seats in Perak had the State election been held then. There was outrage throughout the State and nation wide.  The outrage has subsided but a survey conducted in July this year showed that PR can still win 33 out of the 59 seats if election is called.

            We can take back State authority with the support of the people of Perak.

We must however, not be complacent. PR has 8 seats where we won in 2008 with less than 1,000 votes. On the other hand, we can also win big as BN has 10 seats which they won by less than 1000 votes (3 of which won by less than a 100 votes). We can win 41 seats to form a very stable government if these seats fall into our hands. PR won 31 seats in 2008. We can do it. Let’s work hard to achieve it for the people.

In every disaster, there is a silver lining. In every crisis there is opportunity. The grab of power by BN in Perak will probably be proven to be instrumental to the defeat of BN at the Federal level in the coming general elections. The people will be able to see the true self of the chief architect in the Perak power grab, Dato’ Seri Najib Tun Razak. They will not fall for his slogans. They will not give him the chance people normally do when a new Prime Minister comes to office. Similarly Dato’ Seri Zambry Bin Abdul Kadir will not have the benefit of newly assuming office as the new Menteri Besar. The people see him through and through. His thousands of banners and billboards (the largest number in the history of Perak) trying to portray himself in good light will not be able to deceive the people.

The people also see the true colours of Parti Gerakan, MCA and MIC who participated and endorsed the power grab. In every democratic country, from USA to UK to Japan, we see Prime Minister, Ministers and even police chiefs bow apologically in shame and resign from their posts if there is a scandal or failure on their part even though they were legitimately elected or appointed.

Only in Perak and in Malaysia, we see Najib and Zambry after grabbing power trumpeted their success, putting up banners and billboards to promote themselves.

2.              We Must

We must rectify the situation. We must restore morality, integrity, dignity and righteousness to this beloved nation of Malaysia. If we allowed the grab of power in Perak to go unpunished, we are sending a message to our children and our children’s children that robbing and stealing are permissible so long as we achieve our purpose. A nation without morality, integrity, dignity and righteousness is doomed to fail.

We must save our nation from BN’s corruption, abuse of power and mismanagement which will eventually lead us to bankruptcy. We must strengthen the democratic institutions in our country. We must ensure transparency, good governance and democratic principles and values are upheld.

We must ensure that which has happened to the Perak State Assembly must never be allowed to occur again. We must restore the Perak State Assembly to its rightful place. We must make right the Perak crisis court cases where judges do not follow the law.

Under the impression that he is secured with the police on his side and immune from the law, Zambry has approved 60,561.33 acres of industrial/agricultural land at an average price of RM375 per acre since the grab of power. Despite repeated demands, he has refused to disclose the names of the receipients. We can only assume that most of these lands were approved to his or BN cronies. If Zambry and his or BN’s cronies were to benefit RM20,000-00 per’s acre from these approvals, they would have made a staggering RM1.2 billion far exceeding the Perak State Government’s annual budget! We must demand transparency.

Prime Minister Tun Hussein Onn expressed his worry when our nation was indebted in the sum of RM20.0 billion. Tun Mahathir has allowed it to balloon to RM238.3 billion when he left office in 2003. Tun Abdullah Badawi allowed it to grow to RM313 billion.

Today our nation is indebted to the tune of RM455 billion about 53.8% of our GDP. Argentina became a bankrupt nation when its national debt reached US95 billion (RM285 billion). Many more nations in Europe are facing bankruptcy. Malaysians must not think that our nation can never be bankrupt. Each Malaysian is now indebted about RM16,000-00 or RM80,000-00 per family of 5 persons!

2012 Budget sees us in deficit of another RM51.2 billion.  Estimated income is RM181.6 billion while the expenditure is RM232.8 billion.  Repayment of debt for 2012 has reached RM20.45 billion.

Unless a debt is incurred in order to earn more money, every debt incurred by us is to use up the money belonging to our future generations. We must let the people realize that the goodies given by BN during elections to cover up their excesses and corruption only add on to their sorrows to come.  We do not want our children to curse us for the sufferings they have to endure due to our failure to prevent BN from making our nation a bankrupt nation.

We Will

We will together with other Pakatan Rakyat parties work tirelessly to save this nation from possible bankruptcy.  We will work to enhance the quality of education and the quality of our universities.  We will restore, uphold and strengthened the democratic institutions of this country.  We will make Malaysia a better place for all Malaysians.  We will surmount the challenges ahead of us together.  We together reaffirm that we can, we must and we will take back state authority in Perak and take power in Putrajaya.

We Can. We Must. We Will.

NGEH KOO HAM

DAP PERAK CHAIRMAN

Tun Zaki’s admission nullifies Federal Court Judgment.

PRESS STATEMENT BY YB V.SIVAKUMAR

-  Tun Zaki’s admission nullifies Federal Court Judgments relating to rulings by Speaker of Perak Assembly [(a) suspension of Zambry and others; and (b) the refusal by Election Commission to hold by-elections relating to Jelapang, Behrang and Changkat Jering]

Supreme Court ruling in 1988 holds that all sittings not convened by CJ are illegal

1.              According to Hashim Yeop Sani, CJ (Malaya), in Malaysian Bar v Tan Sri Abdul Hamid Omar (1989) 2 MLJ 281 at 282, any sitting convened by any other Judge other than the Chief Justice is not a lawfully constituted court.  Reference was also made to the Tribunal Report against the five Judges that their sitting was “illegal and without jurisdiction.”

2.              The Federal Court ruled that the Supreme Court which sat on 2 July 1988 was convened in contravention of ss 38 and 39 of the Courts of Judicature Act and in the result the court was not a lawfully constituted court and so has no jurisdiction to make the purported order for interim stay.

3.              Likewise, a panel not properly constituted by Zaki cannot make any proper orders.  The equivalent provisions today are ss 74 and 75 of the Courts of Judicature Act, 1964:-

74 (1) … every proceeding in the Federal Court shall be heard and disposed of by three Judges or such greater uneven number of Judges as the Chief Justice may in any particular case determine.

75 (1) The Court shall sit on such dates and at such places as the Chief Justice may from   time to time appoint.

Suspension of Zambry and Exco

4.              Tun Zaki J, retired Chief Justice admitted on 21.9.2011 that he did not convene or select the Judges for cases relating to the Perak crisis.  He told Malaysiakini “In Sivakumar’s case, as I said, I did not constitute the panel.   I do not know whether the President of the Court of Appeal (Alauddin) consulted with then Chief Judge of Malaya (Arifin Zakaria).”  A suit in question is Zambry Abd Kadir & ors v myself and the Attorney-General as Intervener vide Notice of Motion No. 06-64-2009 (A).

5.              The Judges who sat were Alauddin Mohd Sheriff PCA, Arifin Zakaria CJ, Nik Hashim FCJ, Augustine Paul FCJ, and Zulkefli Makinuddin FCJ.

6.              The Court held that the Committee of Powers and Privileges had no power to suspend the Menteri Besar and his EXCO.

Refusal by Election Commission to hold by–elections

7.              Another such hearing affected by Tun Zaki’s admission is the Federal Court Application vide Notice of Motion No. 06-3-2009 (A) filed by Jamaluddin, Osman and Hee Yit Foong and heard by Alauddin Mohd Sheriff PCA, Arifin Zakaria CJ, Nik Hashim FCJ, Augustine Paul FCJ and James Foong FCJ on 8.6.2009. 

8.              That application asked the Federal Court to set aside my ruling that the seats of Changkat Jering, Behrang and Jelapang were vacant.  As I was then the Speaker, I had accepted the resignations of the assembly persons namely, Jamaluddin, Osman and Hee Yit Foong

9.              As the Federal Court judgments are now undeniably bad, all rulings made by me as Speaker must stand.  Therefore, the seats of Changkat Jering, Behrang and Jelapang are vacant and the suspensions should not have been set aside.

All State Assembly sittings after 3^rd March 2009 are illegal

10.           By reason of the illegal sittings of the Federal Court I am still the Speaker of the Perak State Assembly and the recent admission by Zaki reinforces my stand.  As I did not preside in sittings called by Zambry, those sittings are unlawful.  The last valid sitting was the one under the tree on 3.3.2009.

11.           Therefore, regardless of whether I was physically evicted from my chair on 7.5.2009, the legal position is that the Perak Assembly sittings were attended by persons who should not be present.

12.           After all, they had acted as they did by relying on the void judgments of the Federal Court.

13.           The entire legal basis relied upon by Zambry to hold the Assembly sittings on 7.5.2009 and other sittings have now collapsed in view of the admission by Tun Zaki that he did not empanel the Judges. 

Zambry and EXCO must vacate their seats

14.           This illegal Menteri Besar and his EXCO should step down to prevent further embarrassment and hardship to the people of Perak.

15.           I call on them to respect the law.   A copy of the Federal Court Judgment is annexed.

YB V.SIVAKUMAR

ADUN Tronoh

8.10.2011

Media Statement by YB V.Sivakumar, Tronoh State Assemblyman on 22/9/2011.

Tamil Schools In Perak

Out of 523 schools in Malaysia, Perak has the highest number of Tamil schools with a number of 134 schools. There is 25% of Tamil schools in Perak and 65% of the schools are in the estate.

Issues:

1.     Due to economic reasons and limited job opportunities, the Indians have left the estate and moved to urban areas. This had reasoned the under-enrollment of students in Tamil schools is unavoidable.

2.     So, how will the community and MIC going to safeguard the Tamil Schools?

3.     For the past 3 years, Dato’ Veerasingam had been saying that the MIC had identified lands here and there but there is no constructive work has been materialized.

4.     In many meetings, Dato’ Veerasingam said they have identified new sites for these Tamil Schools :

a) Gunung Rapat

b) Jelapang

c) Langkap 

d) Sungai Siput 

e) Changkat Salak

-       but there has been nothing concrete taken place as at-to-date.

  - Has MIC secured the so-called identified lands and has it been gazette for the schools. Hope it is not simply an empty promise for the coming general elections.

  - Can Dato’ Veerasingam ask the state EXCO to pass an order to gazette those lands which they said had identified? It has to be done immediately before the general elections.

5.   Can MIC Perak come out with a blue-print for the Tamil schools in Perak?

YB V.Sivakumar

ADUN Tronoh

Foreigners Can Vote in Malaysia!

Media Statement by YB Dato' Ngeh Koo Ham

Dated this 22^nd day of September 2011.

Clear proofs that non citizens have been registered as voters.  
Deputy Prime Minister and the Election Commission must no longer be in denial mode.

I am disappointed that Deputy Prime Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin and the Election Commission continue to deny that there are foreigners who are registered as voters in this country.

The following and foreigners are registered in my constituency of Beruas ;

            Name                                                                         Mykad No.                  Origin               

1.    Ghafar Bin Kaum                                                631020125267            Pakistani

2.    Hawa Binti Ochik                                               201028715448            Indonesian

3.    Ahmaddin Bin Rasid                                        600210125119             Pakistani

4.    Bo Rashid Bin Jabboonam                            091231617267              Indonesian

5.    Arudkanth a/l V. Rajandran                        690606085119            Sri Langka

6.    Jahatanor Binti Ahmad                                  480811085446            Jawa

7.    Matali Bin Yasir                                                   470110105759             Jawa

8.    Esah @ Pesah Binti Mat Saman                  301102715082            Siamese

However, a check with the National Registration Department shows that there are no person with such Mykad numbers. The likelihood is that these foreigners have been issued unauthorised Mykads and they have manage to register themselves as voters. On polling day they will be allowed to vote using their Mykads because nobody will know that their Mykads are fake ones. As their names appear in the Voters’ list, they will be allowed to vote.

I also discover the following foreigners who have successfully applied for genuine Mykads and have registered as voters in my constituency:-

               Name                                                                               Mykad No.                  Origin

1.    Ngoh Boi Teong                                                              420815715105             Siamese

2.    Janah Binti Toh Kee Jo                                             520417085636           Jawa

3.    Eyam a/p Ooi Ah Kie                                                   600210095124           Jawa

4.    Baharudin Bin Throot                                               540617085479            Siamese

5.    Nor Asiah Binti Hamsin                                           620529085380          Jawa

6.    Sugumaran a/l Murugan                                           761130086065           Bangladeshi

7.    Mustapa Bin Haji Jamil                                             370817085159            Jawa

8.    Chaali a/p Ai Klin                                                          720727025256            Siamese

9.    Bahorom Bin Ngadir                                                    510110085747             Jawa

10.  Hassan Khan Bin Rahnatullah Khan                  730403085227          Pakistani

11.  Munaver Ahmad Bin Nazir Ahmad                        730822085045         Pakistani

12.  Sugarang @ Sughran Bibi Binti Md Yusof          440202085268        Pakistani

13.  Mohamad Bin Ibrahim                                                  591028125065          Pakistani

14.  Barry Patrick Morgan @ Yusof Bin Abdulla      260902715189           European

15.  Jariah Binti Wagiman                                                    470913085616          Jawa

It is a well known fact that many foreigners have been able to obtain Mykads with ease. The complaints I receive is that it will be easier for foreigners to obtain the Malaysian citizenship if they are Muslims.

It has been so difficult for many Malaysian born residents to obtain citizenship for various reasons. Just like the case of Chan Ming Ying, aged 31 who was born in Malaysia and has been living in Malaysia whole of his life. He studied in Sekolah Rendah (c) in Sg Batu and Sekolah Menengah Pantai Remis both in Perak and subsequently in the Johor Bahru Polytechnic. His only ‘sin’ is that his Chinese parents adopted him without  going through the proper legal procedure. His adoptive Chinese parents have put their names into his birth certificate as the natural parents which is quite a common practice. His case was detected because his natural father was a Chinese and mother an Indian. His natural parents can no longer be traced. So, his skin is a little darker and therefore, the NRD refused to recognize him as a citizen. He is now a state less person holding a green card which allow him to stay in Malaysia only temporarily.

I call on the Home Minister and the Election Commission to clarify and rectify the above said matters.

YB Dato' Ngeh Koo Ham
Chairman of DAP Perak
MP for Beruas & State Assemblyman for Sitiawan