Thursday, July 12, 2012

Kemelut Imam Masjid Lenggeng semakin parah

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Kemelut perlantikan Imam Masjid Lenggeng sejak awal tahun ini semakin parah apabila 10 daripada 11 Ahli Jawatankuasa (AJK) masjid tersebut membuat laporan polis di Balai Polis Lenggeng pagi ini.

Dalam laporan polis tersebut Mohd Fahmy Mohd Tamin, 70, yang mewakili AJK masjid; lima Datuk-Datuk Adat Lenggeng (pemimpin setempat mengikut hirarki sistem Adat Perpatih Negeri Sembilan) dan 220 ahli kariah masjid; mendakwa salah laku tiga individu di dalam Jawatankuasa masjid tersebut menyebabkan urus tadbir Masjid Lenggeng menjadi celaru dan kucar kacir sejak awal tahun ini.

“Nazir Masjid, Mad Nor Ibrahim; Setiausaha Masjid, Osman Rasul dan AJK Masjid yang juga Ketua Umno cawangan Lenggeng, Zulkifli Rashid tidak akur dengan keputusan majoriti AJK masjid menghantar dua nama kepada Jabatan Agama Islam Negeri Sembilan (Jains).

“Kami menghantar nama Said Abdul Ghani sebagai calon Imam 1 dan Ustaz Azman Baharom sebagai calon Imam 2. Said mempunyai pengalaman sebagai Bilal selama 16 tahun dan sebagai Imam selama empat tahun.

“Walaubagaimanapun Mad Nor, Osman dan Zulkifli membelakangkan keputusan AJK Masjid dan menghantar dua nama lain iaitu Nordin Yusof dan Ali Hamzah. Nordin menolak tawaran tersebut sementara Ali pula diisytiharkan sebagai Pemangku Imam 1 oleh Mad Nor, Osman dan Zulkifli.

“Tetapi apa yang pelik sehingga hari ini tiada surat hitam putih daripada Jains yang mengesahkan pelantikan Ali sebagai Pemangku Imam 1.

Kes masih disiasat

“Saya sudah berjumpa pegawai yang berkenaan di Jains dan jawapan yang mereka berikan bahawa kes ini masih disiasat dan meminta saya bersabar,” kata Mohd Fahmy.

Apabila ditanya FMT mengapa 10 AJK Masjid termasuk Mohd Fahmy, Datuk-Datuk Undang Lenggeng dan 220 ahli kariah masjid tidak mahu menerima Ali sebagai Imam; Fahmy menjelaskan bahawa bacaan sembahyang dan tajwid oleh Ali tidak sempurna dan sering berlaku kesilapan di dalam bacaan beliau. Mohd Fahmy juga mendakwa ada tangan ghaib dan campurtangan politik di dalam kemelut ini.

“Said dituduh sebagai orang PAS. Saya dan beberapa AJK masjid merupakan ahli Umno. Bagi kami tidak penting apa fahaman politik Imam. “Ahli kariah tidak peduli apa fahaman politik Imam. Yang kami peduli ialah ilmu Imam itu mestilah mencukupi dan mampu mengendalikan bacaan sembahyang dan tajwid dengan sempurna.

“Justeru itu kami mendesak pihak Jains segera mengistiharkan keputusan panel temuduga pegawai masjid (Imam) yang diadakan pada 28 Mac 2012. Kami mendapat maklumat bahawa calon yang kami cadangkan iaitu Said dan Azman berjaya terpilih sebagai Imam”, jelas Mohd Fahmy.

Sumber : freemalaysiatoday.com/"
 

Saturday, July 7, 2012

Malaysian government backs off early election as submarine scandal boils

Malaysian government backs off early election as submarine scandal boils


Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak has shelved plans for an early general election this summer after the leaking of a mountain of documents dealing with the payment of over $180 million in bribes for the purchase of two French submarines when he was defence minister.

Even more damaging for Najib, who has yet to face the electorate since taking over as leader of the stumbling Barisan Nasional coalition government in 2009, is that the documents indicate the French giant ship-builder, DCNS, paid $45 mil-lion for a classified Malaysian government document detailing its submarine requirements.

This money and the other $142 million were paid to companies controlled by Najib's friend and policy adviser, Abdul Razak Baginda.

Opposition politicians in Malaysia are claiming that, if confirmed, the sale of the classified documents which would have given the French manufacturers of the Scorpene class submarines an advantage when tendering for the $1.1-billion deal, amounts to treason.

Malaysia's current defence minister, Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, last week tried to extinguish the political fires by denying that there had been any sale or leaking of the defence department documents.

Zahid told the Malaysian parliament the submarine deal was done through "direct negotiations in accordance with procurement procedures."

And he insisted, "The minis-try has never paid any commission directly or indirectly to any companies in the procurement of the Scorpene submarines."

But that is not the allegation. The allegation is that the French company DCNS paid nearly $190 million to companies controlled by Najib's close friend Baginda.

Najib took over the government leadership after the ruling coalition, which has run the country since Malaysian independence from Britain in 1957, made a poor showing in the last elections in 2008.

He has tried to cast himself as a reformist prime minister, but his tenure so far has been rife with scandals.
In recent months there have been large hints from officials in Najib's party, the United Malays National Organization (UMNO), that he would call an early election, perhaps in July.

But last week Najib's parliamentary assistant told Parliament the government intends to hold elections only after completing its five-year mandate next March.

This Scorpene submarine story has been bubbling since 2006 with the discovery of the body of Baginda's jilted mistress, Mongolian model and translator Altantuya Shaariibuu.

She was abducted from outside Baginda's house where she had gone to demand a $500,000 cut from the bribes to keep quiet about the deal with the French in which she had acted as Bag-inda and Najib's translator.
Two of Najib's bodyguards have been convicted of Altan-tuya's murder and have been sentenced to death. They have launched appeals against the sentences.

To the surprise of many, a judge dropped murder charges against Baginda before any evidence was heard and he has been in exile in Britain since.

Najib's mounting problems with the Scorpene case came to a boil last week with the leaking of 133 files containing hundreds of pages to the Asia Sentinel online magazine, whose editor John Berthelsen has been the leading reporter on the story for several years.
The documents are part of the product of a raid on DCNS's Paris offices by the anti-organized crime unit of the French Directorate of Judicial Police in April 2010.

French officials started investigating the case the previous month at the request of a Malaysian human rights organization, Suaram, and in June 2011 presented the evidence to the prosecuting magistrate of the Court de Grande Instance in Paris, who is now considering whether to file charges.

The picture that emerges from the leaked documents, which Asia Sentinel has made avail-able on its website, is that after Najib was appointed defence minister in 1991 he embarked on a massive military modernization program.

Along with new jet fighters, tanks and coastal patrol boats he wanted submarines.
But by 1995, the French manufacturer DCNS felt it was being out-lobbied by the German company Kockums AB. DCNS decided to buy influence and after several false starts latched on to Najib's friend and policy adviser Baginda.

"The role of the latter," says one of the DCNS documents, "was to facilitate the submission procedure to the Malaysian government and the responsible ministers, in particular the minister of defence, with whom he claimed to have a close relationship."

In 2000, the equivalent of $142 million was given to a company called Perimekar, which was controlled by Baginda's wife, Mazlinda Makhzan.

In other documents, DCNS officials said they expected the money to be shared with other individuals and with the ruling party in the governing coalition, UMNO.

Another $45 million, apparently for the defence ministry's document specifying its submarine requirements, was paid to a Hong Kong-based company, Terasasi, whose principal officers are listed as Baginda and his father.

The submarines were delivered to the Malaysian navy in 2002.

jmanthorpe@vancouversun.com


Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Malaysian+government+backs+early+election+submarine+scandal+boils/6874993/story.html#ixzz1zuPrjuOJ

Najib tangguh PRU kerana Scorpene – Akhbar Kanada - KeadilanDaily.com | KeadilanDaily.com

Najib tangguh PRU kerana Scorpene – Akhbar Kanada - KeadilanDaily.com | KeadilanDaily.com


KANADA 4 Julai: Satu rencana akhbar The Vancouver Sun pada 3 Julai lalu menyatakan Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Razak menangguhkan rancangan mengadakan pilihan raya umum disebabkan  kes rasuah Scorpene.

Rencana ditulis Jonathan Manthorpe itu melaporkan Setiausaha Parlimen Najib memaklumkan pilihan raya hanya akan diadakan selepas tamat mandat lima tahun pada Mac 2013, walaupun sebelum ini sumber dalam Umno mengatakan ia akan diadakan Julai.

Lebih teruk bagi Najib, tulis Jonathan, dokumen siasatan polis Perancis menunjukkan firma pertahanan Perancis, DCNS membayar USD$45 juta untuk mendapatkan dokumen sulit Tentera Laut Malaysia.

“Pembangkang Malaysia berkata jika dakwaaan itu benar, penjualan dokumen sulit yang memberi kelebihan kepada DCNS dalam tender kapal selam itu adalah satu pengkhianatan.

“Masalah Najib yang bertimpa-timpa diberatkan lagi apabila 133 fail hasil serbuan Unit Anti-Jenayah Terancang Polis Kehakiman Perancis ke pejabat DCNS di Paris dibocorkan kepada laman Asia Sentinel.

“Dokumen itu antaranya menjelaskan DCNS bertindak membeli pengaruh melalui orang kanan Najib, Abdul Razak Baginda selepas merasa ketinggalan dengan syariket German, Kockums AB dalam persaingan melobi kerajaan Malaysia.

“Dalam dokumen lain, pegawai DCNS mengatakan bayaran USD142 juta kepada Perimekar akan dibahagikan kepada beberapa individu dan juga parti pemerintah iaitu UMNO,” jelas Manthorpe seperti dipetik.

7 Mei lalu, rencana Manthorpe dalam akhbar utama British Columbia itu melaporkan mahkamah Perancis memulakan perbicaraan kes Scorpene yang kini memasuki peringkat perbicaraan di Tribunal de Grande Instance, Paris.

Kes itu turut dikaitkan dengan Najib dan pembunuhan penterjemah Altantuya Sharibuu dalam skandal berkenaan.

Kontrak RM30.8 juta untuk syarikat anak Nong Chik timbul banyak persoalan - KeadilanDaily.com | KeadilanDaily.com

Kontrak RM30.8 juta untuk syarikat anak Nong Chik timbul banyak persoalan - KeadilanDaily.com | KeadilanDaily.com

(Pengarah Komunikasi KEADILAN: Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad)

Beberapa blog telah mendedahkan bagaimana syarikat milik anak Menteri Wilayah Persekutuan dan Kesejahteraan Bandar, Raja Nong Chik Zainal Abidin telah dianugerahkan projek kerajaan bernilai RM30.8 juta secara rundingan terus oleh Kementerian Belia dan Sukan.

Pendedahan ini sendiri tidak dinafikan Raja Nong Chik apabila berhadapan dengan media baru-baru ini.
Projek bagi membekalkan kelengkapan Institut Kemahiran Belia Negara (IKBN) Bandar Penawar Johor ini telah diberikan kepada Istijuara Sdn Bhd yang dimiliki oleh anak Raja Nong Chik, Raja Farhana binti Raja Nong Chik yang berusia 26 tahun.

Beberapa persoalan yang timbul:

a) Mengapakah projek ini diberi secara tender terbuka? Adakah Istijuara Sdn Bhd mempunyai rekod yang baik untuk projek-projek yang sama sebelum ini? Adakah Istijuara Sdn Bhd mempunyai prestasi kewangan yang baik?

b) Apakah peranan Raja Farhana, anak Raja Nong Chik di dalam projek ini? Adakah beliau menjadi wakil kepada kepentingan Raja Nong Chik di dalam Istijuara?

c) Adakah Istijuara menerima sebarang lagi projek kerajaan?

KEADILAN menyeru agar Jabatan Audit Negara memeriksa kontrak ini untuk memastikan tidak wujud sebarang salahguna kuasa di dalam penganugerahan kontrak ini. Ketua Audit Negara juga wajar mengesahkan keadaan peralatan yang dibekalkan oleh Istijuara kepada IKBN Bandar Penawar.

Jawapan Raja Nong Chik bahawa kontrak ini dianugerahkan sebelum beliau menjadi menteri tidak menjawab persoalan mengapa kontrak dimeterai pada tahun 2010 ketika beliau sudahpun menjadi menteri.

Pada masa yang sama, Raja Nong Chik boleh menjadi contoh kepada anggota kabinet yang lain dengan tampil ke hadapan bagi mengisytiharkan asetnya.

Dengan ini beliau dapat memulihkan kewibawaan imej pimpinan Umno yang mendapat projek-projek kerajaan secara terus selama ini.