Here is the comment and my response.
Diane Carmelia: Luqman, the
answer to your question could be derived from the position taken by LCI legal
division in this attached email reply on the same matter of a deregistered
club.
Their position is one that clearly says as long as,
LCI requirements are met, one is a lion member with full rights. The email
clearly passed the burden of registration/deregistration back to the District
and/or the Multitude District, UNFORTUNATELY !
My
Response: None of the District leaders knew what to do when I complained about
misappropriation of funds and manipulation of minutes’ by LCKKHost. This only
goes to show, like Diane has pointed in her comment, that many are NOT
qualified to hold high positions in the lion’s movement.
I had
taken the trouble to telephone our current DG Tiong Yong Tiing and advised him not to
appoint anyone from Lions Club of Kota Kinabalu Host as cabinet officers until
the case has been resolved with ROS. What motive could I have had other than to
prevent any further embarrassment? After
listening to me he still went ahead and appointed 2 members from the club. What
qualification does one need to think logically?
As for LCI requirements being met, I did inform LCI that
funds have been misappropriated by club members. Did LCI err when they did not
place LCKKHost under status quo when Lions
clubs may be placed in the following categories of status quo:
•Failure to comply with the purposes
of the association, or conduct unbecoming a Lions club, such as, but not
limited to, failure to solve club disputes or involvement in litigation.
•The club is non-existing or
fictitious.
Misappropriation of funds and distortion of minutes of meetings, I believe, will fall under
‘conduct unbecoming of a Lions Club’.
As for ‘non existence or fictitious club’ LCKKHost clearly
falls under this category. The club was operating under the name 'LCKKHost' long before the name was approved by ROS in 2016.
LCI legal division TOTALLY
ignored the fact (despite being provided with full Malaysian Societies Act 1966
provisions) that the members of an unregistered / deregistered society are
ILLEGAL members of an ILLEGAL society (club).
Since D308 A-2 is a duly registered society made up
of duly registered lions clubs, it is AGAINST the Societies Act 1966 for them
to even allow the unregistered /deregistered club and/or members to join their
activities, and definitely NOT to appoint any member of an ILLEGAL club to be a
office bearer of D308 A2 which is under the jurisdiction of ROS.
My
Response: The secretary of the club Francis Liew was the one who took the
letter from ROS and yet I believe he went up the stage, on the same day he
collected the letter, to collect some awards given out by DG Pelly Lee.
1. Why
did he not inform Pelly Lee about the letter?
2. Which
members of the club knew about the letter he collected from ROS?
3. How
was the First BOD meeting conducted by the club in July 2018 when the club was
de registered on 28.6.2018?
4. Another
meeting was held on 17.7.2018. Were the two meetings not illegal meetings that
can be acted upon by the police?
In your case previously, the then
DG should have just referred the matter to the District Chairperson for
Constitution and Bylaws and let that person handle it first. However, the DC
for CBL was made redundant in his capacity! It just goes to show that many are NOT
qualified, academic qualification not withstanding, to hold high offices in the
lions movement. Period.
Response:
I think Diane has said it all.
For the full story read 'Wolves among Lions' available at:
https://www.amazon.com.au/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=wolves+among+lions
Below is the email reply from LCI legal division
verbatim. (Part 2)
