PDG John Ho and the affidavit filed in November 2019

Before we go to the next collateral damage, perhaps we should check the affidavit filed by PDG John Ho in November 2019 in the case in the Disciplinary Court. We will look at the parts that concerns Dr.Arabi Wazani and our Joseph Chai (JP). 

It will implicate many others in the club too.

Paragraph 7 of the affidavit states the following:

The Complainant made false allegations against the club and complained to the Registrar of Societies (ROS) sometime in December 2016 alleging that there was misappropriation of funds in LCKK Host and in the Complaint Letter, he intentionally and knowingly misled this Board into thinking LCKK Host’s de-registration is due to the purported misappropriation of funds.

This case with the Disciplinary Board was something between the lawyer and me. The Disciplinary Board had already indicated that we should not be bringing up anything concerning the club as the complaint was about the lawyer and not about the Lions Club.

As far as my complaint with the Registry of Societies is concerned my main complaint was about misappropriation of funds and manipulations of minutes. I never did complain about the Past President's Council. The matter about the Past Presidents’ Council was brought up by one of the Lions members of LCKK Host interviewed by ROS. 

My complaints were all offenses that may be settled with a fine being imposed. None of my complaints warranted de-registration. I repeat that it was one of the interviewees (I believe it was Arabi Wazani) who brought up the Past President’s Council and the bank accounts operated by them. This was what led to de-registration.

As such, I did not intentionally mislead the Board. Anyway, anything about the LCKK Host affairs was not allowed to be mentioned at the hearing as it had nothing to do with the matter at hand.

Paragraph 8 of the affidavit filed by John Ho in November 2019 states the following:

Further to the above paragraph the matter of misappropriation of funds was never raised by ROS and in fact, ROS letter dated 19.12.2017 only purportedly alleged that LCKK Host had not complied with its constitution.

The above statement is obviously incorrect as can be seen from the letter from Francis Liew to ROS and copied to the MOHA dated 20.12.2017 as follows:

"Again, upon enquiry, your Mr. Mahar Zemi Bin Jawawi indicated our PP Council should not have bank accounts. Our PP Council does not have any bank accounts; all bank accounts are in the name of our club; a few PP Council members are cheque signatories to certain bank accounts with mandate from our Board meetings and financial statements of these bank accounts were presented to our club members at members’ meetings."

The above same statement was included in the letter by John Ho to the Minister of Home Affairs and copied to ROS dated 28.6.2018. 

As such to say that the misappropriation of funds was never raised by ROS is inaccurate.

The officers at ROS had assured me that misappropriation of funds will be investigated by their enforcement officers after de-registration but was set aside when ROS was sued by John Ho and Francis Liew who were purportedly authorised by ‘Ghost’ members of the club.

Here is where Betty Epin will have to explain why 3 bank accounts of Past Presidents accounts appeared in the minutes during her president-ship. She will also have to explain why the fixed deposit account that appeared mid-year during her president-ship was never shown in the accounts all the many years it had been in existence.

Are minutes going to be altered to include mandates from directors for those three secret bank accounts that were never presented to the Board Members?

Our JP Joseph Chai can make presentations when the time arrives. 

Our Justice of Peace CC Pung may be able to explain what he wrote at page 44 of the 50^th Anniversary Book ‘We are KK Host’ which states:

‘Council members remember that the idea was motivated many years ago when the idea of optimising the club’s share of surplus fund from the staging of district conventions was discussed. Over the years, the council became a depository for excess project funds, special donations, etc.’

Let us see how our expert on Robert's Rules, JP CC Pung will reconcile his writing in the 50th Anniversary Book with paragraph 8 and the statement made to Ministry of Home Affairs above.

I repeat, the two paragraphs 7 & 8 above are in an affidavit filed in court in November 2019 in my case against a lawyer.

Why in the first place were the two paragraphs included thus implicating the Lions Club of Kota Kinabalu Host  and the members of the club is beyond me.

This time there cannot be any sham excuse that I do not have Locus Standi as this is filed in a case I am involved in.