I wrote to the DG for year 2021 – 2022, Lydia SF Lu, on 8.7.2021 and have yet to receive a response from her.
From what I have seen since 2017 all District Governors are only interested in going about collecting donations and grants and doing some charity work.
A Lion doesn’t concern with the opinion of sheep.
I never worry what others think of me. A Lion doesn’t concern with the opinion of sheep.
Lion Michael Chan is the Charter President of Silicon Valley Cyber Lions Club.
The following comment was on my blog post at https://myclubexperiences.blogspot.com/2021/01/open-letter-to-lci-part-4-lci-flouting.html
I have responded and waiting for rebuttals from any Lion member from anywhere in the world.
Today, 25.1.2021, I read the email from PDG John Ho to PDG Eve Wong, International president of LCI and David Kingsbury of LCI legal. This email was written in March 2017.
I read the email to prepare documents for filing my intended court case against my former Club.
Let me respond to the email with hind sight.
I stand alone but the LCKKHost is lonely.
‘… loneliness comes from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.’ (Carl Jung)
I don’t have the evidence as would be required by the court. Does that mean there is no way forward? Let us examine what the Societies Act has to say on this.
Powers of Registrar
3A. In addition to the powers, duties and functions conferred on the Registrar by this Act and any regulations made thereunder, the Registrar shall have and may exercise all such powers, discharge all such duties and perform all such functions as may be necessary for the purpose of giving effect to and carrying out the provisions of this Act.
When the Lions Club of Kota Kinabalu Host was reinstated, money was collected from members to repay John Ho, Joseph Chai and Thomas Ho Thau Phin for having advanced money to pay District and LCI dues for the financial year 2018/2019.
Where is my evidence to take the Lions Club of Kota Kinabalu Host to court to prove that they had mismanaged the donations given?
Two days ago I watched a Tamil film, Adanga Maru, that I had watched a few years ago. The title loosely translated means ‘refuse to be tamed’ or ‘resist bullying.’
As a police officer the hero in the film catches 4 guys who had raped a girl and murdered her. They are released because of lack of evidence and because of their influential parents.
When I wrote to IPP Barry Palmer, he said that if I believe LCIF has mismanaged fund I may report to him and that he will investigate it.
Soon after the involvement of John Ho on the conversations between Barry and me, Barry ‘found out’ that he had no ‘AUTHORITY’ to investigate.
Here are messages to IPP Barry Palmer, in 2017, on messenger which were never responded to.
These are what I found while collating all the material for legal action.
The Lions Club of Kota Kinabalu Host was de-registered under section 13 which therefore makes it an unlawful society.
I understand, from members of the LCKKHost, that money was paid to LCI by John Ho for the year 2018/2019. I have written to LCI on this matter and waiting to hear from the legal department of LCI.
Meanwhile, since this is a local issue, I shall write to ROS
after the Chinese New Year, and find out if its provisions are for show. (After CNY as there are a few more loose ends to tie up)
Here is my open email to the President of MAJAPS. Read my post yesterday to better understand this email to Datuk Seri Dr. Clarence B. Malakun (Photo above).
Dear Datuk Seri Dr. Clarence Bongkos Malakun,
I read with interest an article in the daily Express as follows:
Majaps wants powers of JPs to be restored
Published on: Sunday, August 16, 2020 on the Daily Express, Sabah.
Here are some extracts:
“We are trying to get the federal ministry of law to give a circular directing all federal government departments in Sabah to recognise the signature of JPs.
“If that cannot be done, then maybe it will have to be done in the Parliament to enhance the JPs’ powers in Sabah,” said Majaps President Datuk Seri Dr Clarence Bongkos Malakun
“Actually we want Sabah JPs’ signatures to be recognised…the RTD no longer recognises our signatures. It is embarrassing for us to be made JPs but can’t do anything,” he said.
Malakun added that the powers of JPs in the peninsula were quite clear.
“We want actually to be recognised as a second class magistrate,” he said.
The following is my email written to Mr. David Kingsbury of LCI, Administration Division, Finance Division, The President of LCI on 21.1.2021.
Dear Mr. David Kingsbury,
I read an article in the daily express dated 16.8.2020 and it reminded me of my emails to the MAJAPS president in 2017.
I intend to write another email to MAJAPS but here is a reply from MAJAPS to my emails in 2017 and my response to its email which was not responded to. Without this background information my intended email to MAJAPS will not make sense.
Here are extracts from the Lions Handbook (indented) and my comments. Response from any Lion or anyone for that matter is welcome.
For those who do not have time, at least please read the sentences highlighted in red.
The following is the response from LCI Legal Division to my
email dated 6.1.2021 which you can read here.
https://myclubexperiences.blogspot.com/2021/01/open-letter-to-lions-club-international_6.html
The key sentence in the reply from LCI is, ‘Should formal charges or a formal indictment be issued, LCI may consider taking action at that time.’
The above is what LCI says but does the exact opposite.
We shall examine this in the near future.
On 28.6.2018, the Lions Club of Kota Kinabalu Host wrote to the Minister of Home Affairs to appeal against the deregistration of the club.
On 2.11.2018 Originating summons with John Ho and Francis Liew as plaintiffs were filed against the Registrar of Societies. The summons was supported by affidavits of John Ho and Francis Liew who affirmed in their capacity as Past President and a former secretary of Lions club of Kota Kinabalu Host respectively.
I am in the process of collating information for my legal case against my former club. I am going through my emails and looking for information to include in my affidavits.
When the president of my club, Past President Carol Lo Phit Hah, asked for information on 100% attendance pin I wrote to PDG Bill Keller who replied me promptly and I provided the response to my club which was the beginning of my ordeals with PDG John Ho.
However, there was no response to a subsequent email, copied below, to PDG Bill Keller.
Falsification of recording in Registrar of Societies records by Lions of Kota Kinabalu Host.
I refer to your response dated 4.1.2017 wherein you had stated the following:
In the event an issue causes concern as to whether a respective club is compliant with local laws, registrations and filings, a complaint may be filed under the Club Dispute Resolution Procedure (CDRP).
As the club was non-compliant with local laws the club was
deregistered by ROS.
The local law that was contravened was the inclusion of an illegal Past Presidents’ Council that was not registered with Registrar of Societies (ROS).
Lions – Club Dispute Resolution Procedure (CDRP)
Dear Sir,
I refer to my email dated 13.12.2016 to you and other relevant departments in LCI.
Let me ask you a hypothetical question.
Assuming I am not a Lion’s Club member but have solid evidence that a Lion Club has bank accounts (similar to Lions Club of Kota Kinabalu Host) where money is siphoned out and I complain to you, are you going to ask me to file a complaint under CDRP?
If you did that, I would ask you to go fly a kite. Why would any sane human being pay you USD 50 to inform you of a crime committed as was done by my former club.
I think you should look into this aspect and make some amendments so that the public may freely complain to you of similar misappropriation.
Right now it appears that Lions International is only interested in making money and don’t care a hoot if individual clubs misappropriate money meant for the needy.
Here is an extract from the internet found here.
All disputes arising between any member or members, or a former member or members, and the club, or any officer on the board of the club, relative to membership, or the interpretation, breach of, or application of the club’s constitution and by-laws, or the expulsion of any member from the club, or any other internal Lions club matter whatsoever which cannot be satisfactorily resolved through other means, shall be settled by dispute resolution. All parties to any dispute subject to this procedure shall not pursue administrative or judicial actions during this dispute resolution process.
Lions in District 308A2 are recommended to read and familiarise on how to handle disputes. I don’t believe Eve Wong knew what to do.
3.1.2021
Dear sirs,
I refer to the several emails I have sent to you since December 2016.
In January 2017 David Kingsbury of Legal Division of Lions International said in his email to me that ‘all Lions clubs are autonomous, meaning each club is responsible for day to day operations, including compliance with local laws.’
The indented statements are extracts from the Daily Express report on 12.1.2017.
The Lions Club of Kota Kinabalu Host claims it responded within 24 hours upon receiving a show cause letter from the Registrar of Societies on issues it believes “were purely administrative and do not warrant deregistration”
