Loneliness – Lions Club of Kota Kinabalu Host

 

 

I stand alone but the LCKKHost is lonely.

 

‘… loneliness comes from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.’ (Carl Jung)

 

Hardly any members of the local Lions Clubs clicked ‘like’ or commented on my posts on the lion’s misappropriation of funds. Almost all the ‘likes’ and comments were from lion members from outside Malaysia.

 

However, I have noticed that the Lion District 308 – A2 has not appointed even a single member of the Lions Club of Kota Kinabalu Host as a District Cabinet Officer in the last 3 financial years. This is possibly because LCKKHost holds views which the other clubs find inadmissible.

 

As one of my FB friends had said in his FB post recently, it is not because I have inspired the Lion members. It is just that the other lion clubs do not want to face problems of any kind.

 

I had specifically mentioned that I have decided to let the past go and move on with other important matters. But, this was before John Ho Shui Fah, together with other members, decided to go against the Societies Act by paying club dues to Lions Club International.

 

I am waiting for the MCO to be over before bringing up this matter with ROS.

 

Lions Club International should be ashamed of accepting subscriptions from a club in the year when the club had been de-registered. This is in breach of Lions ethics.

 

John Ho and his lawyer had said at the hearing of my complaint, about the lawyer to the Advocates’ Disciplinary Board, that John Ho was mandated by club members to do whatever it takes to reinstate the club. They managed to reinstate the club by dubious means.

 

Let us find out who had given the mandate to John Ho to pay dues to LCI on behalf of members of the de-registered club.

 

Section 41 of the Societies Act states that a society (club) de-registered under section 13 (LCKK Host was de-registered under section 13) is an unlawful society.

 

Penalties  on  office-bearer, etc.,  of  an  unlawful  society

 

42 Any office-bearer and any person managing or assisting in the management of any unlawful society shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable, on conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years or to a fine not exceeding **fifteen thousand ringgit  or  to  both.

 

43.Any person who is or acts as a member of an unlawful society or  attends  a  meeting  of  an  unlawful  society  or  who  pays  money or gives any aid to or for the purposes of an unlawful society shall be  guilty  of  an  offence  and  shall  be  liable,  on  conviction,  to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or to a fine not exceeding  five  thousand  ringgit  or  to  both.

 

LCI informed me that the club is in good standing for the year 2018/2019. A club can only be in good standing if the LCI and District dues were not outstanding.

 

Here is part of my email to LCI that you may read in full here.

 https://myclubexperiences.blogspot.com/2021/01/open-letter-to-lci-part-4-lci-flouting.html

 

On 18.7.2018 I wrote an email to you as well as the Administration and finance section of LCI informing you that the Lions Club of Kota Kinabalu Host was de-registered on 28.6.2018. The club was reinstated only on 2.7.2019. In other words, the club was defunct for the whole of the financial year 2018/2019.

 

LCI accepted club dues to LCI from a club that they knew (because I had informed you) had been de-registered.

 

Accepting the Club dues and not placing the club under status quo appears to conflict with many of the Ethics and Rules and Regulations on the LCI website as well as LCI handbook.

 

On what basis did you accept the dues to LCI when:

 

i.                     The obligations of each chartered club is to hold regular scheduled meetings or events and this was not done for the whole financial year.

 

ii.                   When the District dues and fees were not paid (Not accepted by the district)*.

 

iii.                 The club had failed to fulfill the obligations of a chartered Lions club, such as, but not limited to, failure to hold club meetings or events regularly, or failure to report membership for three or more consecutive months.

 

iv.                 Monies in payment of club obligations should only be paid on authority given by the board of directors. You were made aware that the club had been de-registered which means no Board of Directors meetings could have been held.

 

Tell me, Mr. Kingsbury, how do Lions promote the principles of good government and good citizenship, when you do not even respect the local ROS decision to de-register the club?

 

Lions International has given the wrong message to Lion clubs here where all lion members I have spoken to, tell me not to waste my time with LCI as LCI does not recognize the decisions of the local government. I did not believe them and started writing to you and after 3 years and finally your disregard to the de-registration by our ROS I am inclined to believe what the lions have told me all this while.