Here are extracts from a post on LinkedIn I commented on.
But the bank manager didn’t like it. He followed me outside to my car to tell me:
“Because you are not a member, you can’t dialogue with our customers. If you do, you can’t come back.”
At that moment, I had a choice:
i. React with racket energy—get defensive, blame, or fight back.
ii. Stay in integrity, engage for clarity, and be present to the possibility of something bigger.
This is my email to District Governor Annie Ho.
If Annie Ho had acted upon my several complaints to her in September 2024, I would not have had to go to the local papers.
My friend, would not have been expelled from his club with trumped-up charges.
Now the whole world knows how Lions Clubs are badly managed because Annie Ho did not do her job as a District Governor. The root cause is the First VDG.
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DG Annie Ho,
I am writing to you with grave concern and mounting frustration. In September 2024, I explicitly raised the issue that no election was conducted for the 2024/2025 office bearers of the Lions Club Kota Kinabalu Centennial. Your dismissive response—that I am not a member and should take it up with LCI—was wholly inadequate. I followed your directive and contacted LCI, only to receive no resolution. This is unacceptable.
Here is my email to Lions Clubs International, posted here for posterity.
From:luqmanm2002@yahoo.co.uk
To:Lioncassielim@gmail.com,Seaholm, Emily
Cc:Legal,ClubStatus
Thu 27 Feb at 05:12
Dear Emily Seaholm,
Thank you for your prompt response, which I have noted carefully.
I will ensure that the affected member initiates the dispute resolution process. However, I would appreciate your guidance on how to prevent future misconduct by presidents and Vice District Governors (VDGs) of Lions Clubs.
This morning, a Facebook friend, Dwayne Min Johnson, taught me a new Chinese phrase "长江后浪推前浪" (cháng jiāng hòu làng tuī qián làng), which translates to "the waves behind drive the waves in front" in English. This idiom carries a rich metaphorical meaning.
This is apt for our discussion on Lions Clubs International sticking with a decades-old system of saying that only members can complain about Lions Clubs flagrantly breaking rules and regulations set up by LCI. This sounds like the club telling LCI, ‘catch me if you can’, knowing that no member will complain to LCI.
向下滚动查看中文I am collating information from my blog posts to write an open letter to Lions Clubs International on club autonomy and the loopholes it creates for those with criminal intent.
This is what I read in my post in November 2016. “A conspiracy consists …in the agreement of two or more to do an unlawful act or to do lawful act by unlawful means.”
In 2017 I complained about my former Club, Lions Club of Kota Kinabalu host, which had secret bank accounts unknown to most members and directors of the club. It also altered the minutes of meetings. Lion members and LCI did not address the problem and that club was finally de-registered.
Now, another club, The Centennial Lions Club of Kota Kinabalu has issued a notice of expulsion to a senior member who tried to help by asking relevant questions to members of the club.
I wrote emails and several Facebook messages to several Lion Dignitaries. Only one Past District Governor (PDG) replied. The following is what she said:
I am not obliged to answer you. As PDG we are not duty-bound to answer or give opinions on questions raised by you. You have your platform to question.
If this is the attitude of PDGs, what can we expect from ordinary members of the Lion fraternity?
In 2018 I hurriedly wrote ‘Wolves among Lions’. No one has disputed what I wrote in that book.
Recently, a Lion Club said it had an election meeting when none was held.
A former officer from the crime division in Kota Kinabalu has confirmed that falsified information registered at ROS is a criminal offense.
I emailed the district Governor, Annie Ho. She brushed this aside, saying it had been resolved by the club.
I asked Annie Ho specifically about the date and venue of the election meeting held by the club in question. There is no response.
Coincidentally I saw a Facebook post by PDG Lawrence Ting this morning. It is about him leading a delegate to Taiwan in 2015 when he was DG.
I commented on Lawrence Ting’s Facebook post a few days ago. Today, I decided to write to him on his Messenger.
There was no reply from him.
Here is my message to him:
My friend. You may ask why I refer to you. It is because you were the DG when I joined the Lions club. I was expelled for exposing fraud.
I think entering details in the ROS register of a meeting that never happened is a criminal offense. I have informed you. I have written and also spoken to Annie Ho. I want to see what action you will take.
No election meeting was held but entries were made in the ROS register. You may check and then take action against Annie Ho for not doing what she has to do.
I am not a member but I don't have to be a member to report a criminal offense.
Coincidentally, a Facebook friend wrote the following in an unrelated post.
The lack of response from the country's leaders and law enforcement raises questions about the extent of involvement and potential political connections. What factors contribute to the silence surrounding this issue?
Yes, what factors contribute to the silence by the Lions around the world surrounding the issues where a Lion Club has said it had an election meeting when it did not?