Lackadaisical attitude of the Lions Club’s District Governor Lydia Lu Siew Fong (Lydia SF Lu)

 

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.

Evidence (Part 3)

 

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.

Email to Lion dignitaries

Yew Hee Chieng, Gan Kean Siong, Tiong Yong Tiing, Lee Pelly, Eu Hea Chieng, Tan Tsu Kun, Erich Tiong Chang Cheng, Adrian Liew, Lydia Lu Siew Fong

Dear Lion Friends,

I am Luqman Michel who was expelled from the Lions Club of Kota Kinabalu Host in 2017 January.

I filed a complaint to ROS in December 2016 as soon as I found out that a notice to expel me was to be sent out.

The club was de-registered on 28.6.2018.

Quotable quotes 4 – CC Pung

"Don't judge lest you be judged. The secretary is a volunteer and an elected official with some 40 years of impeccable service as a civil servant. Please give him the benefit of the doubt. He stands corrected, not accused." (Pung Chen Choon)

On hindsight, now with all the information unearthed, it is clear as to why CC Pung defended Francis Chai. Francis Chai (secretary) had given to me in writing that he was coerced to change the minutes by the president Thomas Ho Thau Phin. As such, what ‘benefit of doubt’ is CC Pung talking about?

The Arrogance and stupidity of Lions Club of Kota Kinabalu host

Why did the LCKKHost members write to the Daily Express and lie through their teeth? I believe when people become arrogant they act stupidly like LCKKHost did.

It was when the LCKKHost wrote in response to the article in Daily Express that I realized that the person who had written to the newspaper had lied to the police and why the police had decided not to investigate my complaint any further.

I decided to write to LCIF in February 2018 and LCI responded to my mails.

Response to Barry Palmer's comment in his post

This post is in response to Barry Palmer’s comments that there is a process on how to complain to LCI. (Refer to my post yesterday)

Have I followed the process or has LCI blundered? Let us hope Barry Palmer of Lions International will shed some light.

 I was a member until 17.1.2017 which means I had Locus Standi until that date.

It is not over until Mother Nature says it is over

It is not over till the fat lady sings.

It is not over till I say it is over.

This morning I listened to a video by Amitabh Bachan- the legendary Indian actor.

John Ho's intimidating email

Note: This will be the last post on Lions Club of Kota Kinabalu Host for at least a month. It may be even 2 or 3 months.

This is a lengthy post but for those who would like to know why DG Eve Wong did not respond, this post may be able to shed some light. This email shows how devious John SF Ho can be.

Eve Wong had written an email to John SF Ho and John responded as follows.

My comments in red after each paragraph of John’s email was written and sent off to Eve Wong, International president of LCI and David Kingsbury of LCI legal. This was in March 2017.

John S F Ho <jsfh.marcia@gmail.com>

To:evewonglb@gmail.com

Cc:luqmanm2002@yahoo.co.uk,thomashtp@gmail.com,president@lionsclubs.org,david.kingsbury@lionsclubs.org,songleenator@gmail.com

21 Mar 2017 at 01:56

Dear DG Eve Wong,

A stitch in time saves nine - inaction of DG, VDG, PDG's and LCI

A leader should shoulder responsibility for making decisions that will have implications for many others.

However, that does not come naturally to most 'so called leaders'. Their natural inclination is to pass the buck to someone else.

In the case of Lions Club of Kota Kinabalu Host, decisions could have been taken by the club members when Past President Horace Ho Toh Chee tried to get PDG John Ho and me to bury the hatchet. I accepted but John Ho declined to make up.

Lions Club - Letterhead - A revisit

       Many years ago the letterhead of LCKKHost was like the above where the 
       named officers on the left could use the letter head for official purposes.

My posts have been heavy reading during the last few days. Let us relax a little and think together on something else for a day or so.

Please read my post on 3.11.2016 (more than a year ago) at: https://myclubexperiences.blogspot.my/2016/11/letter-head.html

At that point in time when I wrote the above post it did not make any sense at all as to why the club president Thomas Ho Thau Phin changed his mind about permitting me to use the letter head.

I was the chairman of Environment for year 2016/2017 and I was a committee member of “My kampong” project.

Passing the buck (Part 2) - Eve Wong

Here are emails to and fro DG Eve Wong. I am posting all of them at the same time as I will be very busy with some work next month and in April.

Please read the emails in their entirety as only then will you get a grasp of the actual situation. I did not rush into anything at all. I wrote my emails and gave enough time and I am only posting these emails now as no Lion/Lions Club or even LCI had come forward to settle this problem amicably.

Short lived excitement with LCI’s response

I did not receive any response to my 2 emails to Public Affairs, Administration, Finance or Legal Division and neither was there one from Mr.David Kingsbury.

Then in December 2017 I wrote the following email to LCI.

Is Lions Club International a Franchisor

BOD I suspected that there were bank accounts not disclosed to the BOD’s as well as to members of my Lions club - Lions Club of Kota Kinabalu Host.

I wrote an email to all members asking them if there were bank accounts not disclosed to the BOD’s.

When I did not get any response from my club members I decided to write to the District Governor and then to LCI.

Is Lions Club International a Franchisor?

When I did not get any response from my club members I decided to write to LCI. I was told by one Past President from my club that LCI will not take any action as it is similar to a franchisor.

Another past president from another club was very cocky (or so I thought) and said that he was sure LCI will not interfere in local affairs.

“Hang a sheep's head while selling dog meat”

Continuing from my previous post -

Here are a few more paragraphs from the email sent by John SF Ho.

“The police in Bukit Aman and Travers have already advised me to initiate legal action against LM for these allegations. I am holding back because I doubt he has enough money to pay if he loses.”

Lions Club - Mysterious bank accounts

Here is an extract of a long email to DG Eve Wong, Thomas Ho Thau Phin, LCI and me written on 21.3.2017 by John SF Ho. 

I have not published this earlier but since matters have come this far there should be no holds barred. Please bear in mind that this email was written by John SF Ho in March 2017 and I just let it be.

Part of that email is as follows:

Registry of Societies and its powers

Hu Kou Ba Ya

On December 20^th 2017 I shared a post by Urban Lites .

Here are some vital points that members of Lions of Kota Kinabalu Host seem to overlook.

Recollection for new comers

History

This is for new comers who had not followed my story from the beginning.

When the problem arose between John SF Ho and me, Horace Ho of my former club telephoned me and asked if I would like to make peace with John Ho and I accepted. It was John Ho who did not want to.

Lions Club - Arrogance

I had written many emails to PDG’s and DG. If only they had a little thinking power and took it upon themselves to nip this in the bud I would not have wasted so much time and money running around and my former club will not be in this awkward position. 

Lions Club - Seeking justice

 - In a nut shell –

This is for new comers who are new to my blog on my club experiences. Please read my blog posts earlier to this date to really understand what this blog is all about. It is about my former club, Lions Club of Kota Kinabalu Host, Sabah, Malaysia from which club I was wrongly expelled. I have been seeking justice from Lions Clubs International to no avail.