Tuesday, February 11, 2020

Lions Club of Kota Kinabalu Host - Collateral damage



It appears that members of Lions Club of Kota Kinabalu are adamant and appears they have decided to take their chances in court.

My main concern at this point is the fact there will be collateral damages as I cannot and should not leave anything behind. I have learned from my recent hearing on my complaint to the Disciplinary Board. This will be a no-holds-barred complaint.

Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Monday, November 18, 2019

Kim Goldsworthy's letter transcribed

I transcribe below the letter from Kim Goldsworthy for easy reading.
Dear Mr.Luqman Michel,
In reply to your PDF Documents.
I am flabbergasted that my NAME and my PHOTOGRAPH has been used where I have never *confirmed* any such writings.
·         I have never dealt with “The Lions Club of Kota Kinabalu Host”
·         I have never read the bylaws of “Lions Club of Kota Kinabalu Host.”
·         I do not know who “Lion Francis Liew” is (i.e. the signer of the document).
I have clipped the text from your “notification”.

Kim Goldsworthy, an authority and a panelist on Roberts Rules Questions and Answers Forum have confirmed on 19.11.2016 at 4.28pm all those public postings is sufficient to conclude Luqman Michel’s unworthiness of membership and no further due process is required.

Please inform your organization that I never read a single line of any of your (Luqman Michel) Facebook page postings. – I object to the phrase “… all those public postings are sufficient …” I never read any public postings. I never “confirmed” that “those postings” were “sufficient”.
·         I CAN confirm that writings CAN be sufficient evidence in a disciplinary process but I am in no position to confirm anyone's specific postings were, or were not, "sufficient"- Someone would have to read the text. - And then someone would have to judge the text. I never read a single word of such a postig.
·     
In a disciplinary process, a parliamentarian is not a judge of a thing. – The organization is to be the judge of such a thing.
I find it dishonourable that:

(a)    My good name has been used without my permission.
(b)   In a cause I did not know about;
(c)    And my (never even quoted) reply to a generic question was misunderstood, and then twisted to a invalid interpretation.

Sincerely,

Wednesday, October 23, 2019

History Repeats



In August 2016 I had asked the then president of Lions Club of Kota Kinabalu Host, Thomas Ho Thau Phin if I may use the letter head of the club to solicit donations from Public Listed Companies. He had asked me to contact Delce Teresita Prudente and collect the soft copy of the Letter Head.

Delce, when contacted, told me some cock and bull story that only the president was allowed to sign the letter head.

Tuesday, October 22, 2019

A stitch in time saves nine.



小洞不补大洞吃苦
xiǎo dòng bù bǔ dà dòng chī kǔ
A small hole not plugged will make you suffer a big hole (idiom); a stitch in time saves nine.

Monday, October 21, 2019

DIGNITY IS NOT NEGOTIABLE





I had just finished an article to post here today (22.10.2019) when I received this message in my Whatsapp.

I then decided that I should post this before my prepared article.

Monday, September 30, 2019

An additional chapter to my book



After my complaint to Registry of Societies (ROS) I let matters rest for about a year. Then I followed up on my complaint.

For those who have not followed my story on the misappropriation of funds meant for the needy by the Lions Club of Kota Kinabalu Host please read my blog posts at www.myclubexperiences.blogspot.my.
After about a year when I went to ROS I was informed that a new Template will be introduced to all organisations registered with ROS.

Recently I had obtained minutes of meetings of my former club where I noticed that 2 internal auditors were appointed. This was surprising as for many years only one auditor was appointed.

On 29.9.2019 I attended a meeting as one of the committee members of one of the Chambers of Commerce where I was told that we too have been instructed by ROS to appoint 2 internal auditors.
Only then did it dawn on me that the ‘new template’ that the officer of ROS had talked about has been implemented.

YES! I have made it happen yet again. I believe it was my complaint of the misappropriation of funds by my former Lions Club that has now resulted in two internal auditors having to be appointed in all clubs and societies under the ROS.

I hope the ROS will be wise enough to ensure that signatories to cheques are not allowed to be internal auditors as was the case in my former club. That would be like asking the wolf to guard the sheep.