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.’
