PKR PULAU PINANG LAKUKAN PERUBAHAN UNTUK MANTAPKAN KEBERKESANANNYA.

Oleh:Amiruddin Ahmad

PKR negeri Pulau Pinang membuat rombakan dalam jawatankuasa perhubungan negerinya dengan menggugurkan dua daripada tiga timbalan pengerusinya, termasuk Timbalan Ketua Menteri Pulau Pinang, Mohd Fairus Khairuddin.Seorang lagi timbalan pengerusi PKR negeri yang digugurkan ialah exco kerajaan negeri, Law Choo Kiang yang juga Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri (Adun) BukitTambun.

Tempat Mohd Fairus digantikan oleh Dr Mansor Othman manakala Law digantikan oleh Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri (Adun) Machang Bubuk, Tan Hock Leong. Sementara itu Datuk Zahrain Mohamed Hashim kekal sebagai pengerusi PKR negeri manakala Adun Batu Uban, S Raveentharan kekal sebagai timbalan pengerusi negeri.Mustaffa Kamal dikembalikan ke jawatan setiausaha Perhubungan negeri yang sebelum ini diambilalih oleh YB Malek.Jawatan ketua Pemuda PKR negeri yang kosong sebelum ini diisi ahli Parlimen Balik Pulau, Mohd Yusmadi Mohd Yusoff .Semua perlantikan ini di persetujui oleh pansihat PKR Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

Sementara itu Mustafa Kamal Mohd Yusoff atau lebih mesra dengan panggilan Pak Mus mengekalkan jawatan setiausaha perhubungan negeri, manakala Mohamed Fauzi Noordin kekal sebagai penolong setiausaha. Sebelum ini Setiausaha perhubungan negeri di ambil alih oleh YB Malek selepas pilihanraya umum lalu dan memegangnya sehingga pilihanraya kecil Parlimen Parmatang Pauh .Jawatan tersebut kemudiannya di kembalikan semula kepada Mustaffa Kamal selepas pilihanraya kecil Permatang Pauh 26 Ogos lalu.Dua lagi penolong setiausaha merupakan muka baru iaitu, Lim Boo Chang dan M Nyanasegaran.Perlantikan Lim Boo Chang yang merupakan bekas ADUN Dato Kramat selama 2 penggal bagi kerusi MCA. Beliau menyertai PKR beberapa tahun lalu.Beliau adalah seorang peguam dan banyak berjasa ketika membebaskan tahanan pilihanraya semasa pilihanraya kecil Permatang Pauh yang lalu dan melakukan kerja-kerja secara sukarela untuk PKR negeri. Manakala Diong Chong Mee dilantik sebagai timbalan ketua Wanita negeri.


Menurut Dato’ Zahrain , perhubungan negeri memutuskan bahawa semua exco kerajaan negeri dari PKR, tidak boleh memegang sebarang jawatan tertinggi parti di peringkat negeri.
Katanya, ia melibatkan jawatan pengerusi, timbalan pengerusi, setiausaha dan ketua penerangan.
Menurutnya, rombakan itu bertujuan untuk memantap prestasi jawatankuasa perhubungan negeri, selain YB-YB yang dilantik akan dapat menumpukan perhatian yang lebih kepada budang tugas dan tanggungjawab kepada rakyat.
"Ia dilakukan supaya exco dapat memberi fokus kepada urusan kerajaan negeri dan khidmat kepada rakyar," tambahnya


Sementara itu ketika menghubungi Setiausaha Perhubungan PKR negeri , Mustaffa Kamal atau Pak Mus , beliau menjelaskan bahawa “ Soal menggugurkan mana-mana kepimpinan adalah tidak timbul .Ianya adalah untuk menumpukan perhatian kepada kerja kerja dalam kerajaan negeri yang memerlukan perhatian dan tidak langsung menjejaskan PKR negeri Ini adalah kerana perlantikan ini memberi ruang kepada YB-YB untuk menumpukan perhatian kepimpinan dan kerja –kerja yang lebih kepada masyarakat dan rakyat , malah YB Fairus, di lantik dalam jawatankuasa perhubungan negeri .”

Menurut Pak Mus lagi amalan sebegini telah berlaku lama dalam parti . Misalnya Dr Mansor pernah menjadi pengerusi perhubungan negeri sebelum Dato Zaharin begitu juga dengan beliau sendiri pernah menjadi Setiuasaha Perhubungan Negeri dan Timbalan Pengerusi Perhubungan Negeri.

“Pembahagian dan rombakan dalam perhubungan negeri adalah perkara biasa.malah keadaan akan menjadi lebih kukuh dari masa-masa yang lepas.” Demikian jelas Pak Mus Lagi.

Menurut Mustaffa Kamal lagi, “Permainan media masa yang menggembar gemburkan kononnya berkaitan prestasi YB-YB PKR lemah adalah tidak benar malah mereka YB-YB yang dilantik sebagai Exco boleh memberi tumpuan yang lebih dan saya rasa itu satu mainan politik dan kita tidak perlu terperangkap dengan media semasa , malah perhubungan PKR lebih kukuh,erat dan InsyaAllah akan mengukukuhkan parti dan untuk memberi perhatian yang lebih untuk masa depan.” Demikian jelas Pak Mus lagi.

Mugabe Finds a Home in Asia

Written by Our Correspondent

Thursday, 29 January 2009
A detested African satrap and his family take refuge in the east
Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong are becoming homes from home for Robert Mugabe and his family. In Hong Kong the government is ignoring its own laws to accommodate the despised African dictator.

While Zimbabweans, once citizens of one of Africa’s most prosperous, food exporting countries, suffer food shortages, cholera epidemics and the world’s highest inflation (approx 5,000 percent) the country’s first family has been splashing out on shopping and banking trips to Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong.
Attention to their travels was occasioned by an assault on a Hong Kong resident press photographer working for the London Sunday Times by Grace Mugabe and a bodyguard in Hong Kong. The photographer was taking pictures of her shopping near the Shangri-la (Kowloon) hotel where she was staying. This led to the news that the Mugabes’ daughter Bona, 20, had been studying at HK University since last September under an assumed name.

Asia Sentinel has now learned that this was a modest visit compared with one last year by Mr and Mrs Mugabe and a huge retinue which occupied two floors of the same Shangri-la Hotel. The hotel bill, running to tens of thousands of US dollars, was paid in cash by a flunky. Under Hong Kong law, such large cash transactions are supposed to be reported to the police and investigated under anti-money-laundering money rules.

But either the hotel, controlled by the Kuok Group, failed to notify the authorities, or the government decided to ignore the question of why Mugabe and his family and retinue of bodyguards paid cash. (The reason may well be that no international bank would accept the credit cards of persons banned from entering the US and other major jurisdictions).

According to reports on Zimbabawe news sites, on this latest occasion US$92,000 in cash was drawn from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, the broken country’s central bank, prior to this trip, for spending on hotels and Grace’s favorite activity – shopping. Grace, who is 40 years younger than her 84-year old husband, has on previous occasions attracted attention for her extravagant spending in luxury shops.

Prior to Hong Kong, she had been in Malaysia and Singapore with her husband. They are very welcome in Malaysia where her husband was lionized by former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. However, to protect Malaysia’s own reputation and avoid local controversy, the visit was kept low key. As for Singapore, according to Zimbabwean media reports, this is the favored location for Zimbabwean ministers and military chiefs to park their ill-gotten wealth.

In Hong Kong the government and the University of Hong Kong say there is no reason why Bona should not study there. Many sympathize. The sins of the parents should not be visited on their children. However, Australia last year expelled the student offspring of some of Mugabe’s ministers and Britain has been contemplating the same – which is probably why Bona left her studies in the UK to come to Hong Kong and the protection of China, a good friend of Mugabe’s. The fact that she was allowed to enroll under an assumed name in itself is quite extraordinary and suggests some high level, un-transparent dealings.

However deserving Bona may be of an education, the fact is that her father’s policies have ruined Zimbabwe’s educational system and forced the few students who can afford it to go abroad. In Bona’s case the cost to the nation is not just her board and tuition, plus any gifts that might have been made to help her anonymous entry, but the cost of providing for her mother’s demands while Bona is in Hong Kong.

Hong Kong is still investigating the assault on the photographer but charges seem unlikely now that the culprits are out of town and Mrs Mugabe anyway would claim diplomatic immunity. Mugabe’s political thuggery in Zimbabawe is well enough known. His own reputation in that respect was confirmed by footage of assault by a bodyguard on a journalist who was trying to interview him in Cairo last year.

But thugs and corrupt politicians remain welcome in Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore so long as they bring enough money to be spent or laundered.

Mahathir friend ha..ha..ha

Ku Li warns Umno against playing down defection

By Adib Zalkapli

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 29 — Just days after Umno deputy president Datuk Seri Najib Razak dismissed the possibility of more Barisan Nasional elected representatives crossing over to Pakatan Rakyat, Gua Musang MP Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah said Umno's leadership must take seriously the defection of Perak state assemblyman Datuk Nasarudin Hashim to PKR.


"I do not think it is right for our leaders to play down the significance of our losing Nasarudin, or to belittle his intentions.

"That would be to make the same mistake as to play down the significance of our now being unable to win elections," said the Kelantan prince in his latest blog posting, adding that the action of the former Parit MP confirmed the suspicion that the Malay nationalist party continues to lose the people's support since the last general election.

"The results of the 12th general election were a blow, but what appears to have moved Dato' Nasarudin is what has happened, or rather has failed to happen, since then.

"The party continues to come apart and the government to lose support. Not a single effort at party reform has seen the light of day while tired leaders recycle tired formulas. Indeed the leadership is part of the problem," said Tengku Razaleigh.

He added that problems plaguing the party which led to the defection have transformed Umno beyond recognition.

"In a better day it was also a social movement inspired by ideals of service. As members we felt part of something larger than ourselves, part of a noble cause within which we formed many lasting friendships across the country.

"Today's party is barely recognisable to those who joined that party," said Tengku Razaleigh.
He urged Umno leaders to be open to ideas to institute change within the party.
"This is a painful process that can only be mediated by leaders of transparent character, who do not owe their authority to money," he said.


The defection of the Bota assemblyman to PKR just one week after BN's defeat in the Kuala Terengganu by-election has led to speculation that more lawmakers from the ruling coalition especially in Perak were crossing over to PR.


But many BN leaders have described Nasarudin's move as isolated and dismissed the possibility of more crossovers.

NAJIB AMBIL ALIH UMNO PERAK

Spekulasi bertiup kencang bahawa Dato Najib akan mengambil alih Umno Perak menggantikan Tajol Rosli.Menurut sumber selepas YB Nasaruddin menyertai PKR, Tajol dikatakan gagal dan akan melepaskan jawatan.

Ini adalah berikutan terdapat beberapa lagi ADUN Umno akan menyertai Pakatan Rakyat tidak lama lagi dan ini amat membimbangkan Umno Perak.Lantas Najib di katakan akan menggantikan Tajol Rosli sebagai wakil Pengerusi erhubungan negeri.

Sehingga kini belum ada kenyataan rasmi bahawa Tajol akan berhenti dan melepaskan jawatan sebagai Perngerusi perhubungan Umno Perak.