KOTA KINABALU: A group of 23
villagers of Kg Leningkong, Telupid lodged a police report here against their
lawyer who they claimed had misled them and caused their appeal to secure
Native Customary Rights (NCR) on 1,150 acres of their village land to be
withdrawn.
Their spokesperson, Timor @
Suman bin Ambang, 71, who lives in the village about 98 miles from Sandakan,
said the lawyer failed to explain in detail all the contents of a statutory
declaration to him (Suman) which resulted in their appeal case being withdrawn
from being heard here.
He was one of the two
plaintiffs representing the villagers to claim for NCR on the concerned village
land against three respondents - two are companies and the Assistant District
Officer in Telupid when the case was heard in Sandakan in 2003. They lost the
case.
"In March this year,
the lawyer contacted me and asked us to come down to his office here. Since I
could not contact the rest, I decided to go on my own and see him (lawyer) in
the office here.
"Instead, he (lawyer)
brought me to the respondents' lawyer's office and I was asked to sign a
document without my lawyer explaining the contents as he (lawyer) just asked me
to sign it.
"Then a cheque for
RM100,000 was given to me as 'wang ehsan' (goodwill money) and it is in four
bank accounts belonging to me and three other villagers. But we have never
touched or used the money," he said to Daily Express when met after
lodging the report at the Karamunsing police station here, Thursday.
Suman claimed that he was
never informed or notified by the lawyer that the RM100,000 cheque was meant
for withdrawing the appeal case that had been filed in 2009.
Furthermore, he said, he had
never directed the lawyer and his legal firm to withdraw the appeal.
Suman also denied a
statement in the Statutory Declaration that the plaintiffs were not serious in
pursuing the appeal of the case, when in reality, they want to their case to be
heard here.
"I am lodging this
police report here for myself and all the individuals involved in the case for
police further action and for other authorities, particularly the court here,
to hear our appeal case," he said, adding that they only discovered that
their case heard in Sandakan was not in their favour, last month. (DE)
kan bagus jika pengadu dapat mendedahkan siapa peguam yang dimaksudkan.. sekurang2nya penduduk Sabah tahu dan lebih berhati2 untuk tidak mendapatkan khidmat guaman dari peguam itu..
ReplyDeleteya. kita perlu siapa dia. kena hati2 semasa cari peguam.
Deleteharap pekara ini akan diselesaikan dan kebenaran akan diketahui.
DeleteMemang banyak kes tanah di Telupid ni. macam mana sudah pula dengan kes Corak Nakhoda?
ReplyDeleteHope that the police will investigate this lawyer who allegedly mislead the villagers that caused their appeal to secure Native Customary Rights (NCR) on 1,150 acres of their village land to be withdrawn.
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The lawyer have the duty to explain all the details involved in the case to the villagers. Hope that this case will be given attention by the related authorities.
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siapa peguam yang tidak bertanggungjawab tersebut? patut kenakan tindakan tegas terhadapnya.
ReplyDeletejika benar peguam tersebut tidk bertanggungjwab, memang wajar dikenakan tindakan.
DeleteDedahkan saja siapa peguam yang tidak bertanggungjawab itu! Pok silap saja.
ReplyDeleteKena berhati-hati memilih peguam di masa akan datang. Bukan semua mereka ni jujur.
ReplyDeleteya..perlu teliti dulu sebelum mendapatkan khidmat mereka.
DeletePeguam pun ada juga yang lawyer buruk
DeletePeguam harus menjalankan tugas dengan amanah juga.
ReplyDeletepeguam yang tidak amanah menjejaskan imej pekerjaan peguam.
Deletehrap ini akan disisat dan diselesaikan.
ReplyDeleteharap peguam tersebut akan dikenakan tindakkan.
ReplyDeleteTindakan undang2 yang setimpal harus dikenakan kepada peguam tu.
ReplyDelete