Monday, 20 August 2012

SABAH PARTY ALLEGEDLY ‘HIJACKED’





By :  JENNE LAJIUN.

KOTA KINABALU: Two senior members from the defunct Sabah People’s Front Party (SPF) yesterday urged the Registrar of Societies (ROS) to investigate and explain the amendment that has resulted in SPF being named Sarawak Workers Party (SWP).

Santain Manurun, who held the post of secretary general at SPF, claimed that SPF had over 38,556 members in Sabah and that their fate, following the name change, is unknown.

“Our rights was taken from us, just like that. There needs to be a solution to this problem,” he said.

Santain asked about the process that led to SPF being renamed SWP, saying ROS should provide them with the answer.

He also contended that the name change from SPF to SWP was invalid as the pro tem president for SWP, Dr Ong Lark Sai is a Sarawakian.

“The Section 7 of the SPF constitution clearly defined that only Malaysians residing in Sabah were eligible to be members of SPF… since Ong is a Sarawakian, then it is invalid,” he said.

He also said the dissolution of SPF never took place.

Present during the meeting with the media was SPF honorary treasurer Joseph Lusin Balangon.

The name change allegedly took place sometime in May this year, and ROS senior assistant director Desmond Das was reported as saying then that SWP was the new name given to the old SPF, a party registered in December 2010.

He said the name change was legally provided under Section 11 of the Societies Act 1966.

He also said that following the takeover, SPF is now defunct. (theborneopost)

9 comments:

  1. Beginilah kalau terlalu banyak parti yang terdapat di NEgeri Sabah ini. Menyusahkan pihak lain saja nanti.

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    1. ROS harus perketatkan syarat2 penubuhan persatuan baru atau parti baru supaya tidak semakin banyak.

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    2. setuju dengan cadangan tu. Semoga kewujudan parti di Sabah ni tidak menjadi ibarat 'cendawan tumbuh selepas hujan'

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  2. Parti2 yang banyak tapi sekiranya tiada fungsi tiada guna juga.

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    1. ya betul juga tu. yang penting parti sentiasa dapat memenuhi hak dan kepentingan rakyat.

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  3. Is Sarawak Workers’ Party (SWP) really a legal entity? The answer lies with the Registrar of Societies (ROS).
    It also depends on the outcome of its investigation into the complaints made by several supreme council members of Sabah People’s Front (SPF) party.

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  4. ROS said;

    The Registrar of Societies wants all quarters to stop questioning the legality of the Sarawak Workers Party (SWP).

    “Let’s move on and get on to more serious matters instead of harping on the legitimacy of SWP’s existence,”

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  5. ROS said;

    his office had already made it clear that the party was legitimate as all documents submitted to the ROS were found to be in order when the party applied for a change of name, address, logo and constitution. The party was previously known as Sabah People’s Front (SPF).

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  6. ROS said;

    Why did these groups wait after two or three months to lodge a complaint on the alleged forgery of documents if any, pertaining to SPF’s extraordinary general meeting on the name change?

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