ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2011.

BADAN KEBAJIKAN DAN BANTUAN KEMATIAN PENDUDUK ISLAM KRU.

(KRU Muslim Welfare & Death Assistance Association).

Date: 17 April 2011.

Time: 1400 hrs.

Venue: Dewan JKKK Kampung Raja Uda.

It was preannounced about the AGM at two consecutive Friday prayers. However deregistration and revival of the Association was not.

Unfortunately due to an urgent commitment at Pendang Kedah, yours truly was unable to attend.

SHOCKING: AGM proceeded without the Minute of the previous Meeting and a formal presentation of the Accounts Statement by the Treasurer. Both the Association Secretary and the Treasurer failed to attend the AGM of reasons only best known to them. If they are “man” enough they should face the Members. If there is no misdeed on their part, there’s nothing to fear. The Members just need an explanation and the truth; after all they were elected by the Members. Members have the absolute right. They cannot just wash their hands just like that.

I wonder whether their actions contravene to any bye law stipulated by the Registrar of Society (ROS). Accordingly…………Members who attended the AGM unanimously agreed to proceed and forget about the past. Let bye gone be bye gone. They were fed up with the prolong hanging in the air situation. This is a kampong level mentality to solve the problem whereas the level had reached to Ministerial level.

What were the past?

29 October 2000 – AGM for 1997 – 2000 sessions. No problem.

12 October 2003 – AGM for 2001 – 2002 sessions. Minute of AGM and Statement of Accounts was not handed to ROS. Complete listing of newly appointed Committee Members was not updated at ROS. It’s the Secretary’s job to update ROS and to furnish the formal documentations.

2003 – 2008 – No AGM conducted.

29 March 2009 – AGM for 2003 – 2008 sessions was held. AGM held after outcries and persuasion by Members. AGM held after six (6) years? What were the Committee Members doing all these while?

This AGM was unanimously suspended by the Members due to irregularities of 2003 – 2008 Accounts Statement. Members unanimously requested the Treasurer to rectify within 14 (fourteen) days and resumed with the suspended AGM. It was a fair request.

Treasurer failed to comply and there was no resumption of AGM.

DEREGISTERED.

26 August 2009 – ROS deregistered the Association.

Due to no updating at ROS, correspondence was directed to the former Secretary address that had long gone to meet the Creator.

(Members were unaware that the Association had been deregistered).

11 May 2010 – A Member visited ROS Shah Alam and formally made known by ROS that the Association had been deregistered. Masyaalah!!

Note the time factor between 26 August 2009 and 11 May 2010. The Members got more confused.

21 May 2010 – An appeal letter from a Member was made to ROS Putrajaya.

02 June 2010 – Extraordinary Meeting was held and both the Secretary and the Treasurer failed to attend. Pro tem Committee was elected by the Members to temporarily administrate the deregistered Association.

The Treasurer handed RM 1500.00 cash to the Pro tem Treasurer.

July 2010 – Collection of Members subscription suspended.

The Association was deregistered on 26 August 2009 but subscription collection still went on until June 2010. Ten (10) months of illegal collections.

REVIVAL.

08 December 2010 – Ministry of Home Affairs Malaysia (National Registration and Society Division) Putrajaya approved the appeal of 21 May 2010. This time the correspondence went to the right residential address of the Secretary. Someone updated ROS, all the Committee Members particulars.

The Pro tem Committee was automatically dissolved and the Association was supposed to be back in business.

?? January 2011 – Association Committee Meeting was held. Bombshell dropped – the Treasurer declared that he had RM 6563.40 cash in hand. All the Committee Members were shocked and unaware about the existing cash in hand. Why in the first place he did not hand the cash to the Pro tem Treasurer in June 2010 for the good use of the Association? What happened to the money if the appeal failed? It happened once in the kampong when the Treasurer of the New Mosque Development Committee died, RM 17,000.00 was unaccounted for and alleged to have been handed to the late Treasurer. (This is a different issue but the modus operandi could be similar).

The Association Bye-Law Article 11 (e) (2) states that the Treasurer can hold cash in hand of not more than RM 1,000.00 (one thousand MYR) only. This alone had contravened to the Bye Law and breach of trust.

20 March 2011 – the RM 6563.40 cash in hand, cheque book and Statement of Account from 2004 – 2010 was officially handed by the Treasurer and signed by the Association Vice Chairman but the Treasurer himself did not signed. It was witnessed and countersigned by the Ketua Kampong.

Wonder why it took three (3) months for the Treasurer to hand over the cash?

Questions: 1) Why in the first instance the Vice Chairman and the Ketua Kampong was unaware that the handover was not duly signed by the Treasurer? This is not according to formal procedure of handing over. 2) What about 2003 Statement of Accounts? Why it was disregarded?

Up to April 2011 – The only activity of the Association is the payment of death claim. Subscription collection still suspended. No income derived.

17 April 2011 – The AGM was held. Meeting proceeded with appointment of new Committee Members. The former Vice Chairman was elected as Chairman, a new face for the Secretary and the Pro tem Treasurer was elected as Treasurer. The former Chairman just faded away with no more responsibilities and no guilt or regrets what so ever having failed to lead an Association.

The Secretary and the Treasurer got away scot free, no resignation and no termination. NFA – No further actions. The Members unanimously agreed to let it in the hands of Allah for ultimate reprimand to the failure or misappropriation (if any) in handling the Association welfare during their tenure. May Allah bless them?

Was it fair and right? Personally I would say NO because precedent had been set and repetition of the same nature, no actions can be advocate. When an Association deals with monetary, every single cent must be accounted for.

After going through the Statement of Accounts, the only thing that was found correct and in good order was the Collector’s 25% commission against the subscriptions collected. I was astonished to see the Treasurer Statement of Account for 2010 from July to December when the Association activities had already being suspended. It was pre typed in that Statement Account that for July there would be 1 claim, August 1 claim, September 2 claim, October 3 claim, November 2 claim and December 2 claim. My suspicion, the numbers of claim can or had been fabricated all these while. Yet, no Members question about this. One of the two (2) Internal Auditors refused to authenticate the Statement of Accounts. There were no transparencies on the claim paid as supporting documents or notes were not transcribed.

This is the trouble with the Malays. It is a sin to expose someone wrongdoing (aib) in public. Once there was a misappropriation of the New Mosque fund of about RM 17,000.00 that ended to swearing by the Holy Quraan in the Mosque and it was kept away from the kampong residents. Somehow eventually it came out in the limelight and the fiasco of this Association was directly connected to that fiasco. It was blatantly repeated. Again……..leave it to Allah, after all what the kampong residents can do? Serves the kampong residents right!!

I don’t blame majority of the Members for they were ignorant of the chain of events that transpired. They were not bothered to find out, typical kampong mentality. To those who know, some of them took the safest route, let bye gone be bye gone and “pesangka baik” (good perception). Perhaps they have their own personal agenda or to be seen well and good within the community.

Whatever, as far as I am concern, to those who had misappropriated my subscription or to those associated and condoning to it either directly or indirectly the person concern will be answerable to me at Thereafter. In the name of Allah, I will not let anyone scot free. To me it is a major sin to mishandle the welfare and assistance of the Dead and to his/her beneficiaries. I refrain from being a party to it. Complex and complicated issue and Allah forbid especially when the Dead possibly leave an orphan. Failure to abide to Allah’s swt trust (amanah) is a major issue when we face Allah swt at Thereafter. Those who are associated (subahat) to it are also answerable. Last Friday Prayer khutbah topic was on “jahilyah modern”. This is one of the cases. As a Muslim, I subscribe to “amal maaruf” and “nahi mungkar”.

I rest my case and sometimes down the line perhaps the Kampong residents or the future kampong generation can look back at what happened to their Kampong BADAN KEBAJIKAN DAN BANTUAN KEMATIAN PENDUDUK ISLAM KAMPUNG RAJA UDA, during the era from 2003 to 2011.