Mosque committees ordered to attend PM function



All 180 mosques in the district of Batu Pahat, Johor were ordered to send 5 representatives from its mosque committee to attend Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak's eventuality in as well as with the premier's Johor blitz last Saturday.

The sequence was issued by an official minute from the district kadi's bureau antiquated Apr 2 which additionally asked the respective mosque to yield the RM50 allowance for the representatives.

NONEIndividuals claiming which this was an abuse of mosque funds for party politics have circulated the copy of the directive on blogs as well as on Facebook.

During his half-day trip, Najib reportedly arrived in Batu Pahat as early as 9.15am for the walkabout as well as had breakfast at the local coffeeshop.

He then went to the town's marketplace as well as mingled with business operators as well as the public for about 45 minutes before proceeding to Batu Pahat Stadium for an additional eventuality where he addressed acrowd of 50,000.

The mosques would have contributed close to 1,000 of the people there if the directive was followed.

Najib was accompanied by Johor Menteri Besar Abdul Ghani Othman, MCA boss Dr Chua Soi Lek, Domestic Trade, Cooperatives as well as Consumerism Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob as well as Deputy Education Minister as well as Batu Pahat MP Puad Zakarshi.

Kadi defends directive

Meanwhile, district kadi Bahrin Jalal when contacted byMalaysiakiniconceded to arising the minute (see below).

However, he pronounced the minute was merely the "show of await to the leaders" as well as to yield exposure to the mosque representatives, which enclosed imams, muezz! ins as w ell as caretakers, in the district.

"We asked them to attend the eventuality as the pointer of await for the leaders. This was the first time the prime minister had come to Batu Pahat. So we directed them to attend to his message," he said.

He combined which the RM50 "petrol allowance" was drawn from mosques development allocations by the Johor Islamic Affairs Council.

But Bahrin pronounced the mosques did not outlay RM45,000 in total to send their deputy for Najib's event.

"Not everybody got RM50 - it was RM50 for one automobile so it was RM10 per person, it was usually for petrol, that's all," he said.

He combined which there was nothing wrong to be regulating the income from the supervision grant for the purpose as it was deliberate the programme carried out by the mosques.
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