TUG-OF-WAR FOR NGO LEADERSHIP




SPIN....The domestic spin upon Sabah's Kadazan Dusun Murut Association Malaysia (KDM Malaysia) is threatening the continuity.

By : JOSEPH BINGKASAN
KOTA KINABALU: A scuffle for control of an Umno-linked non-governmental organisation pronounced to have been set up to champion the interests of the inland Kadazandusun as well as Murut village is threatening to further order it.

The esteem is the Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak-endorsed Kadazan Dusun Murut Association Malaysia (KDM Malaysia).
Businessmen Peter Anthony as well as John Ambrose have been in the tug-of-war over who is the rightful leader.

Anthony has won the initial as well as second rounds of the fight. His ultimate victory came after the High Court here upheld his appointment as the boss following the challenge by Harry Ignatius Beatty, the member of the NGO who filed the fit seeking to declare his (Anthony's) installation as nothing as well as void.

Justice Ravinthran N Paramaguru, in his visualisation final month, authorised Anthony's duplicate to strike out Beatty's writ of justice order as well as matter of claim antiquated July thirteen final year.

Beatty had argued in his fit which Anthony's appointment which was done during the KDM Malaysia extraordinary general meeting (EGM) upon March twenty-eight final year was wrong as well as which Ambrose, the founder of the association, w! as still the official as well as rightful president.

An progressing attempt to reject Anthony from the post was additionally thwarted by the Registrar of Societies (RoS) who spoken in the letter antiquated August 7 final year which the association's EGM as well as Annual General Meeting (AGM) the same year which permitted Anthony's leadership were hold in compliance with the applicable supplies of the Societies Act.

Now Beatty faces the prospect of the RM1 million insult fit by Anthony who claimed which the plaintiff's movement had caused him embarrassment as well as was "aimed during blemish his picture as well as ruining his career".

Meanwhile, Ambrose has not been sitting upon his hands in the on-going scuffle for the leadership of the NGO.

On Sep 3, final year he filed for the legal review fixing the ROS as well as Anthony as initial as well as second respondent respectively.

Former Umno charge force

The duplicate was filed to quash the ROS decision, the stipulation which no AGM in 2012 was ever conducted and, otherwise even if an AGM was held, the meeting was unlawful, nothing as well as void.

Ambrose, who heads the Penampang Umno division, is seeking the stipulation which Anthony is not as well as never was the boss of the KDM Malaysia.

He is additionally seeking for an claim to restrain Anthony from endeavour any duty or movement as boss of KDM Malaysia, damages opposite both respondents, costs, statutory interest as well as any alternative relief deemed fit by the court.

The box had been scheduled by the same justice to be heard prior to the opposite decider upon March 5, this year.

KDM Malaysia was initially known as Umno KDM Task Force headed by Ambrose until several KDM leaders! inside of the Barisan Nasional complained of the life even though Najib had personally permitted it.

Following the complaints, the NGO was renamed KDM Malaysia as well as purebred with the ROS upon Sept 8, 2011.

In the slap in the face for Sabah domestic parties as well as the absolute Kadazan Dusun Cultural Association helmed by Deputy Chief Minister as well as the community's Huguan Siou (Paramount Chief) Joseph Pairin Kitingan, it's backers pronounced it was established to help uplift the KDM village irrespective of their religious faith.

The NGO's spoken objectives, between others, is to contribute effectively towards the social mutation in Sabah by focusing upon tutorial programmes to help the farming KDM village as well as to champion as well as urge the interests, traditions, culture, investiture as well as presence of the community.

KDM Malaysia says it accepts membership from members of all domestic parties as well as anyone who has during least one grandparent from the KDM village can become the member.
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