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Firdaus Morshidi dilantik ketua Pemuda PBB Bekenu
Firdaus dilantik ketua Pemuda PBB Bekenu
Utusan Borneo August 23, 2013, Friday
MIRI: Seorang peguam muda, Firdaus Morshidi telah diberi mandat untuk menerajui Pergerakan Pemuda Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB) Cawangan N61 Bekenu apabila dilantik sebagai ketua pergerakan tersebut.
Pelantikan beliau diumumkan pada Mesyuarat Agung Perwakilan Tiga Tahun Sekali Pergerakan Pemuda PBB Cawangan N61 Bekenu yang diadakan di Dewan Masyarakat Bekenu pada Ahad lalu.
Firdaus, 37, yang merupakan anak jati tempatan dan berasal dari Niah dilantik menyandang jawatan itu setelah menang tanpa bertanding dalam proses undian yang diadakan semasa mesyuarat berlangsung.
Mesyuarat sama turut menyaksikan pelantikan Babu Lasan sebagai naib ketua, Sharbini Salleh (setiausaha), Ahmad Zaini Ramli (naib setiausaha), Malina Lasa (bendahari), Arbi Jukin (naib bendahari), Mohd Azizul (penerangan) dan Radiman Abdul Manan (naib penerangan).
Semua jawatan tersebut telah dimenangi tanpa bertanding semasa proses undian dilakukan.
Manakala lapan ahli jawatankuasa (AJK) cawangan yang lain terdiri daripada Awang Sapiee Awang Taip, Awang Mohd Hashriq Awang Pungut, Abdul Halik Jafar, Mohiddin Masleh, Anuar Bujang, Johny Ho dan Mazari Mahdar.
Friday, August 23, 2013
Selepas banyak 'peristiwa' Shahrizat masih tiak mahu mmelepaskan jawatan Ketua Wanita UMNO, aset atau liabiliti kepada UMNO?
Why is Shahrizat so powerful?
malaysiatoday.net
Wednesday, 21 August 2013 admin-s
Why is Shahrizat so important or so powerful that both Najib and ex-prime minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi had to confer her ministerial status, despite her losing the parliamentary seat, marred by the cow-gate scandal and not contesting in the 2013 General Election?
Ng Ooi Cheng
It was reported that UMNO's senior leader Shahrizat Abdul Jalil has been appointed Special Advisor to Prime Minister Najib on women and social development affairs, with ministerial status.
Why is Shahrizat so important or so powerful that both Najib and ex-prime minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi had to confer her ministerial status, despite her losing the parliamentary seat, marred by the cow-gate scandal and not contesting in the 2013 General Election?
Shahrizat lost in the 2008 General Election, then was appointed special advisor to the Prime Minister with ministerial status before she was made a full minister through the appointment as Senator.
However, fate was not on her side with the exposure of the NFC (National Feedlot Corporation) scandal, which cost her the ministership and was not appointed as a candidate for the general election in May 2013.
And now, we hear that she is made an advisor again with ministerial status.
Is that an abuse of tax payers' money? Can't she find another job with her legal background and experience as minister? Does she have something that can decide the careers of prime ministers? Is she such an important contribution to the country?
There are interesting stories not told.
What is "the peninsula way of doing things" Nazri? Cowgate, kalah parlimen lantik senator? Tidak dicalonkan masih enggan lepas jawatan Ketua Wanita?
Adakah kemenangan 100% PBB dan BN Sarawak MEMBOLEHKAN UMNO masih memegang kerajaan persekutuan suatu yang tidak memadai masih tidak memuaskan untuk "peninsula way of doing things"?
Ya sebagai mana diperkatakan oleh Nazri Aziz "Rohani is from Sarawak', tapi apa salahnya Sarawak. Tiada Sarawak maka tiada jawatan Menteri Pelancongan untuk Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz...
Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz defended the appointment of Shahrizat as the PM's special adviser. — Picture by Choo Choy MayPETALING JAYA, August 19 — Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz backed today the appointment of scandal-ridden Datuk Seri Shahrizat Jalil as the prime minister's special adviser, saying it was “not morally wrong” despite the fiasco that led to her eventual dismissal from Cabinet.
Ya sebagai mana diperkatakan oleh Nazri Aziz "Rohani is from Sarawak', tapi apa salahnya Sarawak. Tiada Sarawak maka tiada jawatan Menteri Pelancongan untuk Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz...
Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz defended the appointment of Shahrizat as the PM's special adviser. — Picture by Choo Choy MayPETALING JAYA, August 19 — Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz backed today the appointment of scandal-ridden Datuk Seri Shahrizat Jalil as the prime minister's special adviser, saying it was “not morally wrong” despite the fiasco that led to her eventual dismissal from Cabinet.
The tourism minister said Shahrizat's appointment was based on merit, highlighting her vast experience as the past women, family and community development minister.
He claimed that Shahrizat's experience is needed to guide her successor Datuk Rohani Abdul Karim, and added that it should overwrite public scepticism over the former minister's integrity.
“I believe the prime minister had appointed her (Shahrizat) to help Rohani, the new minister.
“What is most important is to resolve whatever problems we might face, I don't think it is morally wrong to do that,” the tourism minister told The Malay Mail Online.
Earlier this afternoon, local daily The Star reported that Shahrizat will likely be appointed the prime minister’s special adviser on women affairs.
The yet-to-be announced appointment will also confer Shahrizat full ministerial status and powers, allowing her the avenue to return to the corridors of power.
Shahrizat had remained a Cabinet member and had headed the women, family and community development ministry previously courtesy of her appointment to Parliament's upper house despite losing in the March 2008 general election.
According to Nazri, the ex-Lembah Pantai MP's experience was needed to help Rohani run a ministry that is accustomed to “the peninsula (Malaysian) way of doing things”.
“Rohani is from Sarawak. Probably her focus of work does not cover many of the peninsula aspects..the ministry is used to the management done by those from the peninsula,” he said.
Shahrizat was effectively removed from Cabinet in April 2012 after her term was not renewed during the height of the RM250 million National Feedlot Centre (NFC) scandal involving her and her family members.
The NFC scandal hit headlines two years ago when the Auditor-General highlighted in his 2010 report the failure of the NFC project, which aimed to farm cattle for consumption and cut Malaysia's massive foreign beef import.
The Auditor-General reported the project failed to achieve its target of breeding 8,000 head of cattle in Gemas, Negri Sembilan, which it attributed to poor management from the company in charge, the National Feedlot Corporation (NFCorp), which was run by Shahrizat's husband and children.
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, however, had refused to confirm or deny the matter, saying no such announcement has been made as yet.
Asked if the move could tarnish Najib's reform credentials, Nazri dismissed the idea and said political sensitivity was no longer and issue since the 13th general election is already over.
“Now is already after the elections. Before it was sensitive because of the general election. Now such sensitivity should not be given priority.
What is important is that the ministry must be run properly”.
Nazri, a supreme council member of Umno, the ruling coalition's lychpin, also shrugged off suggestions that Shahrizat's appointment could be linked to the party's upcoming polls.
“With the new system in place, and many more members allowed to vote, I am very sure that the number one and number two posts will not be contested,” he said.
Shahrizat is the current Umno Wanita chief.
The NFC scandal caused ripples in the party's senior wing and triggered calls for her resignation although the coup, led by her deputy then, Datuk Kamilia Ibrahim, eventually fizzled out.
Shahrizat’s husband Datuk Seri Dr Mohamed Salleh Ismail and their children were alleged to have misused the government allocation of RM250 million for the project.
On March 12 last year, Mohamad Salleh pleaded not guilty to two counts of criminal breach of trust involving some RM49.7 million with regards to the purchase of two condominium units and two other charges under the Companies Act.
Shahrizat had also filed a RM100 million defamation suit against PKR strategy director Rafizi Ramli and Wanita PKR chief Zuraida Kamaruddin, two opposition lawmakers who were actively pushing for the former minister’s resignation over the scandal.
Rafizi was pushed into the limelight after exposing NFCorp’s purchases of luxury condominium units allegedly through the RM250 million federal government loan that was meant for the national cattle-farming project.
During the trial of Shahrizat’s defamation suit against Rafizi last March, it was revealed that NFCorp had purchased a RM534,622 Mercedes-Benz in 2009 as a company car that was parked in her house.
In the trial, Shahrizat also defended NFCorp’s purchase of three luxury condominium units in the Orchard Scotts Residences and Marina Bay Sands in Singapore worth RM42 million, saying that the buy was part of the company’s investment portfolio, according to her husband.
The embattled leader will be defending her post in Wanita Umno in the coming party polls and is expected to face a challenge from Datuk Seri Azalina Othman Said, another former minister.
Perlantikan bekas Menteri kontrovesi Shahrizat muktamad?
Shahrizat speaks up, confirms appointment at Prime Minister’s Department
Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin (second from left) with his wife Puan Sri Noorainee Abdul Rahman (left) and Rohani (right) at the Women’s Summit 2013 at the Sime Darby Convention Centre in Kuala Lumpur. The Malaysian Insider pic by Najjua Zulkefli, August 20, 2013.Former Women, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil has broken her silence on her appointment as a women's affairs adviser to the government.
"I am the adviser at the Prime Minister's Department,” she said in a text message to The Malaysian Insider today.
Her response came soon after the current Minister, Datuk Rohani Abdul Karim, had said Shahrizat had nothing to with her ministry.
"Well, she's not an adviser to my ministry," Rohani had told the press at the Women’s Summit 2013 Conference in Kuala Lumpur
However, Shahrizat refused to elaborate on her role.
Rohani’s remarks today distancing the ministry from Shahrizat had raised questions on how the Wanita Umno chief would function in such a role.
However, whatever reservation Rohani may have on the appointment, the National Association of Women Entrepreneurs of Malaysia (NAWEM) congratulated Shahrizat.
“As the former Minister for Women, Family and Community Development, she has contributed much to mainstreaming women’s issues into government and the private sector. We are appreciative that with her leadership the country’s constitution was amended to forbid discrimination based on gender,” it said.
The Star online had reported yesterday that Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak had appointed Shahrizat, who had helmed Rohani's ministry previously, as his special adviser on women's affairs.
The Star online in its report yesterday said Shahrizat has been appointed a special adviser to the prime minister to oversee the development of women entrepreneurs and professionals.
It is understood the appointment was effective from August 15.
However, the Wanita Umno chief was tight-lipped when met at the wing’s Hari Raya open house at the Putra World Trade Centre yesterday.
Najib said yesterday there would be no announcement on the matter yet.
“So, just leave it as it is,” he said after attending the Finance Ministry’s Hari Raya open house.
If the appointment goes through, this would be the second time that Shahrizat is appointed as special adviser to the prime minister.
Her first appointment in 2008 was made by then prime minister Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi after she lost her Lembah Pantai parliamentary seat in the general election that year.
Shahrizat, who has been Wanita chief since 2009 when she defeated Tan Sri Rafidah Aziz, will face a challenge for the post from former Puteri Umno chief and Pengerang MP Datuk Azalina Othman Said at the coming Umno polls.
She was appointed a senator, followed by a Cabinet position the following year.
She stepped down as minister last year after the National Feedlot Corporation (NFC) controversy erupted and did not contest in the 13th general election in May. - August 20, 2013.
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