Re: I 'noh' nothing, says Umno club head - Malaysiakini
- From: "Ravi Kumar" <rkumar@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 11:53:19 +0800
I am damn sure he "knows" nothing. What does he know? Sounds typical like most if not all government offices. The standard "TAK TAHU". If you are bloody clueless, don't take the position! After all he was misquoted !!! "pluto" <pluto@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:r78ft1pda1qh11g3fd1bmpfe88nvthisbf@xxxxxxxxxx > ===================================================================== > I 'noh' nothing, says Umno club head - Malaysiakini > ===================================================================== > I 'noh' nothing, says Umno club head > Beh Lih Yi Jan 24, 06 4:34pm > > Was there a conflict of interest when the Umno Overseas Club Alumni > Organisation lodged its police report against DAP parliamentarian Teresa > Kok for exposing the infamous nude squats video clip? > > Club chairperson Noh Omar, as deputy internal minister, was involved at > different stages of the saga over a video recording of a woman being > forced > to strip in front of a policewoman and do 'ear-squats'. > > Contacted this afternoon, however, Noh denied any knowledge of the report > lodged yesterday at the Sentul police station by club member Abd Razak > Mohd > Ghazali. > > "Officially I don't know... we never discussed this (to lodge a police > report) at our meetings. There was no instruction - he did it in his > personal capacity," Noh told malaysiakini when asked whether the club had > endorsed the decision. > > Noh repeatedly stressed that he was in the dark over the police report, > although all press reports today had named the club as the complainant. > > The police report was made on the ground that Kok, who the Seputeh > parliamentarian, had "stored, distributed and disseminated pornographic > material of a nude woman doing squats" at the Parliament lobby last > November. > > Abd Razak was also quoted as claiming that Kok had "by intention, words > and > deed" distributed the video clip by way of a laptop computer to several > members of Parliament and journalists. He asked the police to conduct an > investigation against Kok. > > When the scandal broke, Noh had jumped to the defence of the police by > saying that an internal investigation had cleared its personnel of any > wrongdoing. > > He further created a furore by saying foreigners could return home if they > deem Malaysian police to be cruel. > > After being reprimanded by Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, he > apologised for his remark but claimed that the media had misunderstood his > meaning. > > Last month, when an independent commission of inquiry identified the woman > in the video recording as a local Malay - thereby clearing speculation > that > she was a Chinese national - social activists took Noh to task for having > allegedly concealed the information all along. > > They later urged him to resign after two China Press editors were > pressured > into resigning over an erroneous report that the woman was a Chinese > national. > > 'Check facts first' > > Kok, when contacted this afternoon, sarcastically chided the complainant > for "not having done enough homework" before lodging the report. > > Ironically, this was done on a day that the inquiry commission released > its > report on the scandal and its recommendations for the conduct of strip > searches. > > "The police report is like a slap in the face for the prime minister and > the cabinet. It undermines their wisdom in setting up a special commission > to investigate the nude-squat incident," she said. > > "(The complainant) claimed that I had identified the woman in the video > clip as a Chinese tourist. That is not true. It was the Umno-controlled > newspapers Utusan Malaysia and New Straits Times that reported this. So > why > didn't he lodge a report against them?" > > She reiterated that she had not distributed a pornographic video clip, but > that she wanted to expose the humiliating and inhumane treatment of the > woman involved. > > On Noh's plea of ignorance of the police report, Kok countered: "It is > very > hard to believe that he doesn't know what his organisation is doing. If > the > report was not lodged in the capacity of the organisation, then Noh should > openly clarify that." > > On her next course of action, Kok said she is looking into the possibility > of lodging a police report against Abd Razak for making a false report > over > inaccuracies in his claims. > > Nude-squats wrong, wrong, wrong! > 03:59pm Mon Jan 23, 2006 > > Squatgate: Voyeur cop suspended > 12:21pm Mon Jan 23, 2006 > > Squatgate: Peeping-tom policeman identified > 04:39pm Fri Jan 20, 2006 > > Teresa Kok backs 'stop nude squats' proposal > 07:26pm Tue Jan 17, 2006 > > Squatgate: 'Axe Noh Omar, not editors' > 11:40am Fri Jan 13, 2006 > > Axe falls on two China Press editors > 05:07pm Wed Jan 04, 2006 > > MP accused of encouraging voyeurism > 01:41pm Wed Dec 28, 2005 > > To squat or not to squat? > 11:52am Fri Dec 23, 2005 > > Noh in the know, say groups > 07:45pm Mon Dec 19, 2005 > > Squat-gate: More questions than answers > 01:18pm Mon Dec 19, 2005 > > Pak Lah, apologise to Malaysians too > 07:14pm Sat Dec 17, 2005 > > Bar Council: Nude ear squats 'offensive' > 07:25pm Fri Dec 16, 2005 > > Commission wraps up inquiry > 05:45pm Fri Dec 16, 2005 > > Najib: We didn't know woman was M'sian > 11:49am Fri Dec 16, 2005 > > > http://www.malaysiakini.com > =================================================== .
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