Diarah hadir program Najib dapat RM 50...

 Kesemua 180 masjid di daerah Batu Pahat, Johor diarahkan menghantar lima wakil, termasuk imam, bilal dan noja bagi menghadiri program Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Razak pada 7 April lalu.

Arahan itu dibuat melalui surat rasmi daripada pejabat kadi daerah bertarikh 2 April yang turut meminta pihak masjid memberikan wang RM50 kepada individu yang mewakili masjid masing-masing.
 
Salinannya kini beredar di laman blog dan Facebook oleh pihak yang mempertikaikan arahan tersebut yang didakwa menggunakan masjid dan kewangannya untuk kepentingan politik kepartian.

Dalam tinjauan ke Batu Pahat pada tarikh itu, Najib dilapor tiba seawal jam  9.15 pagi untuk bersarapan di sebuah kopitiam sebelum meninjau kawasan pasar dan beramah mesra dengan peniaga dan orang ramai.

Beliau antaranya diiringi Menteri Besar Johor Datuk Abdul Ghani Othman, Presiden MCA Datuk Seri Chua Soi Lek, Menteri Perdagangan Dalam Negeri, Koperasi dan Kepenggunaan Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob dan Timbalan Menteri Pelajaran Datuk Dr Puad Zakarshi.

Selepas kira-kira 45 minit membuat tinjauan mesra, perdana menteri dilaporkan bertolak ke program "Jelajah Janji Ditepati" di Stadium Batu Pahat.

Kadi pertahan arahan

Sementara itu, Kadi Daerah Batu Pahat Bahrin Jalal ketika dihubungi Malaysiakini mengakui mengeluarkan surat arahan itu dan mengesahkan kesahihan kandungannya.

Bagaimanapun, katanya, surat itu dikeluarkan hanya sebagai “ tanda sokongan kepada pemimpin” dan bagi memberi pendedahan kepada lima anggota jawatankuasa masjid di daerah itu.

"Kita suruh hadir ke majlis itu sebagai tanda sokongan kepada pemimpin. Perdana menteri baru pertama kali datang ke Batu Pahat.

“Jadi kita arahkan mereka supaya mendengar amanat daripada pemimpin," katanya.

Menurutnya lagi, wang untuk bayaran “duit minyak” itu diambil daripada peruntukan yang disediakan untuk tujuan pembangunan masjid oleh Majlis Agama Islam Negeri Johor.

"Bukan setiap seorang dapat RM50, tetapi satu kereta dapat RM50. Maknanya seorang RM10. Duit itu kita beri sebagai duit minyak. Itu sahaja.

“Wang itu memang boleh digunakan sebab majlis itu sebahagian daripada program masjid,” katanya lagi.-malaysiakini

Mosque committees ordered to attend PM function...

All 180 mosques in the district of Batu Pahat, Johor were ordered to send five representatives from its mosque committee to attend Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak’s event in conjunction with the premier’s Johor blitz last Saturday.

The order was issued through an official letter from the district kadi’s office dated April 2 which also asked the respective mosque to provide a RM50 allowance for the representatives.

Individuals claiming that this was an abuse of mosque funds for party politics have circulated a copy of the directive on blogs and on Facebook.

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

He then went to the town’s market and mingled with business operators and the public for about 45 minutes before proceeding to Batu Pahat Stadium for another event where he addressed a crowd 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 president Dr Chua Soi Lek, Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob and Deputy Education Minister and Batu Pahat MP Puad Zakarshi.

Kadi defends directive

Meanwhile, district kadi Bahrin Jalal when contacted by Malaysiakini conceded to issuing the letter (see below).

However, he said the letter was merely a “show of support to our leaders” and to provide exposure to the mosque representatives, which included imams, muezzins and caretakers, in the district.

“We asked them to attend the event as a sign of support for our leaders. This was the first time our prime minister had come to Batu Pahat. So we directed them to listen to his message,” he said.

He added that the RM50 “petrol allowance” was drawn from mosques development allocations by the Johor Islamic Affairs Council.

But Bahrin said the mosques did not spend RM45,000 in total to send their representative for Najib’s event.

“Not everyone got RM50 - it was RM50 for one car so it was RM10 per person, it was only for petrol, that’s all,” he said.

He added that there was nothing wrong to be using the money from the government allocation for the purpose as it was considered a programme carried out by the mosques.- malaysiakini

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