Pengasuh Ikat Kaki Tangan, Biar Budak Berlapar...

Seorang pengasuh dihadapkan ke Mahkamah Majistret di sini, hari ini atas tuduhan mendera seorang kanak-kanak lelaki berusia tiga tahun pada Selasa lepas.

Noor Faezah Rahman, 39, didakwa melakukan kesalahan itu di rumahnya di Blok A-8-19, Flat Seri Pinang di sini pada kira-kira 10 pagi, 28 Okt lepas.

Dia dituduh mengikut Seksyen 31 (1) (a) Akta Kanak-kanak 2001 yang memperuntukkan hukuman penjara maksimum 10 tahun dan denda jika sabit kesalahan.

Mengikut kertas pendakwaan, kanak-kanak itu ditemui dalam keadaan tangannya diiikat di belakang badannya manakala kakinya diikat dengan tali.

Tiada pengakuan dicatatkan di hadapan Majistret Muhammad Firdaus Abdul Wahab, yang menetapkan 5 Dis depan untuk sebutan kes bagi membolehkan tertuduh mendapatkan khidmat peguam.

Terdahulu, semasa merayu jaminan yang lebih rendah, tertuduh memberitahu mahkamah bahawa dia mempunyai lapan anak untuk disara.

Muhammad Firdaus kemudian menetapkan jaminan sebanyak RM8,000 dengan seorang penjamin.

Pendakwaan dikendalikan Timbalan Pendakwa Raya Khairul Fairuz Rahman. – BERNAMA

Rumah diroboh, penduduk terpaksa huni pondok...

Satu keluarga di Kampung Chubadak Tambahan terpaksa menghuni satu pondok sementara selepas rumah mereka dirobohkan oleh penguatkuasa Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur (DBKL) pada Rabu lalu.

Seorang daripadanya, Wahidah Saleh, 70 atau lebih mesra dipanggil Opah Wahidah berkata mereka merupakan peneroka asal di kampung yang dibuka sejak 45 tahun lalu.

Beliau kecewa kerana penguatkuasa tetap merobohkan rumah tersebut walaupun selepas mereka menunjukkan satu surat kebenaran mahkamah pada 1998

Dalam dokumen berkenaan, hakim Mahkamah Tinggi Malaya Kuala Lumpur dalam penghakiman bertarikh 31 Julai 1998 memutuskan bahawa warga berkenaan dibenarkan menetap di tanah tersebut.

Mahkamah juga memutuskan mereka sebagai pemegang lesen sah dan dibenarkan untuk terus menetap di tanah berkenaan dengan persetujuan kerajaan negeri.

“Saya tinggal di kampung ini dah 45 tahun bukan baru-baru ni, selepas bernikah saya terus tinggal sini.

“Tengok lah surat ni daripada mahkamah, tetapi bila mereka datang nak robohkan saya tunjuk surat ni mereka cakap mereka tetap akan robohkan juga,” katanya.

Beliau ditemui di sebuah pondok sementara yang didirikan di tapak bekas rumahnya di Kampung Chubadak Tambahan semalam.

Pondok beratapkan kanvas dengan dinding papan lapis dan berlantai kayu reja itu turut memuatkan barangan yang sempat diselamatkan daripada rumah yang dirobohkan.

Beliau sekadar berharap agar wakil rakyat kawasan tersebut, Tian Chua akan dapat membantu mereka mendapatkan kediaman lain. 

Menurut Opah Wahidah, beliau kini tiada tempat lain yang boleh dituju kerana rumah itu sahajalah satu-satunya tempat kediaman mereka anak beranak.

Beliau berharap agar kerajaan dapat menggantikan rumah yang sempurna kepadanya, dan bukan hanya memberikan unit rumah Program Perumahan Rakyat.

Sementara itu, ADUN Seri Setia Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad yang menziarahi keluarga berkenaan berkata, pemaju dan DBKL sepatutnya menawarkan rumah yang lebih baik sebagai ganti.

“Kalau kita tengok pun sejarah kes ni panjang, dah pernah dibawa ke mahkamah rayuan sebelum ni.

“Kita harap pihak pemaju dan DBKL dapat mempertimbangkan tawaran yang lebih baik dan berperikemanusiaan,” katanya. 

Nik Nazmi juga berkata, golongan peneroka bandar berkenaan layak mendapat layanan lebih baik kerana mereka didorong oleh kerajaan untuk membuka penempatan di Kuala Lumpur semasa pentadbiran Tun Abdul Razak.

“Jika sebelum ini bapa perdana menteri sendiri yang menggalakkan mereka datang jadi pada zaman sekarang tak patutlah kita layan atau gelarkan mereka sebagai setinggan.

“Layanlah mereka sebagai peneroka bandar yang pernah memberi sumbangan kepada pembangunan Kuala Lumpur,” katanya lagi.

Beliau turut memuji tindakan golongan mahasiswa yang turut berhimpun sebagai tanda solidariti bersama warga tersebut di Sentul, semalam.

“Mereka menjaga kebajikan keluarga Opah, ini menunjukkan peranan positif anak anak muda dalam isu ini,” katanya. - mk

Universiti Malaya, dont be 'ridiculous'...

Just as humanism is baffled by the deliberate will to evil, so is a well-honed sensibility puzzled by the ridiculous and the weird.

MP for Wangsa Maju Dr Tan Kee Kwong, who studied medicine at the Universiti Malaya in the 1960s, was constrained to remind his alma mater of its more urbane days when he learned yesterday of the nine charges being preferred against UM student leader Fahmi Zainol.

"Given the nature of the nine charges they have preferred against Fahmi, the university leadership has become the object of ridicule," said Tan, who is now chairperson of the membership panel of PKR.

Fahmi is president of the Persatuan Mahasiswa Universiti Malaya (PMUM) who has been slapped by the authorities with nine charges for defying them over an invitation to PKR adviser Anwar Ibrahim to address students on the campus last Monday.

UM authorities warned PMUM not to go ahead with the event and barred students from attending but the gathering took place despite the bans.

Yesterday, Fahmi and eight other student leaders were notified of the charges against them but the former is the only one being slapped with nine counts of defiance, including one that faults him for using a megaphone.

"This is ridiculous and the height of petty-mindedness," offered Tan, when commenting on the charges against Fahmi.

"I'm reminded of the 60s when I was in the university. All sorts of politicians were invited to speak on the issues of the day," Tan (left) recalled.

"UM was known for its openness to conflicting views and presentations. Debate and exchanges were regarded as healthy and no one was made to suffer for organising and attending the functions or events," said the medical graduate.

Syed Husin also barred

Tan said he was startled to discover "the other day that my PKR colleague, Senator Dr Syed Husin Ali (right), has been barred from speaking at UM where he had been dean of a faculty."

"If this is not ridiculous I don't know what is!" exclaimed Tan, son of the legendary 'Mr Opposition', Dr Tan Chee Koon, who in the 1960s and in following was Malaysia's leading oppositionist.

"The past few days I have been sitting at the Federal Court listening to the Anwar Ibrahim sodomy appeal and the sense of ridiculousness just kept creeping up on me," offered Tan.

"Now to hear that the UM student leader is being hauled up on charges that would have been laughed to scorn in the 60s is just too much.

"There are so many issues such as the difficult economic situation in the country, the threat of extremism and the poor condition of inter-ethnic relations that demand our urgent attention and here we have a situation where a student leader is charged for possessing a megaphone - this farce must end and end quickly," asserted the appalled parliamentarian. - mk

Two Sons Of Flight MH370 Passenger Sue MAS...

Two sons of a passenger of Malaysia Airlines’ Flight MH370 today filed a suit against Malaysian Airline System Berhad (MAS), Department of Civil Aviation (DCA) di rector-general and three others for compensation over the loss of their father after the flight went missing enroute from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8.

Their mother, Ng Pearl Ming, 38, filed the suit on behalf of her sons, aged 13 and 11, through Messrs Rusmah Arunan & Associates at the High Court Registrar’s Office here.

The brothers, represented by lawyer Datuk Dr S. Arunan and Gary Edward Chong, also named the Immigration director-general, the Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) chief and the Malaysian Government as defendants.

In their statement of claim, the boys claimed that their father, Jee Jing Hang, 41, who was a passenger on Flight MH370, had entered a contract of carriage with MAS on the flight that departed Kuala Lumpur at 12.41 am and was scheduled to land in Beijing at 6.30 am on March 8.

They claimed that under the contract, MAS, as the first defendant, should have taken all necessary measures to ensure a safe flight, but that MAS had clearly breached the contract when the aircraft failed to land in Beijing and no detailed explanations about the termination of the flight were made until today.

The brothers also claimed that MAS failed to give proper explanations about what happened on board the flight, especially matters which were in its knowledge, and had failed to discharge its duties properly, hence causing them to lose their father.

The boys also claimed that the DCA director-general, as the second defendant responsible for providing air traffic control service to ensure that the flight was safe, had failed and had been negligent in taking appropriate measures to re-establish contact and track down the flight through radar.

They also claimed that the Immigration Department had failed and had been negligent in carrying out detailed inspections on passengers to the extent of enabling several individuals to board the aircraft using fake identification documents.

The two plaintiffs also claimed that the RMAF had failed and had been negligent in deploying its assets immediately to identity the unscheduled flight which appeared on its radar system, which could possibly be Flight MH370.

The boys are seeking compensation from all the defendants over the loss of their father, a businessman who was their sole bread winner earning RM16,865 a month, and aggravated damages for their grief and suffering.

They are also seeking exemplary damages, costs and other relief deemed fit by the court.

Flight MH370 dropped off radar on March 8 as it flew from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 227 passengers and 12 crew on board.

The Boeing 777 aircraft has yet to be found, even after an exhaustive search in the southern Indian Ocean where it is believed to have gone down after veering off course.

The search for the aircraft continues in the southern Indian Ocean. – BERNAMA

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