Abah ada senapang patah satu laras. Masa komunis dulu dia jadi home-guard, senapang itu momentonya. Di kampong (Kg Gedok) dia tembak tupai merosakan buah kelapa dan rambutan, musang makan ayam dalam reban, ular sawa berendam di sungai makan itek, ikan kaloi makan umpan, kera merosakan anak getah.
Dia ada dua kawan rapat, Bulin dan Ahmad Jawa yang tinggal tidak jauh dari rumah kami. Mereka kerap menyuluh. Pada senja hari mereka kayuh basikal ke hutan yang agak jauh. Masing2 membawa senapang patah, meredah hutan dan hendap buruan - pelanduk, napoh, landak, kijang maupun rusa. Mereka berjalan meredah hutan sederet, yang depan arahkan cahaya lampu picit (diikat pada laras senapang) kedepan, kiri dan kanan. Bila cahaya bertentang dengan mata buruan, dua mata berkilauan dan terus tembak. Biasanya beberapa ekor pelanduk yang dibawa balik pagi esokanya. Mereka kena berjaga2 kalau pegawai mergastua tahu. Kalau dapat tembak rusa beri satu peha kalau terpaksa kapada mergastua. Dikampong pun ada informer.
Abah ada kata dia kena peluru penabur yang masih ada pada bandannya. Bulin salah tembak. Pada satu buruan mereka berpecah. Bulin nampak sinaran cahaya disangka dari mata buruan. Duum. Nasib baik abah pegang lampuh jauh dari badan.
Aku tak sabar bila nak cuba menembak. Bila tingkat dua duduk diasrama Tunku Besar Sec. School, Tampin. Bila balik kampong (18 batu dari asrama) cuti sekolah aku berasa sudah budak besar maklumlah boleh bersendirian. Rasa teruja untuk gunakan senapang. Pagi itu nampak tupai dipelepah kelapa. Abah kesawah, aku ambil senapang dan dua peluru buckshot diloteng. Aku isi peluru, angkat senapang, bidik tupai. Bang. Tupai sempat melompat. Isi peluru sekali lagi dan tembak. Bang. Tak kena juga. Cepat2 simpan senapang.
"Kau menembak ko tadi Din?" abah tanya bila dia balik dari sawah.
Aku tidak berkata apa, takut kena marah.
"Lain kali boritau. Kono lotak pangkal senapang boto2 dibahu kalau tak bahu ghoboh," dia menambah.
Bila abah sudah tua. Aku pohon dapatkan senapangnya. Aku suap kerani di Balai Tampin 300. Gagal walaupun ada temuduga di Balai Gemencheh. Agaknya aku bukan penembak tepat. Kalau kenal orang ni tentu dapat AK47! Demikianlah al-kisahnya pada hari raya ini. SELAMAT HARI RAYA AIDIL-ADHA
LHDN saman Ku Nan tuntut bayar cukai pendapatan RM57.17 juta
KUALA LUMPUR – Kerajaan Malaysia melalui Lembaga Hasil Dalam Negeri (LHDN) memfailkan saman terhadap bekas Menteri Wilayah Persekutuan, Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor bagi menuntutnya membayar wang berjumlah RM57.17 juta terhadap cukai pendapatan yang tidak dibayar sejak 2012 sehingga 2017.
Kerajaan Malaysia mendakwa sehingga kini defendan masih gagal membayar amaun cukai pendapatan yang masih terhutang termasuk dengan kenaikan yang kesemuanya berjumlah RM57,167,069.35.
Jumlah itu ialah RM64,444.38 (2012); RM6,614,861.59 (2013); RM8,887,576.69 (2014); RM9,198,523.67 (2015); RM5,520,818.05 (2016); dan RM26,880,844.97 (2017).
Tengku Adnan kini menghadapi dua pertuduhan rasuah di Mahkamah Tinggi, di sini iaitu masing-masing menerima wang RM2 juta dan RM1 juta yang mana satu kesnya pada peringkat perbicaraan manakala satu kes lagi ditetapkan perbicaraan pada 3 September.
Pada 25 Jun lepas Kerajaan Malaysia melalui LHDN menfailkan saman terhadap bekas Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Razak menuntutnya membayar cukai pendapatan sebanyak RM1.69 bilion bagi tahun taksiran 2011 hingga 2017.
Najib, Zahid dan Adnan: Burung sewarna berkumpul bersama
1. When you look at them, their exteriors please you; and when they speak, you listen to their words. They are as (worthless as hollows) pieces of timber propped up, (unable to stand on their own). They think that every cry is against them. They are the enemies; so beware of them. The curse of Allah be on them! How are they deluded (away from the Truth).
(Surah 63: The Hypocrites)
8. And violent is he in love of wealth. (Surah 100: The Runners)
1. The mutual rivalry for piling up (the good things in this world) diverts you (from more serious things). (Surah 102: The Piling Up)
1. Woe to every (kind of) scandalmonger and backbiter. 2. Who piles up wealth and lays by it. 3. Thinking that his wealth would make him last forever. (Surah 104: The Scandalmonger)
Under the guise of management fee, controversial government agency PADUCorporation (PADU) made an unprecedented request for RM7 million or 2% of the RM360 million meant to provide free computer tablets to teachers nationwide.
This came even after PADU had been paid RM1.1 million as one-off payment to manage the scheme by the project funder/Cash Cow, Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) under Phase 2.
The contractor, Utusan Melayu (Malaysia) Berhad (Utusan), refused to meet PADU’s 2% demand, stating in a letter dated 9 April 2018 that it was not agreeable to paying the said amount.
The salient points in the said letter, signed by none other than one of the key players in this scandalous project Datuk Mohd Noordin bin Abbas (a former banker), Managing Director of Utusan, are as follows:
The requests by PADU for the RM7 million or 2% management fees exceeded our authority including myself;
SKMM never agreed that this fees to be paid to PADU;
When this tablet project was discussed in 2016 the necessity of this fees had not been brought up;
During the meeting on 11 January 2018 Pengarah BTP and CEO of Padu, Puan Khadijah Abdullah, who had attended the meeting, had agreed to apply to Prime Minister Office through Minister of Education for the management fees; and
For Utusan, we act as a DELIVERY CONTRACTOR of the Tablets to the teachers as directed by PADU and MOE.’
Four Key Little Napoleons For Phase 1 – 6
The then CEO of PADU, Puan Khadijah binti Abdullah, whom the Utusan’s letter was addressed to. She was one of the four little napoleons, who was one of the key players in the scandalous Tablet Project. The famous DATUK SERI ALIAS BIN AHMAD was the other little napoleon. He was also one of the key players who facilitated the payment of RM18,402,690.25 for Phase 6 just before the 14 GE. He was the one who signed the cheque with Puan Khadijah binti Abdullah. At the material time was the chairman of the Board of Trustees of PADU and KSU from February 2017 to May 2018. To date not a single tablet was delivered to the teachers. PADU CFO, En Ahmad Izzat bin Zaki, the third little napoleon who knowingly prepared all payments to the special purpose vehicle “Utusan – Epiweb Sdn Bhd Collection Account” .En Azrul Satria bin Abdul Rahim, the very special officer to Kadijah binti Abdullah and the current CEO En Razif. The fourth little napoleon in PADU. The silent operator for this scandalous Tablet Project.
RM7 million Or 2%
The 2% request raises a troubling question whether PADU, a company incorporated by guarantee under the purview of Ministry of Education (MOE), was asking for a “clawback” or “kickback”.
According to the said Utusan letter of 9 April 2018 even the MCMC was not informed about PADU seeking RM7 million from Utusan.
MCMC had granted the RM360 million funding to PADU, which contracted Utusan to provide 430,000 tablets, pre-installed with E-Tutor app and Utusan Malaysia newspaper, to teachers over seven phases.
If PADU needed another round of management fee, it should have incorporated the 2% into the contract at the start and informed the relevant authorities.
Doesn’t the demand for management fee, more than a year after the contract was signed, indicate that the price of the tablets was INFLATED?
Utusan had specified that if it failed to deliver the gadgets, it will compensate PADU RM573 per tablet. The thing is, Padu was contracted to buy per tablet at RM853 from Utusan. At this moment no one know how much was the actual cost of the tablet from . According to a report from MOE, Huawei tablets were according to specs for Phase 1 and Lenovo for Phase 2 – 5 not according to specs. We will together discuss this damning report in more detail in another part later. If we are to assume that the actual cost of the tablet was RM553 per unit then, Utusan was making RM280 (RM853-RM573) per tablet for just playing its role as delivery boy so to speak. It was too good to be true that Utusan made a profit of RM300 per tablet.! If the profit was RMM280 then Utusan would have made RM120.4 million for the 430,000 tablets!
Is Epiweb Sdn Bhd A Special Purpose Vehicle For WHO?
There was another middle man in this transaction called EPIWEB SDN BHD, the so-called supplier of the tablets to Utusan. En Khairul Firdaus Akbar Khan, who is not a director of Epiweb Sdn Bhd and signed the supply agreement with Utusan. Upon receipt of RM18,402,690.25 on 27 April 201 (justbefore 14 GE) for most questionable Phase 6, the special purpose vehicle “UTUSAN-EPIWEB SDN BHD Collection Account” paid out RM10,402,690.25 to Redberry Sdn Bhd, which was not a party to the contract between Utusan – Padu or Epiweb Sdn Bhd – Utusan. The remaining RM8 million of the RM18,402,690.25 received from PADU went to Utusan. It would appear from this particular transaction Epiweb Sdn Bhd received nothing from the payment under Phase 6! This raises more questions for PADU and MOE to answer. For phase 1 – 5, did Reberry receive any payment from this special purpose vehicle – “Utusan – Epiweb Collection Account”?
The famous Malay Mail editor in chief, Datuk Wong Sai Wan in red Malay Mail; T-shirt was pressing the button on 30-11-2018 to bury Malay Mail for good.Dato’ Dr Siew Ka Wei in handcuffs & orange t-shirt and Ms Elizabeth Ken, the media specialist of Redberry Media Group.
Redberry Media Group (Redberry) is one of the special outfits of Dato’ Dr Siew Ka Wei, who was arrested and detained by MACC together with Ms Elizabeth Ken in connection with the ‘Speedy Gonzales’ Geeko Tech RM99.693 million deal with Tourism Malaysia for four days in January 2019. By coincidence, Ms Ms Elizabeth Ken, who is a shareholder and CEO of Geeko Tech Sdn Bhd and the media specialist of Redberry and Dato Dr’ Siew Ka Wei (Siew) is the MD of Redberry. Siew is also a current executive chairman of public listed company Ancom Bhd, which is the parent company of Redberry, and Group MD of Nylex Bhd (part of Ancom Bhd). Redberry is the owner of the defunct Malay Mail (printed version) and the equally famous Datuk Wong Sai Wan is the editor-in-chief, who is a director of several of Dato’ Dr Siew Ka Wei’s outfits. Datuk Wong is the only one of a few editors in chief, who is a director of several companies.
PADU, The “VENDOR FRIENDLY” – Must Be Punished and Shut Down
PADU must be shut down for gross mismanagement and sloppy supervision of what was a novel IT project to digitalise education. At last the little napoleons of the top management in PADU had fleeced it like other projects under the last BN administration.
The deafening silence on the part of PADU and/or MOE is most alarming. Don’t tell us the Minister of Education is equally “Tidak Apa” as the little napoleons in PADU!
