Selangor settles RM16,000 owed to Pak Samad
Radzi RazakPublished: Apr 2, 2014 10:12 AM | Updated: Apr 2, 2014 10:33 AM
To right a wrong, Selangor state government has agreed to pay RM16,000 owed to national laureate A Samad Said for two paintings which he had grumbled about yesterday.
To right a wrong, Selangor state government has agreed to pay RM16,000 owed to national laureate A Samad Said for two paintings which he had grumbled about last night.
State executive committee (exco) member Rodziah Ismail said today that the state will stump up the full amount for the paintings, which were earlier mistaken as a free gift to the state museum department. This was when she was the exco in charge of cultural affairs.
"The exco meeting today has approved and agreed to expedite full payment to Pak Samad," Rodziah told reporters after the meeting in Shah Alam.
The issue was raised by noted author Uthaya Sankar SB during the launching of Samad's novel Sungai Mengalir Lesu last night.
Uthaya alleged that since Samad became an activist, BN had "boycotted" him while Pakatan Rakyat "exploited" the laureate.
Astro Awani reported Samad as saying that two of his paintings were handed over, passed on as gifts to PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim and Mentri Besar Abdul Khalid Ibrahim and when asked by a Selangor exco member for a price, he had stated that they were worth RM8,000 each. But Pak Samad griped he never got paid.
Meanwhile on the water issue, Abdul Khalid (right) told reporters after the exco meeting that he was meeting Energy, Green Technology and Water Minister Maximus Ongkili on Friday to hammer out a new agreement since the previous water memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed on Feb 26 had failed to help Selangor seize back state water assets.
Khalid said that the new agreement would work around the Water Services Industry Act (WSIA), which gives power for the federal government to forcefully take over the four state water concessionaires, since some of them have refused Khalid’s buyout offer of RM9.65 billion last month.
This new agreement may take some time as Khalid said that he wants to ensure that once the WSIA is invoked, it can withstand any legal challenges in court.
On the issue of the Selangor Islamic Affairs Department’s (Jais) seizure of copies of the Malay and Iban language Bible from the Bible Society of Malaysia (BSM) in January, MB Khalid recommended that BSM complain directly to the Attorney-General’s Office.
“We think it is best to write a letter in such a situation. This will show that BSM want their Bibles back,” MB Khalid said, without elaborating.
On Jan 2, Jais had raided BSM’s office in Petaling Jaya and seized 321 copies of the Malay and Iban-language Bible for an investigation.
State executive committee (exco) member Rodziah Ismail said today that the state will stump up the full amount for the paintings, which were earlier mistaken as a free gift to the state museum department. This was when she was the exco in charge of cultural affairs.
"The exco meeting today has approved and agreed to expedite full payment to Pak Samad," Rodziah told reporters after the meeting in Shah Alam.
The issue was raised by noted author Uthaya Sankar SB during the launching of Samad's novel Sungai Mengalir Lesu last night.
Uthaya alleged that since Samad became an activist, BN had "boycotted" him while Pakatan Rakyat "exploited" the laureate.
Astro Awani reported Samad as saying that two of his paintings were handed over, passed on as gifts to PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim and Mentri Besar Abdul Khalid Ibrahim and when asked by a Selangor exco member for a price, he had stated that they were worth RM8,000 each. But Pak Samad griped he never got paid.
Meanwhile on the water issue, Abdul Khalid (right) told reporters after the exco meeting that he was meeting Energy, Green Technology and Water Minister Maximus Ongkili on Friday to hammer out a new agreement since the previous water memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed on Feb 26 had failed to help Selangor seize back state water assets.Khalid said that the new agreement would work around the Water Services Industry Act (WSIA), which gives power for the federal government to forcefully take over the four state water concessionaires, since some of them have refused Khalid’s buyout offer of RM9.65 billion last month.
This new agreement may take some time as Khalid said that he wants to ensure that once the WSIA is invoked, it can withstand any legal challenges in court.
On the issue of the Selangor Islamic Affairs Department’s (Jais) seizure of copies of the Malay and Iban language Bible from the Bible Society of Malaysia (BSM) in January, MB Khalid recommended that BSM complain directly to the Attorney-General’s Office.
“We think it is best to write a letter in such a situation. This will show that BSM want their Bibles back,” MB Khalid said, without elaborating.
On Jan 2, Jais had raided BSM’s office in Petaling Jaya and seized 321 copies of the Malay and Iban-language Bible for an investigation.
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