Unsigned Dapsy accounts: Treasurer should answer
Brother of JusticePublished: Jul 29, 2005 5:16 AM | Updated: Jan 29, 2008 10:21 AM
I would like to respond to Justice's letter which accused the Dapsy national secretary Anthony Loke Siew Fook of allowing an unsigned and unaudited financial report to be tabled by former Dapsy national treasurer Thomas Su at the wing's recent AGM.
I disagree with Justice's view that the national secretary rather than the treasurer himself should be accountable for such report. I think Su should be primarily accountable for an incomplete financial report presented to the congress. Nonetheless, the national secretary is partly negligent for allowing it to be tabled without checking through it in detail.
Many delegates were upset about Su's 'taking-it-easy attitude' towards the financial report. Some even said that they would have not voted in Su as the new Dapsy vice-chairman, knowing that such a shoddy and unaccountable financial report was presented to the congress. (That is, if a debate was allowed before voting.)
Many delegates were also upset that the speaker did not strike off the financial report as 'improperly prepared' but instead allowed the delegates to vote on it. It was passed by the floor with a narrow margin.
One democratic procedure that the DAP and Dapsy are lacking is that elections of officials should always come with prior open debates. Delegates were denied the right to assess the candidates before casting their valuable votes if this is absent.
This shows that the DAP and Dapsy 'are more BN than BN' by curbing their own members' democratic rights.
The new Dapsy leadership needs to walk their talk too. Dapsy national chairman Nga Khor Meng announced publicly that Dapsy would co-opt national executive committee members based on various states committee recommendation of candidates.
Nonetheless, the Melaka Dapsy state committee has never received any official or genuine invitation and other states have complained that members not recommended by the state committees were co-opted instead of the recommended ones.
The DAP and Dapsy leadership should set an example by allowing democratic process to flourish among their members before talking about making Malaysia a democratic society.
I disagree with Justice's view that the national secretary rather than the treasurer himself should be accountable for such report. I think Su should be primarily accountable for an incomplete financial report presented to the congress. Nonetheless, the national secretary is partly negligent for allowing it to be tabled without checking through it in detail.
Many delegates were upset about Su's 'taking-it-easy attitude' towards the financial report. Some even said that they would have not voted in Su as the new Dapsy vice-chairman, knowing that such a shoddy and unaccountable financial report was presented to the congress. (That is, if a debate was allowed before voting.)
Many delegates were also upset that the speaker did not strike off the financial report as 'improperly prepared' but instead allowed the delegates to vote on it. It was passed by the floor with a narrow margin.
One democratic procedure that the DAP and Dapsy are lacking is that elections of officials should always come with prior open debates. Delegates were denied the right to assess the candidates before casting their valuable votes if this is absent.
This shows that the DAP and Dapsy 'are more BN than BN' by curbing their own members' democratic rights.
The new Dapsy leadership needs to walk their talk too. Dapsy national chairman Nga Khor Meng announced publicly that Dapsy would co-opt national executive committee members based on various states committee recommendation of candidates.
Nonetheless, the Melaka Dapsy state committee has never received any official or genuine invitation and other states have complained that members not recommended by the state committees were co-opted instead of the recommended ones.
The DAP and Dapsy leadership should set an example by allowing democratic process to flourish among their members before talking about making Malaysia a democratic society.
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