Balkis inquiry: Did S’gor RoS break own rules?
By WANI MUTHIAH (The Star)
SHAH ALAM: The Selangor Registrar of Societies may have broken its own regulations when it allowed the Wives of Selangor State Assemblymen and MPs Charity and Welfare Organisation (Balkis) to be dissolved.
The Selangor State Assembly’s Special Select Committee on Competence, Accountability and Transparancy (Selcat) revealed that this was because the annual general meeting called by Balkis pending dissolution could have been illegal.
Balkis called for the meeting to initiate its dissolution three days after the 12th general election in March last year and before the then new Mentri Besar Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim was sworn in.
Registrar officer Tairah Yusoff told the inquiry that 70 out of the 100 Balkis members had attended the meeting and this surpassed the quorum requirement, which was only 64.
However, Selcat chairman and State Legislative Assembly Speaker Tang Chang Khim asked Tairah how 70 people could have attended when most of them had been reduced to being associate members after their husbands had lost in the polls.
Associate members have no voting rights and therefore have no clout to call for or second the dissolution of Balkis, he noted.
Teng also disputed that Balkis had 100 members given that the state only had 56 assemblymen, 22 MPs, five senators and the Speaker before the 12th general election.
“Only 84 people qualified to become Balkis members, and so how could the association have 100 members,” Teng asked Tairah.
Teng also wanted Tairah to reveal the identity of the person who had audited and signed the association’s 2007 accounts.
The auditor appointed by Balkis, Yee Choon Kong, had testified on Wednesday that he did not audit the 2008 accounts because the association had failed to provide him with the necessary documents.
