JCI Penampang: AGM by rival group illegal
Published on: Monday, July 28, 2014
Kota Kinabalu: Junior Chamber International (JCI) Penampang dismissed the Annual General Meeting carried out by a group of former members recently as illegal and null and void."This group of disgruntled ex-members who are claiming to represent the Chapter have carried out a fresh AGM recently which was chaired by 2012 Past President Ely Kelvin Maten purportedly on the directive of the Registrar of Societies (ROS) as reported in the media."However, the AGM is both fraudulent and null and void as they have elected a non-chapter member Sue Lili Jaipoh who had resigned from the Chapter in 2013 as their presidential candidate during the AGM.
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"My question is how can you elect a non-financial ex-member who has resigned from the Chapter to be a President. Surely this act is illegal and defies the basic common sense to begin with," said 2014 JCI Penampang President Neil Chan. Chan added that these ex-members have no locus standi to carry out the AGM as these ex-members are non-financial as they have not paid their obligatory membership fees to JCI Malaysia since the beginning of the year.Chan reiterated that JCI and JCI Malaysia has continued to recognise his group as the rightful and bona fide JCI Penampang representatives as evidence by the fact that during the recent Aspac 2014 Conference in Yamagata, Japan, the Aspac hosting flag was handed over to representatives from the existing 2014 Penampang Board of Directors and Conference Organising Committee members to signify their rights to host the event in Sabah next year. He said the JCI Penampang Chapter and current Board of Directors is also recognised by the Registrar of Youth (ROY), a government organisational body under the Ministry of Youth and Sports.
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