Selcat head: Balkis AGM may be illegal

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/3/27/nation/3567630&sec=nation

SHAH ALAM: The annual general meeting called by the Wives of Selangor State Assemblymen and MPs Charity and Welfare Organisation (Balkis) to dissolve the organisation could be illegal.

The Selangor State Assembly’s Special Select Committee on Competence, Accountability and Transparancy (Selcat) chairman and assembly speaker Tang [sic] Chang Khim questioned the Selangor Registrar of Societies (ROS) how 70 people could have attended the AGM when most of them were reduced to being associate members after their husbands lost in the March 8 general election.

Balkis called for the AGM three days after the 12th general election last year and before Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim was sworn in as the new mentri besar.

ROS officer Tairah Yusoff told the inquiry that 70 out of the 100 Balkis members had attended the meeting and this surpassed the quorum requirement of 64.

Associate members have no voting rights and therefore have no clout to call for or second the dissolution of Balkis.

Tang 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, so how could the association have 100 members?” Tang [sic] asked Tairah.

The auditor appointed by Balkis, Yee Choon Kong, told the inquiry on Wednesday that he did not audit the 2008 accounts because the association had failed to provide him with the necessary documents.

Selangor Islamic Religious Council (Mais) employee Hafizatol Akmal Abdul Jalil said the electricity and water supplies to her quarters at the Balkis Complex were disconnected in a bid to evict her.