DAP rep demands apology from Tee Keat or will sue
Want to sue , sue lah ! What for , talk so much ?
Lee refuted Ong’s accusations that she had abused public funds for a campaign since 2007 to build a Chinese primary school in Pandan Perdana, which has yet to materialise.
“There are some false allegations in Ong Tee Keat’s blog,” Lee said in a statement today.
“After my clarification today I demanded (sic) Ong Tee Keat to apologize and make a clarification openly, otherwise I will sue him for defamation,” she added.
Ong had said that his service centre recently received complaints from local residents who claimed they had donated to the DAP by buying hand-held fans bearing Lee’s portrait in support of a school-building project.
The Pandan MP noted that Lee has not made a public account of the donations she had collected, leaving donors in the dark on how their money was spent as there was still no sign of the school. Selangor DAP chief Ean Yong Hian Wah also claimed no knowledge of her donation drive.
“Collecting money from the public by claiming that they are being raised for a non-existent school reeks of abuse and is in bad taste,” Ong wrote in his blog entry posted on August 31.
Lee dismissed the allegations and insisted that the donations she had collected since 2007 were for the party to campaign for the school, not to construct it.
The Teratai assemblyman also maintained that she does not need to be accountable to the public over their donations for the party campaign, even as allegations of corruption surfaced against her.
Angry Pandan area residents’ association representatives reportedly highlighted Lee’s alleged misdeeds to the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) last Wednesday.
One of the representatives reportedly claimed that some 10,000 fans bearing Lee’s image were sold to donors in her constituency based on her promise of building the school on a plot of land known as a “green-lung” of Pandan Perdana.
Lee said today that she would also sue Ong’s special officer Cindy Leong for falsely accusing her of printing 10,000 fans and selling them for RM50,000.
“This is a very serious allegation and I will sue her for defamation also,” said Lee.
She pointed out that she had only ordered 2,000 fans and raised RM4,773.50 in sales. Campaign expenses however amounted to RM6,173, causing a deficit of RM1,399.50.
Lee said that the shortfall occurred as fans were given to those who donated RM1 although the suggested donation was RM5. She had also allowed donors to take three fans for a donation sum of RM10.
“That was why the selling of merchandise hardly cover(ed) the cost,” said the Teratai assemblyman.
Lee challenged Ong to visit her and peruse the accounts of the party campaign from July to December 2007.
“I am very happy to explain all the usage of public funding to him (Ong) one by one,” she said.
Lee also claimed that Ong had falsely accused her of failing to file an application for land conversion in connection to the school project.
“No applications for conversion had ever been made, making a mockery of the school fund raising project,” said Ong in his blog.
The Teratai assemblyman pointed out that she had visited the site intended for the school in Pandan Perdana on August 31 with Selangor exco Ronnie Liu, Hulu Langat district officer Zainal Abidin A’ala and Ampang Jaya Municipal Council (MPAJ) deputy president Abd Hamid Hussain.
“We also came out with 2 steps solutions to convert the reserve land (green lung) to school reserve land,” said Lee.
The Teratai assemblyman also noted that Ong had never paid the MPAJ for previously using the Taman Muda Community Hall as his office and said that parts of the hall had been rented out for functions.
“In this case, should Ong Tee Keat also declare his account?” she asked.
See article here : Behind the Chinese school controversy : Ong Tee Keat
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