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Berpantang Maut Sebelum Ajal, Wanita Tercampak Dan Terduduk Atas Bumbung Teksi

Berpantang maut sebelum ajal. Nasib menyebelahi seorang wanita yang terlibat dalam kemalangan dengan sebuah teksi.

Beliau bukan saja terselamat, malah lebih menakjubkan lagi, wanita berusia 50an tahun itu tercampak dan terduduk di atas teksi yang turut terlibat dalam kemalangan tersebut, lapor Harian Metro (31 Okt).

Encik Rajendran, pemandu teksi yang terbabit berkata: “Saya hairan di mana penunggang motosikal itu, namun ketika menoleh ke atas saya terpandang seorang wanita terduduk dia atas bumbung teksi saya.”

“Saya kemudian pergi ke arah wanita itu dan membantunya turun dari bumbung teksi selain melihat jika ada sebarang kecederaan yang dialami, namun wanita itu hanya memaklumkan sakit pada bahagian tangan dan kaki serta masih trauma,” kata pemandu teksi itu, 48 tahun, kepada Harian Metro.

Menurut laporan akhbar berkenaan, kejadian yang turut mengejutkan para pengguna jalan raya yang lain itu berlaku di persimpangan lampu isyarat Lebuh Raya Butterworth-Kulim, petang semalam.

Ramai juga yang merakam gambar mangsa dan memuat naiknya ke laman media sosial sehingga menjadi viral.

Encik Rajendran berkata, insiden itu paling mengejutkan, namun beliau lega kerana tiada yang cedera atau mati.

“Selepas terdengar bunyi dentuman kuat saya terus memberhentikan teksi dan bergegas keluar untuk mencari mangsa kemalangan.

“Ketika itu saya ternampak sebuah motosikal terbalik di belakang teksi dan cuba mencari penunggangnya, sebelum terkejut apabila melihat seorang wanita dalam keadaan terduduk di atas bumbung teksi,” beliau memberitahu Harian Metro ketika ditemui selepas membuat aduan di Bahagian Trafik Ibu Pejabat Polis Daerah Kulim, semalam.

Source: Berita MediaCorp

November 2, 2016
Mufti Keluar Fatwa Senaman Zumba Adalah Haram

Mufti Sabah tampil kembali memberi peringatan kepada umat Islam khususnya, bahawa aktiviti tarian dan senamrobik yang diiringi muzik rancak atau lebih dikenali sebagai senaman zumba adalah haram.

Peringatan itu dikeluarkan dalam satu kenyataan bersurat khas yang dikeluarkan bertarikh 19 Julai lalu.

Tindakan surat peringatan itu dibuat berikutan senaman zumba kini semakin popular dan disertai umat Islam khususnya di Sabah.

Dalam surat pekeliling itu, Datuk Bungsu @ Aziz Jaafar menggesa umat Islam menjauhi senaman tersebut kerana terdapatnya unsur-unsur yang bertentangan syariat dan akhlak Islam.

“Antaranya seperti percampuran lelaki dan perempuan bukan mahram, pakaian menjolok mata, pendedahan aurat, elemen erotik dalam tarian dan persembahan muzik yang keterlaluan,” katanya

Pada April 2014, Mufti Sabah pernah mengeluarkan fatwa rasmi bahawa senaman zumba itu adalah haram.

Source: Bin Usrah

November 2, 2016
Can’t Blame Non-Muslim Businesses For Own Ignorance: Islamic Scholars In Malaysia

Muslims have the obligation to know the halal status of the food they want to consume and cannot blame non-Muslim businesses for their own ignorance, Islamic scholars in Malaysia said.

Former Terengganu Mufti Datuk Ismail Yahya and member of PKR’S Islamic Council Wan Ji Wan Hussein believe if non-Muslim outlets have made it clear that their food is non-halal, they should not be held responsible if Muslim consumers failed to observe the notice.

“Both parties must be responsible. The shop must make it clear that it is not halal,” Mr Ismail, now a legal adviser for progressive Islamic NGO Sisters in Islam, told Malay Mail online.

“And if the outlets have (put a notice of its non-halal status), it is the responsibility of Muslims themselves to know not to eat there,” he added.

Mr Wan Ji, on the other hand, said non-Muslim businesses have the right to sell whatever product without having to placate Muslim consumers.

The young independent preacher added Muslim themselves must educate themselves about the choices they make, and cannot accuse non-Muslim businesses of attempting to confuse Islam’s followers if the non-halal status of their products were made clear.

“Non-Muslims have the right to sell whatever product they want and say a Muslim entered the premise and mistakenly consumed a food that make up the core product of the company then you can’t blame the company can you?”

Controversy struck fast food outlet Ninja Joe following complaints over its decision to name one of its burgers “P. Ramly”, a move that drew accusations by some Muslim consumers of attempt to confuse.

Ninja Joe is known as a non-halal fast food chain company that specialises in pork burgers, even among Muslims.

But Mr Ismail also said that the company was inviting trouble by choosing a Muslim’s name for a pork burger.

While stressing that Muslims should have already known that the outlet sells pork burgers, naming a product with a Muslim name would definitely draw controversy.

“If the company had made it clear they sell pork burgers then Muslims should have known not to enter..but maybe the company could have avoided (controversy) if they didn’t name something non-halal with a known Muslim’s name,” he said.

Ninja Joe said it named the burger “P Ramly” as a homage to popular local burger makers Ramly Burger, a product it said was iconic to the Malaysian identity.

But Mr Wan Ji noted some revered Islamic scholars, including the esteemed Yusuf Qaradawi, had deemed it permissible for Muslims to consume food offered by non-Muslims if they were unaware that the food are not halal.

“In fiqh, cited even by Yusuf Qaradawi, Muslims are not obliged to decline food offered if their eyes did not see how the food was prepared.

“Even during the Prophet’s (Muhammad) time, he did not question how the food that were offered to him by the Christians and Jews were prepared,” the PKR leader said.

Ninja Joe could face action after the Selangor Islamic Religious Department (Jais) and its Negri Sembilan counterpart, JHEAINS, opened investigations against the company for what they alleged to be an attempt at confusing Muslims, in addition to confiscating several items from its store.

The Domestic Trade, Cooperative and Consumer Affairs Ministry has since said that it will take action against Ninja Joe if any wrongdoing is found.

Source: TODAY Online

November 2, 2016
Singapore To Match Malaysia’s Road Charge For Foreign Vehicles

The Ministry of Transport (MOT) will match in some form Malaysia’s road charge of RM20 (S$6.60) at the two land entry points in Johor – the Causeway and Second Link. The new levy came into effect on Tuesday (Nov 1).

In a statement, MOT said Malaysia’s road charge “is discriminatory against Singapore-registered vehicles as it is only applied at the Singapore checkpoints”.

The ministry added that it will announce details in due course.

Malaysia’s Ministry of Transport had announced on Oct 28 that foreign private-registered vehicles entering Johor will have to pay the road charge, which will be collected each time motorists enter Malaysia via Touch n’ Go cards.

After getting their passports stamped, drivers will now have to tap their cards twice, at two different terminals – one for the road charge and the other for the checkpoint toll.

Motorcycles are excluded from the road charge.

Malaysia’s Transport Ministry made it clear last week that the road charge is different from the Vehicle Entry Permit (VEP).

Singapore’s MOT had responded in a statement to say it has “noted” Malaysia’s plans, and will match the road charge in some form if it discriminates against Singapore-registered vehicles.

The next day, Malaysia’s Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai said that the Malaysian government is not discriminating against Singapore cars in the implementation of the road charge.

“There is no discrimination. We will impose the road charge not only at our border with Singapore, but also our borders with Thailand, Brunei and Indonesia,” he said, according to Bernama news agency.

An average of 20,000 Singapore-registered vehicles enter Malaysia daily via the Causeway and the Second Link.

Singapore currently imposes a S$35 Vehicle Entry Permit (VEP) fee on foreign-registered cars entering the city-state, although each vehicle is given 10 free days a year and there are no charges during the weekends. Cars entering Singapore between 5pm and 2am from Monday to Friday are also exempt from VEP.

Source: ChannelNewsAsia

November 2, 2016
KPMG: ‘Pervasive Control Failures’ In AHTC

Independent auditors have found that flawed governance in the Workers’ Party-run Aljunied Hougang Town Council (AHTC) led to improper payments running into the millions to various parties, including to its former managing agent FM Solutions & Services (FMSS) and service provider FM Solutions and Integrated Services (FMSI).

In a report made public on the town council’s website on Tuesday (Nov 1), KPMG said improper payments to FMSS and FMSI alone amounted to over S$1.5 million.

AHTC also overpaid when it appointed FMSS as its managing agent by more than S$1.2 million, said KPMG, which was appointed by AHTC on court orders to help fix compliance and governance lapses uncovered in a special audit by the Auditor-General’s Office.

Flagging “serious conflicts of interest” and a “failed control environment” at the town council, the auditing firm also warned that if the issues involving FMSS and FMSI were deliberate, “they could amount to criminal conduct, the implications of which the Town Council should consider”.

KPMG’s latest report centred on improper payments made by the council to various parties, in particular to FMSS and FMSI, which were appointed between 2011 and last year.

Their appointments “exposed the Town Council to serious conflicts of interest as the direct owners of FMSS and FMSI (with a profit motive) concurrently held key management and financial control positions in the Town Council (charged with a service motive)”, said KPMG.

For example, Mr Danny Loh – who died last year – was secretary in the town council as well as shareholder of FMSS, and sole proprietor of FMSI.

“The situation of FMSS is unlike that of the Town Council’s previous managing agents. In the former case, those approving payments for the Town Councils were not beneficiaries engaging in a profit-motive transaction with the Town Council,” said KPMG.

In the case of FMSS, the “conflicted persons” were in effect “approving payments to themselves”.

Meanwhile, the Town Councillors relinquished an “unacceptably high degree of financial responsibility” to the conflicted persons.

“In this regard, payments with an aggregate financial value of at least SG$23 million involved approvals by the conflicted persons of payments in effect to themselves through payment vouchers, which is an important gateway in the Town Council’s payment approval process,” KPMG said.

In this “failed control environment”, the improper payments to FMSS and FMSI included amongst others, overpayments to FMSS for project management fees, overpayments to FMSS for purported overtime and CPF contributions payments to FMSS without certification that work had been performed, as well as payments to FMSS that were made without the requisite co-signature of members of the town council.

These amounted to about S$1.5 million, of which at least S$600,000 ought to be recovered by the town council, said KPMG.

The firm also said the tendering out of the contracts to FMSS and FMSI was “deficient in numerous respects”.

For one, for the first managing agent contract, FMSS was more expensive than the comparable contract with the former Aljunied Town Council managing agent.

When the contract was renewed — the second managing agent contract — the rates increased significantly. The increase in the managing agent’s costs in the first year under FMSS amounted to approximately S$500,000, while under the second managing agent contract the rates were, conservatively, S$700,000 million more that what might have cost to retain CPG as the managing agent.

Overall, KPMG reported “pervasive” control failures cutting across key areas of AHTC’s governance, financial control, financial reporting, procurement and records management over the audit period. Such flawed governance has potential to “conceal and hinder the detection and identification of all instances of proper payment”, said the accountants.

As a result, KPMG said it was unable to conclude whether the improper payments and the amounts that ought to be recovered identified in the report are exhaustive.

Noting that it is beyond the auditors’ mandate to conclude whether an offence has been committed, KPMG said: “While our work was not focused on identifying potential criminal acts arising from the issues we observed, we are advised that, had the shortcomings (identified in) this report been committed deliberately, they could amount to criminal conduct, the implications of which the town council should consider.”

AHTC said it is studying the report and will respond in due course.

Source: www.todayonline.com

November 1, 2016