Jangan sampai negeri, negara berpecah: disebabkan tarikh Julai 22

June 29, 2015

Motif gerakan Sarawak for Sarawakians anjur perarakan memperingati kemerdekaan Sarawak diragui

KUCHING: Menteri Muda Pembangunan Belia (Bandar) Datuk Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah meragui motif rancangan gerakan Sarawak for Sarawakians (S4S) untuk menganjurkan perarakan bagi memperingati kemerdekaan negeri ini pada 22 Julai depan.

Karim yang dihubungi semalam berkata, meskipun beliau bersetuju bahawa kita tidak seharusnya melupakan tarikh penting ini namun pada masa yang sama kita harus memastikan bahawa negeri dan negara ini tidak berpecah belah disebabkan tarikh ini.

“Kita di Sarawak ini telah mengambil 16 September sebagai tarikh kemerdekaan kita dalam Malaysia dan tarikh ini harus diberi keutamaan.

“Malah di Amerika Syarikat (AS), tidak semua 52 atau 53 negerinya mendapat kemerdekaan serentak tetapi satu tarikh umum telah dikenal pasti sebagai tarikh rasmi bagi hari kemerdekaan AS,” katanya.

Tambah Karim yang juga Menteri Muda Perumahan, gerakan S4S dan aktivis Peter John Jaban selaku pengerusi penganjur seharusnya tidak bersikap terlalu emosional terhadap tarikh 22 Julai melainkan mereka ada motif tersembunyi yang lain.

“Saya berharap tiada motif terselindung di sebalik rancangan S4S dan Peter John untuk menganjurkan perarakan ini pada 22 Julai nanti.

“Nasihat saya, demi kepentingan perpaduan kita seharusnya hanya menyambut 16 September sebagai tarikah kemerdekaan kita dalam Malaysia,” ujarnya.

‘Need to review Arms Act, 1960’

April 23, 2015

Dato Sri Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar

SIBU: Provisions under Section 36 of the Arms Act 1960 have to be relooked in order to remain relevant to deal with the issue of imitation guns.

Deputy Home Affairs Minister Dato Sri Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar said this was especially so if the act or offence committed by a person did not fall under the provision of Section 6 of the Firearms (Increased Penalties) Act 1971.

“There are two Acts of Parliament governing imitation guns, one complementing the other under specific circumstances.

“Section 36 of Arms Act 1960 provides punishment for importing or in possession of imitation gun and is punishable with not more than one year jail or a fine of RM5,000 or both. But if the person uses the gun to commit, attempt to commit, or conspire to commit an offence which possibly puts a person in fear of death or grievous hurt shall be punished with imprisonment up to 10 years and three lashes of the whip.

“From the provisions mentioned, obviously there is a need to have a relook at the provisions of Section 36 of the Arms Act 1960 to make the provisions more relevant especially, if the act or offence committed by the person does not fall under the provision of Section 6 of Firearms (Increased Penalties) Act 1971,” Wan Junaidi said.

He was asked if there was a plan by the government to review the existing penalty for selling or possessing imitation (fake) guns, making it stiffer to curb the sale of such gadgets that resemble genuine firearms following the arrest of a restaurant waiter from a house in Matang last week after he was found in possession of a cache of ‘never-before-seen’ imitation air rifles and pistols.

Speaking at a press conference in Kuching, district police chief ACP Roslan Bek Ahmad said that police personnel inspected a room in the house and found nine sets of imitation weapons comprising four rifles and five pistols, along with various related components.

Galeri: Kuching Dictrict PDRM Hari Raya Open House

September 13, 2012

HAVE A TRY: Sarawak police commissioner Datuk Acryl Sani Abdullah Sani offering Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah one of many dishes available during the Hari Raya open house. Looking on are (from left) Sharifah Hasidah Sayeed Aman Ghazali, Kuching OCPD ACP Roslan Bek Ahmad and deputy OCPD Supt Pauzi Bujang.

Instil culture of hating crimes — Abdul Karim

May 28, 2012

IT IS LAUNCHED: Abdul Karim (third right) together with (from left) Wee, Acryl Sani, Abang Wahap
and Liew (right) during the launching of state-level Crime Prevention Month 2012. 
— Photo by Muhammad Rais Sanusi

KUCHING: Teenagers and youths in the state are encouraged to join Rakan Cop and Malaysian Crime Prevention Club as part of the efforts to promote crime prevention activities among the younger generations.

Minister of Social Development Tan Sri William Mawan said that the early involvement of teenagers and youths in the two bodies would be the best platform to prevent them from being involved in crime.

In his text of speech read out by Assistant Minister of Youth Development Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah when launching the state-level Crime Prevention Month 2012 at Kuching Integrated Recreational Centre here yesterday, the Senior Minister also said that it was everybody’s responsibility to maintain public safety and peacefulness in the country.

On a personal note, Abdul Karim who was representing Mawan at the function said, “We must try to ensure there is a culture of working together in our community to prevent crime and how nice would it be if we were to live in a society where crime rarely happens.”

He said he believed these were achievable considering there were already countries such as New Zealand as well as Japan which had very low crime rate.

Due to lesser crimes, the number of police personnel required in the countries was very small, he added.

“The culture of the communities there is such that they work together to ensure crime are not committed. If it happens, the community will work hand-in-hand to ensure that it does not happen again,” he said.

He added he was made to understand that New Zealanders would despise those who build fences around their houses because they think people who do so were trying to isolate themselves from society, which he said demonstrated the strength of their community’s spirit in preventing crimes.

In urging the people to be more proactive in crime prevention, Abdul Karim said they must try to instil the culture of hating crime and having the desire to see that the city was safe from criminal activities.

Also present during the ceremony were state police commission Datuk Acryl Sani Abdullah Sani, Kuching City North Commission Datuk Bandar Datuk Abang Abdul Wahap Abang Julai, Sarawak Lawn Tennis Association president Datuk Patrick Liew, India Street Pedestrian Mall chairman Dato Wee Hong Seng, state information director Resat Salleh and Kuching district police chief Roslan Bek Ahmad.