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One month ago, NSP launched its so-called Malay Bureau.
Today, we hear that the bureau's organizing secretary, Ramli Mohamad, pleaded guilty to “committing affray”. Together with three others, he was fined $1000.
The bloody “affray” happened in Sep 09, when the breakaway faction turned up at the PKMS building to “take back PKMS from the hands of the traitors".
It seems that violence is not an infrequent feature in previous PKMS meetings. Members report that mugs, a vase and women's shoes were sometimes thrown and some sessions even ended in fist-fights.
Fortuitously, this time round, the breakaway faction brought along a box of tools to change the building's locks as well. So when tool box was dropped and spilled its contents onto the road, men from both sides used the hammers and screwdrivers as weapons.
Incidentally, Ramli was previously warded for two days and received stitches after allegedly being hit on his head with a vase by a fellow female member in April 07. (....ouch!)
Ramli outside courthouse
We know that the NSP Sec-Gen has a bad habit of crossing-swords with others over many issues, big and minuscule. So perhaps that is why he recruits politicians like Ramli into his party, who are fighters, literally.
Ramli was part of a breakaway PKMS faction which convened its own EGM in Nov 08 in which he was “elected” secretary-general. (Incidentally, Nor Lella Mardiiiah Mohamed, one of NSP's newly announced Malay candidates, was appointed deputy president then.)
Recently, a court ordered this breakaway faction to sign over the trust deed, thereby handing over control of the building, estimated to be worth $10 million.
That was when we heard that Ramli, together with Lella and Syafarin, have joined NSP. It is an indication that they have conceded defeat in overturning the incumbent PKMS faction and given up fighting over the $10m building.
The question now is this: why is NSP willing to acquire members of such doubtful and violent repute, and even place him as the organising secretary of an important party wing?
Ramli at Istana
It is perhaps not a surprise since NSP is desperately in need of minority candidates for the coming GE.
Recruitment standards has to be lowered to bring potential candidates in fast. Having Ramli, a leader of the breakaway PKMS faction, would help draw in more of his ex-PKMS colleagues into NSP.
That is why I had earlier alluded to a mini-PKMS forming in NSP.
Curiously, the defence counsel Tan Cheng Kiong for the four who pleaded guilty said something quite intriguing. The lawyer said that his clients “truly believed, rightly or wrongly, that they had a right to take over the building and had intended the (Sep 09) take-over to be incident-free”.
It could be well be just legalese, but I wonder how a person can “truly believe, rightly or wrongly” that one had a right.
More importantly, I suppose the same weird logic can now apply to NSP: it truly believes, rightly or wrongly, that this is the right way to recruit minority candidates.
Many of us would disagree..... but there is not need to fight over this, please
