A Friday meeting in the Masjid
(the first of ramadhan 2007)

A Friday meeting in the Masjid
to each a pillar and his thoughts
his wirids and a rosary
and the old men and the young convene

Do you know Datuk - Ahmad Ibrahim?
A Singporean with always a songkok on
The youngest Attorney- General - before he was 38
and well to being a Chief Justice of Singapore but
Hated and feared by - Lee Kuan Yew!?
it is Egypt or - a scandal?
Since the old school

Go next to the masjid and look for a zul-aidah?
say: datuk M Siddek wrote a two page obit
on Ahmad Ibrahim there in the Pusat Falasafah Sains Islam
(but what has another Ibrahim got to do with the pusat?)

He lifted up the Shariah
and now the non courts are quite dignified
as was and will be the his answers in Cambridge
the model answer and why Kuan Yew did fear
then, now and always will of Ahmad Ibrahim
When Ahmad Ibrahim sits for his exams he excels

What was the scandal? Drew a smile true
as PKFZ and Jafza, LKY and Ahmad Ibrahim
A blessing for the Malays and us
said Datuk M Siddek who collects his toll by his pillar
from friends in a Friday meeting in the Masjid

Whatever happens, this is a killer:

1. Dubai-based operator pulls out of PKFZ
…PKFZ chairman Datin Paduka O.C. Phang believes the free zone could manage and market itself independently. “We have managed so many other free zones in our country and succeeded, and PKFZ will be included as well.

“We are looking for suitable candidates to fill the managing director’s position and have developed a strong marketing team.

“Jafza has equity interest in its other free zone projects, and with its business realignment, of course PKFZ will be first to be let go,” Phang told StarBiz.

Other than its headquarters in Jebel Ali Free Zone, Dubai, Jafza’s other international free zone projects include Djibouti in Africa and Medhub in Morocco.

“We (Jafza and PKFZ) have never discussed equity matters as from the very beginning, we clearly wanted them to only manage and market PKFZ,” Phang said….

2. Disaster Zone
Red tape, political meddling, inaccurate minutes and attempted tax evasion real reasons Port Klang Free Zone deal collapsed
R. Nadeswaran and Terence Fernandez

According to an e-mail from Gulliver to Jafza International senior vice-president (international operations) Chuck Heath last Oct 30, Phang had given Gulliver three months to “toe the line”, ordering Gulliver to report to PKFZ and not Jafza.

Meanwhile, a draft report from Ernst & Young Malaysia on a meeting between PKA, PKFZ and Jafza at Jafza’s Dubai headquarters on Nov 29 last year over the funding of the PKFZ also raised concerns.

Ernst & Young indicated that the details of the payment schemes involved tax evasion.

The Ernst & Young report was submitted by Graham Lovett, Gulf Managing Partner of Clifford Chance, to Heath.

Lovett noted: “Clearly, Jafza should not in the meantime enter into any further agreements with PKA/PKFZ of the nature proposed by those entities.

“… urgent action is required to ensure that Jafza is comfortable with the financial agreements concerning the operation of PKFZ, given the potential for reputational damage …”

Terima Kasi

ps The end of the days of Abdullah Ahmad Badawi as Mr Nice Guy, Bakri&Din.