The
Malaysian Hockey Confederation has shown that it does not understand simple
instructions as evident with the organizing of a so called briefing session for
its affiliates.
MHC
had sent out an email last Friday to all its affiliates seeking the attendance
of Presidents and secretaries to a briefing session by the Director General of
the Sports commissioners Office. This briefing was to e held in Ipoh and it
largely touched on constitutional matters.
However
checks with the Sports Commissioner Ahmad Shapawi Ismail revealed that they
never requested for such a session ad had made it clear that the Sports
Commissioners Office wanted to hold a special session with affiliates of the
Perak Hockey Association.
“I
made it very clear that the briefing is for Perak HA affiliates and not MHC. I
do not know why MHC has invited their affiliates as this is something that we
want to clear with Perak HA,” clarified Shapawi.
“I
have directed my officers to inform MHC of this error by them and its for them
to rectify it. We have no issues to discuss with MHC affiliates as all is
running fine. It is Perak HA that is of our concern.”
To
make matters clear, Perak HA are currently embroiled in a situation that could
even render MHC illegal and hence the Sports Commissioners Office wanted to put
things right in Perak.
This
comes about after a complaint was filed against Ipoh City Hockey Association
and the Sports Commissioners Office had directed Perak HA to investigate and
revert. The investigation rvealed that a fresh election needed to be held and
it was then that the Sports Commissioners Office directed ICHA and Perak HA to
do so.
However
both parties ignored the directive and went about doing business as usual with
Perak HA even going a step further to endore a 10 year ban on the ICHA Deputy
President.
And
to make matters worse, certain officials of Perak HA went on to assume
positions in certain districts despite not living in the said districts, thus
further compounding matters.
And
finally Perak HA is the onlt MHC affiliate that has yet to merge its men’s and
women’s associations, thus running foul of the HC deadline of December 31 2013.
