PRESS STATEMENT BY:-
TAN SRI DATUK ROBERT PHANG MIOW SIN Justice of Peace
Chairman – Social Care Foundation
On the Donation of RM50,000/- to the Noramfaizul Fund
Over national TV yesterday, Malaysians saw Bernama TV cameraman Noramfaizul Mohd Nor (left) being given a hero’s burial. In this morning’s national newspapers, we hear the PM Datuk Seri Najib Razak calling on all Malaysians to stop the blame game. So let us be clear on one thing - the death of Noramfaizul Mohd Nor, was for a noble and worthy cause. His shooting, on Friday 2nd September, while covering a Malaysian humanitarian aid mission in famine-hit Somalia by Putera 1Malaysia Club, should not be politicized. Only by honoring his death can we find honor and respectability for ourselves as one united people, one nation- 1Malaysia!
His death is made more poignant by the fact that while most Muslims and Malaysians here were celebrating and feasting for the Hari Raya AidilFitri, these selfless patriots sacrificed their family time to spread Malaysian goodwill in a far away war torn and famine stricken country. So, let us not scar the memory of the great deeds of a simple ordinary man by our divisiveness.
It is now time for us to care for his family- his wife, Puan Norazrina Jaafar, who has now become a single mother and his two small sons, Mohd Irfan and Mohd Naufal. I hereby make a humble donation of RM50,000/- with the hope that the government and all Malaysians will join me in setting up a fund that will ease their pain and allow them to live an ordinary life.
I hope this donation would not be politicized because I recall that when I made a similar donation to the Teoh Beng Hock Foundation, I was reviled by the BN parties for supporting a DAP cause. Let me state this clearly - I donated to the TBH Foundation not for DAP. And I am not doing this now for UMNO or Putera UMNO! It is for the family of a fallen Malaysian who deserves not just our sympathies but also our financial support in order to go through life. It is to ensure that single mothers and their dependents are fended for when their breadwinner is lost for a noble cause or through no fault of theirs. That is one of the social justice that I believe in and will fight for.
We should also thank our PM YAB Dato’ Sri Haji Mohd. Najib, DPM YAB Tan Sri Dato’ Haji Muhyiddin Bin Mohd, Minister of Foreign Affairs YB Dato’ Sri Anifah Bin Hj. Aman, Minister of Defence YB Dato’ Seri Dr. Ahmad Zahid Bin Hamidi, Minister of Women, Family and Community Development YB Senator Dato’ Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil and other leaders of this country for having shown sympathy and concern over this tragedy. I always care for single mothers’ and their children welfare.
On that point, I have just been reminded that I should do the same for the family of the late Ahmad Sarbaini, the Customs officer who died while in the custody of the MACC. I agree not enough is being done there. Instead, the mainstream media appears to have caused more anguish to his family just because he was the subject of an investigation. A man is innocent until proven guilty. Even if you want to defend a public institution for political expediency, that agenda should not predominate the news reportings. We saw that in the Shah Alam police shootings of youths as well. The time has come for us to stop this culture of maligning the memory of the dead. On this occasion of Hari Raya, I extend again to the Ahmad Sarbaini’s family my deepest condolences and I promise to look into their plight shortly.
I also call on all future humanitarian missions to dangerous places like Somalia to heed the cautionary statement by our Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Anifah Aman that safety measures must be taken prior to such missions. In that regard, I hope that the Putera 1Malaysia Club head of this Somalia Aid mission, Dato’Abdul Azeez Abdul Rahim, would accept criticisms with full accountability but do not be daunted by this setback. Malaysians should not point fingers over this incident as to erode this commendable effort.
As we bury the body of an ordinary but great Malaysian, let us keep the memory of his deeds alive. Let us be united in this moment of tragedy.
“HUMBLENESS IS GOOD VIRTUE, ARROGANCE SHALL FALL, THE MEEK WILL RULE THE WORLD”.
TAN SRI DATUK ROBERT PHANG MIOW SIN Justice of Peace
Chairman – Social Care Foundation
On the Donation of RM50,000/- to the Noramfaizul Fund
His death is made more poignant by the fact that while most Muslims and Malaysians here were celebrating and feasting for the Hari Raya AidilFitri, these selfless patriots sacrificed their family time to spread Malaysian goodwill in a far away war torn and famine stricken country. So, let us not scar the memory of the great deeds of a simple ordinary man by our divisiveness.
It is now time for us to care for his family- his wife, Puan Norazrina Jaafar, who has now become a single mother and his two small sons, Mohd Irfan and Mohd Naufal. I hereby make a humble donation of RM50,000/- with the hope that the government and all Malaysians will join me in setting up a fund that will ease their pain and allow them to live an ordinary life.
I hope this donation would not be politicized because I recall that when I made a similar donation to the Teoh Beng Hock Foundation, I was reviled by the BN parties for supporting a DAP cause. Let me state this clearly - I donated to the TBH Foundation not for DAP. And I am not doing this now for UMNO or Putera UMNO! It is for the family of a fallen Malaysian who deserves not just our sympathies but also our financial support in order to go through life. It is to ensure that single mothers and their dependents are fended for when their breadwinner is lost for a noble cause or through no fault of theirs. That is one of the social justice that I believe in and will fight for.
We should also thank our PM YAB Dato’ Sri Haji Mohd. Najib, DPM YAB Tan Sri Dato’ Haji Muhyiddin Bin Mohd, Minister of Foreign Affairs YB Dato’ Sri Anifah Bin Hj. Aman, Minister of Defence YB Dato’ Seri Dr. Ahmad Zahid Bin Hamidi, Minister of Women, Family and Community Development YB Senator Dato’ Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil and other leaders of this country for having shown sympathy and concern over this tragedy. I always care for single mothers’ and their children welfare.
On that point, I have just been reminded that I should do the same for the family of the late Ahmad Sarbaini, the Customs officer who died while in the custody of the MACC. I agree not enough is being done there. Instead, the mainstream media appears to have caused more anguish to his family just because he was the subject of an investigation. A man is innocent until proven guilty. Even if you want to defend a public institution for political expediency, that agenda should not predominate the news reportings. We saw that in the Shah Alam police shootings of youths as well. The time has come for us to stop this culture of maligning the memory of the dead. On this occasion of Hari Raya, I extend again to the Ahmad Sarbaini’s family my deepest condolences and I promise to look into their plight shortly.
I also call on all future humanitarian missions to dangerous places like Somalia to heed the cautionary statement by our Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Anifah Aman that safety measures must be taken prior to such missions. In that regard, I hope that the Putera 1Malaysia Club head of this Somalia Aid mission, Dato’Abdul Azeez Abdul Rahim, would accept criticisms with full accountability but do not be daunted by this setback. Malaysians should not point fingers over this incident as to erode this commendable effort.
As we bury the body of an ordinary but great Malaysian, let us keep the memory of his deeds alive. Let us be united in this moment of tragedy.
“HUMBLENESS IS GOOD VIRTUE, ARROGANCE SHALL FALL, THE MEEK WILL RULE THE WORLD”.
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