{"id":12662,"date":"2019-01-09T23:21:54","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T15:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ngakorming.net\/?p=12662"},"modified":"2019-01-09T23:21:54","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T15:21:54","slug":"umno-supreme-council-should-take-responsibility-to-clear-up-the-financial-mess-in-utusan-malaysia-says-kit-siang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/api.ngakorming.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/09\/umno-supreme-council-should-take-responsibility-to-clear-up-the-financial-mess-in-utusan-malaysia-says-kit-siang\/","title":{"rendered":"UMNO Supreme Council should take responsibility to clear up the financial mess in Utusan Malaysia, says Kit Siang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UMNO Supreme Council should take responsibility to clear up the financial mess in Utusan Malaysia and not make the Utusan journalists scapegoats of UMNO kleptocracy and incompetence. The UMNO Supreme Council must take responsibility and clear up the financial mess in Utusan Malaysia and not make the Utusan Malaysia journalists as scapegoats of Umno kleptocracy and incompetence. The Utusan Melayu Bhd staff have urged Abdul Aziz Sheikh Fadzir to return as executive chairman so that he can complete the task of turning the company \u2013 which is in a financial mess \u2013 around, as Aziz was fully aware of the company\u2019s situation, having put in place a rescue plan for Utusan last June.<br \/>\n<iframe data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TKepLlhmpgk\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Nobody knows whether Aziz\u2019s return to Utusan Malaysia would turn the newspaper around, but I fully agree with the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) secretary Basir Abu Bakar, who is also an Utusan reporter, that whoever helms the company must be committed to saving Utusan. I will go one step further and state that the UMNO Supreme Council must not be allowed to run away from its responsibility to the Utusan Malaysia journalists, including those who have recently left, as UMNO\u2019s fall from power in Putrajaya in the 14th General Election on May 9, 2018 cannot and must not be used as an excuse to dismiss the Utusan Malaysia journalists \u2013 unless UMNO is going to dissolve itself! In this connection, I fully endorse the call of Gerakan Media Merdeka (Geramm) to the Utusan Malaysia management to take swift actions to resolve its outstanding issues with Utusan as it is unfair for Utusan Malaysia\u2019s management to sideline the rights of their former workers who for many years had contributed to the company and made a sacrifice in order to keep the country\u2019s oldest Malay newspaper afloat.<br \/>\n<iframe data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9MllkkoXc5s\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><iframe data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3eWFEYZOEE8\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><iframe data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AR0Cyk424_4\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><a href=\"http:\/\/18.141.187.144\/archives\/12662\/netnkm190109-03a\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12664\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12664 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/ngakorming.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/netnkm190109-03a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 480px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 480\/270;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UMNO Supreme Council should take responsibility to clear up the financial mess in Utusan Malaysia and not make the Utusan journalists scapegoats of UMNO kleptocracy and incompetence. The UMNO Supreme Council must take responsibility and clear up the financial mess in Utusan Malaysia and not make the Utusan Malaysia journalists as scapegoats of Umno kleptocracy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12664,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[709,823],"class_list":["post-12662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lim-kit-siang-kini","tag-says-kit-siang","tag-umno-supreme-council-should-take-responsibility-to-clear-up-the-financial-mess-in-utusan-malaysia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/api.ngakorming.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/api.ngakorming.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/api.ngakorming.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/api.ngakorming.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/api.ngakorming.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/api.ngakorming.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/api.ngakorming.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/api.ngakorming.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/api.ngakorming.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/api.ngakorming.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}