A lawyer for former minister in the Prime Minister's Department Shahidan Kassim informed the Kuala Lumpur High court today that he and two other Perlis Umno office bearers intend to resolve a suit filed against them by a businesswoman over an order of rice cookers.
Hilwa Bustam for Shahidan said following this, the court fixed next Friday for hearing.
"We are looking as to whether or not we can resolve the matter. We are working towards it by next Friday," she said.
Hilwa said Shahidan could not attend today's hearing as he was at the Kuala Lumpur Hospital.
The lawyer had earlier met Judicial Commissioner Wan Ahmad Farid Wan Salleh in chambers along with the businesswoman's counsel.
Lawyer Lavinia Kumaraendran and Cassandra Lee for the businesswoman Florence Lee Jye Wen told reporters that the defendants had paid for the remaining 6,000 rice cookers.
"However, they have not paid costs including for the storage of the rice cookers. We will wait for whether this can be resolved by next Friday," she said.
Lee had sued Shahidan along with Padang Besar MP Zahidi Zainul Abidin, who was then Perlis Umno secretary and Perlis Umno treasurer Rozabil Abdul Rahman for breach of contract regarding their order of 60,000 rice cookers.
She claimed that Perlis Umno had allegedly ordered 60,000 1.8-litre rice cookers emblazoned with the Umno and BN logos and Shahidan's initials ‘DSSK’ three years ago.
Storage costs
In her statement of claim filed in April last year, Lee claimed a sales representative approached her saying Perlis Umno was interested in buying the rice cookers, for which she produced the said logo, measuring 2.5 inches by one inch, and showed to Shahidan's secretary in May 2015.
She said approval was obtained several days later on June 3, 2015, via an official letter from Perlis Umno signed by its organising secretary, Kamarudin Abdul. The letter reportedly stated that Shahidan approved the purchase of 60,000 units, with 20,000 units each to be distributed in the constituencies of Arau and Kangar.
Considering that to be a confirmation letter, Lee processed the RM4.4 million purchase and proceeded to place an initial order for 10,000 rice cookers with all units ready to be delivered on the instructions of Perlis Umno by June 2015.
However, only 2,000 units were eventually ordered by Perlis Umno to be delivered between Oct 23, 2015, and Apr 6, 2016.
In her suit, Lee claimed a total of RM592,000 for non-payment of the rice cookers, special damages of RM36,511.40 for the cost of storing the units and continuing costs of RM2,750.35 to keep the units which cannot be sold off elsewhere due to their customised labels. - Mkini
What else other then rice cooker? May i suggest plates and bowl. Is this the best you think umno can do for the people of Perlis? What do you call this policy? May i sugest BRIMcooker. OMG! We are so weak in comparison with other countries MP which brought policies that will bring benefit to their people and to their nation.
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