Former law minister Zaid Ibrahim “schooled” Selangor Menteri Besar Amirudin Shari on how authorities could effectively monitor and detect abuses in organisations that run businesses and welfare homes, as what had allegedly happened in Global Ikhwan Services and Businesses Holdings (GISBH).
This came after the menteri besar reportedly said the group had employed tactics that made it hard for authorities to fully monitor its activities, including switching to businesses and confining within their own family circle.
Zaid (above) said it is only hard if the authorities do not know what to look for.
"Let's start with welfare homes. Are the welfare departments (both state and federal) well-equipped to monitor the occupants? Are the operators of welfare homes properly vetted?
"Do they fully comply with the regulations? Are they required to be registered? If not, then this is something the MB should be doing.
"Then, it would be pretty easy to detect children who were mistreated or not adequately taken care of or abandoned," Zaid said in a long post on X.
Business activities
He also pointed out that it would not be hard for authorities to monitor GISBH business activities.
All the latest information about the company, Zaid added, should be with the Companies Commission and local councils.
He said at the same time, the Inland Revenue Board would know what GISBH does in its businesses.
According to Zaid, the difficult part for the authorities is to determine the group members’ religious views.
Thus, the lawyer advised religious officers to be careful and not rush into accusing those arrested of being deviant.
Yesterday, the Malay daily Utusan Malaysia quoted Amirudin as saying that authorities could not detect the alleged abuses that happened in GISBH because the group had been changing their tactics.
"Based on the preliminary briefing I received, GISBH had changed its tactics by venturing into businesses and this made (the authorities) unable to monitor their activities.
"They (GISBH) also confined their activities to within their own group, thus making it difficult for us to detect abuses," Amirudin said. - Mkini
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