Show-cause letter by ROS served on PRS leaders

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KUCHING: Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS), which is embroiled in a leadership tussle, has been asked to show cause why it should not be deregistered. 

The show-cause letter by Registrar of Societies (ROS) was served on key party leaders on Friday, giving the 22-month-old Dayak party 30 days to reply. 

The party’s secretary-general Sidi Munan confirmed that he received the letter, which was also sent to president Datuk Dr James Masing and deputy president Datuk Sng Chee Hua. 

“I will reply,” Sidi told reporters after the party’s extraordinary delegates conference (EDC) near here yesterday. 

The conference, which was convened by a faction led by Chee Hua, unexpectedly did not elect a “new” president to replace Dr Masing. 

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Chee Hua updated the 289 delegates from 22 of the 34 divisions on the party’s latest development. 

The party’s deputy information chief Ernest Chua Kheng Hua, spokesman for Chee Hua’s camp, said the main point in the show-cause letter was that Dr Masing had breached the rule of natural justice by firing six of the party’s key office bearers on May 25.  

The six were Sidi, Chua, deputy secretary-general Larry Sng Wei Shien (also Chee Hua’s son and a state assistant minister), treasurer-general Clement Eddy, deputy treasurer-general Sng Chee Beng (Chee Hua’s brother) and information chief Wilftred Nissom. 

With the exception of Eddy and Nissom, the four filed complaints with the ROS, claiming that their sacking was illegal as it breached the party’s constitution.