Disabled group wants a fair probe

Friday March 26, 2010



Disabled group wants a fair probe

A GROUP of disabled people is disappointed over the method of investigation by the KTM Komuter management in the case of a disabled person who was kicked by a KTM Komuter driver.

Anthony Thanasayan, who is a member of Malaysians Against Discrimination of the Disabled (MADD) and a MBPJ councillor said the KTM management had briefed the press without their presence.

“Also, the investigation committee interviewed their own staff first and the victim was only called for the interview today. The victim should be interviwed first.

“This is unfair and the investigation should be conducted professionally. The disabled 57-year-old Karuppannan Veeramalai is the victim and he is being treated like the guilty party.

“They (KTM management) are trying to protect their staff.” Independent Living and Training Centre president Francis Siva said.

“They only wanted the investigation to be carried out in a fair and professional manner.

“If there is no action taken, we will take the matter to the higher authority of the police.

“In fact, after the incident happened on March 4, the police have not got back to us. We want justice to be served,’’ he said.

KTMB acting general manager (Commuter Services) Mohd Hider Yusoff said they had to complete the investigations before any decision was made.

“We know the driver’s story but still have not heard the disabled person’s account. We will come out with a report within the next two weeks.”

KTM records statement on alleged assault

24 Mar 2010KTM records statement on alleged assault

24 Mar 2010KTM records statement on alleged assault

KTM Bhd has recorded a written statement from wheelchair-bound Karuppannan Veeramalai, who alleged that a Komuter train driver had assaulted and verbally abused him earlier this month over a parking incident.

Karuppannan met with KTM officials at the central region administration office for commuter services at KL Sentral this afternoon.

Petpositive Reaches Out To Homeless Elderly and Disabled in Kuala Selangor

Courtesy from Petpositive

PETPOSITIVE NEWS!

DATELINE KUALA SELANGOR: (Pictures by ILTC, Malaysians in Motion, Alison Murugesu-Ghani & Petpositive.)

It was roughly a little over a month ago when an urgent SOS message rang out on PETPOSITIVE's Facebook called PETPOSITIVE EMPOWERMENT. As many as 11-homeless Malaysians were in trouble somewhere in Kuala Selangor.

To make matters worse, they were elderly and disabled too.

It was Petpositive members Stanislaus Anthony and Francis Siva who came across their hapless situation during a routine visitation programme conducted by the Independent Living and Training Centre (ILTC) in Rawang, Selangor.
Siva, incidentally, is President of the ILTC.

They alerted Our Society to their troubles. Because Petpositive is a Society for the elderly and the disabled, we decided to respond to their needs.

Membership to our Society for all elderly and disabled persons is automatic.

There is no payment for memberships. No sooner had our message gone out on our Facebook page when who else, but our beloved Captain Isyak Ghani and his lovely wife Alison Murugesu, came rushing to our assistance.
Ghani and Alison are no strangers to PETPOSITIVE.

The couple, together with their son Adrian (now five years of age) conducted a round-the-world 4X4 expedition from May 2008 until 19 August in 2009.

Their journey took them more than 60,000 miles through 43 countries and over four continents.

During their expedition called, "Malaysians in Motion" they raised awareness about PETPOSITIVE. They also managed to bring in some funds for our cause.

The homeless folk in Kuala Selangor who were being looked after in an abandoned warehouse were in need of cooking utensils, electrical fans and other basic items.

However, most important of all was a wheelchair commode so that they could attend to the calls of nature in comfort and safety. The poor folks only had a squatting toilet to use. Quite a few of them used walkers for mobility.

The Ghanis donated the commode chair and a table fan by delivering the items personally to PETPOSITIVE at our Therapy Centre (PTC) in Petaling Jaya.

This was done in the morning on February 19, last month.

Committee member S Gopalasingam was also at the PTC to receive the items.

The Ghanis gifts to the 11-old folks were presented on the 11th of this month at Kuala Selangor. But not before the ILTC dropping by at the Welfare Department in the area to get them all registered so that each of them can get some financial aid from the government.

We managed to get a top ranking officer to follow us there and then to visit the home.

The ILTC and PETPOSITIVE through Stanilaus Anthony is currently seeing to it that the arrangements proceed successfully.

MEETING WITH THE YB PUAN HANIZA MOHD TALHA

MEETING WITH THE YB PUAN HANIZA MOHD TALHA (AHLI DEWAN UNDANGAN NEGERI SELANGOR KAWASAN TAMAN MEDAN)
Last week on 16/3/2010 State AssemblymannYB. Haniza Mohamed Talha invited me to her office at Taman Medan to discussed on upcoming forum on related disabled issue.

It was a fruitful meeting

During the meeting, she want to find solutions to improve the lives of Taman Medan disabled residents.