Upko President wants errant teacher transferred as far away as possible from non-Muslim students.
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KOTA KINABALU: United Pasokmomogun Kadazandusun Murut Organisation (Upko) President, Wilfred Madius Tangau, has taken to Facebook, to demand that a teacher involved in the scam conversion of an underaged Christian schoolgirl at the SMK Kinarut in Kinarut, in the outskirts of Kota Kinabalu, be transferred out immediately.
He wants the errant teacher to be transferred as far away as possible from non-Muslim students, preferably to a religious school where all the students are Muslims.
“I have requested the Sabah Education Director to transfer her to somewhere without a lot of non-Muslim students,” said Wilfred who is also Tuaran MP.
“Instead, she should be moved to a Sekolah Menengah Agama where 100 per cent of its students are Muslim.”
The Upko Chief’s Facebook page was flooded with Likes from irate parents and other netizens.
One posting which supported Wilfred’s statement said the move would prevent the errant teacher from “breaking up another family”.
Angry Sabahans have taken to social media to campaign for the errant teacher to be dealt with by way of a transfer and disciplinary measures, an example made of her for neglecting her duties and for playing politics with religion at a school which the parents trusted to look after their children and educate them.
Social media and Whatsapp have been flooded with pictures of the errant teacher apparently in a bid to “name and shame her” and serve as a warning to others out there.
The errant teacher was apparently moved to SMK Kinarut recently. Following the eruption of the controversy over the alleged conversion, there were reports in social media that she had been temporarily transferred to SMK Tamparuli.
“Please monitor her. What she did, breaking up families, was wrong,” said a posting from a Facebook user.
Another wrote; “Her washing of hands in this incident was also very inappropriate. Do take precautionary measures. Don’t let your children be the next victims.”
Other comments called for the Education Director and the principal of the school concerned to be held accountable for breaching the trust that parents have in the school system. “A school is not the place to carry out missionary work,” was the general thrust of the comments.
Sabah Commissioner of Police, Jalaluddin Abdul Rahman, has since confirmed that the girl concerned is not Muslim and there’s no documentation supporting the alleged conversion.
He has also come under criticism for declaring a person’s faith instead of investigating the report lodged against the errant teacher and the school by rubber tapper Jilius Yapoo, the girl’s father.
Parti Bersatu Sabah Secretary-General, Johnny Mositun, has also stressed that it won’t do for the authorities concerned to take their cue from police declaring that a 16-year-old girl student in Sabah at the heart of a growing controversy over conversion in boarding schools “is not a Muslim” and leave things at that.
“The girl’s religious status is not for the police to declare. The school cannot be allowed to go scott-free if they have broken the law.”
The Director of Education, he reiterated, has some explaining to do. He was referring to his statement that “the girl wanted to be Muslim.”
KOTA KINABALU: United Pasokmomogun Kadazandusun Murut Organisation (Upko) President, Wilfred Madius Tangau, has taken to Facebook, to demand that a teacher involved in the scam conversion of an underaged Christian schoolgirl at the SMK Kinarut in Kinarut, in the outskirts of Kota Kinabalu, be transferred out immediately.
He wants the errant teacher to be transferred as far away as possible from non-Muslim students, preferably to a religious school where all the students are Muslims.
“I have requested the Sabah Education Director to transfer her to somewhere without a lot of non-Muslim students,” said Wilfred who is also Tuaran MP.
“Instead, she should be moved to a Sekolah Menengah Agama where 100 per cent of its students are Muslim.”
The Upko Chief’s Facebook page was flooded with Likes from irate parents and other netizens.
One posting which supported Wilfred’s statement said the move would prevent the errant teacher from “breaking up another family”.
Angry Sabahans have taken to social media to campaign for the errant teacher to be dealt with by way of a transfer and disciplinary measures, an example made of her for neglecting her duties and for playing politics with religion at a school which the parents trusted to look after their children and educate them.
Social media and Whatsapp have been flooded with pictures of the errant teacher apparently in a bid to “name and shame her” and serve as a warning to others out there.
The errant teacher was apparently moved to SMK Kinarut recently. Following the eruption of the controversy over the alleged conversion, there were reports in social media that she had been temporarily transferred to SMK Tamparuli.
“Please monitor her. What she did, breaking up families, was wrong,” said a posting from a Facebook user.
Another wrote; “Her washing of hands in this incident was also very inappropriate. Do take precautionary measures. Don’t let your children be the next victims.”
Other comments called for the Education Director and the principal of the school concerned to be held accountable for breaching the trust that parents have in the school system. “A school is not the place to carry out missionary work,” was the general thrust of the comments.
Sabah Commissioner of Police, Jalaluddin Abdul Rahman, has since confirmed that the girl concerned is not Muslim and there’s no documentation supporting the alleged conversion.
He has also come under criticism for declaring a person’s faith instead of investigating the report lodged against the errant teacher and the school by rubber tapper Jilius Yapoo, the girl’s father.
Parti Bersatu Sabah Secretary-General, Johnny Mositun, has also stressed that it won’t do for the authorities concerned to take their cue from police declaring that a 16-year-old girl student in Sabah at the heart of a growing controversy over conversion in boarding schools “is not a Muslim” and leave things at that.
“The girl’s religious status is not for the police to declare. The school cannot be allowed to go scott-free if they have broken the law.”
The Director of Education, he reiterated, has some explaining to do. He was referring to his statement that “the girl wanted to be Muslim.”
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