Nostalgia Pejabat Pendidikan Daerah Tamparuli

Tamparuli, daerah kecil yang terletak di pantai barat 'negeri dibawah bayu' ini, mempunyai penduduk sebanyak lebih kurang 50,000 orang.

Disamping itu, ia nya mempunyai rangkaian berpuluh-puluh sekolah (termasuk sekolah menengah), pusat pendidikan dan cadangan pusat pengajian tinggi saperti Politeknik dan Universiti.

• Tamparuli mula mendapat perhatian ramai bilamana sebuah lagu kadazan/Dusun berjodol 'Jambatan Tamparuli telah diedarkan dipasaran sejak beberapa tahun yang lalu.


• Seterusnya Pekan Tamparuli dianjakan lagi pengenalan nya ketahap Nasional oleh Marsha Millon Londoh (gambar kanan), penyanyi berketurunan suku kaum dusun ini, telah menggegarkan daerah ini bilamana beliau telah terpilih untuk menyerti program realiti Akademi Fantasi ke3 yang berpusat di Kuala Lumpur.


• Walau pun pada asas nya, topographi kawasan tersebut yang kebanyakan nya terdiri dari bukit-bukau, gunung-ganang, namun operasi dari segi pendidikan ada lah normal dan sama saperti yang terdapat di daerah-daerah yang lain di Sabah ini.


• Dilapurkan, kejayaan ini berpunya kerana ada nya bantuan Pegawai Kanan dari pejabat pendidikan daerah Tamparuli selaras dengan kehendak situasi dan syarat pendidikan di sana.


• Namun skim perkhidmatan dan pentadbiran pejabat Pegawai Pelajaran Daerah (PPD) daerah kecil Tamparuli yang dikatakan banyak membantuk perkembangan pempelajaran daerah tersebut kini telah dilupuskan dari senarai carta Jabatan Pendidikan Sabah dalam kadar yang segera sejak tahun lalu.

Semua skim pentadbiran PPD daerah Tamparuli telah diserah kepada PPD Tuaran. Konon, Justifikasi nya ada lah untuk mengurangkan birokrasi disamping memudahkan lagi penyelarasan pendidikan bersepadu di daerah Tuaran secara menyeluruh .

Walhal, Pentadbiran daerah kecil Tamparuli sehingga masa kini, dikendalikan pentadbiran nya oleh seorang Penolong Pegawai Daerah yang bertempat di kawasan tersebut dengan sepenuh masa.

• Menurut pandangan para pendidik di daerah Tamparuli, sejak pelupusan PPD daerah kecil Tamparuli ini, banyak kerja dan pengurusan pendidikan yang ada hubung kait dengan kawasan tersebut terpaksa berhadapan dengan permasaalahan saperti perkhidmatan yang lambat dan sebagainya. Selaras dengan kemampuan PPD Tuaran dan masaalah keluasan kawasan yang terpaksa di harungi oleh hanya seorang PPD yang berpusat di Tuaran.


• Menurut para pendidik tersebut selanjutnya, penutupan dan pelupusan pentadbiran tersebut ada lah tidak manasabah kerana implikasi nya akan melemahkan sistem pempelajaran di kawasan tersebut dalam jangka yang pendek dan juga panjang.


• Kata mereka, pentadbiran PPD di Tamparuli yang telah ujud sekian lama sepatut nya di kekalkan untuk beroperasi saperti juga kawasan-kawasn yang setaraf dengan logistik nya. Saperti Kunak, Nabawan, Tongod, Kuala Penyu, Pitas dan lain-lain lagi.


• Menurut pandangan mereka, perkhidmatan serta pentadbiran PPD di daerah kecil Tamparuli, perlu diteruskan.


• Dalam situasi yang sedia ada dan demi untuk rakyat Tamparuli, hanya pemimpin dari organisasi politik sahaja yang dapat menyelamatkan kesinambungan skim perhidmatan dan pentadbiran PPD Tamparuli.


• Jikalau tidak, perjalanan perkhidmatan pendidikan disana akan bertambah teruk. Seakan-akan ia nya menampakkan satu potret ngeri yang membayangkan PPD Tamparuli sebagai sebuah Pusara Tanpa Nisan.

Dalam isu yang penting ini, saya sempat berbincang dengan Datuk Jahid Jahim (gambar kiri) selaku ADUN daerah tersebut. Dalam perbincangan itu, beliau setuju kalau pelupusan PPD Tamparuli itu dikaji semula.

Walaumacam mana pun, kerana perkara ini banyak hubung kait nya dengan kementerian perseketuan ada lah lebih efektif kira nya Ahli Parlimen Tuaran masa kini atau pun dimasa akan datang campur-tangan dengan berusaha menyampaikan hasrat rakyat Tamparuli ke pehak kerajaan perseketuan agar PPD Tamparuli di teruskan perkhidmanan saperti sediakala; sapertimana yang diperjuangkan oleh Datuk Anifah Aman terhadap PPD daerah Membakut.

Sumber: Ilham Penulis

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‘Dinesh was shot like in the Wild West’

PKR duo maintains that businessman Dinesh's death was a cold blooded murder.

PETALING JAYA: Kapar MP S Manikavasagam today described the ruthless police killing of businessman, D Dinesh, as akin to the shooting in the Wild West.

“Dinesh was shot ruthlessly by the police near Ampang Point traffic light,” he said after attending the 26-year-old’s funeral in Prima Damansara, Selangor.

Dinesh, who was the youngest child in his family, was shot on Aug 21 while travelling with six of his friends and two relatives.

According to Manikavasagam, the police shot Dinesh, engaged to be married next month, at a close range.

“The post mortem report shows one shot went through his skull and another went through his shoulder.

“The police are claiming gang clash but we have eyewitnesses to prove otherwise,” said Manikavasagam.

Dinesh was sent to Ampang Hospital and then to Kuala Lumpur Hospital for post-mortem.

The funeral held today attracted a large crowd.

Dinesh’s body was taken from his home in Prima Damansara to his car-wash outlets in Damansara Damai and Sungai Buloh before the burial ceremony was held in Jalan Loke Yew.

PKR vice president N Surendran, who also attended the funeral, meanwhile described Dinesh’s death as a “cold blooded murder”.

“We want an explanation from the police on this cold blooded murder and we urge them not to cover up the case.

“We will also prove that this is a cold blooded murder since we have eye witnesses,” said Surendran.

A press conference would be called tomorrow in PKR headquarters where eye-witnesses are expected to debunk police allegations of a gang clash.

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Fierce fighting in Syria swells refugee exodus

AMMAN: Syrian troops forced rebels to abandon a battered Damascus suburb yesterday in the latest battle of an intensifying civil war that the UN refugee agency said had prompted more than 200,000 people to flee the country.

Hundreds of soldiers and dozens of tanks and armored vehicles pushed into the centre of Daraya after a small group of defenders withdrew, opposition activists said.

President Bashar al-Assad’s forces had subjected the Sunni Muslim township to a three-day bombardment from artillery, tanks, mortars, rockets and helicopter gunships in which at least 70 people were killed, 21 of them yesterday they said.

“There are lots of bodies trapped in destroyed buildings and civilians are trying to flee towards Damascus,” an activist in Daraya, who gave his name as Abu Kinan, told Reuters by phone.

“The rebels have mostly slipped away. The fear now is that the army will round up young men and summarily execute them, like it did in Mouadamiya,” he said, referring to a nearby suburb where residents said troops killed at least 40 people in cold blood this week after storming in to hunt down rebels.

Opposition sources reported a similar killing spree by Assad’s forces in the Qaboun district of Damascus, where they said at least 46 people were done to death.

Syrian authorities restrict media access, making it hard to verify accounts by both sides in the conflict.

More than 90 people were killed across Syria yesterday, including 22 civilians in the eastern province of Deir al-Zor, according to the opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which said about 220 had been killed nationwide on Thursday.

The incessant violence has accelerated a refugee exodus, with more than 3,500 Syrians fleeing to Turkey in the past 24 hours in what Turkish officials said was one of the highest daily totals since a revolt against Assad erupted in March 2011.

“In Jordan, a record 2,200 people crossed the border overnight and were received at Zaatari camp in the north,” Adrian Edwards, spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, said in Geneva.



Aleppo fighting

Assad’s forceful response to initially peaceful protests inspired by Arab uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt and elsewhere has spawned an armed rebellion and plunged Syria into a civil war that the United Nations says has cost more than 18,000 lives.

The military has been struggling to shore up Assad’s grip on Damascus and the northern city of Aleppo, which had long stayed aloof from the conflict between a mostly Sunni opposition and a power structure dominated by minority Alawites.

Fighting erupted in Aleppo, Syria’s biggest city, after rebels staged an offensive there and in Damascus, emboldened by a July 14 bomb attack that killed four of Assad’s top aides.

Clashes raged on in Aleppo, where combat jets and helicopter gunships struck rebel-held districts overnight, residents said.

One school used as a base by rebels was bombed twice during the night. “The rebels stay in abandoned police stations and hospitals, but the army knows exactly where they are,” said Abu Ahmed, a resident living nearby.

On a frontline in the southern Saif al-Dawla area, rebels destroyed an armored personnel carrier and the army fired tank shells and mortar bombs, but made no attempt to advance.

The body of a civilian named Mohammed Tabraji, 25, lay in the street. His friend Mohammed al-Arabi said they had been looking for a place to buy bread when a sniper shot Tabraji.

In Bustan al-Qasr, not far from the frontline, a 20-year-old student who gave his name as Abdelrahman said his family was too poor to leave the city and hated the idea of fleeing to Turkey.

“If you go as a refugee you won’t get any respect,” he said. For most people here, self-respect is the most important thing.”



Safe haven

Nonetheless, Syrians in dire straits have been streaming into neighboring Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq.

Turkey alone now hosts more than 78,000 Syrian refugees, according to its Disaster and Emergency Management Directorate, a sharp rise on the 44,000 registered there at the end of July.

Ankara, saying it will not be able to accommodate more than 100,000 refugees, has suggested that the United Nations set up a safe haven inside Syria to staunch the outflow.

The chances of gaining a UN Security Council mandate for such a safe haven, which would require military protection, are close to zero, given the rejection by veto-wielding powers Russia and China of any outside intervention in Syria.

French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on France 24 television on Thursday that an “international coalition” of Western nations and allies could consider setting up a limited no-fly zone over part of Syria without such a mandate.

“The scenario mentioned by (US Secretary of State) Hillary Clinton of a particular zone where there could be a banned area is something that needs to be studied,” said Le Drian, the first senior French official to air the possibility of action by an “international coalition,” rather than the United Nations.

On Tuesday, Russia warned the West against taking any unilateral action in Syria, after President Barack Obama threatened “enormous consequences” if Assad used Syria’s chemical or biological weapons.

France chairs a meeting of UN Security Council foreign ministers in New York next week which it has said will focus on humanitarian solutions for Syrians caught up in the conflict.

Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said he had invited Turkey, Iraq, Lebanon and Jordan to attend the conference, given the number of refugees and fears of the conflict spreading.

At least three people, including a Sunni Islamist commander, were killed yesterday in a fifth day of Sunni-Alawite fighting in Lebanon’s northern city of Tripoli, where the bloodshed in Syria has aggravated old sectarian tensions.

A Lebanese security source said the Tripoli violence, in which 16 people have been killed this week, was “alarming and dangerous .. It is very likely that it will escalate this time”.



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