PUTRAJAYA: A Royal Commission of Inquiry looking into Lembaga Tabung Haji issues will, among others, recommend appropriate action to be taken against those who violated the law.
The RCI has been given three months to submit its report and recommend the next course of action to the government within three months.
Announcing this, Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob said the setting up of the RCI was agreed upon at the Cabinet meeting yesterday.
Among terms that were agreed upon by the Cabinet was for the commission to focus on findings on Tabung Haji by auditors from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Ernst & Young (EY) and Roland Berger over a six-year span from 2014 to 2020.
JOHOR BARU: Malaysian pilgrims selected to perform the haj this year have expressed their gratitude after receiving their first dose of their Covid-19 vaccine.
They said that they now felt safer and were more confident in making the spiritual journey to fulfil the fifth pillar of Islam.
Clerk Mohamad Ardani Senawi, 58, and his wife, who arrived as early as 7am for their vaccination, were very relieved to have received their first dose and hoped to perform the haj smoothly.
“My wife and I were very worried about the virus but at the same time, we really wanted to perform the haj. Now, we feel more confident and safe as the vaccine shots help to increase our immunity against the virus.
PETALING JAYA: Popular singer Datuk Seri Siti Nurhaliza and her husband have denied claims that the tahnik ceremony for their second child breached Covid-19 standard operating procedures (SOP).
In a joint statement, Siti Nurhaliza and Datuk Seri Khalid Mohamad Jiwa explained that the presence of a celebrity preacher did not involve any form of interstate travel. Instead, the individual agreed to attend as he was coincidentally in Kuala Lumpur when the ceremony was held, they said in the statement on Monday (May 3).
Siti Nurhaliza s tahnik ceremony for her son Muhammad Afwa became the subject of controversy after social media users claimed that some prominent guests had breached Covid-19 SOP to attend.
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He said this was decided during the Muzakarah Committee of the National Council on Islamic Affairs’ 10th special meeting on Dec 3.
“The meeting decided that the ruling on using Covid-19 vaccine is permissible (harus) and it is compulsory for those the government has decided on.
“This decision has also been presented to the Conference of Rulers.
“In this context, I call on all Malaysians, particularly the Muslims, to adhere and give their full trust to the government’s move in an effort to combat the Covid-19 pandemic through the use of vaccines, ” he said in a statement yesterday.
Zulkifli said the use of vaccines for protection from dangerous disease was not a foreign matter under Islamic law, adding that this was proven by six previous decisions taken by the Muzakarah Committee between 1988 and 2013 on the use of vaccines against rubella (1988), hepatitis B(1988), measles, tuberculosis, whooping cough, diphtheria, tetanus and polio (1989), meningococcal menin