1.方貴倫在茨廠街巡視時遇上一名打扮成和尚的男子，並阻攔著對方。 2.“假和尚”不願理睬方貴倫等人，轉身想要離去，卻被洪細弟一手擒住右肩。 3.“假和尚”因顧忌方貴倫等人多勢眾，逼不得已微笑和眾人合照。 4.一拍完照，“假和尚”立刻閃人，拒絕再合照。（吉隆坡）茨廠街最近出現“大胃口”的假和尚，在“化緣”時竟謝絕一二令吉的“小錢”，而是要求遊客給10令吉，口氣與行為形同搶奪，引起遊客與小販的不滿。
農曆新年近在眉睫，茨廠街湧現大批趕辦年貨的人潮，竟引得假和尚乘機出動，向公眾和遊客乞討，大發新年財。
辦年貨人潮引假和尚出動
行動黨武吉免登國會議員方貴倫週六（26日）與吉隆坡小販商公會成員巡視茨廠街後指出，近來頻頻接獲小販和居民的投訴，指隆市多個旅遊區出現許多向路人乞討的和尚。
他說，投訴來電越來越頻密，他感到事態嚴重下而到茨廠街巡視，並與小販商公會商討對策。
他發現“假和尚”大多出現在人潮擁擠的旅遊區，如茨廠街、亞羅街、武吉免登金三角一帶等，主要向遊客乞討金錢。
他也發現裝扮成和尚向路人乞討的“假和尚”有日益增加的情況，而且乞討的態度囂張，令人吃驚。
“我聽一些小販說，有的假和尚不但拒收一二令吉，還大膽向遊客要10令吉，手法與語氣都令人不敢恭維。”
吁公眾勿捐助“化緣”和尚
他提出，虔誠的信徒或和尚展開布施或托缽是有時間性及不隨便向人討錢的，能在路上乞討的根本就不是真正的和尚。
他呼吁公眾勿捐助在路上乞討的和尚，如非要做善事不可，不防考慮捐助合法的慈善團體。
他也促請移民廳關注“假和尚”的問題，避免國家的形象受損，並滋生其他的民生問題。
“走了乞丐來了假和尚”洪細弟盼當局速採行動
吉隆坡小販商公會副主席拿督洪細弟指出，隆市多個旅遊區曾出現乞丐影響市民作業和市容。不過，經過該會和各造的配合出擊後，乞丐已越來越少。
“現在走了乞丐，又來了和尚，影響了國家和佛教的形象。”
他希望佛教總會、福利部、宗教局等迅速採取行動，讓遊客可在祥和的環境下旅遊和購物。
星洲日報/大都會‧2008.01.26
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Voon Lee Shan is morally corrupt!
One of the few remaining mission schools in Sarawak, St Martin primary school in Muara Tuang, will likely shut down for good. Last November, it was sent an eviction notice from the five-hectare plot of land it occupies.
State Education Director Dr Julaihi Bujang said the 313 pupils in the largely Iban village have been transferred to Sekolah Kebangsaan Muara Tuang, SK Barangan and few other schools in the nearby the Semarahan district.
The trouble started last April, when the landowner Millah Kitat, through her legal counsel Voon Lee Shan, issued a letter giving the Anglican mission that runs the school an ultimatum: Buy the whole 12ha parcel of land on which the school stands or move out within a week.
Millah owns the land under Native Customary Rights (NCR).
When the school failed to move out within the deadline Voon, the DAP state assemblyman for Batu Lintang, served another legal letter demanding RM700,000 compensation within a week, claiming the school had trespassed on Millah's land.
To avoid further legal complications, the state Education Department ordered the school shut.
"The previous land owner Lian Teetat Emparu had divided the land for the Anglican mission to build the school but it was not legalised,” said Julaihi.
"There were some agreements drawn up by the late Emparu. The ‘agreement’ stated that the land would be ‘free of charge’, and the heir or heirs would not develop that portion of land alienated for the school," he said.
Since the agreement was not legalised, it became a point of dispute with Millah, Emparu's daughter, who inherited the land when he died.
"The legal summons issued to us is still on going. The landowner and her legal counsel did not give us much time to negotiate, and there is no way the education department of the mission can come up with the RM700,000 within seven days of the issuance of the letter, dated October 23, 3007," Julaihi said.
The state Education Department, meanwhile, has identified a piece of land near the old school and they have proposed to purchase it.
Julaihi said they are still waiting for the Education Ministry's approval, and this will take some time.
"It will take some time to pay the compensation demanded by the landowner, and it will definitely take more time to purchase land and build a school," he said.
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