Suara Anak-Anak Mamak Malaysia chairperson Mohammed Ghani Abdul Jiman, who recently sent a coffin to a DAP state assemblyperson, is upset with the media for reporting that he failed in his deed.

He insisted he did not fail in his mission as he had sent the coffin  to Komtar assemblyperson Ng Wei Aik's house in Paya Terubong.

ghani sent coffin to lim guan eng ng wei aik 120311 ghani on coffin Mohammed Ghani ( second from left ), who spoke as the Indian Muslim also denied that he was against the Chinese community by sending the coffin to the assemblyperson.

"This matter is between Ng and me, no one else. He is totally against me and I have to respond. He started to whack me first... am I going to just stay quiet? So I whack him back," he said angrily.

"My Chinese friends told me they cannot stop me from doing this as it is my right (to express my dissatisfaction) to Ng... even the Chinese members in Komtar's Merchant Association did not stop me as I have nothing against them," said Ghani, who is KMA's vice-president.

About sending coffins being a taboo to the Chinese community, he begged to differ.

He said he learnt from his Chinese friends that the later would purchase or reserve their own coffins before their deaths, which meant that the subject is not taboo.

He denied any wrongdoing in sending the coffin to Ng, who had responded, saying that Mohammed Ghani was a security threat to himself, his family and the residents of Paya Terubong.

Ng has also urged the police to probe the coffin incident as the action should be condemned because it threatened social harmony in Penang.

"I am not going against the constitution or the law. I did not send him a bullet or a bomb. So what is so threatening about a coffin?" he quipped.

No notice

Mohammed Ghani lamented that until today he has not received any notice to vacate the space he occupied to sell his goods at Komtar's concourse on level 3.

He said that notices were issued months ago to only 17 of the traders there, excluding him.

He expressed anger when speaking about his goods worth RM200,000 confiscated by a team of municipal personnel recently when he refused to remove his shop from the area, which is currently undergoing renovation.

He added that he was losing business worth about RM500-600 a day, and by seizing his shops at night, the council staff had "acted like thieves".

NONE "This is my rice bowl, of course I am angry. They have stolen my stuff, I have made a police report, and an investigation is going on," he said.

Mohammed Ghani is also upset that Ng ( left ), who is political secretary to Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng, has persisted in blaming him for owing the Penang Development Corporation a whopping RM40,000 for trading during the Ramadan bazaar last year.

He clarified that the entity that ‘owes' the money to PDC, which manages the concourse, is not him but the KMA.

"We cannot pay the RM40,000 yet because we have only collected RM36,000; RM16,000 had to go for the booths and RM2,000 for other related matters," he explained.

"We said we would pay when we collected the RM40,000 in full from the traders, and this has been agreed to by the management," he claimed.

Meanwhile, Mohammed Ghani called for Lim's intervention to resolve his ongoing spat with Ng.

He urged Lim not to merely listen to Ng's side of the story, just because he is a DAP leader.

"Lim, who has all the power vested in him as chief minister, can resolve this problem by calling me, and Ng together for a face-off. But I know this would never happen with DAP."

He reiterated his move to send Lim a coffin within a month, should the latter fail to resolve his problem.