Don T Promise Rewards If You Don T Have Money

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YOURSAY | 'If PCM broke its promise, then Cheah right to use the word scam.'
Paralympic Council still seeking written explanation from Cheah
GSVL: The Paralympic Council Malaysia (PCM) should stop beating around the bush. Was the promise and assurance (of an RM60,000 reward) made to Paralympic gold medallist Cheah Liek Hou or not?
If the PCM broke its promise to pay him, then Cheah is right to use the word scam. I would call it lies. But Cheah's choice of words is not important.
In truth, PCM did scam him into believing that he would be rewarded for winning a medal.
The problem with most of our sporting bodies is that they are run by people who are not sportspeople or have any experience in sports and sporting organisations.
They are a bunch of political appointees more interested in the arrogance of power and the pomposity of office with all its perks and privileges than in serving the nation and our athletes.
Meerkat: Come on, PCM president Megat D Shahriman Zaharudin, you are really believing your own narrative.
You should be the one apologising for not paying until the matter was brought up. God knows if you had intended to pay if it hadn't.
If I am entitled to a payment from a corporate body and it doesn't come as expected, a possible scam would be in my mind.
So you're wrong that no individual will agree with that word.
Don't try to school us with something out of an apology 101 textbook. Just apologise and close the case, and your embarrassment may be checked.
UB40: PCM, if you have made the promise, then fulfil it. Why come to a situation where the recipient has to voice out the frustration of waiting for the reward?
It is very shameful and silly for PCM when retail chain 99 Speed Mart Sdn Bhd, upon hearing this issue, immediately acted on it without any condition, providing the money that Cheah was entitled to.
Now you are asking for something written when you should have fulfilled a promise made. Why dilly-dally?
It only shows the weakness of this organisation. Where is the payment when athletes succeed in international competitions?
In other countries, the head will apologise and even tender resignation.
EmEmKay: Cheah described his experience as being “scammed” after only part of the promised sum was paid.
When other reward recipients from different sports bodies began making enquiries about their entitlements, Cheah similarly raised his concerns and asked for the outstanding amount he believes is owed to him.
Given this context, using the word “scammed” in plain English reflects his perception of being short‑changed; it captures his frustration that a full, previously announced reward was not delivered and that the issue appeared to be closed without resolution.
Knucklehead: Dear Cheah, let me offer assistance with your reply to the show cause letter:
Dear President Megat,
Thank you for your letter. I must confess - I didn’t realise that defending athletes, demanding transparency, and calling out dysfunction were now considered offences.
If silence and complicity are the new KPIs, then yes, I’ve failed spectacularly.
I should have applauded quietly while decisions were made behind closed doors, while athletes were sidelined, and while public trust was casually discarded.
Instead, I chose to speak. I chose to care. I chose to act.
If that warrants disciplinary action, then perhaps the real question isn’t why I spoke up but why so many others didn’t.
Yours in service to Malaysian sports,
Cheah
PurpleRabbit4431: When the Youth and Sports Minister Hannah Yeoh, had already said the matter was settled, why then did this PCM president still want to pursue a written explanation from the athlete?
Is he trying to pick the content of the letter to trigger another round of legal debate?
What a waste of time and resources. This PCM president should be sacked immediately.
MarioT: Do not be spiteful. Meet the athlete, talk to him and settle the matter. If you cannot do that, then just leave.
The minister has intervened to resolve the matter, which you should have done in the first place.
Heads of sporting agencies should be like parents to take care of the athletes and not be unsympathetic to their needs.
Citi Zen 75: Megat, please step down. You have not kept your promise.
You failed to collect the donations from two of your sponsors, who also failed to keep their promises.
Don't promise rewards if you don't have the money ready.
By the way, why didn't you name the defaulting sponsors? They should share the blame.
VioletOrca0545: No wonder our athletes are not doing well internationally.
A Paralympic gold medallist needs to go through so much just to claim his reward of less than US$15,000 (RM60,000).
So what is the reward promised? Only RM25,000? Seriously? Winning the pinnacle of sports for the country, and you get less than US$6,000?
No wonder nobody wants to become an athlete in this country. - Mkini

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