HOW INSIDERS AT KIRKLEES COUNCIL STOLE MY HOUSE
leader of the council abused his authority for personal profit from poor
people .
It gets worse the house (a 3 bed semi-detatched) was bought at auction for 53 grand
For years now I have laid awake at night pondering how to try & deal with this .
Now I have the platform & dominion to act .
If anyone out there is familiar with the corrupt backhanders at Kirklees , dont hesitate to comment . I will publish ...
Earlier this year Roger Roberts one of two councillors representing the town of Heckmondwike and one of the three Councillors on Kirklees Council in West Yorkshire was hauled over the coals for allegedly sending five two pence faxes costing a grand total of ten pence at council expense and using a Council supplied fax machine. He was sent a warning letter and a demand for him to pay back the ten pence in a council envelope with a twenty four pence stamp on the front!
Councillor Mehboob Khan
Councillor Roberts described the demand as absolute nonsense, bearing in mind the faxes sent were concerning Council business and were sent on a Council provided fax machine and eventually it was decided there was no case to answer.
Now imagine the uproar if a Councillor was caught making in excess of £2000 worth of personal calls on a council telephone?
Well that’s exactly what happened but this time it was a Labour Councillor (and the leader of the Labour group at that), and guess what happened? You guessed it, nothing! Absolutely nothing!
In fact you wouldn’t be reading about it now had it not been for a member of staff – disgusted at the blatant cover up – contacting BNP Group Leader, Councillor David Exley who did his own bit of investigating and exposed the story to a local newspaper.
International calls
Councillor Mehboob Khan who represents the Greenhead ward in Huddersfield and is leader of the Labour group on Kirklees Council ran up a £2000+ telephone bill ringing a ‘female friend’ in Uzbekistan. However he conveniently forgot to mention it to the Council and an investigation into the matterwas carried out by the Council’s Head of Democratic Services and a man called Dave Harris who is the director of Corporate Services. They quizzed Khan who finally came clean about the secret calls and agreed to repay the bill from his £17,000 a year council allowance, an allowance that last year was topped up by a £3,000 claim for expenses - the highest of any of the councillors on Kirklees Council and £3,000 more than claimed by Councillor Exley!
Council guidelines clearly state that; ‘No Councillor or employee may use council telephones for personal calls except in the case of an emergency’. And in the rare case of a genuine emergency the Councillor concerned should inform the Council immediately and pay back the price of the call.
In this case the calls were neither an emergency nor did Councillor Khan inform the Council that he had made them. And it was only when he was caught red handed following an investigation by Mike Butler the Head of Democratic services and Dave Harris the Director of Corporate Services that he agreed to pay back the cost of the calls.
Given that the sum involved runs into the thousands one would assume that Councillor Khan would be at least be reported to the Councils standards committee or the National Standards Board or at worst reported to the Police for what appears a quite obvious case of theft.
But when Councillor Exley contacted Rob Vincent the chief executive of Kirklees Council (a man who we’re reliably informed is an ex Labour party member) he backed the decision made by Dave Harris, a former Labour Councillor and refused out of hand to report Councillor Khan to the Councils or the national standard’s board as he didn’t think there was a case to answer!
In fact when a local newspaper reporting the story has attempted to contact the Chief Executive he’s been strangely ‘unavailable’.
No cover up there then!!
Register of Interests for Councillor Mehboob Khan
Financial Interests
Nature of Employment or Business - Consultant
Employer / company in which I am a partner or remunerated director - Excol Consulting Ltd, Standards Board for England, Kirklees PCT,
West Yorkshire Probation Service
Election expenses / expenses incurred during course of duties (paid by person / body other than relevant authority) - None
Corporate body with property / land within West Yorkshire in which I have shares exceeding £25,000 or 100th of total share capital of that body - None
Details of any contract(s) between Authority and myself / firm in which I am partner / remunerated director / shareholder (limits as above) - None
Address / description of land in which I have a beneficial interest and which is in the area of the Authority - 18 Queen's Road, Edgerton, Huddersfield, HD2 2AE - 9 Dudley Avenue, Marsh, Huddersfield.
Address / description of land where landlord is the Authority and tenant is a firm / company in which I am a partner or remunerated director - None
Address / description of land in the area of the Authority for which I have a licence (sole or joint) to occupy for 28 days or longer - None
Other Interests (membership of position of general control)
Body to which I have been appointed or nominated by the Authority as its representative - Yorkshire and Humberside Fire Authorities' Regional Management Board
Public Authority or body exercising functions of a public nature - Kirklees MC, Kirklees Strategic Partnership, Kirklees PCT, West Yorkshire Probation Board, LGA, Greenhead College, Standards
Board for England
Company, industrial and provident society, charity or body directed to charitable purposes - None
Body whose principal purposes include the influence of public opinion or policy - Labour Party
Trade Union or professional association - T&G
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