Kedah is in the news, again, for the wrong reasons. A district officer names stadium after himself and is now back-pedalling

When will Malaysian civil servants and politicians leave their egos at home and just serve the rakyat?

The district officer (DO) in Padang Terap, Kedah Hakim Ariff Md Noor is so vain, that he named the mini local stadium after himself.

To blatantly call the stadium “Hakim Ariff” would have immediately attracted criticism, so he thought he would be clever and spell his name in reverse.

Photo Credit: Rakyat Post

Many people asked whether Ffira Mikah was a person or thing.

One mother from Kuala Nerang said, “My son, who is keen on football, asked me if Ffira Mikah was a real person, because the stadium was named after him.

“I said, “Who?”. He showed a photo of the newly named stadium. I was applying my make-up and looked up in the mirror. I said, its not called Ffira Mikah. Its Hakim Ariff.

“He said, “No mak, the stadium is called ‘Ffira Mikah’. Look!. So, I turned around and true enough it was ‘Ffira Mikah’. We realised the it was the DO’s name in reverse.”

Other netizens have also discovered that Hakim Ariff had reversed his name when naming the local stadium, but he claimed that the name had been approved during the administrative meeting.

Hakim Ariff has been furiously back-pedalling since the expose. He said that the name Ffira Mikah was a combination of Arabic and Spanish or Greek.

He said, “It has nothing to do with my name. It has implicit meaning. It was proposed during the administrative meeting.

“In Spanish or Greek, ffira means something great whereas mikah in Arabic means angel, he was quoted a saying by Sinar Harian.

However, an excerpt in this news report said, “Google does not recognise the word ffira as Spanish or Greek. It auto-detects the word as Bulgarian and carries the meaning “wastage”.

The stadium recently received a RM200,000 uplift.

Hakim Ariff is desperate to restore his tarnished reputation: “I”m not looking for glamour. My wish is for Padang Terap to become clean, beautiful and cheerful.

“I don’t want this district to be like in the past, people do not know the true story and are making assumptions“.

Here are 10 assumptions.

1. Hakim Ariff is a man whose ego could not be contained.

2. He thought he could get away with this exercise in vanity. He failed.

3. This is Ketuanan Melayu at its worst.

4. Are all Kedah civil servants this arrogant and boastful? The MB, sets a bad example.

5. Football fans will forever mock Hakim Ariff for his bad taste in names.

6. Since when did Malay civil servants pretend to be knowledgeable in Greek and Spanish? Next thing, Hakim Ariff will claim to be a Latin scholar.

7. Does Hakim Ariff even play football?

8. The people who attended the administrative meeting to name the stadium must be minions of Hakim Ariff.

9. When he was caught out, he denied everything. This is a typical Umno-baru and PAS trait.

10. Hakim Ariff will now be associated with being “wasteful.

Poor man. To add insult to injury, the KN Kiara Football Club which manages the stadium said it had taken down the signage of the stadium’s new name, removed any reference to on its FaceBook and will not use “Ffira Mikah” in any promotional material.

They should have acted before furious netizens criticised them.

Note: Googgling ‘ffira‘ did not produce any result.

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  • Paul Wolfobitch says:

    “It does not reflect well on the malay community to constantly be bombarded with such uncouth and blatantly tasteless behaviour.”

    You think the “Chinese community” can do better kah?!

    With the two mountain-turtle kapitan babas of the Lim Lynasty behaving longkang suave, you think that’s good taste.

    With DAP “Superman” pHew attack dog led off the short leash to stab the Malays in the back while proclaiming eternal love, you think that’s good taste kah?!

    With village auntie Kuay Teow fryer Hannah dress the part being leisure time Malay Muslim to masquerade and fool the Malays, you think that’s good taste kah?!

    You think Malays are jolly damn stupid all you need do is patronise them and Ah Long’s yer uncle, owat?!

    No Malay asks you to look Malay to be wan with them, you really look fcuking cheap kiasu and clumsy fooling yourselves as you delude yourselves you can pass as genuine!

    The hard truth of statistics is there to rock the fcuking DAP – nearly no Malay wants to even blow his nose on the pretend-Chinese conmen, let alone be thrilled the DAP wants to scuk up them as they suck up the zombie Snake Pharaoh.

    Ptttuuiii…!!!!! How low can some Chinese slither..?!

    Pure bad taste..!!!

  • Ajak says:

    Biasalah , tolak hak lain hak kita semua

  • Ram says:

    Well done lah. Such a brainy District Officer
    Kedah Maju, sejahtera, aman dan lain lain lagi

  • Paul Wolfobitch says:

    Why do you guys get so worked up by the comedian naming a building after himself, eh?

    Won’t make any difference to anyone who doesn’t know him.

    For all I care, his name can be Ali Pigsh*t, and I won’t know.

    Almost forgot to mention, I can’t understand our national language one bit, and I don’t bother learn it. It can get some chickenshit nationalists really pissed off, but I don’t care one bit at all – it hasn’t stopped me having lots of Malay girlfriends.

    Even those who can’t speak English or Chinese.

  • Paul Wolfobitch says:

    “When will Malaysian civil servants and politicians leave their egos at home and just serve the rakyat?”

    The low class behaviour is all to do with the seriously poor cultural level of Malaysian civil servants and politicians.

    Mind you, their voters are not all that far behind in cultural attainment either, it takes one to prop up the other!

  • Ago says:

    This low IQ govt. officer is gila pangkat or what? Got d bloody cheek to have a stadium named after himself.he thinks this stadium dia punya bapak punya ah?betui betui mukatebal.

  • Govindan Karuppiah says:

    Kedah needs better administration!!
    It is becoming famous for the wrong reasons!!

  • Humayun khabeer says:

    There is a Tamil saying that if the head is not OK than the tail will wag! Likewise when Najib quoted BossAku, every civil servant assumed it also applies to him or her!So too many bosses spoil the administration in action!

  • Alfred says:

    Why has this nincompoop even dared to mask his name onto the stadium name? Because the malays have been tolerant all these years and idiots like this Affira Mikah is simply doing what he thinks he could get away with.

    And look at his pathetic excuses when called out! This speaks to this idiot’s arrogance that he thinks/knows the malays will believe him.

    It does not reflect well on the malay community to constantly be bombarded with such uncouth and blatantly tasteless behaviour.

    • Paul Wolfobitch says:

      “It does not reflect well on the malay community to constantly be bombarded with such uncouth and blatantly tasteless behaviour.”

      You think the “Chinese community” can do better kah?!

      With the two mountain-turtle kapitan babas of the Lim Lynasty behaving longkang suave, you think that’s good taste.

      With DAP “Superman” pHew attack dog led off the short leash to stab the Malays in the back while proclaiming eternal love, you think that’s good taste kah?!

      With village auntie Kuay Teow fryer Hannah dress the part being leisure time Malay Muslim to masquerade and fool the Malays, you think that’s good taste kah?!

      You think Malays are jolly damn stupid all you need do is patronise them and Ah Long’s yer uncle, owat?!

      No Malay asks you to look Malay to be wan with them, you really look fcuking cheap kiasu and clumsy fooling yourselves as you delude yourselves you can pass as genuine!

      The hard truth of statistics is there to rock the fcuking DAP – nearly no Malay wants to even blow his nose on the pretend-Chinese conmen, let alone be thrilled the DAP wants to scuk up them as they suck up the zombie Snake Pharaoh.

      Ptttuuiii…!!!!! How low can some Chinese slither..?!

      Pure bad taste..!!!

  • triple tree says:

    This is the tragedy of this PN govt. born out of racist and religious bigotry. Looks like nothing will get in the way of malay bigotry – every now and then it surfaces to insult us and the world by their sheer stupidity. This malay centric govt has gone nowhere in any field of development . All it has gained or attained are outbursts of Malay bigotry or vanity tinged with so called islamic linings. We harbour muslim radicals from neighbouring countries and these retards thank us by organising terrorism in neighbouring countries. After 63 yrs of independence this is what has happened to us. What a shame.

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