Letter to Acting Dean/Dean of 19th April, 2012

19th April, 2012

The Acting Dean/Dean
All Saints Cathedral,
Kota Kinabalu.
CC: Archbishop Bolly Lapok, Diocese of Kuching

Dear Right Revd Bishop Datuk Albert Vun,

Re: STOP the BISHOPGATE

Further to my letter dated 5th April, 2012 to you as faxed to you at 9.30am, and I did not receive any reply to date. Your office also did not acknowledge the said letter with very important 11 points thereof.

2. Since you saw fit to ignore that letter as a prelude to lodging of Police Report on 11th April, 2012 to take advantage of that holiday and unfortunately the Police Report was postponed. There was enough voice support for the Police Report.

3. Instead of replying to my letter, you decided to publish a message in the ASC Sunday bulletin on 15th April, after you have left for mission in Mauritius till 2nd May, 2012. That message fall so short to answer any of my 11 points. There are still plenty of issues to be raised on your questionable leadership of 6 years.

4. So I am writing this letter to ask you to answer my letter on your return from Mauritius within 7 days. You would have adequate time to prepare the answer while away or you can instruct your office to provide the answers. It is obvious more questions would arise from your first reply.

5. You cannot point to the blog for not giving me the pertinent answers as I had based my 11 points on the just concluded AGM 2012 on 1at April, 2012 when your stand-in as Chairman could not give the answers then.

6. I can prepare a few pages of questions and also give relevant comments on the state of affairs of your leadership in Anglican Diocese of Sabah vis-à-vis All Saints Cathedral and that would be done in due course.

7. Your message in the Bulletin of 15 April, which I call “Post April Foo+l” cannot give you any confidence or assurance that you can get away from the crisis which I call “BISHOPGATE”. So we have two new codes to address to allow normal life to come back in the Anglican Church.

8. Suffice to give you some challenges to consider here in the context of your appointed Bishophood in Sabah. The challenges are as follows:-
8.1. You as a Bishop/acting Dean/Dean have to provide all members a copy of the Constitutions of the Diocese and All Saints Cathedral especially on request for good governance as expected in any NGO. If the Constitutions are against public interest and bias to you in dual roles –Bishop and Dean, special attention must be taken to review the Constitutions for natural justice.
8.2. The role and responsibility as a Bishop need to be considered in the context of power as exercised within limits and bound by the pledge you had made in the Installation first an ordained priest and then a Bishop recently. The rights of members who contribute the volunterism and finances in terms of donations and tithes over the decades should be given appropriate respect in a harmonious church environment.
8.3. The Bishop in the position as the head in the Church as per present practice should take the immediate initiative to resolve the crisis in the Anglican family now spreading like wild fire if BISHOPGATE is not put to rest now. So the members want to see how you want to handle this crisis to full settlement possibly for win-win-win scenario in the three hierarchy of the .Anglican church without any further damages financial, human and labour relationship, morale or otherwise so that the church can move on in its core objective to touch souls for Jesus Christ..
8.4 Your “Post April Foo+l” started with the word “disgruntled” and ended with ‘mockers’ and you cannot ignore our stance be it in letters and blog postings as I can show you the ‘lies’ coming from you.

9. Please instruct your staff concerned or PA to confirm your message in the ASC Sunday Bulletin of 15th April as supplied and approved by you. The A4 sheet is already faxed to your office and your kind lady on the phone agreed to do that.

I trust you would give your full attention on this letter.
Yours faithfully,