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KOTA KINABALU: Veveonah Mosibin was taking his college exams online when his viral video was posted, confirms Datuk Masidi Manjun.
Masidi, who was recently appointed chairman of the board of directors of Universiti Malaysia Sabah in August this year, made the clarification via Twitter on Tuesday (September 8).
Vice Minister of Communications and Multimedia Datuk Zahidi Zainul Abidin in Dewan Negara on September 3 accused the Pitas native of lying about her exams to gain fame as a YouTuber.
Veveonah denied this and posted his exam schedule online June 9-12 on Twitter.
Zahidi apologized for his mistake and said he would rectify his comment.
However, on Monday (September 7), Zahidi said that it was Kudat’s deputy Datuk Abdul Rahim Bakri who gave him the wrong information, who in turn received the information from a “teacher.”
Rahim himself later disputed Veveonah in a Facebook post on Monday, continuing the line that she had done it for YouTube fame.
He claimed that UMS had not taken any final exams online during that time, and that it was just a “normal online conference,” and said he obtained the information from a professor, whom he did not name. Rahim deleted his post shortly after.
“After meeting with the Deputy Vice Chancellor of UMS and the director of Pusat Asasi Sains today (September 8), I would like to confirm that Veveonah Mosibin took his last semester exams (online) from June 9 to June 12 2020.
“She is an exemplary student and was offered to do a degree course in marine science at UMS,” Masidi tweeted at 5.33pm.
When asked about the “dean of the university” who claimed that Veveonah did not take the exams online, the Karanaan assemblyman explained that it was a misquote.
“He only said that there were no exams for undergraduate students. Only for those taking basic science courses,” Masidi said in response.
On June 24, UMS Vice Chancellor Dr. Taufiq Yap Yun Hin announced that the 18-year-old had been offered a scholarship to pursue her undergraduate degree at university, after completing her Foundation Science course. .
A commenter named Mr. F tweeted that if he were Veveonah, he would demand that both the deputy minister and the MP try to climb a tree to post their apologies online, which received a “ha ha ha” response from Masidi.
However, when commenter iSam ‘asked what action could be taken against the two politicians, which could be construed as cyberbullying, Masidi said he was not in a position to respond because he was not their “boss”, adding that he himself made mistakes.
“You can benefit from your mistakes if you learn from them,” said Sabah Bersatu’s deputy chief.
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