My Take | At HKU, grandstanding at taxpayers’ expense
Law student and sore loser Michael Mo is wasting the court’s time on a judicial review of governing council election after his defeat to mainland rival Zhu Ke
The Independent Commission Against Corruption has declined to take up his case. The University of Hong Kong’s governing council has concluded there was nothing to investigate. So, what’s a freedom-loving and politically active law student to do?
You guessed it – apply for a judicial review.
Michael Mo Kwan-tai lost to mainland rival Zhu Ke in the election of a postgraduate student representative to the council last year. After his defeat, he alleged Zhu sent “electronic” red packets to student voters on WeChat. Zhu said he sent the e-packets as a kind of thank-you note to his supporters – their amounts ranging from 0.17 to 1.43 yuan!
Well, we all know how corrupt mainlanders are. For less than a yuan, they would sell their own mothers.
Explaining his judicial application against the council, Mo was quoted as saying: “This ridiculous university’s governing body has made a university running on Hong Kong taxpayers’ money no longer prioritise the interests of Hongkongers.” And I thought HKU was an institution that required fluency in English.