Amjid Wazir did not break Stoke-on-Trent City Council's code of conduct
LABOUR councillor Amjid Wazir has been cleared of breaching a council's code of conduct.
Mr Wazir, who represents Hanley Park and Shelton, was accused of failing to declare an interest before a vote to reinstate the taxi licence of Azan Ahmed.
Mr Ahmed was convicted of assaulting fellow driver Mohammed Bashir.
But Stoke-on-Trent City Council's standards committee agreed that no breach had occurred after Mr Wazir admitted phoning a friend of Bashir's before the court case in an attempt to broker a resolution.
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The allegations relate to a licensing hearing in April 2011, when Mr Ahmed won back his licence at the third attempt.
Councillor Majid Khan was cleared of a similar offence last month.
Comments
by arthurheath1
Thursday, December 06 2012, 7:36PM
“Hasn't Johntoad gone quiet all of a sudden?”
by PaulF430
Thursday, December 06 2012, 12:06PM
“We knew about this weeks ago. No doubt the people on the panel attend the same Mosque. When will Stoke-on-Trent wake up and recognise the systematic re population of our city with immigrants and Asians. I'm not being racist, but we're turning into Birmingham. Pretty soon those of us who have generations of history in Stoke will be the minority. Get them out of the council for god sake!”
by gormhenghast
Thursday, December 06 2012, 11:29AM
“GOOD JOB HE WASN`T A DEVOUT CHRISTIAN, THERE`D A BIN AN ELECTION NO DOUBT ABOUT IT.”
by Backdoored
Wednesday, December 05 2012, 7:47PM
“What you have to do as a Councillor, the lengths they have to go to -to 'accomodate' culture.
Morally corrupt. There is not jus a lack of common decency at play here -there's none -period.
PC = publically corrupt.”
by arthurheath1
Wednesday, December 05 2012, 6:53PM
“Shhhhhh Tjtuns, you'll be called a bigot if you dare say the truth. JOHNTOAD, JOHNTOAD, there's a bigot daring to tell the truth here.”
by tjtuns
Wednesday, December 05 2012, 3:34PM
“I had a taxi from sainsburys in hanley and i had to give the driver directions because he said he cannot read the english street signs, How can one get a private hire badge if he cannot read.Then again i have a relative who works in licensing at the council and he says that half the people who take the taxi test are not the people named on the application, he says at one point he saw the same person pass the test for the 6th time under different names but the last person to complain to the council about this got fired for racism. Its not about racism its about the safety of the people putting their trust in the council for fairly regulate people who come into contact with the public.”
by BucknallMel
Wednesday, December 05 2012, 2:36PM
“Just goes to show what a poor code of conduct our council has, doesn't it? What exactly IS a breach of it - using the mayor's limo as a drug courier? Setting up a brothel in the Civic Centre? I'd love to know.”
by mole10
Wednesday, December 05 2012, 12:55PM
“Was Joy (a Police Commissioner candidate for Labour) on the panel?
Just asking.”
by budgiescfc
Wednesday, December 05 2012, 12:41PM
“what a joke ...........who cleared him ..............his best mate”
by Stan_Byerman
Wednesday, December 05 2012, 11:22AM
“He was cleared over a week ago! I mean c'mon - I know things are bad at the Sentinel with cut backs and reporters going n'all but taking over a week and a half to report this is taking it to the limits...
I wonder how long it would have taken to print the story if this councillor had been found guilty?
MMmmm.....”