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Monday, May 24, 2010
Sarawak for Change-The Sibu Declaration Adopted by DAP Sarawak State Committee On 23rd May 2010 In Sibu, Sarawak
改变，从砂拉越开始 – 诗巫宣言
改变，从砂拉越开始砂拉越行动党州联委会于2010年5月23日在诗巫采纳的诗巫宣言：
2010年5月16日的诗巫奇迹是砂拉越觉醒的开始。从今开始，再也没有任何人可以轻视及忽略我们-砂拉越人民。诗巫胜选的一小步，将是迈向古晋柏特拉再也的一大步，也将是迈向布城的巨人脚步。
砂拉越是个富有的州属。它拥有马来西亚最辽阔的幅地，以及丰富的资源如：木桐、土地、油棕、金矿、石油及天然气。
可是，砂拉越人民却是全马最贫客穷的群体之一，他们领取低薪、就业机会低，并且由少数几个集团垄断的商业环境。
这是全马来西亚唯一一个“家天下”- 由首长全权掌控全州经济及政治命脉的州属。
是时候说“够了！”，让我们为砂拉越及马来西亚重谱一个全新的未来。
良好施政= 终绝泰益
明年将是砂州首席部长丕显斯里阿都泰益玛目在位的第30年。是时候收回人民交给泰益的委托，宣告砂拉越迈向全新改革及重生世纪的来临。
行动党及民联主张良好施政，而泰益玛目所领导的国阵政府则以腐败施政见称。泰益的家族通过砂州日光集团（Cahaya Mata Sarawak）及其它的朋党公司，控制了大部份最高回酬的合约、生意，处处压榨着老百姓，也让小商人难以生存。
平等伙伴关系
民主行动党及民主相信政党联盟及联邦-州属之间应有平等的伙伴关系。砂劳越国阵存在的唯一目的就是支撑泰益王朝，而民联则是为了人民更好的生活，奉行平等的政治伙伴关系。就全国而言，资源丰富的砂拉越也没有得到公平的待遇。
能干、公信及透明的施政
行动党秉持能干、公信及透明的施政原则，坚持聆听全民的声音，而不只是富人的声音。打击贪污，人人受益。砂拉越是一个富有的州属，通过公开招标发出所有政府采购合约、伐木执照及土地转换为商业及种植用途，全体砂州人民都将变得更富有。
年龄人士花红
一旦行动党及民联执政砂拉越，所有60岁以上的砂拉越州人民，将可以获得每年400令吉的回馈金，以示感激他们对砂州所做出的贡献。
扶助赤贫
每年从州政府财政预算案中拨出8000万令吉，以扶助砂拉越州内的赤贫人士。
教育
一旦行动党及民联执政砂拉越，我们将依需求拨款给州内各源流学校，就像民联目前在槟城、雪兰莪及吉兰丹所实施的那样，确保我们的孩子拥有光明的未来。
石油税
民联的共同执政纲领承诺，一旦民联执政联邦，从国油拨出20%的石油税给砂州，而不是目前的5%。
土地改革
一旦行动党及民联执政砂拉越，我们将调查所有的原住民习俗地，发出地契（共同及个人），并更新所有逾期地契。当人民掌控土地拥有权，而不是朋党，我们相信如此一来，砂州经济将能够展现其巨大的潜能。
投资在未来
我们将认真看待并解决砂拉越的水患问题，砂州需要长期地投资的人力资源及基础建设以成为一个重要的经济体。我们将免费提供无线上网，让砂州迈向一个知识型州属。
国阵不会改变，它也不能改变。 国阵一旦改变，意味着国阵领袖的穷途末路。
但是，没有改变，则意味着全砂州人民的穷途末路。
因此，选择是明确，改变，从砂拉越开始。
SPEECH BY Y.B. VIOLET YONG WUI WUI - DEBATE ON MOTION OF THANKS TO TUAN YANG TERUTAMA on 17th May, 2010
Tuan Speaker,
Thank you for allowing me to participate in the debate on the motion of thanks to the royal address by the Tuan Yang Terutama on 17th May, 2010, and at the same time to raise some issues in this august House.
1. Money politics
Tuan Speaker,
First of all I would like to congratulate Honourable Member for Bukit Assek for his miracle victory as the first Pakatan Rakyat MP in Sarawak on 16th May 2010 in the Sibu by-election.
I am proud of the Sibu people for standing up and spoke loudly and angrily against the politics of corruption, the politics of cronyism, the politics of money politics and the politics of threats and fear practiced by the BN government. BN government deserves the defeat!
Sibu people have awakened on May 16th when the Honourable Member for Bukit Assek was voted in. It is the day that Sibu voters had matured and sent a loud voice to vote against the BN government runs by the Prime Minister and Chief Minister of Sarawak. "This victory is one small step in Sibu, one big step to Petrajaya, and one giant step to Putrajaya."
I must say the Barisan Nasional government needs to re examine what they have done wrong all these years and why are the people in Sibu united to reject them.
Let me tell you why the people rejected you. One of the many reasons that BN failed is due to the overstaying of the CM and also many of you here. The Chief Minister is a liability among the Chinese voters. The voters want the Chief Minister to retire. And I know there must be many of you waiting anxiously and quietly to become CM but not daring to speak out in fear of CM. Is Honourable Member from Layer one of them, I wonder?
Another reason for the defeat is that SUPP has downgraded themselves to become the puppets of PBB. Whenever PBB asked SUPP to sit, SUPP dares not stand. And whenever PBB asked SUPP to stand, SUPP dares not sit. SUPP leaders are mere puppets of the Chief Minister.
Tuan Speaker,
Dangle carrots in front of the voters during the election period is wrong. Never takes the people to ransom.
The Prime Minister is playing with the feelings of the people. He has enraged the people of Sibu especially the Rejang Park people. The Sibu voters are sickening of the money politics played by the BN government. The people at Rejang Park have showed you that they want to throw back the RM5 million in your face. The votes in favour of DAP at Rejang Park had increased from 62% to 68%. The voters had voiced their anger and unhappiness over the PM threats not to give the money unless BN candidate is voted in. What is this? You think by dangling money in their face, the people will do your bidding?
Tuan Speaker,
The government should be consistence in helping the welfare of the people and should not wait until someone passed away or that there is an election only handed out grants and allocations for development. Don’t neglect the people and then only offer them some crumbs when you want to fish for their votes during elections. Never ever underestimate the wisdom of the people.
2. Land Issue
Tuan Speaker,
The land issue on Section 47 of the Land Code has yet to be fully resolved by the BN state government.
There are still land owners in Bako/Sejingkat area who are in the dark about what are going to happen to their lands. Most of the lands in the area have been under Section 47 notification for over 36 years and hence the Section 47 notification has caused great anxiety to the landowners. The landowners worry that they will lose their property and end up with nothing because the state government does not have to pay them a single cent of compensation when their land leases expired. Where is the justice and fairness to all these land owners?
I know of a Chai family and also one Mdm. Chin who will lose their lands in March, 2012 and in July 2012 respectively if the state government refuses to uplift their lands from Section 47 notifications. The two families have been staying on the lands for as long as 7 decades. The two families depend solely on their lands for livelihood. I urge the Honourable Chief Minister to put himself in the shoes of the unfortunate ones and be sensitive to the need of the poor rakyat. Please, Chief Minister have a heart for the poor rakyat. Do not take the lands away from the legitimate landowners. The two parcels of land are Lot 549 Block 3 Muara Tebas Land District & Lot 152 Muara Tebas Land District.
Tuan Speaker,
Unfortunately, in 2007, the BN state government had turned down the application of the Chai family and Mdm. Chin in renewing their land leases for the very reason that the lands are subject to Section 47 notifications. Why can’t the BN state government approve their application for renewal? Why is the BN state government trying to make life difficult for the poor rakyat? Will these two parcels of lands end up in the hands of the cronies or members of the BN leaders upon the expiry of the land lease in 2012? By then in 2012, upon expiry of land lease, where do you expect the landowners to live on?
As I said in the last Dewan sitting, if the lands in Bako can be registered under the names of CM’s sister i.e. Raziah @ Rodiah Binti Mahmud which are free from Section 47 notifications and furthermore with perpetuity term, why can’t other ordinary landowners enjoy the same conditions like the Chief Minister’s sister? Why is the CM’s sister better off than others?
Tuan Speaker,
The BN state government must stop all its greedy acts by robbing the lands away from the rakyat. I urge the Chief Minister to personally look into the application of the Chai family and Mdm. Chin and approve their applications for extension of land lease without further delay.
Of course, the best solution to the problem is to amend Section 47 of the land code so that all notices imposed on the land under Section 47 of the Land Code shall automatically lapse two years after its imposition if the government does not proceed with the acquisition of the affected lands within the said two years period.
3. Rubbish Collection Charges
Tuan Speaker
Recently, a factory owner from Demak Laut Industrial Park, Sejingkat told me in anger thatthe DBKU had issued all the companies in writing to inform them that the rate of garbage collection had been raised to 200% from the original rate with effective from April, 2010.
In other word, instead of paying RM100 per month, the user had to pay RM299.10 with the new increased rate.
That is after he paid a hefty assessment rate of over RM22, 500 annually. Assessment rate is supposed to includes the paying for service of garbage collection. And now Trienekens wants to collect additional RM 3,600.00 per year for garbage collection charges from the operators. This is ridiculous! How much garbage collection charges is Trienekens collecting from the people? Bearing in mind, Trienekens is only providing twice a week garbage collection services to the consumer.
Trienekens was said to be established to lighten the burden of the people. What a joke. Instead, it was like a “forever hungry” leech!
Now the councils are like the servants of Trienekens using all means and ways to bleed the people.
Tuan Speaker,
I checked with DBKU and to my horror, I was told by a staff that the extra collection from the industrial operators is to pay for a bigger bin and not for extra collection or extra frequency of service. The original bin capacity was only 120 litres and the payment was for the 1,000 litre bin. Someone in the company must be given the job through the back door to ever think of giving a plant or factory a small size bin of 120-litre. Every year, the factory operators are paying more than RM20k in assessment to DBKU. In big families, even 120 litre is hardly enough to fill up the household garbage, what more a factory. Does Trienekens and DBKU have brains in their heads or have their brains been filled with coconut water? Kepala tidak ada otak.
DBKU has the social obligation to help the people, and understand their difficulties, their grievances and not to enrich Trienekens. It does not mean that just because you are a monopoly, you can do things at your own whims and fancy. Don’t you all have a heart? Where is your conscience?
I want Trienekens to stop this unwarranted act! DBKU should replace the bins capacity from 120 litre to 1000 litre for all industrial operators. Do a proper study before putting it in black and white asking people to pay up for this and that. The people worked hard for their money, they just did not bleed or steal like BN leaders.
4. Jetty at Sg Apong Market
Tuan Speaker,
The request for the upgrading of the timber jetty next to the Sg. Apong Market had been met with problems and is a classic case of the government agency trying to pass the problem from one to another.
I wrote to the DID and Sarawak Rivers Board in March, 2010 urging them to upgrade the jetty for the benefit of luring more tourists from West Malaysia and Singapore who enjoy fishing. The tourists had to use the jetty to get to their boats which berth at a distance from the jetty.
There were at least two to three batches of tourists coming in to charter boats to go fishing. The Fishing Kotak Association has wanted the authority to upgrade the jetty by raising the height of the jetty so that the tourists do not have to go through the agony of wading in the water to their boats.
To my disappointment, no one seems to care for the problem. All are experts in buck-passing. I received a rather curt reply from the DID saying that they are not the authority to handle the jetty problem. It is obvious that the department is trying its best to wash their hands out of the responsibility.
As for the reply from Sarawak Rivers Board which I had received last month, SRB claimed that the problem is not theirs to solve also as they had handed the jetty back to the Fisherman Kotak Association. Is this the attitude of the BN in attaining the people’s problem?
Tuan Speaker,
There are a few pertinent questions to be clarified. I would like to know when was the jetty handed back to the association, and if so, was it done in the proper manner, with the appropriate documentations?
Even if it is so, why is the government showing its reluctance by not helping out to upgrade the jetty that could bring in tourists?
Why is the government agency so lackadaisical in promoting our own state when there is a chance to do so?
It is time for the BN government agency to discard this sort of mentality which is considered not caring, and trying to push the responsibility to other departments. I dare to say that the state service slogan “An Honour to Serve” remains an empty slogan and is said to “Shiok Sendiri” sahaja!
5. Sesco
Tuan Speaker,
It is disturbing to get complaints from members of the public over SESCO’s enthusiasm to change SESCO meter and charging exorbitant bills to consumers with an excuse of trying to recover arrears. We DAP had received at least 15 complaints from house owners whose meters were taken away to be replaced, alleging they are faulty and have been tampered.
The users were then slapped with an unreasonable administrative charges of RM400 and RM150 of meter replacement fee plus an arbitrarily imposition of unaccountable arrears of electricity charges which runs to thousands of ringgit.
Sarawakians have to pay the highest electrical tariff of 33 to 34 cents per unit while TNB users only pay 29 cents.
The BN government appears to get an enjoyment out of bleeding the people with using dirty tactics and harassments.
I am very much interested to know why sesco so desperate of money by charging such a higher rate compared to TNB? is it to recover the loss of selling the electricity below costs price to the smelting plants like Press Metal Berhad and Rio TInto?
The consumers in sarawak demand an answer respecting the amount of loss that sesco suffered as a result of selling the electricity below the costs price to the two companies? And why should they enjpy such benefits and not the people of Sarawak? What is so special about Press Metal Berhad and Rio Tinto to have such special privileges?
Sesco, please stop harassing the consumers now. If anyone is caught tampering, give them a warning and tell them of the danger of doing so. Do not use your high handed manner of being the monopoly electric supplier by acting like hooligans.
6. Penan Issue
Tuan Speaker,
Eight months have passed since the Ministry of Women’s Taskforce Report confirmed that the allegations of rape and sexual abuse against Penan girls and women in Sarawak by outsiders who have dealings with the Penan community, including workers of logging companies and traders, are true.
The government has repeatedly said that they will do this and that to assist the Penan Community. But have those plans being implemented? Do not rely solely on the NGO, they have their limitation and constrains. The government should set up a Special Unit to tackle the problems once and for all.
The rakyat demands an answer from DCM II who has been assigned to in charge of the Penan Affairs to inform what concrete steps have been carried out by the Sarawak state government so far, in response to the recommendations of the ministry of Women’s Taskforce Report? And also, what is the current status of the police criminal investigation of the sexual abuse cases n the Penan girls and women?
Tuan Speaker,
Financial Aids, I understand was supposed to give out to the Penans to allow them to pay for transportation for schools. The students also have the chance to stay in boarding schools so they are safely house and can return home for four trips per year.
However, I learned from reliable source that one school, SMK Temenggong Datuk Lawai Jau, did not get their allocation for May last year until now. The cash was not available for the students’ transport so a number of students did not bother to go to school. I urge the relevant authority to carry out a thorough investigation on the matter to find out if it is true.
And there were also problems that some of the school headmasters handed the cash to their parents who, instead of using it for transport for their children to go to schools, spent it on other things. Hence, resulting many students escape from school. There is no consistency in the implementation of the policy in handling out the financial aid.
In my opinion, the implementers must be firm in working out a formula and ensure that there is no leakage of money going to the wrong hands.
Tuan Speaker,
On the medical aspect, transportation is again a problem for the sick amongst the Penan community to go for medical help. A lot of the sick were unable to get medical help as they did not have money to get transport to get to the clinic.
I was also informed that medical representatives were at times sent to collect all the medicine for the Penans. However, there were times that the representatives who went there could not get any medical supply except Panadol.
I hope that the government would look at this problem and do something positive about it. I am not here to point fingers at DCM II. I am here to tell him there is such a problem and hope that something is done about it. So I hope he will not get all heated up again.
Whatever the situation, the state and federal government should monitor closely all the plans they have laid out, and then implement them to help the Penans community. There should also be a follow up on the progress of things done to ensure its effectiveness.
7. Police
Tuan Speaker,
I have something to reveal in this August house. On May 5 as I went through the news portal, “Malaysian Mirror,” I was shocked to find that three notorious gangsters have escaped from a police cell at Samarahan Police Station.
The report in Malaysian Mirror stated that three men, two gangsters and a drug pusher who were waiting to be banished for gangsterism and drug peddling had overpowered the Samarahan police guarding their cell and made their escape on April 30th at about 7.30 pm.
The article stated that two of the escapee were rearrested the next day, one a Sibu gangster and another, an ex-police turned robber.
I read that it was the Malaysian Mirror’s exclusive. I checked and found out from local media that they were advised not to write the story.
Why is it so? Did the police want to cover up their inefficiency and trying to sweep the matter under the carpet? Should they not warn the people through the media that the surrounding residents in Samarahan could be harmed if the gangsters were to hold them hostage?
How irresponsible it is of the police to cover up such criminal act of the escape. What happen to the police on duty? Is there any action taken? Why it is that the public were not informed that there are criminals roaming the streets with us? Why is it that the police wanted to cover up such a big incident that could affect the security of the public? Instead of tighten up the security of the cell, 2000 policemen were sent over to Sibu for the by election just to harass the voters and opposition. How could you expect the public to have confidence in the police force where gangsters can free easily from the police cell?
I think the police force owed the people an explanation on the whole incident. I also wanted to know if the other escapee had been arrested or was there any attempt to do so.
Tuan Speaker, with these words, I conclude my speech.
Thank you.
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Another 99 shophouses Stutong project to enrich the BN leaders?
Jalan Peace Selatan squatters did not have the peace they desire- they are now living in fear of when they would be evicted, no thanks to the SUPP.
I have read with disgust in the local papers at what the SUPP had done to the squatters last Sunday. Calling in a team of SUPP members, the group had knowingly or unknowingly persuaded the squatters to sign the form of Land and Survey with the powerful clause of removing them from the land without compensation.
The almost 200 families consisting of poor Dayaks and Chinese had been staying there for ages, some as long as four decades. It may mean little to people who have houses, but for these squatters who had been promised before that they would be resettled, it has been a long wait for them, some who had passed on while waiting.
Just before Chinese New Year, the Land and Survey arrived at their door steps asking them to sign the survey forms with the unfair clause whereby the state government has every right to kick the residents out from the land without having to pay them a single cent of compensation.
I have gone down, explained to them, get them a new form which many of them had given their personal data and send them to the Land and Survey officer, Kesuma Haji Sitam. Kesuma told me that the forms I handed over were sufficient as they contained the personal details of the squatters.
So now why should they go back again on April 4 with the SUPP members to help them explain to the people to sign the very forms they had given in the first place?
A few residents called me up and I advised the residents not to sign them. Although assuring the SUPP and Land and Survey that they would hand over the forms on April 11, a few residents told me that the majority of them did not sign. They only signed after it was agreed that the clause be crossed out.
I have said it in a few Dewan sittings asking the government to please resettled them in the same area and upgrade their basic facilities.
When it comes to land issue, the government gets very sensitive. I keep on harping that the cronies had been given ten of thousands of land so what is 8 points to these squatters who had been there for decades.
After all the battles I have fought for the squatters, SUPP came right into it and helped the Land and Survey to take away the squatters’ rights.
I think before the SUPP do such thing, they must ask themselves if they are helping these people. Is the Land and Survey making use of the SUPP or is it the other way round. Will this piece of land be another Stutong Land 99 shophouse project to enrich the BN leaders?
Whatever it is, leave the squatters alone. Do not deny them a place they have been staying for the past forty years. The government should give them the right to call their house a home. How much longer do you want them to suffer not knowing they would be chased out anytime?
Friday, April 9, 2010
Travel Ban Lifted
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PETALING JAYA – Sandy Lai is one happy lady after learning that she has won her "freedom" back. The former college student who was barred from going overseas by the National Higher Education Fund Corporation (PTPTN) for purportedly not settling her loan is now free to travel without restrictions. The corporation's public relations officer, Noora Md Yusoff, told Malaysian Mirror that it discovered the blacklisting error after conducting an internal investigation. "As an immediate step, we have removed the former student's name from the blacklist on April 7. Show in black and white  Yong (left) helping Lai sort through the paperwork on her case last week. "At the same time, we are seeking to recover the full amount of loan purportedly disbursed for the ex-student from the parties involved," she said, adding that the corporation would like to apologise to Lai for the trouble caused. Lai, when contacted by the Mirror, said she was delighted with the latest development in the long-running case that was first highlighted by the news portal last week. "I am very happy to hear that. (Pending assemblywoman) Violet (Yong) has told my sister who informed me this (yesterday) afternoon. "However, I want to see the letter in black and white before I believe PTPTN again," she said. Loan that never was Lai had approached Pending state assemblywoman Violet Yong for help when the problem first cropped up. The 28-year-old woman from Sibu had applied for a RM15,000 loan from the corporation in 2001 when she was studying Computer Science at Chermai College in Kuching. She, however, did not receive the approved loan during her two years of studies. Her education was funded by an elder sister. In 2003, Lai completed the course and was shocked to find a letter from the corporation the next year asking her to settle her loan. Lai and her sister then approached the college, which admitted it had received the loan of RM15,000 from the corporation. The college agreed to pay back the corporation by instalment. Yong said Lai thought that was the end of the matter but each year, the lender would send her a letter, telling her to settle the loan. College closed in 2008 Yong then helped Lai by getting the college and the lender to agree to update their records in the hope such letters would stop being issued. It didn't, and Lai chose to ignore the reminders. On Feb 19 this year, she received a letter from the legal department of the corporation informing her that she has been barred from travelling overseas. Lai said she had to go abroad in two months' time. Yong said the college has since closed in 2008. The assemblywoman had threatened to bring the issue up at the state legislative assembly if the corporation could not resolve the dispute. Help appreciated Lai expressed gratitude to Yong for solving her case. She said the problem had caused mental anguish since it began, adding that she had never owed people or even her friends' money. "I felt I was very unfairly treated and it was a burden for me to bear all these years. I hope other students would not be facing such problems like me," she said. Lai said she was repaying the loan from her sister in stages. | |||
Monday, April 5, 2010
Ex-Student barred from going abroad after loan mess
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KUCHING – The Pending state assemblywoman alleged that a former college student was unfairly barred from going overseas by the National Higher Education Fund Corporation. Violet Yong said the former student applied for a RM15,000 loan from the corporation in 2001 when she was studying Computer Science at Chermai College here.  Lai (right) discussing with Yong the next course of action to take. Applied but never received loan The Sibu lass, who wish to be identified only as Lai, however did not receive the approved loan during her two years of studies. Her education was funded by an elder sister. In 2003, Lai completed the course and was shocked to find a letter from the corporation the next year asking her to settle her loan. Lai, 28, and her sister then approached the college which admitted it had received the loan of RM15,000 from the corporation. The college agreed to pay back the corporation by instalment. Infuriating letters Yong said Lai thought that was the end of the matter but each year, the lender would send her a letter, telling her to settle the loan. Yong then helped Lai by getting the college and the lender to agree to update their records in the hope such letters would stop being issued.. It didn't and Lai chose to ignore the reminders. On Feb 19 this year, she received a letter from the legal department of the corporation informing her that she has been barred from travelling overseas. Lai said she had to travel overseas in two months time. Yong said the college has since closed in 2008. Lender blamed Yong slammed the corporation for its inefficiency despite every attempt to straighten the problem. She said the corporation's delay in approving loans was hampering poor students who wish to further their studies. “Not everyone has a sister who is willing or capable of helping out." Yong said on Friday that she would write to the corporation again to tell it to rescind the blacklisting order, failing which she would raise the matter in Parliament. | |||
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
BN is running Sarawak like "Animal Farm"
How on earth can the State government solve the problem of Section 47 when there was no amendment at all in the DUN? (despite DAP’s tabling a bill in the DUN for the Land Code to be amended but the lot of BN YB’s including from SUPP led by George Chan walked out the state assembly)
There are still land owners in Bako who are in the dark about what are going to happen to their lands. Some have been under Section 47 for over 35 years and there was no development on their lands as assured by the State government to do so when they should.
I know of a Chai family who would lose their land very soon if the government refused to lift their land from Section 47. The brothers are poor people staying on the land which was inherited from their ancestors.
George Chan, would you like your house to be drawn under Section 47 and having to move out to the streets. Put yourself in the shoes of the unfortunate ones before you blindly follow what CM wants. You cannot, you know why, because by following what your boss wants you to do, you can continue living a high standard lifestyle, wining and dining with whoever you want. So what do you understand about a poor man’s life. Can you even live through a day like the poor? I doubt very much.
Back to Bako, there were about 379 parcels of lands under Section 47 with some going to expire by March 2012. Naturally, the owners of these lands are a worried lot. Most are poor people and that was why the government harassed and intimidated them off their lands.
I would understand if the lands were taken to build schools, hospitals or public buildings for the benefit of the people. But the problem lies in the fact that there was nothing done to the land that the government had ‘snatched’ from these landowners. The lands were left idle and I would not be surprised if some cronies companies took over the land and developed them into housing or shop houses to sell for personal gains. There are too many of such cases already including the 33.6 acres of lands at Batu Lintang which had since alienated to Naim Cendera for private development.
Two years ago, a few pieces of land in Bako, including that of the Chief Minister’s sister and powerful politician, had their lands lifted from Section 47 and furthermore in perpetuity term.
If the lands in Bako area which are registered under the names of Raziah @ Rodiah Binti Mahmud (CM's sisiter) and Tommy Bin Bugo @ Hamid Bin Bugo can be free from Section 47 notification and furthermore with perpetuity term, why can't other ordinary landowners enjoy the same conditions like the Chief Minister’s sister and Tommy Bin Bugo @ Hamid Bin Bugo? Why certain people are more equal than others? We should not run the state like an “Animal Farm”.
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