Friday 4 May 2012

PITY SABAH LOSING ON EVERY ENDS





RANAU : A State Reform Party (Star) leader claimed that Sabah had lost every opportunities to Malaya and is losing even more as greed entrenched itself in the ruling elites who could easily find a matching capitalists.

Star's division head for Ranau, Jalibin Paidi, in a statement here said if one reflects long enough on this point, he or she would agree with his finding that Sabah had always been at the receiving end of Malayan mannouvres in the state, both politically and economically.

Take FELDA as example, he said, the Federal agency now has 300,000 acres of land in Lahad Datu and Kinabatangan. FELDA reaps around RM3 billion profits annually from its Sabah palm oil plantation. How many have we lost here for the last decades? he asked.

He said that amount could have easily compensated for the education needs of Sabah children wanting to pursue studies. Of course FELDA sponsors students too but not Sabahans, he alleged.

Now that FELDA is to be listed, what would happen to the 300,000 acres of land?

And what about other Malayan-based agencies, and state foundations, who were given huge tracts of lands in Sabah, he said. And this not counting the huge tracts of lands being given to Malayan private and listed companies.

Jalibin who is also Star state committee member, alleged that in the ruling elites' eagerness to snatch as much profits, now they don't even care if the lands being given away to companies are in fact NCR lands and that in many cases, native kampungs are trapped inside 'company's land' like those happening in Pitas, Beluran and Kota Marudu.

If Sabah leaders had put good brains at works, the state could have easily reaped these profits and therefore able to provide scholarships to Sabahans up to tertiary education and that there is no need for Sabahans to apply for the Federal PTPTN, he argued.

He also mentioned the tax and oil figures Star state chairman Dr Jeffrey Kitingan had always brought up in his speeches. "Last year the Federal collected RM22.7 billion in taxes from Sabah. It also colected RM15 billion in oil money from Sabah. That is already lose to RM40 billion a year, and only on oil and taxes, not including other remittances like fees, fines and other taxes such as road tax, but what is Sabah getting annually? peanut !," he said.

Jalibin said it is time the natives and all other Sabahans really ponder if they still want the same regime and system to control them or they want to get Star to lead the autonomous state to greater height.

The world is emancipating itself from oppressive governments. Here in Sabah we have been oppressed all the time on all corners, it is time we move forward to liberate ourselves and take charge and determine the future of our state and its people, he added. (STAR Media)

22 comments:

  1. Sabah harus dpt yang sepatutnya mereka miliki.

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  2. STAR mampukah selesaikan semua masalah tu kalau mereka sendiri yang diberi mandat untuk memerintah??

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    1. Lumrah pembangkang akan sentiasa mempertikaikan usaha kerajaan..

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  3. Yang pasti kerajaan sedang melaksanakan apa pun tuntutan yang dibuat oleh penduduk Sabah.

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  4. Setiap perkara akan dilaksanakan secara berperingkat. Maka kita harap masalah yang dihadapi akan dapat dibincangkan dan diselesaikan.

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    1. Kerajaan sedaya upaya melaksanakan dan menyelesaikan masalah secara berperingkat

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  5. kalau bukan kerana Felda, sudah ramai belia2 Sabah terkandas di negeri sendiri.. cuba STAR sekali sekala masuk melawat Felda Sahabat Lahad Datu.. jangan main lepas cakap saja..

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  6. darimana Jeffrey mendapat maklumat kononnya cukai Sabah adalah sebanyak RM22.7?? bagaimana dengan negeri2 lain?? setahu saya Selangor yang paling banyak menyumbang dana kepada persekutuan..

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  7. jika STAR memerintah negeri ini, tidak mustahil rm40 bilion itu akan mengalir ke Sarawak.. seperti yang kita sedia maklum, STAR adalah parti dari Sarawak..

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  8. Sabah has been allocated RM4.416 billion under the Second Rolling Plan (of the 10th Malaysia Plan) to carry out 724 projects.

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  9. And as of May 3 this year, a sum of RM692 million or 15.6 per cent of the allocation for 2012 had been spent on development projects.

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  10. Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Haji Aman made the disclosure after chairing the State Action Committee meeting.

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  11. Musa said he had reminded every ministry and related departments to ensure all government initiatives were made known to the people, especially projects that would benefit the target groups.

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  12. Musa also said members of the committee were also told yesterday that what mattered most was the people’s satisfaction towards the initiatives undertaken by the government in terms of services, wealth creation and effectiveness in resolving problems.

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  13. The civil servants too play a crutial role in state development: the Chief Minister urged members of the civil service to ensure the projects listed under the Second Rolling Plan achieved their objectives.

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  14. Meanwhile, Musa urged Sabahans who had gone to the peninsula to look for jobs to return to Sabah. He said there were currently some 20,000 job available in the State.

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  15. Those who have experience working in the hotel and service industry should come back as a lot of hotels and resorts are being built throughout the State.

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  16. Planning and policy-makers should be ‘people oriented’ to create a community-friendly environment by providing access facilities based on a standard that is universally acceptable.

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  17. Minister of Community Development and Consumer Affairs, Datuk Azizah Mohd Dun said, accessibility is not just going in and out of buildings, but cover all other aspects such as the road system and public transport facilities.

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  18. She believes that if all the basic facilities for the disabled are given attention, there would be more people with disabilities (OKU) being able to contribute to the economic development and the government would not need to spend a lot of money just by giving aid.

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  19. The government takes serious care and concern for the disabled with the introduction of the Disabled Persons Act 2008. Under the Act, the disabled has the right to access and use the facilities, amenities, services and public buildings.

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  20. Therefore, the government or the provider of any facility, amenity, service and public buildings must give appropriate consideration and take the necessary steps to conform to the universally acceptable design in order to facilitate access for the disabled.

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