By : DR. CHONG ENG LEONG
Osman Jamal, Director of
Land and Survey Dept, said today that the number of native land applications
being processed in Sabah increased almost by two-fold to 32,000 between January
and August this year from only 17,000 through last year.
Would Osman please tell us
who are the 50,000 Natives applicants in the past 20 months? If one applicant
has six mouths to feed, this means 300,000 Anak Negeri.
I have reasons to believe
that many of these new applications are from new Anak Negeri, the Project
Mahathir citizens – about 800,000 of them today.
Osman himself had stated
that claims of customary land beyond the 1930 Land Ordinance would not be
included under the NCR but opened and treated as new land applications. This
opened the floodgate for land applications. And you can guess who the new
applicants would be.
It is a known fact through
Court Hearings that lands under NCR had been alienated to private companies,
leaving the indigenous people homeless and deprived of daily livelihood. And
now these indigenous people are forced to share available land with these new
Anak Negeri. In no time the locals would be refugees in our own land.
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