SABAH DAP STARTS EARLY ELECTION WALKABOUT

THE 13TH General Election is going to happen any time and the Sabah DAP leaders are not going to take it lightly. The DAP team has started the walkabout since three weeks ago covering the whole of Kota Kinabalu, Sepangar, Putatan and Penampang area.

The Sabah DAP Advisor cum DAP Malaysia Central Executive Committee (CEC) member, and the Kota Kinabalu Member of Parliament led the group comprising of the State Vice Chairman Edward Ewol Mujie and other senior members started the walkabout in the major areas hoping to meet more people and listen to their views and at the same time to received their complaints.

So far, they have covered the big shopping malls and the markets in most parts of the KK City, and will walk into the sectors which are at the outskirt of the towns and city. The group aims to complete the schedule walkabout to the main areas in two weeks time.

The walkabout exercise is very positive and the people welcome to meet the leaders of the DAP. Many views has been received and the complaints on the bad infrastructures is the highest among other complaints like economic hardship, no development, foreigners getting MYcards, RCI, election cheating, unfairness in government promotion, land matters, long wait on issuance of strata titles, housing management, dirty environment, flood, and high cost of living affected by low pay and high prices of essentials.

The people are anxious on when the general election is going to arrive, they said they can’t wait any longer and wanted to get the change in as fast as possible. This feeling is getting more immense day by day now.  They commented that we need to remember no matter what, we should not vote the 'bad managers' and 'thieves' into the government.

Sabah has become the poorest from what it used to be the richest state in Malaysia. 48 years is only a short time to watch a state falling from rich to poor, what happened?

The only reasonable answer is due to 'bad managers' who did not manage the state to achieve prosperity and with high economic performance. Not only that, we are also seriously affected by the 'political get rich' phenomena and syndromes. Other countries have done well and progressing faster than us, and this reflects that there is something that badly needed to be put right in our own.

The high corruption rate indicating that we have a lot of built-in loop-holes in the system to allow this to happen, especially in the direct award of tender, negotiated tender, and huge contract work. The escalated contract sum is one typical example, and our MACC is always slow to act even after reports and complaints had been filed in.

The bad managers are doing more damage and harm to the country, and it is time that we must remove them once for all. We should not allow those who “steal” from the people to come into the government or to represent the people, especially those with bad track records and known as bad.

The people generally requested a 1 to 1 fight, but it is PR vs BN.