TAMPARULI: A recent debate
organised by NGO Desah on whether a state or national party is the solution to
solving Sabah's problems saw Star (State Reform Party) being asked as to who
gave its Sabah chapter President Datuk Dr Jeffrey Kitingan the right to claim
to represent Borneo through his Borneo Agenda.
This is in account of Borneo
being vast and including Kalimantan and Brunei.
Moderated by Dr Arnold Puyok
of UiTM, some 200 mostly supporters of the two parties thronged the Tamparuli
Recreation Club for the debate between Pajudin Nordin of PKR and Edward Linggu
of Star.
Star countered by asking who
gave the mandate for Pakatan Rakyat to write their Buku Jingga manifesto?
Star contended that West
Malaysian parties do not have Sabah's best interests at heart with PR being no
better than another BN exploitive clone.
Pajudin replied that all
leaders and the supporters contributed to the Buku Jingga and that had Jeffrey
been with PR, his signature would have been included as well.
PKR's Pajudin pointed out
that Star was a resurrected Sarawak import that was rejected by Sarawakians
with its candidates losing their deposits in the elections.
"Star is a party formed
to champion the Dayaks," he said, noting there were some Star supporters
in the audience with the Sarawak flag on their sleeves.
He was also blunt in
accusing Star of being a spoiler.
Star retorted by branding PR
a Malayan political coalition which should rightly be confined within the
shores of Malaya as was agreed between leaders during the formation of Malaysia
to vie for only 65pc of the parliamentary seats while Sabah and Sarawak were
rightly entitled to 35 percent of the parliamentary seats as a check and
balance system to avoid concentrating two-third majority in Malaya for KL to
change the constitution at its whims and fancies.
PKR came prepared with their
own vocal cheerleaders puncturing the debate session with shouts of
"Reformasi" and "Lain Kali-lah" every time Star supporters
shouted "Ini kali-lah".
Star revealed one of their
ideas to be implemented once taking over Sabah - the formation of a Native Land
Foundation to buy over distressed NT lands on foreclosure or from owners until
they redeemed them later with means acquired thereafter.
Star Sabah head Dr Jeffrey
had mentioned in the first debate that the party aspired to be a kingmaker
working with either the BN or PR in power to regain Sabah's autonomy and rights
as an equal partner in the Federation of Malaysia comprising Malaya, Sabah and
Sarawak.
PKR asked the audience to
ponder whether was it realistic for Star to be able to affect all the desired
changes without changing the structure of the Federal Government.
Jeffrey selalu lompat parti, tidak mustahil jika di lompat dari Star jg lepas ni.
ReplyDeleteLepas tu cakap tidak selari dengan perjuangan sebenar membela nasib orang Sabah.
DeleteHe's one of the frogs too. Period.
DeleteKetua katak yang suka lompat parti.
Deletepembangkang di Sabah sefahaman, jadi ia beri kelebihan kepada BN.
ReplyDelete80% of all the politicians are only opportunist.
ReplyDeletePersonally, if it is good for everybody then I just need to respect.
DeleteJangan gila kuasa sangat.
ReplyDeleteThe most important thing is, you know what you're doing.
DeleteBetul tu, Jk jangan terlalu gila kuasa, nanti makan diri sendri.
DeleteJadi, apa hasil debat ni?
ReplyDeleteIt became more heated and heated up.
DeleteBiarlah si Jeffrey buat apa yang dia mo. Masing-masing pun ada kebebasan juga kan.
ReplyDeleteya, JK buat apa yang dia mau..yang penting rakyat harus bijak menilai.
DeleteYnag penting rakyat tahu dan bijak menilai setiap hal yang berlaku. Tambahan pula sekarang ni dah nak PRU. Jadi sendiri mahu ingatlah.
ReplyDeleteRakyat harus terus menyokong kerajaan kerana kerajaan berusaha sedaya upaya membela nasib rakyat dan membangunkan Sabah.
DeleteApapun, kita tunggu dan lihat sajalah nanti apa yang akan berlaku.
ReplyDeleteJK is the king of frog, he jumped 6 times to different opposition parties in Sabah.
ReplyDeleteJK memang diketahui sudah menyertai banyak parti sebelum ini.
DeletePKR pun tidak layak untuk memperkatakan mengenai 20 perkara itu.
ReplyDeleteSemakin dekat PRU ini semakin isu hangat diperkatakan lagi. Tidak hairanlah dengan perkara sebegini. Terutama sekali daripada pihak pembangkang.
ReplyDeletepembangkang di Sabah memang tidak bersatu dan saling menyalahkan.
ReplyDeletesampai sekarang pun pembangkang di Sabah masih gagal untuk bekerjasama.
ReplyDeleteapa yang saya lihat, kebangkitan Jeffrey dan kewujudan Parti Star Sabah sekadar menjadi penghalang kepada pembangkang negeri ini untuk merampas kerajaan..
ReplyDelete