BLOW....The
RCI will be the powder keg of the issue that will blow Umno and Barisan
Nasional to pieces in Sabah.
By : MOHD ARIFF SABRI AZIZ
The Project IC issue in
Sabah was simply a race-centred policy used by Umno and Barisan Nasional (BN)
to restructure the ethnic set-up in Sabah. The majority have suddenly found
themselves to be marginalised and diluted. It has come to that because BN and
its surrogate partners in Sabah want to subjugate the people of Sabah.
Sabahans better wake up –
this issue is about the sovereignty of your state.
When Sabah and Sarawak
became part of Malaysia, it was promised that Sabah and Sarawak shall not
surrender their sovereignty. That promise has been abused and Sabah has lost
its sovereignty.
Sabah is part of Malaysia,
so why should it be given sovereignty? Sovereignty is a right owned by an
independent nation.
Borneo was an independent
nation having separate identity from Malaya then. It can exercise its
sovereignty because it was promised so.
Otherwise, the entry of
Borneo into Malaysia was just part of the neo-colonialism that so rankled
(Indonesia’s) Sukarno when Malaysia was about to emerge.
Only now Prime Minister
Najib Tun Razak wants to address the issue.
Even then, as he announced
yet another of his laundry list of initiatives, former premier Dr Mahathir
Mohamad is already hitting out at him. The Royal Commission Inquiry (RCI),
Mahathir says, is a waste of time.
He says these illegal
immigrants deserve to become Malaysian citizens because they have stayed here
long enough and can speak Malay.
Mahathir is admitting that
it was he who started the Project IC simply because he wanted to alter the
demographics in Sabah.
Sabah
poorest state, not Kelantan
His purpose was to ensure
Umno and its surrogate allies in Sabah remain in power.
Umno and BN have ruled Sabah
for so many years. Yet the state remains at the bottom of the prosperity
ladder.
Each year we hear of
gargantuan allocations to develop Sabah. But where has the money gone? The
money has allegedly gone into the pockets of the Umno and BN elites who
constitute probably 5% of the Sabah population.
Sabah is one of the states
in Malaysia that has oil, yet it remains one of the poorest.
Mind you, it’s not Kelantan
that is the poorest state, it’s Sabah which is under Umno and BN rule.
The rule of thumb then is,
whenever Umno and BN rule, the state becomes impoverished. If it is not yet
impoverished, it becomes a piggy-bank for Umno and BN and then ends up poor.
So Najib’s terms of
reference for the RCI on illegal Sabah immigrants is just a political ruse.
First, the RCI will have six
months to do the job. The immediate step is to exclude those who got IC through
the project from voting in the 13th general election.
These people shouldn’t be
difficult to identify. Under the Najib initiative, there will be no report
until about March 2013 and no action a few months after March 2013.
By that time, the election
will be over. The inclusion of the over two million illegal immigrants in the
electoral roles would have had the desired effect on the electoral results,
which is to help BN win illegally in Sabah. (FMT)
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