CHASTISE....
BN leaders in Sabah can chastise the opposition as much as they want in order
to serve their peninsular master, but their end is nearing, says opposition
STAR.
By : RAYMOND TOMBUNG
KOTA KINABALU: Sabah Barisan
Nasional’s ‘incessant holler’ and attacks on opposition parties especially the
State Reform Party (STAR) has not
deflected grassroots perceptions of the BN’s unworthiness.
In fact the more BN leaders
defend the alleged wrongdoings of their Umno-BN bosses and justify the
coalition’s continued presence in Sabah, the more compelling the need to boot
them out, claims STAR chief Jeffrey Kitingan.
In a statement lambasting
state BN secretary Abdul Rahman Dahlan for hitting at the opposition’s
insistence on the Borneo Agenda which includes Sabah becoming a nation ‘within’
Malaysia, Jeffrey said the current ‘domination’ by the peninsular was “morally
wrong’
“Rahman has been very vocal
in his defence of Malayan domination over Sabah, justifying it with all sorts
of rationales.
“This is understandable
because he needs to show partiality to his bosses in Umno, but his rationales
are contrived and in the final analysis he doesn’t care very much about the
rights of Sabahans within the Federation.
“Why must we be subservient
in our own house when we should be the masters of our destiny?” he asked.
He said unlike in Sarawak,
Sabahans were constantly being bullied and their rights trampled on as proven
by the witness testimonies in the ongoing Royal Commission of Inquiry into the
legalised illegal immigrant situation.
“Unfortunately, there are
selfish leaders in Sabah and Sarawak who have no qualms about being traitors to
the people, betraying them by willing to be the proxies and rogue elements of
neo-colonialists.
“The RCI has proved that we
have been subjected to the worse acts of
treason by KL leaders who saw it fit to drown Sabah in a flood of illegal
immigrants who then were made citizens and voters overnight.
“I want to ask if Rahman is happy with the now confirmed
Project IC what he as a Sabahan wants for the future of Sabah.
“What do you see for your
children and grandchildren now that the immigrants have outnumbered the KDMs
and Bajaus?.
“Are you not ever going to
voice your objections to this criminal act and keep defending the federal
government or keep talking as if the opposition leaders are wrong in defending
Sabah’s rights?” asked Jeffrey.
Sabahans More Aware
Jeffrey said STAR was unperturbed
by campaigns maligning the opposition, because Sabahans were now very aware of
the plunder and squandering by those in the government.
“STAR has already achieved
its aim to change the old and outdated mindset indoctrinated on us by Malaya
and the British that we are not capable of standing on our own two feet or to
look after ourselves.
“As a result of our campaign
with the hundreds of the Borneo Tea Parties (BTPs) Sabahans now realise that
Sabah should be standing on its own two feet simply because we have the natural
resources to enable us to become as rich as Singapore and Brunei!
“We now know the federal
government will keep sucking maximum amount of revenues from us and sprinkling
on us a minimum of crumbs,” said Jeffrey in reference to the abject poverty in
the state and the handouts of rice, salt fish and cooking oil by the BN
campaigners..
He said this acts of pitiful
giving by BN leaders are testimonies to the government’s failure to develop the
state and change the lives of the people.
“It’s time that we get our
politics and relationships right after 50 years and demand our rightful share
in the federation and not help to perpetuate the Malayan domination at our
expense,” Jeffrey said.
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