KOTA KINABALU: DAP's Member
of Parliament, Hiew King Chew, fails to see the reality of Sabah's dire needs
within the federation because he is a member of a Malayan-based party, says
State Reform Party (STAR).
STAR Sabah's Information
Chief Edward Linggu said this in a statement in response to Hiew who had told
voters not to waste votes on STAR and SAPP yesterday.
He claimed that a STAR or SAPP state government wouldn't be
able to function because it will be an opposition state even if PR took over
Putrajaya, just like PBS government was after it was the state opposition
government.
Linggu said Hiew has chosen
to speak with selective ignorance, betraying his political tunnel vision, by
saying Sabah can only survive by surrendering its fate to Malayan parties.
Linggu also said that
as a DAP representative Hiew has
forgotten his roots and believes Sabah is a territory to be claimed for Malaya,
and not to be given any measure of rights and autonomy.
"Has Hiew forgotten
that Sabah was promised certain special rights, privileges and autonomy as
special conditions for Sabah's forming Malaysia together with three other
nation states?" Linggu asked. "Or as a DAP leader does he prefer that
Sabah continues to be under the control of Malayan parties forever?
"As a Sabahan does Hiew
want to fight for Sabah rights or Malayan control over your state?
"STAR sees Sabah as our
home and our ultimate objective is to establish hegemony of local parties over
it and do away with dictations on how to run our home state by Malayan BN
parties," Linggu added. "But sadly, our efforts are being hampered by
other Malaya-based parties like DAP which are out to split votes."
Linggu said Hiew's ignorance
of political realities is evident in his attempt to compare STAR's future
scenario with that of the PBS era, stressing how easily we can be choked to
death by Kuala Lumpur.
"Hiew needs to wake up
to the reality that the people of Sabah had awakened from this lie and they are
now fighting for their rights without fear. They now fully realize that they
are at the losing end of the current arrangement whereby their state is being
robbed of RM42 billion annually by Kuala Lumpur and yet remain poor because it
is given mere token allocations for development compared to what is being given
the Peeninsula.
"Nobody will help
Sabahans except ourselves. So STAR is fighting for something BN Sabah parties
don't dare to do, that is to take back our rights which were promised to us in
the Malaysia Agreement, the IGC Report, the 20 Points and the Oath Stone. These
rights have been eroded and will be completely wiped out if Malayan parties continue
to rule us because they have no understanding of the desires of genuine
Sabahans.
"Can Hiew understand
this part of Sabah politics? To STAR,
voting for PR is like trying to jump from the BN frying pan into the PR
fire. We have very little trust in Anwar who had betrayed his ignorance of
leanings.
"If Hiew is honest and
sincere to fight for Sabahans he needs to seriously re-consider his stance on
this issue and whether he can fight for us to our full advantage under a
neo-colonist political platform. He can't be claiming to fight for us while
being a proxy of Malayan hegemony.
"If he believes Sabah
will not be able to stand on its own if PR takes over Putrajaya is he denying
that Penang,, under his party, has done better than when it was under the
BN?" Linggu demanded.
"And by saying that
does he also mean that PR will be suppressing and choking Sabah, with him
playing the KL agent's role to victimize and strangle his fellow
Sabahans?" Linggu demanded.
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