Selena Tay
If you are the owner of a small stationery shop, what do you do when the dispatch rider consistently turns in a below-par performance and displays a lousy attitude year in year out? Why, the recalcitrant worker will surely be given the boot after a severe warning letter has been served and it is the same situation when the general election comes around.
We, the rakyat are the boss of the government of the day and we will evaluate the government’s performance when the polls are called. In the previous general election in 2008, we have served the BN Federal Government a severe warning letter telling them to pull up their socks or else they will be sacked.
However, it looks as though we are going to extend their service again because just before appraisal time, the BN Government has the cheek to bribe us (the boss), with RM500, a half-hearted apology and lots of promises to improve. If this were to happen in our organisation, I’m sure we will still give the errant employee the boot. Imagine the worker trying to bribe the boss to extend his service! And this is what the BN Government is doing to the rakyat.
What sort of a worker is this?! Time and time again, BN has begged us to give them a chance and we have complied but they have always failed to keep their word. That is their only consistency – always failing to improve after promising to do so and their performance lately has gone down the drain as they have also siphoned off the office funds by dipping their hands into the cash box.
If you are the boss of the organisation, for sure you will fire the lousy worker and have him replaced and this is what we should be doing in regards to the BN Government. Enough of nonsense. Just boot them out! And here is the Report Card as the Parliament session for this year will commence from March 12 to April 12. Going by the momentum on the ground, it looks like this will be the last session before Parliament is dissolved.
Among the issues the Opposition Pakatan Rakyat (PR) MPs will try to bring up are:
1 Cattle-Condo Saga (National Feedlot Corporation)
2 Minimum wage
3 1Care Health Scheme
4 Lynas Advanced Material Plant (LAMP)
5 Kinrara-Damansara Expressway (KIDEX)
6 Six Tamil schools that the BN Government has promised to build
7 Genetically-modified mosquitoes
8 Listing of Felda shares
The phrase ‘try to bring up’ is used as many times the PR MPs are not given a chance to ask questions and therein lies the difficulty. Below is a quick run-through on the issues.
First of all, the Cattle-Condo Saga which is undergoing a ding-dong process as the investigation papers are being pushed back and forth between the Attorney-General’s Chambers and the police. Is this a delaying tactic so that the rakyat will forget all about this issue? The Pakatan MPs will press for quick action to be taken. Look at what has happened to the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) issue – lost at sea. One by one, the BN Federal Government buries the contentious issues as over the course of time, these said issues will be lost in the mists of antiquity.
1Care Health Scheme
The second issue listed above is minimum wage which is certainly going to be a hot issue. When Pakatan Rakyat announced the minimum wage figure of RM1,100 in their Alternative Budget presented on Oct 4, last year, the BN leaders had a good laugh and mocked the said figure as being too low by laughing at Pakatan’s so-called inability to govern. Now the BN Government’s figure is below RM1k. What a joke! As usual, the underdog worker gets a raw deal. There has to be a win-win situation for both employers and workers and the Pakatan MPs have proposed that the BN Government must also assist the employers in providing a fair wage.
The third issue, the 1Care Health Scheme is shrouded in mystery. 10% of a private sector worker’s fixed salary will be deducted monthly for 1Care. This is a sort of health insurance for major illnesses. But what happens if the money is not utilised at all by a healthy person? The Pakatan Rakyat MPs will press the Health Minister to reveal more details of this Scheme. As it is now, DAP’s Serdang MP, Teo Nie Ching has already requested for more information from MCA’s Liow Tiong Lai who is the Health Minister but so far he has remained evasive.
The fourth controversial issue is Lynas. The BN Federal Government failed to refer to the rakyat before approving this project. What happened to the slogan of ‘People First’ which has been much-touted by Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak? Anyway, if the Lynas plant is such a healthy project, why wasn’t it set up in Australia in the first place as it is after all an Australian company?! The PR MPs will urge the BN Government to shut down the plant – there will be no compromise on this as the health and safety of Malaysians are at stake.
The fifth issue is whether the Kinrara-Damansara Expressway which is a project costing more than RM2 billion has gone through the normal and transparent awarding-of-tender procedures.
The sixth issue concerns the building of 6 Tamil schools where even the project board has yet to be put up. There is no sign of this and it still remains as a promise yet to be fulfilled by the BN Federal Government who is still recycling this promise.
The seventh issue is one that continues from last year when PKR’s Gopeng MP Dr. Lee Boon Chye requested for more information pertaining to the genetically modified mosquitoes that is supposed to devour the aedes mosquito. Dr Lee’s question was only given a vague answer and it is the right of we, the rakyat to know whether these genetically modified mosquitoes will endanger our health.
The listing of Felda shares will be handled by PAS MPs who know this issue very well. The BN Government wants to go ahead with the listing while the Pakatan side wants to block it. The BN Government has informed the Felda settlers that once the shares are listed, they will receive a windfall. But the Pakatan MPs have informed the settlers that they will lose their land and therefore their future generation will be landless. And the windfall may not be as big as it is made out to be after all the calculations are taken into consideration.
Most of the time, the BN MPs in Parliament fail to answer the questions posed by the PR MPs. A check on the Hansard will reveal that Umno MPs are the ones mostly guilty of this crime as all they do is attack the Pakatan MPs while praising the BN Government sky-high.
It is high time we the rakyat show the government who is the boss. Instead of being bullied by the lousy and under-performing worker, we must get him replaced so that the country can get back on the right track. As it is, we are already running out of time.
Hornbill Unleashed 
If a backdoor minister can secure for her family hundreds of millions, don’t tell me a sitting PM cannot abuse RM500,000. This is chicken feed.
Just like former PM Dr Mahathir Mohamad has always said, he and the BN government has made billionaires out of many, so are you going to believe they themselves are not billionaires?
Comment by Vinnie — March 12, 2012 @ 12:10 PM |
The “me-just-happened-2b-married-to-NFC-man” thick-skinned woman’s socalled half-past six “resignation” is another BN-hoax/whitewash.
Don’t kid us! Steping down as one’s tenure expires ain’t no resignation nor sacrifice at all.
If the Cowgate scandal somehow just vaporises into the thin air, it again demonstrates at best the arrogant power-that-be’s way of treating her fellow Malaysians as easy suckers.
How many could be so lucky & capable to walk away with RM250m for a mere 4-year Cabinet stint, albeit via the backdoor mode? And many are willing to be made sacrificial lambs, if by stepping down which anway is long overdue, all is okay again, aren’t you folks?
Comment by Baki — March 12, 2012 @ 1:14 PM |
TIME TO RE-ASSESS UMNO BN FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH MALAYSIA AGREEMENT & 18/20 POINTS AGREEMENT
There is increasing questioning of the validity of the 1963 international treaties for federation of Malaysia between Malaya and Sabah and Sarawak and strong sentiment amongst many local people that both Sabah and Sarawak should leave the federation of Malaysia.
This has arisen mainly because of the UMNO BN government’s total failure to faithfully observe the terms and conditions of such agreements which are to safeguard the rights of the 2 former British colonies.
Many have come to see that Sabah and Sarawak have been re-colonized by Malaya after 48 years of failed promises of development and increased poverty which was brought about by the government backed plunder of the land and resources through “development”.
So development instead of improving the socio economic position of the majority of Sabahans and Sarawakians have led to their utter impoverishment.
This was not the bargain for being incorporated under Malayan rule. In others the people were “conned” into Malaysia.
In the article below Dr. John B Anthony re-assesses the “18/20 Points Agreement” – Such assessment should be together with the Malaysia Agreement which contain the main terms and conditions for the “grafting” of Sabah and Sarawak to Malaya. This grafting in reality became re-colonization of the former colonies by Malaya.
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Sabah 20 points / Sarawak 18 points agreement
Written by Dr. John Brian Anthony
For further information in regards to the related article, kindly refer to Wikipedia.
Dayakbaru:
The 20 point agreement / 18 point agreement is between made between TWO countries ( Malaya and Sabah / Malaya and Sarawak).
Such being the case, no changes can be made on the agreement without the consent of the other. In the case, they seemed to be effort by the Federal Government to put aside this agreement or even ignore this agreement as it gets their way of integrating Sabah and Sarawak according to West Malaysia UMNO point of views and political agenda.
Sabah and Sarawak must NEVER give up on this agreement as it provides us with more autonomy. The founding fathers has the foresight to see the greed of West Malaysian and sadly for Sabah since UMNO has come in and rule Sabah it has lost most of its autonomy. Sarawak should continue to fight to uphold the 18 points agreement. While working with PKR those leaders from Sarawak MUST insist that Pakatan Rakyat respect and enforce the 18 point agreement when they do come into power.
Monitor and review the implementation of the agreement
The government of Sarawak may like to consider setting a monitoring and reviewing committee to consolidate the implementation status and audit the programme that has been set to comply with the agreement. That will help Sarawak Malaysian to understand how much has been done in respect to the 18 point agreement.
Probably it would be good initiative to trace this document back in the UK to find more detail on the intent, spirit, process and even minutes of discussion leading to the signing of these agreement.
A memorandum for House of Lord in UK
Where is the Cobbold commission report now – probably in UK too. Malaya would never want to show it because the result is 33% want Malaysia, 33% do not want Malaysia and 33% undecided. How they concluded that Sabah and Sarawak should join Malaysia based on the statistics only “Allah” know. The British has some explaining to do to both Sarawak and sabah. Maybe a memorandum should be sent to the House of Lord to ask for explanation on the matter.
What is the agreement all about?
The 20-point agreement, or the 20-point memorandum, is an agreement made between the state of Sabah (then North Borneo) with what would be the federal government of Malaysia prior to the formation of Malaysia in September 16, 1963. A similar agreement was made between the state of Sarawak and the federal government but with certain differences in their 18-point agreement
The agreement
Point 1: Religion
While there was no objection to Islam being the national religion of Malaysia there should be no State religion in Borneo (Sarawak & Sabah), and the provisions relating to Islam in the present Constitution of Malaya should not apply to Borneo
Point 2: Language
* a. Malay should be the national language of the Federation
* b. English should continue to be used for a period of 10 years after Malaysia Day
* c. English should be an official language of Borneo (Sarawak & Sabah) for all purposes, State or Federal, without limitation of time.
Point 3: Constitution
Whilst accepting that the present Constitution of the Federation of Malaya should form the basis of the Constitution of Malaysia, the Constitution of Malaysia should be a completely new document drafted and agreed in the light of a free association of states and should not be a series of amendments to a Constitution drafted and agreed by different states in totally different circumstances. A new Constitution for Borneo (Sarawak & Sabah) was of course essential.
Point 4: Head of Federation
The Head of State in Borneo (Sarawak & Sabah) should not be eligible for election as Head of the Federation
Point 5: Name of Federation
“Malaysia” but not “Melayu Raya”
Point 6: Immigration
Control over immigration into any part of Malaysia from outside should rest with the Central Government but entry into Borneo (Sarawak & Sabah) should also require the approval of the State Government. The Federal Government should not be able to veto the entry of persons into Borneo (Sarawak & Sabah) for State Government purposes except on strictly security grounds. Borneo (Sarawak & Sabah) should have unfettered control over the movements of persons other than those in Federal Government employ from other parts of Malaysia Borneo (Sarawak & Sabah).
Point 7: Right of Secession
There should be no right to secede from the Federation
Point 8: Borneanisation
Borneanisation of the public service should proceed as quickly as possible.
Point 9: British Officers
Every effort should be made to encourage British Officers to remain in the public service until their places can be taken by suitably qualified people from Borneo (Sarawak & Sabah)
Point 10: Citizenship
The recommendation in paragraph 148(k) of the Report of the Cobbold Commission should govern the citizenship rights in the Federation of Borneo (Sarawak & Sabah) subject to the following amendments:
* a) sub-paragraph (i) should not contain the proviso as to five years residence
* b) in order to tie up with our law, sub-paragraph (ii)(a) should read “7 out of 10 years” instead of “8 out of 10 years”
* c) sub-paragraph (iii) should not contain any restriction tied to the citizenship of parents – a person born in Borneo (Sarawak & Sabah) after Malaysia must be federal citizen.
Point 11: Tariffs and Finance
Borneo (Sarawak & Sabah) should retain control of its own finance, development and tariff, and should have the right to work up its own taxation and to raise loans on its own credit.
Point 12: Special position of indigenous races
In principle, the indigenous races of Borneo (Sarawak & Sabah) should enjoy special rights analogous to those enjoyed by Malays in Malaya, but the present Malays’ formula in this regard is not necessarily applicable in Borneo(Sarawak & Sabah)
Point 13: State Government
* a) the Prime Minister should be elected by unofficial members of Legislative Council
* b) There should be a proper Ministerial system in Borneo (Sarawak & Sabah)
Point 14: Transitional period
This should be seven years and during such period legislative power must be left with the State of Borneo (Sarawak & Sabah) by the Constitution and not be merely delegated to the State Government by the Federal Government
Point 15: Education
The existing educational system of Borneo (Sarawak & Sabah) should be maintained and for this reason it should be under state control
Point 16: Constitutional safeguards
No amendment modification or withdrawal of any special safeguard granted to Borneo (Sarawak & Sabah) should be made by the Central Government without the positive concurrence of the Government of the State of North Borneo
The power of amending the Constitution of the State of Borneo (Sarawak & Sabah) should belong exclusively to the people in the state. (Note: The United Party, The Democratic Party and the Pasok Momogun Party considered that a three-fourth majority would be required in order to effect any amendment to the Federal and State Constitutions whereas the UNKO and USNO considered a two-thirds majority would be sufficient)
Point 17: Representation in Federal Parliament
This should take account not only of the population of Borneo (Sarawak & Sabah) but also of its seize and potentialities and in any case should not be less than that of Singapore
Point 18: Name of Head of State
Yang di-Pertua Negara
Point 19: Name of State
Sarawak or Sabah
Point 20: Land, Forests, Local Government, etc.
The provisions in the Constitution of the Federation in respect of the powers of the National Land Council should not apply in Borneo (Sarawak & Sabah). Likewise, the National Council for Local Government should not apply in Borneo (Sarawak & Sabah).
*Merger
In 1961, when the Malayan government began discussing a possible merger with neighbouring Singapore, Sabah, Sarawak and Brunei, problems of ethnic power relations arose again. The “Malaysia” proposal sans Sabah and Sarawak went back more than a decade; earlier negotiations had proved fruitless. The Singaporeans themselves were not anxious to be ruled by what they considered a Malay government. By 1961, however, Singapore had grown receptive to the idea of joining Malaysia, largely because of the prevailing idea at the time that industrial Singapore could not survive without access to Malayan markets.
Singapore Chinese population is a threat to Malaya
The Malayan government was not keen on having the Chinese Singaporean population push the Malays into a minority position in the new Malaysia. Many Malays felt that upsetting the Malay-dominated nature of the armed forces and police might place them in a dangerous situation. It was also argued that the inferior economic position of the Malays would be emphasised by the entry of even more rich Chinese, setting the stage for major discontent.
Malaya get Sabah and Sarawak to form Malaysia to make use of their native population numbers
The Malayans decided to resolve this by merging with Sabah and Sarawak; both British colonies had large native populations whom the government considered “Malay”. Under Article 160 of the Constitution, most of them were not Malay; the natives were mainly animists or Christians instead of Muslims as required. To resolve this issue, the government expanded its informal definition of “Malay” to include these people.
*The natives of Sarawak and Sabah are to be considered ‘Malays’ by the malayan union to solve their problems.. the ibans, the kenyahs, the bidayus, and etcs… My question is – is this true today or we from Sabah and sarawak being con / cheated by UMNO Malaya?
Change WE Must
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Comment by anon — March 12, 2012 @ 9:30 AM |
This is very dangerous comment and you must be responsible for the comment that you has published. You may deserve to be in jail for a very long long time as what has been implemented in the USA – gautanama prison in Cuba. This is really un acceptable statement by Chinese people from Sarawak that very much like to propagate with manipulation the Native from Sarawak. Now Taib has given their wealth very much, still need further demand to have the political power. Crazy crazy crazy Chinese Sarawak……. they forget where they come from …… they already got Singapore on their hand …. poor Malay in Singapore, they also want Malaya fall into their hand, later they want Sarawak now to fall into Chinese trap, and also they want Sabah…..
Comment by Lambong Sarawak — March 12, 2012 @ 5:10 PM |
THERE U R AGAIN LAMBONG….WHY DANGEROUS? TO UMNO PBB BN COLONIAL DOMINATION?
Still beating your British/UMNO racist drum on the race domination scare/red scare against the Sarawakian Chinese.
May be you should read the beginning of the article and see who wrote it- an Iban called Dr. John A Brian.
This really exposes your mindset which appears to be frozen in time around the 1960 cold war colonial period!
For a start who dominates who in neo-colonial Malaysia?
Sabah and Sarawak are dominated by Malaya which has made them its new colonies.
On top of this colonization we bear the burden of the UMNO Malay supremacist apartheid system of discriminating against non-bumiputras. Even Dayaks who are “bumiputras” are treated as second class citizens.
The people who suffer most and benefit the least from Malaysia especially Dayaks have the right to ask why they have not seen any benefit as was promised to them for agreeing to become part of Malaya in 1963.
They were cheated for 48 years as the UMNO backed PBB BN robbed them of their land. You will no doubt say this is “economic development”. Yes development for the very corrupt few in power!
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/sabah-sarawak-rights.html
Brown skinned colonial masters from Kuala Lumpur have replaced the while British colonial masters since 1963 if you have not been asleep all this time.
If as you say the Chinese are benefiting from Taib’s largess they would not as Sarawakians (as any one born in Sarawak) be questioning the value of the Malaysian federation for Sarawakians. They would support the BN by voting for SUPP. But SUPP is now a write off bankrupt party because it has lost so many of its support base to the opposition.
Everyone in Sarawak who has experienced the abuse and misuse of power by the corrupt Taib government hates the whole stinking gang.
The people especially Dayaks have aright to ask why they have not seen any benefit as was promised to them for agreeing to become part of Malaya in 1963.
They were cheated for 48 years as the UMNO backed PBB BN robbed them of their land. You will no doubt say this is “economic development”. Yes development for the very corrupt few in power!
Your racial incitement against the Chinese is just using the worn out British and UMNO divide and rule tactic- always blame the Chinese and make them scapegoats. This no longer works because the people who are suffering can see that the Chinese are not the cause of all that is wrong in Sarawak Sabah or Malaya.
The people especially Dayaks have the right to ask why they have not seen any benefit as was promised to them for agreeing to become part of Malaya in 1963.
They were cheated for 48 years as the UMNO backed PBB BN robbed them of their land. You will no doubt say this is “economic development”. Yes development for the very corrupt few in power!
UMNO is the main source of the appalling decline in governance and transparency in our public life over 48 years of corrupt rule and plunder of Sabah and Sarawak. There are a minority of people from the SUPP, MCA and MIC and Sabah parties who are in the UMNO PBB BN gang looting our country Sarawak. Why would you defend them?
Do you not agree UMNO Malaya dominates Sabah and Sarawak? And they are not Chinese unless you confuse Malay with Chinese and think UMNO is a Chinese party!
Your claims are empty of real facts. Sabah has already been overwhelmed by UMNO’s imported instant illegal Mykas voters not Chinese.
You need to state your argument with sound reasons backed up with facts and figures to convince your readers. Mahahtir himself revealled that Chinese and non-Malays pay 90% of taxes to support the rest of the population. You are smart enough to guess who…
To this we should add that Sabah and Sarawak have been contributing 95% of their petroleum revenue (at least $20 billion a year) to develop Malaya. That is why the 2 colonies are the poorest and most underdeveloped territories in your beloved Malingsia!
That is why many of us Dayaks Malays and Chinese in Sarawak are talking about how we should take Sarawak out of Malaysia.
You are recommended to look in this Sabah website which has a Petition to the UN. The website is called “Sabah Sarawak Keluar Malaysia”: You may find it very educational…
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/sabah-sarawak-rights.html
http://despiritofsabahan.blogspot.com.au/
Comment by anon — March 12, 2012 @ 6:32 PM |
Mr Lambong Sarawak,
Which parts that of the passages or article are dangerous and how are they dangerous?
People are people. You mentioned the Chinese. If the “Chinese” are understood to mean those supporting SUPP/BN, I wholeheartedly agree with you. While in Office as Dep CM George Chan influenced contract works built by the private sector for a top internationally recognized specialist hospital which eventually was sold to the government. The price was very meaningless where a hospital bed costing less than RM20,000 was bought for over RM40,000. Now government is having problems with huge debts and they have to give people good health.
That’s just one example.
The SUPP is now a shithouse that should be deregistered by ROS for all the tricks and abuses they did. But the ROS is a lelong house.
This so-called BN government has just denied rakyat money to an OKU and a young girl Marina Undau her right to education in a government institution. Worst she’s a Dayak even though her mother is Chinese. If that is the case, some of the Royalty people in Malaya should be driven out of their thrones and palaces because their mothers might be Chinese.
You are afraid of something you might dishonestly write in a way to suggest you don’t know. That’s alright. If you write and pretend you don’t know, you are detrimental or dangerous to the country because by denying education to bumis and giving them devious and low quality education, you will become a problem to this country. If you have lousy education you don’t understand health problems and if you get sick the country not Jabu or Masing who will have to look after you. Mong Dagang has just inhumanely denied help to an OKU. That is dangerous.
Of course, PBB might be paying you to come and say stupid things. We understand that. But you are no better than Mong Dagang who jual the Dayaks! Because you just don’t your head from your butt (burit).
Comment by ctzen — March 12, 2012 @ 6:57 PM |
Where did you come from Lambong Sarawak? Your comment was not worth more than two cents. Why drag the Chinese into your insecurity ?
Comment by Irene Kana — March 12, 2012 @ 8:27 PM |
Tuan Lambong Sarawak,
Ini satu klip video anda mesti tengok. Cerita daripada Mat Sabu mengapa Orang Cina buat PAS alat dan PAS buat DAP alat!
Sila tonton!
Comment by r'yat — March 13, 2012 @ 4:20 PM |