Edward Subeng Stephen
Deputy Chief Minister Alfred Jabu says the constituency must remain a BN stronghold.
Just before 10.30am yesterday, three seven-seater Eurocopter helicopters from Hornbill Skyways, a Kuching-based aviation company, landed on a spacious field opposite Wilfred Ullie’s longhouse in Ulu Wak, about an hour’s drive from Pakan town here.
After the swirling dust stirred by the powerful rotors had cleared, their passengers – no ordinary visitors arriving for a very ordinary visit – disembarked.
They included Deputy Chief Minister Alfred Jabu, who is also deputy president of Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB), the state Barisan Nasional (BN) anchor party, and Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party (SPDP) president William Mawan Ikom. The duo are among the greatly respected Iban political leaders.
Others were Sarawak BN secretary-general Stephen Rundi, a rising Iban leader, and Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS) supreme council member Liwan Lagang, an upcoming Orang Ulu leader.
Julau MP Joseph Salang and longhouse chief Wilfred Ullie anak Silla and 53 longhouse chiefs in the area played the gracious hosts.
The Julau constituency has very much been in the focus of the state press.
It all began when Meluan state assemblyman Wong anak Judat from the SPDP announced with much gung-ho, that he would take on Salang in the coming parliamentary election.
He had a fallout with Salang over his misinterpretation of the latter’s move to transfer a RM3 million fund allocated to a non-existent road, the now famous Nanga Entabai-Rantau Limau Road (still under consultant study) to improve another road in nearby Merurun areas.
Salang had done so with a suggestion from the Sarikei Division Public Works Department office. If the fund was not ultilised, it would be returned to Putrajaya.
Still sceptical
Salang had also agreed on condition that the Nanga Entabai/Rantau Limau road project would be pursued with even greater zest and more adequate funds would be made available.
In May, Rural and Regional Development Minister Mohd Shafie Apdal announced a RM43 million fund for the project during a visit to Nanga Merurun in Julau.
Despite a barrage of explanations, Wong, for reasons best known to him, is still sceptical. He goes further to accuse Salang of hijacking the fund to his longhouse in Bintangor. Not content with this, he claims the people of Julau now want their own to represent them, as Salang is an outsider.
The maverick Wong is beginning to flirt with newly-formed state opposition party, Sarawak Workers Party (SWP). He attended many of its functions to run down Salang. He even announced publicly that he would leave SPDP to join SWP to contest.
His move earned him much wrath, including from among the 8,000-strong SPDP members in the two seats. He is long known for his mercurial temperament and quick temper. The more impatient among his non-fans see his wanting to contest, a godsend opportunity to get rid of him, once and for all.
Julau, the size of Negeri Sembilan, with 20,761 registered voters, has seen much progress in the form of roads. Power supply from the state grid is slowly reaching many interior longhouses. Efforts are being made to beef up water supplies, as well.
Nevertheless, Salang’s best contributions must be in the communications field where 10 new communication towers are being erected. The Julau diaspora coming home for the recent Gawai Dayak festival was a very grateful lot when they could call their friends from afar, on their handphones, from deep in the constituency.
Secondary school students and community leaders are similarly grateful as most of them have the 1Malaysia netbooks. A number of longhouses are also WiFi villages and there are the community broadband centres in Julau and Pakan towns.
Simple and precise
Salang said, when all the towers were ready by year-end, at least, 60% of Julau would be covered.
The state BN is obviously fed up with Wong’s antics.
Jabu and his entourage and Salang also flew to another longhouse, Rh.Sumbang, in Merurun, Julau, to meet 50 more longhouse chiefs.
Jabu and Mawan’s messages at the two venues were simple and precise. The BN should not be allowed to lose the Julau seat.
Julau voters must deliver the seat to Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak, who is the BN supremo. Najib has not forgotten them, and on June 3, had greatly honoured them with his Gawai Dayak visits in Mawan and Tr. Mathew Jana’s longhouses in Pakan and Julau, respectively.
Mawan, the state social development and urbanisation minister, said that following the visit, the two areas were expected to receive about RM60 million in new development funds.
Since the Wong saga, the debonair Mawan had been closely watched by many, especially, Julau folks and the state political circles on how he would make his next move. He has, so far, been rather non-committal.
But his very presence that day, speaks volume of the state BN spirit, solidarity and unity.
“I know Joe (Salang) very, very well since our childhood days. He is very hardworking and is always on the ground.
“I am ready to lead in the hunt for votes for him in the coming election. We in the BN do not believe in sabotaging or backstabbing one another as we are all after the one and only objective of continuing with the BN leadership and government, and in transforming the country into an industrialised powerhouse by 2020,” said Mawan.
Jabu, in drumming support for Salang, said the Julau folks were lucky as their representative was a member of the federal cabinet.
“If you choose to reject Salang, you are rejecting your ‘tuah’ [good fortune]. Do not be the ‘manok sabong’ (fighting cock) of those seeking to disunite us, destroy our political stability or want to see us remain in rural poverty,” he said.
He said opposition parties like PKR or PAS did not understand the Ibans, their needs, aspirations and problems.
Based on Jabu and Mawan’s messages at both functions, the opposition in the Julau seat, likely from the PKR and SWP, will know there is one tough fight on the horizon from the BN, come the 13th general election.
We have had enough after 30-40 years. We’ve reached the brink. Now we call a giant curse on UMNO, PBB, Taib’s families, on all his cronies and supporters, not forgetting Speaker Asfia who blocks and switches of PA mircrophones against opposition, Jabu (ball-sucking & blood-sucking for decades), Masing, Tengah, Hamed Sepawie, Naim, CMS, Sarawak Energy, Stephen Rundi, Len Talip, Abdul Karim…etc, The wealth stolen from Sarawak is endless & countless. Morgan Stanley in Singapore as saying that the Malaysia might have lost as much as US$100 billion since the early 1980s to corruption (RM300 billion = RM300,000 million). All these when many natives don’t have electricity & clean water. Let those politicians & cronies die violently, then burn in hell.
Comment by Alan Newman. NZ — September 7, 2012 @ 5:16 PM |
In New Zealand, PM John Key flies economy class. Taito Philip Field, an MP was jailed for a few years for corruption (eg using aspiring immigrants to paint his houses), and after 31 years your Sarawak Chief Minister, now worth some RM20billion, is still flying private jet, riding Rolls Royce, walking and talking proud and indirectly stealing billions from you. So are his conies, who live in palaces. In NZ they would have been in jail 30 years ago. Why are you so gullible & forgiving? For me, NOT ANOTHER HOUR! Seemingly, few of you have enough decisiveness & guts. Tragic.
Comment by Alan Newman. NZ — September 7, 2012 @ 5:15 PM |
Am speaking from NZ, a country ranked among the highest for democracy, non-corruption and transparency. Jabu is One of Sarawak’s biggest disgrace and tragedies! Even a child in NZ can see through the immorality, thieving, plunder and crimes of Taib and his cronies. In NZ they would have been in jail 30-40 years ago. God always finishes these people off sooner or later. Just watch. You wanna bet? We have reached the brink, We now call the most horrible curse on all these criminals.
Comment by Alan Newman. NZ — September 7, 2012 @ 5:11 PM |
For the rural Dayaks, Kadazans, Melanaus and Malays, it is NOW or NEVER ! 50 years is more than enough for UMNO controlled BN to transform Sabah and Sarawak into a high income autonomous states but that was never to be and these two states are ranked among the poorest and 3rd poorest in the country. What? With abundant timber,petroleum, gas and other natural resources, we are still one of the poorest and 3rd poorest in the nation????
Kick out UMNO led BN for condemning Sarawakians and Sabahans to eternal poverty..NO more UMNO controlled BN. Vote for a clean change.
Comment by Irene Kana — August 1, 2012 @ 10:37 PM |
Just remember that all these developments are paid for by the taxpayers money!
Comment by mike — August 1, 2012 @ 3:13 PM |
Poor Sarawak rural people as they still living in outside world.A haven for BNs(PBB,SPDP&PRS) to cheat old folks mind for years.Corrupted parties cannot be accepted this time.CM Taib & deputy Jabu must step down!
Comment by magnum5583 — July 31, 2012 @ 9:35 PM |
When Malayans tried to impose Islam on us, Sarawakians, the majority are Christians, it was sad and disappointed that the Christian MPs and Ministers (ALFRED Jabu, JAMES Masing, WILLIAM Mawan…) did not make a noise.
We called these MPs and Ministers “bo hood”, ball-less, worms etc.
The only one who made noise was this JOSEPH Salang.
But he sold us out to Malayans.
He publicly called the Christians in Sarawak who fought for our own religious freedom “stupid”, “fools” etc.
He also said that we must accept whatever KL BN ordered. There is no use to pray to God.
What is there to be stupid when we are the majority and we fight for our religion??
Any Christian with conscience should not vote for this JOSEPH Salang alias Judas Salang who is useless to Sarawakians but only useful to Malayans!!
He is a traitor to Sarawakians.
Comment by A Sarawakian — July 31, 2012 @ 7:46 PM |
Dayaks leaders in BN had lost their rights to represent their own community and to speak up for them when they had failed to stop the thief minister,Taib Mahmud and his corrupted ministers from grabbing NCR lands and displacing the Dayaks under the guise of developing more mini hydro dams when the real and hidden agenda was to fell the timber and award themselves infrastructure projects at highly inflated cost .
Comment by Irene Kana — July 31, 2012 @ 6:29 PM |
Just little over 10 years ago how things so much different for Mawan and SNAP crisis…
Now Mawan himself ends up alone in SPDP the sole parti nyamok in BN…Reap what you sow…
Probably James Wong now having the last laugh HE HE HI HI HA HA HO HO
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SNAP rebel group mulls new party
by Tony Thien, Malaysia Kini, 23 Sep 2002
The Sarawak National Party’s (Snap) rebel group, led by vice-president and state minister of environment and public health William Mawan (photo), is planning to register a new party in the event that Snap is de-registered next month.
That is one of the options being mulled by key rebel leaders should they feel that they could do better on their own instead of joining other parties.
Malaysiakini understands from reliable sources that one name that has been suggested for the new party is Sarawak National Progressive Party (SNPP).
Mawan has mentioned in recent weeks about the possibility of forming a new party if the Registrar of Societies (ROS) can be persuaded from not going ahead to cancel the registration of Snap — a member of the four-party state ruling Barisan Nasional.
Most Snap members aligned to both of the feuding factions have more or less resigned to the likelihood of the party being deleted from the ROS’ files after Oct 13 when the registrar finally decides on the matter.
Separate CEC meetings
But embattled Snap president, 80-year-old James Wong Kim Min remained, as always, optimistic when he met reporters after chairing his central executive committee (CEC) meeting at Snap headquarters during the weekend.
Mawan, elected by his own group earlier as ‘president’ of Snap, was also chairing a separate CEC meeting at the same time at Batu Kawa’s new township of MJC City, about three kilometres away.
The rebel leader not only ruled out any meetings with Wong but also the possibility of a reconciliation, effectively killing all hopes of a last-minute deal that might be able to save Snap from the ROS’ axe.
He now said the only solution is for Wong to accept the majority’s decision, otherwise there would be no deal.
Wong is, however, unlikely to agree to such a humiliating capitulation.
No mood for compromise
During the press conference, Wong (photo), who looked worn and tired from a knee-cap operation in April as well as the bruising quarrels within Snap, indicated he had agreed to one of the conditions put forward by the Mawan group — not to re-contest in the party’s polls scheduled in February next year “unless I am forced to do so”.
Howver, Mawan and his supporters are no longer in the mood to compromise. Thrice, according to Wong, he and Mawan were supposed to meet in Kuala Lumpur, and thrice Mawan failed to show up.
One source quoted Mawan as saying, “There is not much point in meetings…He [Wong] does not stick to what he has agreed.”
Wong, on the other hand, has also been privately quoted as saying, “I find it difficult to trust the [rebel] group.”
This explains why despite the best endeavours and advice from some top BN leaders, the two factions have not been able to come to a common ground to discuss things over.
Wong’s gesture during his CEC meeting to lift the suspension on Snap deputy president Peter Tinggom, who is the member of parliament for Saratok, and vice-president and youth leader Dr Judson Sakai Tagal, who is also assistant minister of infrastructure development and communications, has also been rejected.
The besieged party leader did not mention anything about the controversial member of parliament for Bintulu Tiong King Sing, whose sacking from the party in April sparked the party crisis.
It is unlikely that the Mawan group, even if they agree to talk, would leave the Tiong issue out. Wong has said publicly and privately he would not take Tiong back.
“It looks like there is a lot of bad blood between the two [Wong and Tiong],” one party member said.
Point of no return
Nevertheless, both Wong and Mawan, after saying earlier that there was nothing to add to what they had already told the ROS in their lengthy written explanation, are now saying they will be replying to the ROS’ show-cause letter.
“The president has replied briefly after he received the ROS letter recently, saying he had nothing more to add to their own explanation,” Snap deputy secretary-general Edmund Stanley Jugol said.
“[However,] we have now decided to reply again, emphasising on the important points raised in our comprehensive explanation.” He did not elaborate.
Malaysiakini understands that if the ROS’ reply remains unfavourable, Wong and his group will consider another recourse, including the possibility of legal action.
The Mawan group, meanwhile, is understood to have prepared for the worst if the party is de-registered.
“Months ago, they were already looking at the draft of a new party constitution and worse come to the worst, will apply to register their own party,” said a party source.
Most political observers agree that the two factions have reached a point of no return. For Mawan and those elected representatives in his group, the question is whether to apply to join other parties or to form a political party of their own.
Last week, in his initial comments to the ROS’ letter, Sarawak Chief Minister and State BN chief Abdul Taib Mahmud said he would probably allow the rebels to be “parked temporarily” in other BN parties.
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Sarawak’s SNAP deregistered by ROS
Malaysia Kini, 5 Nov 2002
The 41-year-old Sarawak National Party (Snap) — one of the state’s oldest political parties — has been deregistered following its failure to resolve its leadership crisis.
Registrar of Societies Ismail Dolah Harun, who made the announcement today, said that Snap leaders have failed to respond satisfactorily to the show-cause letter issued by the ROS.
He added that the party’s office-bearers had not shown any sign of resolving their differences within the party.
Snap was embroiled in a leadership crisis when its president, James Wong Kim Min (photo, left), expelled Bintulu member of parliament Tiong King Sing from the party in April on grounds of party indiscipline.
Following Tiong’s expulsion, the party’s leadership was split into two factions, with one group headed by Wong and the other by his ambitious vice-president, William Mawan.
Emergency meeting
The ruling Sarawak BN supreme council will hold an emergency meeting tomorrow to discuss the de-registration of one of its coalition members and how to deal with the situation involving the defunct party’s 10 elected representatives.
Among Snap’s elected representatives are one state minister (William Mawan), two assistant state ministers (Dr Judson Sakai Tagal and Peter Nyarok) and one deputy federal minister (Dr Tiki Lafei). It also has four political secretaries to Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud.
Malaysiakini understand that tomorrow’s meeting — the first state BN supreme council held since Aug 30 last year — will take place at Parti Pesaka Bumiputra Sarawak (PBB) headquarters and will be chaired by its chairman, Abdul Taib.
With the de-registration of Snap, the Sarawak BN is left with three component members — PBB, the Chinese-based Sarawak United People’s Party (SUPP) and the Dayak-based Parti Bansa Dayak Sarawak (PBDS).
Meanwhile, a greatly disappointed Wong, president of the now defunct party, said in an immediate reaction to the news of the party’s deregistration that he would be meeting his own faction leaders at the party headquarters this evening to decide on their next course of action.
He added that he was looking at two options — either to appeal directly to the home minister, who is the final authority on any decision taken by the ROS, or to take the matter to court.
Meanwhile, William Mawan (photo, right), leader of the other faction that comprises five of the six state assemblypersons and four members of parliament, said he and his group were not surprised by the ROS’ decision.
He added that if Wong should go ahead with the appeal, his group would also do likewise “because we also want to be a party to any decision that may eventually be taken by higher-up authorities” on the issue.
Independent ticket
Snap was formed by a group of Dayak leaders, including Stephen Kalong Ningkan (who was later to become Sarawak’s first post-Malaysia chief minister) in 1963.
Wong, first elected as a councillor in Limbang on an independent ticket, later joined the party and became Sarawak’s first deputy chief minister in the Ningkan cabinet.
The party was booted out of the then Sarawak Alliance at the height of Sarawak’s first political crisis in 1966 when Ningkan was sacked as chief minister.
He was later reinstated for a short two weeks as head of a minority government after he won a constitutional court case. But he was again out of office after the federal government invoked emergency regulations in overcoming the crisis in Sarawak.
After a spell in the opposition, Snap joined BN in mid-1970s but was plunged into an internal party crisis itself in the early 1980s when Ningkan’s successor as party president, Dunstan Endawie Enchana, stepped down to become the Malaysian high commissioner to New Zealand.
At the time, a group of young and ambitious Dayak leaders, led by Leo Moggie Irok (photo, right), now Minister of Energy, Telecommunications and Multimedia, challenged Wong and his supporters but failed at the party’s 1981 triennial delegates conference.
This led soon after to a breakaway group, led by Leo Moggie and Daniel Tajem Miri, a lawyer by training and the then deputy chief minister, forming their own party — Parti Bansa Dayak Sarawak (PBDS).
This led to the formation of a Barisan-Plus government in Sarawak as a means of retaining the erstwhile Snap’s Dayak leaders.
A similar political scenario is emerging today, except that the BN is having to deal with a group of elected representatives without any party, yet.
When in 1987, Leo Moggie’s PBDS sided with former head of state and chief minister Abdul Rahman Yakub’s Maju Group to challenge Abdul Taib’s leadership in Sarawak, Wong’s Snap stayed with Abdul Taib and helped the BN won a small majority in a snap state election.
Trouble brewing
Signs of new trouble brewing within Snap’s leadership surfaced early this year when Wong’s quiet maneuvering to marginalise certain elected representatives seen less favourably by his supporters.
This was soon after he gave up his Limbang state seat to his son 48-year-old Richard and tried unsuccessfully to get him appointed to the state cabinet.
Instead, Abdul Taib chose Mawan to fill the full ministerial post after Wong stepped down, in addition to the appointment of former deputy speaker of state assembly Dr Judson Tagal and Peter Nyarok as assistant ministers.
Things came out into the open when Wong sacked the Bintulu MP Tiong which led to a walk-out by the Mawan group from the party’s central executive committee meeting.
A series of events followed, including the appointment of Mawan as the party’s new ‘president’ by his own faction at an extraordinary general meeting in Kuching.
Wong considered that as a party coup and eventually forced the ROS to step in, leading to today’s deregistration.
Meanwhile, central executive member of the defunct party, Senator William Lau, a successful Sibu lawyer and corporate leader, said if Mawan went ahead with his appeal to the Home Ministry, it would only complicate matter. He said that would merely serve to confirm to Kuala Lumpur that there was no way the two factions would work together to bring the party back.
He added that he had been disappointed in recent months with Wong’s attitude in not compromising a little to resolve the party’s crisis.
“It is not enough merely to say ‘I will resign.’ You have to show you are sincere,” he added.
Mawan told reporters today that his faction’s plans to register a new party would proceed regardless, and that he would attend tomorrow’s meeting of the state BN supreme council. It is not immediately known whether Wong will be present too.
Comment by Teddy Gumbang — July 31, 2012 @ 11:26 AM |
More like a gangster outfit to rob the Dayaks than a party to manage the affairs of the country. Talk about tele towers, electricity grid…development that sucks our blood ! WE NEED GOOD ROADS AND CLEAN WATER … to enable us to put food on our dinner table and good education for our children. The gangsters in BN just think about robbing, robbing and robbing. Show them the exit !
Comment by keluro — July 31, 2012 @ 10:54 AM |
Now what is this ? Election campaigning before GE13 is announced ? Who is paying for all the heli costs ? If you people are serious about the welfare of the ulu areas, DON’T use helicoptors , use the normal mode of transportation and then you can understand the frustrations of the people with our road conditions. If you people are living like a King , you will not feel the sufferings of the poor.
Comment by gagojackman — July 31, 2012 @ 9:46 AM |
BN leaders are already displaying their arrogance by taking helicopter to rural constituencies which are reachable by roads. They did not have the humility to drive there and upon arrival they wanted to be treated by towkay instead of a humble servant of the rakyat and rural folks who voted them into Parliament and the State Assembly. It is time to show them who are the towkays. Vote them all out in GE13 and next State election.
Comment by Bidayuh Headmaster — July 31, 2012 @ 4:43 PM |
Yang Di-Kasihi Taib once said that traitors must be sacked from BN….
But for Wong Judat situation either he’s a friendly traitor or simply double-standard by BN lah…he he he
If Yang Di-Kasihi Taib said SWP gonna be new BN component party soon who is Jabu Mawan Salang etc say otherwise???
Nadai Guna Lawan Ngelaban Yang Di-Kasihi Taib lah kaban!
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No place for traitors: CM
The Borneo Post, Friday 31 August 2001
KUCHING: Members of Barisan Nasional component parties will be sacked if they are found to be campaigning or contesting against BN candidates in the coming state election.
Sarawak BN chairman Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Haji Abdul Taib Mahmud, who gave the warning, said severe action had to be taken to uphold the trust among the component parties.
“We have built the trust among the four component parties over the years with great pain and patience and we (are) determined to preserve this trust…” said Taib at a press conference held at the Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu Sarawak (PBB) headquarters here, yesterday.
He said it was important to have strong ties among the component parties to ensure the coalition would continue to give Sarawak a stable government capable of working for the people with confidence on a long-term perspective.
According to him, all parties in the state BN had reached an understanding that no individual member of any component party would be allowed to contest against the BN candidates.
“If we found any body, we will sack … we have to sack them … the same will be applied to those found actively campaigning against Barisan Nasional in the next election,” he said.
So far SNAP Assemblyman for Meluan, Geman Itam, who has been dropped from the party’s list of candidates, has openly said that he would defend his seat as an independent. The party has replaced Geman, who won the seat four times, with secretary-general Justin Jinggut.
He also expressed confidence that all BN component parties would work together as a team pointing out that at the same time all members of the BN component parties were expected to give their votes to the BN candidates. The full list of the candidates would be announced just before nomination day, he said.
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Taib: Rep’s inclusion a unique case
Independent Meluan assemblyman Wong Judat joins SPDP
The Star, Saturday, February 01, 2003
KUCHING: State Barisan Nasional chairman Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud has described the admission of independent Meluan assemblyman Wong Judat into the coalition through the Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party (SPDP) as a unique decision.
“He is quite lucky to have been admitted as his entry into the SPDP is before the admission of the party into the Barisan Nasional,” he said.
SPDP, headed by state Environment and Public Health Minister Datuk William Mawan Ikom, replaced deregistered Sarawak National Party (SNAP) in the coalition.
Taib, who is the Chief Minister, was asked to comment on Judat’s acceptance as a SPDP member after he received a cheque for RM25,000 from Syarikat Takaful Malaysia Bhd at his office in Menara Pelita here yesterday.
The money given out under Skim Takaful Pelajar Sekolah Malaysia was to the families of the five schoolchildren of SK Iban Union in Ulu Balingian, Mukah Division, who died in a hostel fire recently.
Taib said he would have objected to Judat’s admission into any other component party because that would be like taking away the seat quota of another Barisan partner.
Judat resigned from Parti Bansa Dayak Sarawak (PBDS) and contested against SNAP-nominated Barisan candidate Geman Itam in the last state polls, and won.
Taib said he was pleased that former SNAP senior vice-president and Limbang assemblyman Richard Wong Shoon Fook had joined the SPDP, and hoped that more ex-SNAP members would follow suit.
On the retirement of the last SNAP president Datuk Amar James Wong Kim Min, 81, from politics, Taib said Wong deserved the respect of the people as the longest serving member of the state assembly.
The SPDP now has seven assemblymen in the 62-seat state legislature.
The state coalition’s backbone, Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Persatu (PBB), has 30 assemblymen, Sarawak United People’s Party (SUPP) 16 and Parti Bansa Dayak Sarawak (PBDS) eight.
DAP assemblyman for Kidurong Chiew Chu Sing is now the only opposition member.
Mawan said the two “Wongs” would be eligible to contest for the post of vice-president in the party’s inaugural general assembly here on Feb 8 and 9.
Consensus has been reached that there will be no contest for the posts of president and deputy president and two senior vice-presidents.
Comment by Teddy Gumbang — July 31, 2012 @ 8:53 AM |
Most rural old folks seem not understand whats going on, but the young new generation can smell something fishy about these BN leader’s motives.
Comment by magnum5583 — July 31, 2012 @ 6:26 AM |
There is no tough fight in Julau. Why?
Joseph Salang, a Catholic, criticised the Christians in Sarawak in the height of “Allah” and “Bahasa Malaysia Holy Bible” issues banned by UMNO.
When the Christians in Kuching held a prayer meeting called by various churches at third mile World Church Centre to solve this problems caused by UMNO, Joseph Sallang had the cheek to call the holding of Christians’ praying meeting a waste of time.
He also commented that the Christians in Sarawak were stupid, because they went against the wishes of UMNO and BN government, even though he himself is a Christian!!
What sort of Christian is Joseph Salang? No wonder he was called Judas Salang after this incident.
To the Christian, Judas was a traitor, for he sold Jesus for 40 silvers.
To the Sarawakian Christians, Joseph Salang is a traitor, for he sold his soul and Jesus to UMNO and BN government for power, money and glory too!
Would Christians vote for such a Judas Salang? No!
When Judas Salang could sell his religion, he could also sell his father, mother, wife and you!
Would there be tough fight in Julau? No!
No decent true Christian would vote for Judas Salang!!!!
Comment by John Anking — July 31, 2012 @ 1:28 AM |