FMT Staff
Controversial senior Special Branch (SB) officer SAC Mohd Sofian Makinuddin has once again stirred the hornets’ nest and this time 1,000 people or more who gathered at a forum here heard him “order” Sarawakians to vote for a “party that can provide security”.
Sofian, who is the Chief Assistant Director of E2 (M), told the crowd that “in the coming general election, you should know which party to vote for, especially the party that can provide security.”
Said Sofian: “The Pakatan Rakyat is made up of DAP, which is a Chinese chauvinistic party, PAS which wants to establish an Islamic state, and PKR which is a party ‘buka depan, buka belakang, semua boleh jadi’.”
Many opposition leaders, who attended the forum titled “The impact of transformation programme on security” organised by the Sarawak Dayak Graduates Association, were aghast at Sofian’s audacity.
Sofian also said that there were threats coming from the opposition parties and showed video clips featuring some of the opposition leaders who were involved in the Bersih 3.0 demonstrations.
“Do you want these demonstrations to happen to Malaysia?” he asked the crowd which included grassroots leaders from 16 non-governmental organisations.
Commenting on his remarks, Sarawak PKR vice-president See Chee How said the initially stunned crowd demanded that Sofian show proof of his allegations.
Sofian had made similar allegations earlier this month and the opposition immediately called for him to show evidence of his claims that communist had infiltrated the opposition parties.
“He [Sofian] was asked to furnish evidence of his allegations [in KL] but he kept quiet.
“Now he spreads the same lies here. If he wants to be involved in politics, he better resigns from his post and contest.
“Civil servants should be neutral and not take side. But this is a clear proof that [Prime Minister] Najib (Tun Razak) and BN are using the administration and the institution for their selfish political party interest in the coming election.
“It is sad that senior officer like Sofian should stoop so low and be made use of by BN,” said See, who is Batu Lintang MP.
Sofian, you salary is paid by the taxpayers, which is the people. You do not threaten or intimidate your paymasters!
Cops and soldiers are the bodyguards of the people, not just the elites.
Comment by mike — August 1, 2012 @ 2:55 PM |
SAC Sofian….As a responsible malaysian, do I’ve to remind you that you’re a public servant to serve the malaysian people and the nation only? Whom do you owe allegiance to? Is it the malaysian people and the nation or your political masters? Is it that the taxpayers’ money contributing to your salary/allowances.etc? If you can’t answer the questions accordingly at the expectations of the people and the nation, then your best option is to resign and join umno’s stooges. We’ve enough of your kind.
Do not smear the good image of the police force; and I understand a great majority of the police personnel have in their hearts been serving the people and the nation diligently. The only problem is that the higher-ups have spoiled the soup.
Your main duty is to fight crimes, protect the malaysian citizens,and render this country into a safe haven for its people in going about their daily lives. Leave politics to politicians of the political divide and do not become an umno’stooge.
Comment by Justice Lover — August 1, 2012 @ 9:49 AM |
So Sofian is saying he does not support a government if it is PKR? He will not allow the police to protect the people if the government is not a BN one. At the present time under BN crime is at the highest level Malaysians have ever known and even now the police do not protect the people. BN does not care and neither do the Police. It is better to risk a new government than to put our lives in BN and the police hands.
Comment by Melanie — August 1, 2012 @ 7:19 AM |
Sarawakian lawyers must study the speech of this SB chap and sue him in court.
Don’t we have law any more?
Can a civil servant or public servant take side in politics?
Can a civil servant take part in politics?
Has he breached any contract of service by making such a speech?
This SB chap obviously wants to play politics!
Comment by Will anak Jais — July 31, 2012 @ 10:28 PM |
SO OBVIOUS HE IS UMNO!
Comment by magnum5583 — July 31, 2012 @ 9:52 PM |
Bastard punya SB, you are talking nonsence. Hopefully one fine day those thief will come to you !
Comment by Mike- Johor — July 31, 2012 @ 12:29 PM |
He must be some Tan Sri or Datuk!
But by his public service, this example ….he is just a “kaki pukul” !!!
Should you stop wondering why Idris Jala, Paramount Chief of the Kelabits or Kayan might not be a “kaki pukul”, too? With the nonsense “statistics”?
Comment by roll the barrel — July 31, 2012 @ 1:44 PM |
So now we know our security forces had been infiltrated by the UNDERWORLD GANGSTERS. They are running the country and robbing us quietly. That Sofian (SS / SB) fellow just couldn’t stand the heat, HE EXPOSED HIMSELF ! Your masters are shitting in their pants. You just betrayed them SB dog. Just wait !
Comment by keluro — July 31, 2012 @ 11:06 AM |
Can Sofian understand why the Rakyat , and mind you a big section of the Rakyat are supporting the demonstrations. You think we want to get sweaty, tired etc etc by attending all these demonstrations ? The reason is we want a more FAIR Government in place. So you can bark and bark on behalf of your Political Masters but you cannot tell us what to do especially we Sarawakians.
Comment by gagojackman — July 31, 2012 @ 10:39 AM |
The arrogant BN-putras have shown yet again the adage that power corrupts,absolute power corrupts absolutely!THE RAKYAT ARE FED-UP!ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! We must kick these BN-arrogants out or never in the GE13,otherwise the nation and Rakyat will go down the drain !
Comment by Reapusow — July 31, 2012 @ 10:32 AM |
As the boss of a gov’t security dept.he is telling us he is incapable of providing us the service hence the stupid remarks and suggestions. He thinks Sarawak is an Arab country!
Comment by Brian — July 31, 2012 @ 10:27 AM |
Never vote the party that soon will create craziest healthcare plan ever – 1CARE
Under Dr Mamak’s 1980s Privatisation reform it become Pirate-tisation for UMNO cronies to choke control on Hospital healthcare contracts
Yes yes yes 1Care is the final product of these long-term UMNO Lanun medical cronies and the perfect ransom to holed every 28 million rakyat to pay 1Care to UMNO cronies
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—>>>“…1Care aims to place private medicine under government control, a step further than Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s sweeping health privatisation upheavals in the 1980s that delivered a hefty windfall to Umno’s partners, including Dr Mahathir’s son Mokhzani…”
Dr M’s argument on 1Care is ‘warped’
by Stephanie Sta Maria, FMT, February 17, 2012
A health activist blames Mahathir’s healthcare reforms for the dismal state of the country’s healthcare system today.
PETALING JAYA: Former premier, Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s, defence of the proposed 1Care healthcare system as a means to counter the rising cost of healthcare has come as no surprise to the Citizens Healthcare Coalition (CHC).
Mahathir had said that the government could no longer support the country’s current healthcare costs alone and that the need for contribution towards healthcare could be valid.
But CHC representative, Dr T Jayabalan, said that Mahathir’s comments were to be expected as he was the “architect of healthcare reforms” in 1983.
“By 1994 the pharmaceutical services were privatised, but with the government being a stakeholder,” he said in a statement.
“With the privatisation came a 15-year monopoly for pharmaceutical supplies to the government health facilities by Pharmaniaga. It was a closed tender and this disallowed competition.”
An online news report had earlier noted that “1Care aims to place private medicine under government control, a step further than Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s sweeping health privatisation upheavals in the 1980s that delivered a hefty windfall to Umno’s partners, including Dr Mahathir’s son Mokhzani.”
Jayabalan stated that privatisation had caused the prices of generics to sky-rocket, subsequently denying the underprivileged and the less fortunate access to medicines.
He added that the privatisation process had also involved co-payment by the patient wherein the patient had to purchase essential drugs and devices that were expensive and not in the inventory.
“A study by researchers from Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) in 2008 on pre and post privatisation prices of drugs showed a price increase of 10.42% from 1995-1996 compared to the pre-privatisation price,” Jayabalan quoted.
“There was also a massive price increase of 64.04% in the prices of drugs from 2001-2003. The study also indicated that drug prices don’t match the inflation rate or the Consumer Price Index (CPI).”
Poor can’t afford IJN
Jayabalan used the National Heart Institute (IJN) as an example, saying that its corporatisation made it the costliest specialists centres in the country where the poor wait for about two years for treatment while the rich are allowed to schedule overnight surgeries.
“This is what privatisation does and we can credit Mahathir for this dismal state of affairs,” he said.
“It is a warped argument to suggest that rising costs of pharmaceuticals has made healthcare unsustainable since the government only spent 2% of its annual gross domestic product (GDP) on healthcare over the last 13 years.”
Jayabalan called the privatisation of healthcare a “great disservice to the people” as up to 70% of Malaysians are dependent on public facilities.
“Healthcare is a public good and should not be made to fit into a market system,” he asserted.
1Care has sparked outrage from industry practitioners and consumer associations who claim that wage-earners would be forced to contribute 10% of their income to a government-run insurance scheme.
The new scheme however is said to provide limited benefits and force the public to fork out more money for basic healthcare.
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3 firms likely to get hospital support services HSS concession renewal
By DANIEL KHOO, The Star, Thursday December 29, 2011
KUALA LUMPUR: Three parties – Faber Group Bhd’s wholly-owned subsidiary Faber Mediserve Sdn Bhd, Pantai Medivest Sdn Bhd and Radicare (M) Sdn Bhd which are vying for the hospital support services (HSS) concessions by the Government are likely to get their contracts renewed within the next month, according to sources close to the matter.
“Yes, I know the contract had been extended for a duration of six months initially, but the contracts will be extended for the next 10 years. This announcement will be made within a month,” a source said.
According to sources, the Government had renewed the contract for a period of six months initially and had called for a tendering process by these three companies about a month before their contracts ended in October 2011.
“We have reached an initial consensus decision to get their contracts renewed. We will inform them in due course through official channels,” the source added.
It is learnt that Faber, Pantai Medivest and Radicare were the only companies which were called to submit their tenders for renewal because of their experience and expertise in providing HSS for hospitals in Malaysia.
The three companies are presently providing HSS for all government hospitals and clinics in Malaysia and a selected number of private healthcare companies.
The contract value is not fixed when the concession is granted but it is estimated that these three companies had raked in a total of RM1.1bil in revenue from these government concessions alone last year.
It is learnt that the revenues raked in per annum by these three companies were not fixed per se as this very much depended on how much actual volume was handled by each respective company. Should the volume increase due to the increased number beds per hospital or any extension by the hospitals that required their services, revenues to these companies would rise accordingly.
Industry sources said that of the three, the only listed entity was Faber, which has a 50% market share in terms of revenues, while Radicare was the second largest with a 30% market share, and Pantai Medivest with a 20% share.
Faber’s concession covers 81 government hospitals in the Perak, Kedah, Penang, Perlis, Sabah and Sarawak; while Pantai Medivest’s concession covers about 25 government hospitals in the southern region of Peninsular Malaysia; and Radicare’s portion includes government hospitals in the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Kelantan, Terengganu and Pahang.
HSS’ activities cover the upkeep and cleansing of linen and laundry, biomedical engineering management services, facilities engineering maintenance services, clinical waste management services, hospital planning development services and cleaning and upkeep of the hospital building infrastructure.
These comprise a crucial link to the government healthcare system which provides maintenance of government hospital and healthcare infrastructure.
Faber is 34.3% owned by the Government’s investment arm, Khazanah Nasional Bhd, 12.5% owned by unit trust company Universal Trustee Malaysia Bhd, and about 10% by Lembaga Tabung Haji.
Other than being a HSS provider for Malaysian government hospitals and those in India and the United Arab Emirates, Faber also derives a portion of its revenues from property development projects. This figure fluctuates from quarter to quarter depending on the progress of its property projects.
According to the notes in its financial statements, in the third quarter of its financial year ending Dec 31, 2011 (FY11), Faber derived 16% of its revenue from the property industry while the rest came from the integrated facilities management (IFM) services portion of which the HSS segment is also parked under.
Government HSS contracts contributed to 45% of its third-quarter revenue in FY11 compared with a 74% contribution in the second quarter due to additional incoming revenue stream from overseas IFM services in the third quarter.
Faber recorded profit before tax margins from government HSS concessions of an average of about 15% in both the third and second quarters.
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Kencana Capital is a cornerstone investor of IHH US$2bil listing
By B.K. SIDHU, The Star, Thursday June 14, 2012
PETALING JAYA: Kencana Capital Sdn Bhd, which is controlled by Datuk Mokhzani Mahathir (pic), has emerged as one of the cornerstone investors in the US$2bil listing of IHH Healthcare Bhd, sources said.
Mokhzani is no stranger to the heathcare industry as he used to be the major shareholder of Pantai Holdings Bhd, which he controlled via Tongkah Holdings Bhd. He was previously also the chairman and chief executive officer of Pantai Holdings.
“Mokhzani was the former controlling shareholder of Pantai and he knows if there is value out there,” said a source.
The IHH IPO has thus far attracted some big names as cornerstone investors and more are likely to emerged over the next two to three days.
Datuk Mokhzani Mahathir
Due to growing demand for the shares, the board of IHH will decide today whether to increase the size of allocation for the cornerstone community, though there is already speculation that the size will be as big as 1.3 billion shares from 600-800 million allocated earlier.
Some of the cornerstone investors that have emerged thus far are Blackrock Inc, Capital Group, Och-Ziff Capital Management Group, Government of Singapore Investment Corp, Fullerton Fund Management, AIA Group and Hwang Investment Management.
The International Financial Corp, a member of the World Bank Group, has said it planned to take part in the IHH listing.
A report said Prudential Plc’s Eastspring Investments, Permodalan Nasional Bhd and Lembaga Tabung Haji were also investors for the IPO but details of all cornerstone investors should be made known in the coming days.
IHH is the healthcare arm of Khazanah Nasional Bhd. Its assets include Turkish hospital group Acibadem, Singapore’s Parkway Holdings, India’s Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd, Pantai Hospitals and International Medical University.
It is offering 2.2 billion shares, of which 80% will be new shares while the remaining secondary. IHH is slated for a dual listing on the Malaysian and Singapore bourses in July.
Comment by Teddy Gumbang — July 31, 2012 @ 8:56 AM |
There have been many shootings, killings, murders and river drownings in Sarawak lately.
Are the PDRM shooting, killing, murdering and drowning Sarawak Citizens?
This SOB Sofian is obviously not doing his job and YOU are paying taxes to feed his family and children.
His boss the SOP Hishammuddin is ordering him TO DO THIS !
The top SOP Malaysian Najib Razak – God knows what he’s doing – his wife the fatbutt has a wardrobe full of expensive hand bags to feed 1000 kampungs in the Ulu!
Vote opposition – vote for decency and for what is right ! YOUR RIGHT !
Comment by BN r parasites ! — July 31, 2012 @ 8:19 AM |
UMNO & PBB BN IS DESPERATE WHEN IT HAS TO USE SB THUGS TO TERRORIZE THE PEOPLE…..
Comment by anon — July 31, 2012 @ 8:53 AM |
Whatever their Health Plan is it’s Good!
Minister of Home Affairs and Sopian might beat up people, shoot them, lose their arms and legs!
Then ……they go for the UMNO/MCA/BN Health Care!
Make money !!!
Comment by healthy and wealthy — July 31, 2012 @ 1:52 PM |
Some security… Sarawak has just seen yet another contract murder, committed in broad daylight. I wonder whether these murders have a political dimension?
Comment by Reader — July 31, 2012 @ 6:27 AM |
God is merciful for He gave us brain to know right from wrong… It is up to us to choose if we want bn-barang naik ( believe me, if YOU choose bn, I gurantee harga barang will naik).
Me? Definately NOT bn – barang naik
Comment by tereschin — July 31, 2012 @ 3:05 AM |
People are tired and simply fed up of these ruffians…and they are suppose to serve the rakyat? Thank God there ARE BETTER LEADERS we can choose. Me? I don’t want these bn leaders because they always barang naik! !
As for this bugger sofian, it is such a pity he needs to bodek instead of showing his capability in his own work.
Well people God os merciful
Comment by tereschin — July 31, 2012 @ 2:36 AM |
ISN’T A PUBLIC SERVANT MEANT TO SHUT UP & NOT GET INVOLVED IN POLITICS?
Of course the SB actually run Malaya and Sabah Sarawak colonies.They are UMNO secret SS police & tools which have terrorized the people for too long.
The Secret Branch provides UMNO’s security… but holding all sorts of threats over the people. It’s time they went out with UMNO- they are in good company.
Comment by ANTI-DUMNOCRAZY — July 31, 2012 @ 12:48 AM |