Opposition raised Sarawak autonomy issue: NO!

Taken from: The Borneo Post

Posted on November 4, 2010, Thursday

KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said the opposition had deliberately raised the autonomy issue to arouse the people’s sentiments in order to win votes in the next general election.

He said the issue never came up before this as the government had kept to the agreement made with Sabah and Sarawak and carried out its responsibilities for the benefit of the people in the two states.

DayakBaru Thought:

Najib or the government can continue to deny or acknowledged that the many people in sarawak are already beginning to wonder whether forming Malaysia has given Sarawak expected benefits. In this blog, many young Dayak feels that Sarawak has not only being short change by the Federal Government but in fact we are being ” colonized” by Federal. Under the agreement, for example the civil service should have high Sarawak / Sabah man power content. This is not true today.

Tun Razak and taib brings Ningkan down

It is Tun Razak, Najib’s father that help to bring down Ningkan and thereby end Dayak hold as Chief minister of Sarawak. The Federal Government continue to work to ensure that the post of Chief minister remained in UMNO proxy hand. Even after knowing Taib’s corrupt practices, Najbi do nothing to correct the situation. Maybe the English saying of “birds of the same feather flocks together”. The Corruption index of the country is on an upward trend after two years!

Federal Government took Sarawak money and give peanuts to Sarawak for its development

What is more frustrating, the Federal Government pay only lip service to Sarawak development. Federal Government took the bulk of Sarawak oil and gas money, from then on Sarawak have to beg for money to develop Sarawak. Budget are given based on population, how can that be for sarawak? The Federal Government should practice rules of fair play, if Sarawak produce the money, given more to Sarawak. Now, we do not even have major road to link all the towns in Sarawak eg Kanowit to Kapit, Bintulu to Belaga, Miri to Marudi and many more other instances. How can the federal Government allow that?

Sarawak Dayak are not given individual land title

The people of Sarawak are not issued titles to their NCR land. A citizen, and a native of the soil at that is made to live without the security of owning a land title even after forming a new nation. How can that be acceptable. Federal Government has a say in such matters as the state government is their proxy. Of course blame cannot be put on the Federal Government shoulders only but the Federal Government must not be like an ostrich when they see sarawak is being victimized by its State Government.

Tun Razak help to remove Ningkan, through Rahman Yakub and Taib accusing Ningkan of selling sarawak to the Chinese through giving away timber license. The same could happen today, that Najib could also remove Taib because Taib is truly corrupted.

Najib can also stop appointing Taib as Chief Minister

The Chief minister of sarawak is appointed by the Chairman of Barisan Nasional. Why did Najib fear taib? Sarawak deliver the power to Najib and UMNO and therefor if Taib is corrupt to Najib’s crooked mind a small wrong by taib is acceptable compared to his big contribution to UMNO and Najib. How can that be so?

It is not the Opposition, it is the Sarawakian that wanted Sarawak to pull out of Malaysia

If the federal Government continue to ignore Sarawak it is therefore not surprising that many Sarawakian even question whether the act of forming Malaysia is legal after Singapore withdrawal. Not withstanding historical event, Sarawak feel that it may be better for Sarawak to cede from Malaysia and become an independent country by itself. Sarawakian sacrifice is taken up for granted by the Federal Government and adding salt to injury the Federal government continue to push for Malay agenda and sidelining the Dayak as bumiputera in the share of the economic cakes of this country.

Dayak fights the Rajah and now Dayak must fight the new colonial government in Putra jaya and its PBB proxy in Sarawak

We Sarawak need a Change WE Must and for the Dayak we are the people who fights the Rajah and it is time we pick our political war and fight our new colonial master, that is UMNO and its proxy in Sarawak.

“This issue (autonomy) is being raised solely for personal interest,” the prime minister said in his written reply to Lim Lip Eng (DAP-Segambut) in the Dewan Rakyat yesterday.

Lim had asked the prime minister to state the extent of autonomy enjoyed by Sabah and Sarawak and whether the federal government planned to give greater autonomy to the two states.

Is it true that Federal Government never interfere with Sarawak political process?

Najib said the federal government had never interfered in the democratic process of Sabah and Sarawak and gave full power to the people there to determine their own future through the election process.

Economic development is Sarawak is limited to the extraction of natural resources – it is not sustainable

Besides that, he said, the federal government had carried out its responsibility of protecting the rights of Sabah and Sarawak, like protecting Sabah’s sovereignty from the Philippines’ territorial claim on the state and intervening to resolve the border issues with Brunei and Indonesia. From the development aspect, Najib said the federal government had never sidelined Sabah and Sarawak, but would instead continue to assist the two states in economic development.

SCORE – what SCORE? Sarawakian never being part of it till today.

Najib said the federal government had introduced the Sabah Development Corridor (SDC) and Sarawak Corridor of Renewable Energy (SCORE) programmes to propel the two states’ economy and human capital development.

“If all quarters could give their cooperation, these development corridors could steer Sabah and Sarawak to a greater future,” he said. — Bernama