The Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak, should conduct an inquiry as to why the Prime Minister’s Department has five Ministers and five Deputy Ministers yet nobody in Parliament to answer issues about Sabah development neglect?
This has happened twice in the past week.
Yesterday, during the 2009 Supplementary Estimates debate in the committee stage on the Prime Minister’s Department, which asked for a RM10 million allocation for the Sabah Development Economic Corridor, I had asked whether this was part of the RM1 billion special allocation for infrastructure development of Sabah which was announced by the then Prime Minister, Tun Abdullah when he visited Sabah in May 2008.
If yes, why the RM1 billion special allocation for development was not fully spent by 2008 if not by 2009, asking for full particulars on the breakdown of this RM1 billion special allocation for Sabah.
I also raised the target of projected GDP per capita for Sabah in 2020 under the Sabah Development Economic Corridor Blueprint 2008-2025, which is RM11,571 –more than five times less than the projected target of per capita GNP of US$17,700 (RM57,348) for Malaysia for 2020 – highlighting the continued scandal of the degradation and deterioration of Sabah from the richest state to the poorest state in Malaysia in five decades.
But there was no answer from any Minister or Deputy Minister during the winding-up of the debate yesterday, as if Sabah simply does not exist in the eyes of the Prime Minister’s Department.
This was also the case last Thursday, when in the government winding-up in the debate on the Royal Address, no Minister or Deputy Minister replied to my earlier speech on the five “present and urgent issues” which must be prioritized by the Najib administration to end the marginalization of ordinary Sabahans who had been left out of national development and progress since the formation of Malaysia some five decades ago.
The five priority issues I listed were:
- Satisfactory resolution to the long-standing problem of illegal immigrants in Sabah, causing the Sabah population to multiply from some 400,000 during the formation of Malaysia in 1963 to over three million today. During his visit to Sabah last September, the Prime Minister had promised resolution of the illegal immigrant problem and this seems to have been completely forgotten.
- Eradication of poverty in Sabah. Barisan Nasional had promised to eradicate poverty in 2000 but it is now 2010 and Sabah has the highest poverty rate in the country.
- Massive development of basic infrastructure in Sabah to provide roads, piped water, electricity and broadband to Sabahans.
- Raising the 5% oil royalty payment to Sabah government to 20%.
- Re-opening of the inquiry into the “66” air-crash in Kota Kinabalu on June 6, 1976 which killed Sabah Chief Minister Tun Fuad Stephens and State Ministers, Datuk Salleh Sulong, Datuk Peter Mojuntin and Chong Thien Vun to address the many questions and doubts of Sabahans about the true cause of the Double Six tragedy 34 years ago.
This is most disgraceful. There seems to be relapse in the government’s priority focus for Sabah and Sarawak after after the March 8 political tsunami when it dawned on Putrajaya that without the support of Sabah and Sarawak MPs, Abdullah then and Najib today would be Parliamentary Opposition Leader rather than Prime Minister.
There were then frequent visits to Sabah and Sarawak by the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister with all sorts of promises because the two states were the “fixed deposit” states for Barisan Nasional and UMNO.
Has Sabah fallen off the radar of top priority of Najib that no Minister or Deputy Prime Minsiter deem it important or necessary enough to reply to queries and concerns in Parliament about Sabah development backwardness and neglect?
May be Najib should sack the Minister and Deputy Minister who had been designated to be responsible for Sabah development in the Prime Minister’s Office and replace them with others who are really care about Sabah and who are more serious and committed to the cause for uplifting the plight of Sabahans.
“The Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak, should conduct an inquiry as to why the Prime Minister’s Department has five Ministers and five Deputy Ministers yet nobody in Parliament to answer issues about Sabah development neglect?”
Since there are 10 of them, they are waiting for each other to answer. “Why me and not them” is everyone’s response. Take away one zero and you will see efficiency improve drastically because there will be no more “why me” but “me and me alone”, LOL.
why the Prime Minister’s Department has five Ministers and five Deputy Ministers yet nobody in Parliament to answer issues about Sabah development neglect?
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To them Sabah is a non-existent state.
We have crowded Civil Servants in the government offices, too!!! What for? This bunch of suckers are hired to suck up all tax payers money! What do in the office? Cracking their balls & scratching their a*ses….
Aiyah, seiam ma. Know or not? Take cover. Pretend you dont know. Act blur. Like dat orso dont know meh?
Wat to do. He orways ask hard questions. So bad one. So hard. Cannot ans. So how. Seiam lah. I seiam. He walaaau because I seiam. So he orso seiam. And everybody orso wa lau because everybody seiam. So all orso seiam. All orso dont want come. Better stay at home. At least hoh at home can play ketuanan. Wa laaueh at least can release pressure. Seee beh song.
Everyone’s on the gravy train. You think they will complain or can say anything when their mouths are full?
you do not attract sabahans attention anymore Kit.
Where got time lah? Busy in their counting-houses counting out their ill-goten money
TIDAK APA….
Most of the departments are like refugee camps.
Some are functioning like garbage site and septic tanks.
Where got working like the Singaporeans.
This is our nature and our work-culture.
30% working and paying tax to feed the whole nation. Wa-lou eh. No.9 eh-sai-tek.
Uncle Lim, it’s very obvious from the attitude of the Federal government that they don’t give a damn to what anyone say about them.
And you can be sure that they’ll try all hooks’ and crooks’ ways to remain in power.
The PR must do everything to deny them this!
The best solution is to kick them out in the 13th GE,starting now with the Hulu Selangor and Bandar Sibu by election.
Najib should conduct an inquiry as to why his Department has five Ministers and five Deputy Ministers yet nobody in Parliament to answer issues about Sabah development neglect?
YB LIM why do you think he wants to do that ? After all,it’s not his own money ,it’s the tax payer’s money. I think he’s pretty happy,keeping 10 more “machai” happy,same time carrying his legs whereever he goes.And on top of these he travels at will, here and there (makan angin) at the expense of the people. However the good news is he won’t last long,most malaysians,I think especially sabahans and sarawakians would ensure he and Umno/Bn be placed in the list of R.I.P.comes the 13th GE.
How many of the 10 bummies are losers in the 12GE but are appointed as senators
Selalu cakap dan tidak buat apa apa untuk Sabah..
Siapa raja di Sabah?
They cannot take care of their own cases and why hold on to something outside their radar…
Lips service as its best for the ‘fixed deposit’ states..
Talking and thinking wishfully about PRU13,
it has been rigging most of the times by the greedy Election Commissions.
If not for the rigging in PRU12, PR should have been in the Federal Government…so no more chance for PR as the illegal BN is now stock up with much more money for PRU13 as corruption is worst.
How much is the loaded ballot boxes worth?
How much are the extra printed ballot paper worth?
Who pay for them and who does it illegally?
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