*Points To Points (27)
People’sconcerns
People as I know are not bothered
whether the Opposition party knows how to mitigate floods or not (1). After all, flood mitigation is not their
responsibility at all. Their duties are
to monitor, give suggestions, pin-point out the faults of the ruling party and
so on.
People are really worried to know how
serious the leaders of the ruling party are in mitigating floods. People are really upset to know that the
representatives of the Sibuans are just too busy and indulgent in different
kinds of functions and activities to think of flood mitigations. The SUPP has been in existence for 38+ years. I wonder how much they have done to mitigate
floods in Sibu?
The Sibuans, young and old, have borne
witnesses of floods, big ones and small ones, come and go so frequently. Sibu is so often irrigated with water
overflowing the banks of the Rejang
River. How dared you to hang up the banner to bluff
that “SUPP can mitigate floods”? You
even mocked at the leaders of the opposition party knew nothing about flood
mitigation but frolicking with water.
Wei……, did you know what responsibilities and duties of the ruling party
are? No doubt, more and more people
start condemning SUPP and BN.
To tell you the truth, Sibuans are
really fed up with the ploys of the
ruling party to woo people when the state / national elections are
approaching. The ploys the SUPP, the
component party of BN used to woo the innocent and ignorant people in Sibu are
an open secret. Building / Repairing the
bridges, layering up the roads, allocating funds ………. have been the ploys used
again and again.
Heeeeeeeeeee……………….(sinister way) , it is the ‘tricky policy on the
fools’ you employ.
The 9th Malaysia Economic
Plans (January, 2007) has started over a year, how much have you done to
mitigate the floods, big and small? If
you have forgotten, many people can still remember how heavy 12th -14th December, 2007
floods were in Sibu. There were other
floods following in February and March, 2008.
Inefficiency and procrastination have become the unique characteristics
of the ruling party (2).
We are given Ringgit Malaysia 4 billion allocation (3)
for flood mitigation and we, Sibuans, young and old, all bear witness. We beg you to plan and utilise the fund
wisely so that 2011 state election and 2013 national election you have the
results to win.
Remember flood mitigation is not just
layering up the roads. First, it is but
to build concrete drains; big drains for big roads and small drains for small
drains. Adhere to the standard
measurement. All the drains, of course,
must be well connected to ensure the flow of the water to the sea quickly and
smoothly. Second, the river needs
frequent dredging(4). Third, just as
some people suggested to plant trees on both the banks of the Rejang River
are to be build to prevent water spilling and soil erosion. Planting trees is more viable than bunds/
embarkments.
In the past, you may blame the federal
government for not allocating enough funds (5) that you couldn’t do much in the
overall flood mitigation. But now you
have so much fund at our disposal, you can indeed solve the problem once and
for all. This is really a good chance
for the Visionary Team in Sibu to show how capable you are. If you lost this chance to prove, I am afraid
this is your end. I can tell you on
behalf of the people in Sibu: a high %
of people have lost the patience. Robert
Lau and Tiong Tai King just won in the election ………. Heeeeeeeeeeeeeee
……….(sinister snickering) (6)
It does not matter if the opposition
party can’t establish a university in Sibu.
We are very frustrated when our government can’t perform either but
often bluff a lot.
Well, Robert Lau have represented Sibu
15 + years; Wong Soon Koh _____
years(?)(7); Tiong Tai King _______
years (?). Why haven’t you lobbied a
national university for Sibu? Sibuans
don’t want private colleges / universities (local/ foreign). We have paid so many kinds of taxes and we
really don’t want to pay so much for higher education in private colleges and
universities. The BN government has been
in existence for 50+ years, I wonder how many seats you can offer to the SPM
and STPM students seeking for high education in national colleges and
universities?
Look at Taiwan,
the Republic of China, an island, has an area 10+ less than Malaysia, little available natural
resources and yet they have many folds more national universities than ours
It is said KTS in Sibu is willing to
donate 2000+ hectares of land for building the university. Speak out for a national university to be
built in Sibu. In this way, we have University of Abdul Rahman in Bintango and a national
university in Sibu. The two universities
can have different courses to offer to the people in Sarawak
and other places. Isn’t it nice to
become a hub of education in South-east Asia?
Notes:
1. If you really want to find out whether the
Opposition party can
mitigate floods or not, please let go of
the power you weird.
Please don’t try all means, (by hook or by
crook) to win the
election.
Swear if you dare that you didn’t go to that length to
‘buy votes’. You didn’t need so much propaganda to lure
the
people to believe that you were better.
2. Tell us how many government projects were
completed
accordingly at date-due. Can you still remember the Durin bridge?
It was planned to be completed in 3 and a
half years but was
delayed until about 10 years to complete
due to lack of funds.
It was not known how much work had been
completed when the
fund allocation was ‘stolen’. It had to wait
for another fund allocation and so took
about 10 years to
complete, instead of 3 and a half
years. Alamak! what a curse!
What a shame! Another case which is still fresh in my
memory is
the Kuching State
prison, the same problem occurred. It
was not
known, either how much the work had been
completed when the
money was ‘stolen’ all long. Count how many projects faced
the same problems since independence?
3. Please take good care of the fund for flood
mitigation. Don’t ever
let it be ‘stolen/ reduced’ through abuse,
poor management,
corruption and collusion. More and more people know how
abusive
and corrupt the ruling party is. More
and more Chinese
refuse to support
SUPP because they almost equate SUPP to abuse,
corruption and
collusion. They are good for nothing.
4. Flood mitigation = build the cement drain,
dredge the river bed,
and (build the bunds/embankments). How much have been done
to solve this equation? No matter how often the Sibu people
plead for the actions. Their pleads always fall to the deaf
ears. I
wonder what Robert Lau and Tiong Tai King
really represent Sibu.
(They care
nothing but their self-interest/benefit and official rank).
I see this
to be people’s faults and folly for the choice of them.
5. As far as I know there have been lack of
transparency in almost all
the government projects. Hence it is often unknown how much
the allocation; how much have been done
according to the quality
and standard requirements; how much fund
has been ‘stolen’?
6. I don’t know how many % they won by hook/by
crook and how
many % was because of the ignorance of the
people. I found that
quite a number of the people in Sibu can’t
see beyond the
superficial acts of ‘these political
clowns’. The acts: moving
schools, getting fund allocation,
constantly highlight the great
efforts made in the development of
education……. (Many ignorant
people were confused over whose
responsibilities as a ruling
party.)
A good representative and a good system of government
is to follow the policy to develop the
education and implement
different forms of
development based on the needs of the rakyat.
It is not to please
the people during the election campaign to win
the votes. People want the representatives to speak up
in the
state / national
assembly for systematic fund allocations to help
the Chinese primary
schools and Chinese Independence schools
7. Wong Soon Koh and his consortium own a private
college in Sibu.
It is near to impossible to expect him to
lobby for a national
university of the Sibu people.
8. The future of Sibu is in the hand of everyone
of us. Be more alert
and think critically and analytically so
as to cast the vote wisely.
Remember the old Chinese proverb, “When
the stork struggle with
the clam in the fight, the fisherman
gained eventually.” Do you
want to be the fisherman? In a democratic country, do you want
to be a true master? We need an alternative party to counteract
the ruling party so that the ruling party
will be on their toes all the
time to serve people. After election, I wonder if these political
clowns still can remember their promises
to the people.
Sarawak, for
the late 27 + years under the leadership of Taib
Mahmud, I wonder how much has been done to
mitigate floods in
Sibu.
Have they found the causes for the more frequent and
serious floods in Sibu? Does it have something to do with the
plundering ways of development?
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