Sarawak Energy Berhad

Sarawak Energy  (SESCO)                     28/2/2013

          SESCO came to my attention when many people in Sibu / elsewhere are harassed by them in one way / another every now and then.  I decided to study the business dealings of it when we were pricked.  If anybody who does not have any personal experience and does not believe, you may ask around.  I have the personal experiences and know some.  I have been asked for interviews 3 times already and I also took every opportunity to ‘interview’ / interact with others.  I realised that SESCO has become toooooooooooooooooo profit-minded and is ever ready to ‘swallow’ others with the mouth open bloody wide.   To the best knowledge I have, many and many and many and many people in Sibu and elsewhere Sarawak are very ……………………angry with this Berhad.

          SESCO Sarawak has become “the tree someone can shake for money (摇钱树)” at will.   It has become a Berhad that benefit the favoured few.   Taib Mahmud, I believe, always takes the lion’s share.  His signatures to sign the documents sell very well in Sarawak.  He sells all kinds of licences for his own gain.  He and his cronies as well as his friends and relatives always enjoys all kinds of benefit and gain at people’s expense.

          Sarawak Energy Berhad has become a curse to many, many……………………people.  Now let me relate the 3 incidences that we faced.   Case 1:  Someone sabotaged / damaged the electricity meter and we as the landlord were asked to pay RM150 for the meter and pay RM400 for the administrative charge.  Of course, we refused flatly.  Thus I wrote the letter and went there to argue and protest.  I realised that other people also faced with the problems of the meter being tampered / damaged / they were overcharged without any valid reasons.

          Case 2:  Sesco asked us to pay RM1300plus for the tenant who had left long time ago and we had no idea whereabouts of him.  Of course, we also refused flatly and were adamant.  My argument was why they let that tenant to accumulate the money to that amount including hefty administrative charges (I think they do the work with gold fingers, otherwise why the administrative charge is such a big chunk).  Whose fault and how could this thing happen?   Immediately, I thought of the business of collusion in win-win way between the two/three parties. 

          Case 3:  Again it is the electricity meter.  It was damaged once and we made the police report and paid RM150 for the replacement.  For the same meter, the seal was broken but the meter was not tampered at all.  Again our tenant received the bill amounted to RM1518.55.  Thus, I went for faces-to-face interview yesterday.  I again took this rare opportunity to interact / ‘interview’ anxiously and neurotically with other victims.   I wanted to get as much first-handed information as possible in order to use my pen-sword to ‘kill’ the bloody demons who are thirsty for blood / mo……………………….ney.  I want to create awareness of people that we as individuals, we should do something to protect our rights as Sarawakians.

          Do you have the similar experiences?  Well, we together should demand the electricity meters to be securely boxed so that NOBODY except the SESCO technicians have the access.  It is perhaps the best way to severe the technicians SESCO/ not to collaborate with the tenants to tamper the meter.  I found that exposing electricity meters in that manner as you see around is very…………………….irresponsible of Sarawak Energy Berhad and yet we have to pay for their irresponsibility?  Where is the Justice?  Tell me!

          Sarawak belongs to Sarawakians.  The natural resources bestowed to us is the common wealth we possess.  But why do we allow the favoured few to take full advantage and benefit at our expense?  Do you not feel being plundered and exploited when the electricity tariff rates are high for different sectors?  Sarawak is an oil producing state and we have two dams!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! in operation.  Why are we not eligible to low electricity tariff rates?  Let’s seek these answers together.  Together we people must do something to justify the situation.  We should never tolerate corruption to take place and let exploitation and plundering to go on like this.

          Sarawak Energy Berhad has employed an CEO with the pay RM100, 000 a month.  Do you think it is not relevant at all?  What is the average income of the people to do so?  Why are we so dependent on foreign expertise?  Is the moon in the foreign country really bigger and rounder?  How can we say Malaysia is an independent country when we are so dependent on foreigners to upkeep us?  After 50 years partnered with the Federal government, we are still feel being colonised. 

          After 50 years existed as a state, where are our local CEOs?  Are you sure you cannot find one to be paid RM20,000 for the same good and efficient services?  What has gone wrong with our state government?  Are they doing their work besides the work of exploitation and plundering?   Alamak!  What a curse!  What a pity!  What a shame!  What more can I express?

          Check and find out how many times Sarawak Energy Berhad hike the fee to connect electricity to new single-storey houses, double-storey houses, semi-detached houses and double-story detached houses.  Monopoly as we know is the main cause for the hike of the prices of houses everywhere in Sarawak.  Cement manufacturing is also a monopoly business that Taib Mahmud and his family and his cronies take full advantage of this business as well.  How can we expect prices of the houses in Sarawak not to shot out of the proportion to the average income-level of the people here?  People generally feel being exploited and plundered.

          Don’t tell us this is the phenomenon everywhere.  It is the phenomenon because democracy everywhere has gone astray.  In a nutshell, it is not democracy economically/ politically / culturally/ educationally.  If it is,  everything is done for the well-being and welfare of  people.  How many so-called democratic countries have reached the par?  To express in %, how many % has America attained in the progress towards democracy when the wealth is in the hand of the few.  So economically, America is not  democratic in this economic aspect as far as I know. 

          Another hallmark to judge is the housing conditions.  If you live in a house small like a chicken coop / kennel, it is not democratic.  It is very obvious the housing development is very much to the advantages of the housing developers and the party signing the documents and the government.  Democracy means people have decent shelter (It is definitely not coop-like/ kennel-like.), proper and well-connected transport, clean food, air and water.  Don’t forget  education, easy access to telecommunication, proper and good medical services, fair prices for goods and the like are also good indicators of how well democracy is practised in your country / mine. 

          In Sarawak, Malaysia, the practice is still very much autocracy and despotism and nepotism.  The operations of Sarawak Energy Berhad is a very good/ perfect example of the so said practices.  Democracy has not been established and taken rooted yet.  That is why we suffer so much and at the mercy of Taib Mahmud and his cronies.

          If you think I have not told you enough about the operations of Sarawak Energy Berhad, you may go the Sarawak Report websit for details.  The article titled “How corruption filters down—dirty deals at Sarawak Energy” will tell all what has happened.  It is really informative though I still can figure out how all these criminal activities can go on without the knowledge of MACC (Malaysia Anti-corruption Commission) and thus no action taken to punish them.  Where is the justice though I hear often enough that we have the Judiciary system, the administrative system and the legislative system in existence.  But they are just as dead as stone in practice to deal with these demons who engage in the evil acts of the devils.  Ponder on what you should do in the 13^th general election.  That’s it.