A Bomba personnel brings a child from Long Panai Baram to safety and higher ground.
MIRI: The Civil Defence Force is urged to set up teams in all flood prone villages in Baram to ensure affected villagers can move out early for evacuation.
Besides that, the federal government should initiate a thorough study on the cause and effect of flood in Baram, PKR Baram chairman Roland Engan urged.
     “Floods will continues to occur in many villages if the government does not study further and take short term planning to dispatch Civil Defence staff at strategic locations,” Roland said when commenting on the frequent reoccurrence of floods at Long Panai and Long Bemang in Baram.
        According to Roland, a team of emergency response team comprising Civil Defence personnel must be stationed at strategic longhouses including in Long Panai and Long Bemang to evacuate villagers to higher ground on time.

Bomba personnel conducting an evacuation for villagers at Long Panai.
       He stressed that every time there was flooding, villagers had to move their belongings to higher ground themselves which sometimes took time, and this could  be made easier if Civil Defence personnel were stationed at these villages.
     “The federal government should take a bold move to study the flood prone areas in Baram for the short term and not just give away aid because the floods occur every year,” he added.
       According to Roland, as a long term measure, the federal government should relocate the longhouses in low lying areas to higher ground to ensure they are not affected by floods anymore.
       Meanwhile, he called on all corporate bodies including timber companies in Baram to participate in providing relief like daily needs to the flood victims.

My comments:
        What is the long term measure to mitigate floods in Long Panai and Long Bemang?   There is no ending wait if the victims in the said areas to rely on the so-called federal government or the Malayan government.  Be prepared for Sarawak Independence when we have all the resources to be kept in Sarawak for proper development.  I hope that all the Sarawakians can understand what it means by our intrinsic rights for all holistic development and mitigation of floods.  Only Independent Sarawak is able to provide.  Other than that, there is vain talk only.  We cannot rely on the BN-GPS Sarawak government.  We cannot rely on PH Malayan government to be fair to us.  There is no such thing to expect.  Please be wise to avoid being treated as fools.  Give your vote tickets to Parti Bumi Keyalang/PBK which is in quest of Sarawak independence.
         The amount the Malayan government gave to Sarawak for development 2020 is RM4.5 billion, for Tabung Haji is RM3.7 billion, for Mara institute is 3.7 billion....... What is Sarawak to the Malayan government?