Issues with Sabah, Sarawak can be ironed out

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Dr Mahathir (seconf left) during a dialogue session organised by the Malaysian French Chamber of Commerce and Industry here today.

CYBERJAYA: Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has assured investors that the ongoing tussle between the federal government and Sabah and Sarawak on several issues, including oil royalty can be ironed out towards a “win-win” solution.

        Hence, the Prime Minister said investors should not worry about Sabah and Sarawak, instead they should invest in both states as they have good governance.

       He said the federal government and the leaders from both states are able to hold discussions to iron out the situation, despite being on the opposite side of the government.

       “We have talked to the leaders there, and the leaders are quite reasonable. The demand was made by some people who are still unable to adjust themselves to the federal-state set up.

       “They still want to have their say in everything but the state leaders are not like that. I have talked (to) them (leaders from Sabah and Sarawak) and they agree that we should settle this problem through negotiations and find a win-win solution,” he said at a dialogue session organised by the Malaysian French Chamber of Commerce and Industry here today.

           Also present was French Ambassador to Malaysia Frederic Laplanche.

Dr Mahathir was asked by a dialogue participant to provide clarity on the federal government relationship with Sabah and Sarawak, especially on the issues over oil royalty hike demand, MA63 rights, establishment of Petroleum Sarawak Bhd of Petros, and Trans-Borneo Highway.

        “(For) Sabah, the ruling party, Warisan, has three members in the Cabinet of the federal government, which means that we are actually in close contact with them. We know what they think,” he said.

Both the Sabah-led Warisan and Sarawak’s ruling coalition party are not members of the ruling coalition at the federal level, Dr Mahathir said, adding that the federal coalition is made up of four parties from the Peninsular.

“Malaysia is a federation. The states rule themselves in certain areas such as land. But they feel that they did not get the full amount of money from the oil industry. We paid five per cent oil (royalty) from oil production, which is a huge amount of money.

      “They are asking for 20 per cent. If we give them (oil-producing states) 20 per cent, Petronas will cease to be (among) the Fortune 500 companies,” he said.

      Dr Mahathir said Sarawak is the richest state in Malaysia with a budget of RM11 billion compared with other states.

“The disparity between states has to be corrected. If we were to give more to Sabah and Sarawak, the disparity will be worse than the present. While we may have differences, we can sit down together and settle these differences,” he added. – Bernama

Mycomments:

Petronas should not indulge in that dust-like vainglory and stand up tall at expense of Sabah and Sarawak in order to remain in the Fortune 500 companies. Alamat, what a curse, what a pity and what to shame  to refuse to pay  20% oil royalty from oil-production accordingly to these two partner nations.

Petronas must not be allowed to stay in the Fortune 500 companies by plundering, exploitation, oppression, suppression, robbing and bullying Sabah and Sarawak.  I hope that the Fortune organisation will remove it from the list of the Fortune 500 companies.  We Sabahans and Sarawakians are furious being plundered, exploited, oppressed, suppressed, robbed and bullied for about  57 years. 

Unfortunately, our puppet-like leaders from Sabah and Sarawak still have the patience to negotiate for nothing with the Malaya imperialists and colonialists.

Sabahans and Sarawakians are furious to see all their acts in the play. 

Mahathir, this devil is the master-mind of the plan to colonise Sabah and Sarawak.  This has been going on since 1963 and this devil was deeply involved in the process from  1970.  He was the one behind Tun Razak, another devil to work out all kinds of evil plan to colonise Sabah and Sarawak.

In 1974, it must be Mahathir, this devil who devised the plan to coerce the puppet-like Sarawak Chief Minister Abdul Rahman Yakub who was pestered by his devilish nephew Taib Mahmud who was holding an auspicious position in the so-called national parliament.  

We know how these high-ranking Ministers collude with the Malaya imperialists and colonialists to plunder, exploit and rob Sabah and Sarawak to enrich themselves. 

I believe Time is near and here that we Sarawakians are prepared enough to change the XBN-GPS-pro-PH Sarawak government for good in order to establish a New Sarawak with the true spirit of democracy based on meritocracy.  I believe that Parti Bumi Keyalang which is in quest of Sarawak Independence through unilateral declaration of independence like Kosovo when it wins in the PRN12 Sarawak election.

I hope that the whole-wide world will not be shocked when our new Sarawak government led by Parti Bumi Keyalang declares Sarawak Independence unilaterally and sever with Malaya totally.  Then we shall have 100% ownership of all the natural resources in Sarawak.  Petronas should be prepared to leave Sarawak for good.  I hope to see this happening some day.