My comments on Visionary leadership needed to resolve Sarawak-Petronas oil dispute

 

Petronas, a company from Malaya amounts to nothing without the constant feed of O&G from Sarawak, Tengku Razaleigh.   How can Petronas be analogised it to be a goose laying golden eggs? Did you know how colonial, pirate-minded and sinful you were by hook and by crook trapping and tricking Sarawak and Sabah into this contract of oil royalty àà 95% for Petronas and 5% for Sarawak. 

 

Where on earth is there any such exploitative and abusive contract you can find in the whole-wide world?  It was, no doubt, signed after May 13^th, 1969 a well-devised evil plan by the notorious UMNO devils who to me and many many others always turned NO into YES; YES into NO by all means.  

 

And the aircrash on 6/6/1976 carrying quite a number of Sabah Assembly Members (including then Chief Minister) demanded for 20% oil royalty.  It was, no doubt, to many and many Sarawakians and Sabahans to be well-devised evil plan of the murder for being disobedient to Tengku’s so-said ‘noble’ deed and demands of the devils to be complied to.

 

Colonial- and pirate-minded Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah is still wild with the belief that by wooing and coaxing can lure and induce Sarawak Premier Abang Johari and his team into submission and complying to let the Neo-colonial master continue plundering and exploitating oil and gas (O&G) resources in and around Sarawak at will.  No, no more.  

 

Yes, the Sarawak government is adamant and firm to the demand based on MA63 with the right to make Petros the sole gas aggregator in Sarawak. 

 

Who is obsessive and greedy for the O&G, the golden goose  in Sarawak?  Sarawak has the absolute right and sovereignty to her resources and how to plan for it. 

 

Yes, it is the ‘constitutional right’ of Sarawak and Sarawak should be prepared  ‘to battle any party that “disrespects” its “rights” in a court of law.’ domestically and internationally.   Let the International Court of Justice preside the validity of MA63 as well.

 

Stop barking!  Stop wooing!  Stop coaxing!  Stop being indulgent in your wild beliefs that Sarawak will bulge an inch in claiming the ‘constitutional right’ of Sarawak based on MA63.

 

Malaysia (Malaya in disguise) has never practised federalism based on trust and good laws.  Never!  Reviewing the history of Malaysia@ Malaya, we have witnessed all the breaches of MA63 for about 600 times and being so domineering and abusive.

 

Be clear how often Sarawak Premier Abang Johari has asserted and insisted FOUR non-negotiable items, namely, (a) immigration autonomous power, (b) rights to enforce State law in accordance with the Federal Constitution, (c) State border protection (d) sovereignty over the sea, underground and its resources within the State.  (Dayakdaily)

 

My advice to all those cunning, greedy, abusive, colonial-and pirate-minded wild political thugs is not to harbour the belief that there is a chance for Malaya in the name of Malaysia to go inroad in these FOUR non-negotiable items.

 

Assess what “win-win” situation Sarawak has enjoyed so far.  Sarawak has always been a loser in the federation of Malaysia @Malaya.  Don’t be stupid and being dazzled by the post of DPM to lose sight of the ‘constitutional right’ of Sarawak over our O&G.

 

Always remember the humiliation and insult of being forced to sign PDA74.  How their predator-like predecessors UMNO-BN had launched the mechanism of plundering, exploitation, oppression, suppression, robbing, bullying, Malayanisation and colonization. PH headed by Anwar Ibrahim just continues more or less the same practices as UMNO-BN.

 

For the federal development budgets for three consecutive years --  2023, 2024 and 2025, above 85% of the said funds are for Malaya.  And they will continue as a winner at the expense of Sarawak and Sabah.  Actually, Malaya in name of Malaysia is many times worse than the British Colonial power. 

 

Sarawak has been at the losing end for the past 50 years (1974-2024).  Petronas has never disclosed the accounts of the total amount of revenues collected from O&G from Sarawak in the share 95% to 5%.  Isn’t it ridiculously stupid to talk about “win-win” as a loser? 

 

Let Sarawak be the sole aggregator all for the advantages to the nation of Sarawak and for the good the federation of Malaysia (Malaya in disguise) learning to respect MA63 and laws.

 

Is  the colonial- and pirate-minded Tengku Razaleigh aware that there has never been a win-win federal-State partnership as far as Sarawak and Sabah as nations in the federation of Malaysia (Malaya in disguise) are concerned.  There is no such things called integrity and a fair commitment to the fair distribution of wealth among the three nations in the federation.

 

As a Sarawakian, I bear witness the process of colonization and Malayanisation at the expense of the rich ethnic cultures of Sarawak and Sabah. 

 

Despite having abundant natural resources, Sarawak ranks No. 3 in terms of poverty in 13 states; Sabah No. 2.  This is the facts and truths that we Sarawakians and Sabahans are facing.

 

Stop bluffing, stop creating make-believes, Tengku Razaleigh!  Don’t boast about PDA74 which was passed illegally during the time of emergency against the constitutional right of S&S/Sarawak and Sabah.  It is a well-plotted plan indeed  to plunder the rich O&G resources of S&S.  Shame of you!  It is all to  the advantage of Malaya at the expense of S&S.

 

Yes, since then, every state in Malaya has benefited from the availability of public goods such as healthcare, education, and national defence.  But it is not so in Sarawak and Sabah.

 

With the O&G resources and taxes from S&S at our disposal, S&S, no doubt at all, can manage all these public goods healthcare, education, and national defence many times better.

 

It is illegal to implement PDA74, in S&S.  But Malaya in the name of Malaysia has committed the crimes of transgression and trepassing for 50 over years in the territory of Sarawak and Sabah, which are not territories of Malaya.  It is a wide separation of Malaya and S&S  by South China Sea by thousands of miles.

 

No doubt, Sarawak is heading in the right direction for great development by passing the Distribution of Gas Ordinance/DGO in 2016 headed by ex-Chief Minister Adenan Satem and incorporating Petros in 2017.

 

The Order in Council 1954, entitled Sarawak to extend the Sarawak boundaries to include the continental shelf off its shores and

the Oil and Mining Ordinance 1958/OMO grants it “rights over all O&G resources within those boundaries’.

 

No, Sarawak can no longer tolerate the aggression, domination and colonization of Malaya in the name of Malaysia.  Enough is enough!

 

Yes, it is just natural and normal for Sarawak to need more revenues for the proper development and want 30% of gas at least to be made available for domestic use, in line with the Sarawak Gas Roadmap 2030, up from 5% presently.

 

Has Sarawak had a fair share of its O&G resources when Malaya takes 95% : Sarawak 5%?   Besides, Malaya@Malaysia collects so many kinds of taxes from Sarawak and gives back so little. 

 

For three consecutive years, the federal budget for Sarawak is 5.65% in 2023; 6.4% in 2024 and 6.8% in 2025.  Sabah is in no way better.  Above 85% the federal development funds are for Malaya.  It was even worse during BN-UMNO era. 

 

To avoid further dispute and breakup, the federal government should learn to respect the laws of Sarawak, MA63 and advise Petronas to look elsewhere for new opportunities and not to be so obsessive with the O&G of Sarawak.  Which one is the golden goose?

 

Don’t repeat the same bad practices of those colonial- and pirate-minded old political thugs who dared to break all laws to reach their selfish aims.  They were not visionary leaders but the devils who launched the mechanism of Malaynisation and colonization on S&S.

 

If ‘any divestment by Petronas of its role as the sole gas aggregator in Sarawak will have a significant impact on the company’s finances’, it is indeed the problems of Petronas, a pick winner relying too much on the free lunch and easy income from Sarawak.

 

Since Sarawak has always been a loser with 5% share of royalty in the O&G and in the federation of Malaysia as a whole, it really makes no difference if Petronas survives or dies and how the federal finances are affected. 

 

But there is one thing for sure, we can negotiate for a better deal for at least 30% - 40% of share of revenue from O&G resources with other oil companies all over the world.

 

Petronas is encouraged to pack and leave Sarawak for good.  See how soon Petronas will be replaced.  Don’t worry about Petros as Sarawak has so much O&G resources to sustain it to grow from small  to a large one.  See how Petronas feeds on O&G of S&S to grow big and strong.

 

It is irrational of Muhyiddin to say that Abang Johari can make limited demands on O&G resources.  Abang Johari is too meek not to go to court straight away when Petronas, a scoundrel-like company from Malaya failed to comply to the demand to return what  legitimately belongs to Sarawak.

 

This is half-true that “Petronas needs Sarawak, and Sarawak needs Petronas.”  Muhyiddin!  What is true is “Petronas needs Sarawak, BUT Sarawak does not need Petronas at all.”

 

Bear in mind that whatever the amount of investment Petronas has made in Sarawak, doesn’t it derive from the O&G revenues from Sarawak?

 

Don’t ask for a  fair and equitable share for the things not belonging to you at all!