Blog and Tweet 26/10/2018 To whom should Malays pound on?

Blog and Tweet 26/10/2018    To whom should Malays pound on?

        “Chinese are wealthy.”  so says the devil, the most autocratic-and evil-minded one in the federation of Malaysia.  He is ever ready to stir up racial tension by creating issues of contention.  He needs to divert people’s attention on the megawealth the Mahathirs have amassed by hook and by crook.  He is smart, very smart and I should say, extremely smart as he always could find the loopholes to escape from his misdeeds and misbehaviours through his ministry as PM from 1981 to 2003 and I wonder how much public funds he had stolen to help his son, Mirzan in 1990s. 

       The Mahathirs have been said to be the richest barons in South East Asia.  Tun Mahathir himself is the most corrupt, abusive, nepotistic, autocratic, evil, cunning….that I have ever witnessed.  To me, he is not less worse than late Marcos of the Philippines and late Suharto of Indonesia.

        This devil often barks that Chinese are weathy without doing any proper survey and research.  Are the Chinese really rich just as he says?  I hope that an agency will be set up to keep account of the wealth each individual in this federation possesses.  With the latest technology, nothing can escape from the radar of this agency.  Then we shall have the most realistic statistics to show for the wealth of each individual and the line-up.  How much wealth does each race possess will be obvious to all?  

        After that, the government with good intention should know how to devise a plan to help the poor realistically.  It is idiotic to bundle 5% very rich ones with the 15% rich ones; 40% on the margin and 20% poor ones and 20 % hardcore poor to generalise the rich or poor.  Studies needed to be conducted to find out the problem of this disparity.

       “Malays are poor,”  barks the devil.  “If there is a wide gap between rich and poor, it may cause social unrest, “ he says.   Find out how many % of Malays are poor and why they are poor.  At the same time, no ministers should act blind to 10% of mega rich Malays.  How did they become so rich?  Did they become rich at the expense of other Malays?  Were the funds meant for the development of their areas embezzled by the devils?

        According to the report, the Mahathirs owns US72.5 billion.  How on earth can they accumulate so much earth?  I hope that Malays in the third force will ask the whole-wide world to help freeze the accounts under the name of the Mahathirs.  The so-called Nasional Berhad were once run like his own private companies.  Petronas, Khazanah and many and many and many ………….government-linked companies were in his grasp.  We all bear witness how he amassed and squandered in many white elephant projects and he won commission in ?%;  how he bailed out the ailing companies at a price so much higher that market value all done for the sake of himself, his family and cronies / accomplices and indulgence in his power to do so.

       The road building and repair are privatised all for his desire and will.  He is the arch builder for the structural model of monopoly and centralisation of power.  He needed loyalty and thus he had to create the control of all.  The centralisation and monopoly just work hand in hand to plunder, exploit, rob ….people at will.  Can you understand why the financial situations of the majority are getting harder and harder.  He is the doer of all these problems.  And Najib copied his models and tried to create any legacy but ended in the mire.

        The Malaya privileges are true to those who wield the power or those are near to the centre of power.  I don’t think that the Malaya privileges mean anything to those who do not even have access to proper road system, basic amenities, education…

        I hope that the third force of Malayans,especially the Malay know so well whom you should pound on when you are deprived of the allocations for development. 

         The policy of discrimination, be it on race or religion will never augur well.  I should say that it will bring curses and shame only.

        I am a Sarawakian and we are going to quit from the federation of Malaysia for good.  I don’t think that I am going to write on this again and again.  I hope that the third force of Malayans, especially the Malay should take actions to reject any political clowns who are ever ready to bark on discrimination based on race or religion.  You should prepare to sue the Mahathirs and his accomplices for the wrongs they have done to Malayans and make them accountable.  The palace-like abodes the Mahathirs dwell in now should be turned into the meseums to showcase to the whole-wide world for their misdeeds. 

        What has happened to  Najib and his accomplices now should be trialed on Tun Mahathirs and his accomplices some day, too to be deemed fair and square.  Allah means Justice and Love.  Let Justice take its course.  Najib is terrible but Mahathir is worse.  All the best!

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Petron, Mirzan, Mokhzani and Mahathir - The richest oil barons in Southeast Asia (Part One)

Raggie Jessy

Mirzan Mahathir holds shares both in Petron Malaysia (PEM) and its parent concern, Petron Corporation.
He is also a stakeholder in San Miguel Corporation, a Philippines based food and beverage giant that owns 68.3 percent of Petron Corporation.
       In 2011, Tan Sri Shahril Shamsuddin undertook in a massive RM12 billion deal with Tan Sri Mokhzani Mahathir to merge SapuraCrest Petroleum Bhd with Kencana.
        The deal came to be known as “the largest deal ever in the history of corporate Malaysia” and gave Mokhzani access to exploration, extraction, shipping, and wholesale activities involving both ExxonMobile and Chevron.
The operations covered an expanse of over 1.3 million acres in Malaysia and Indonesia alone.

THE THIRD FORCE
Early in January 2013, a large number of Malaysians became confused when Petron Corporation (PCOR) commenced the rebranding of almost 600 Esso and Mobil gas stations nationwide. These stations were inherited by PCOR through its acquisition of ExxonMobil’s downstream business in 2012 with EXCEL Petroleum, an industrial lubricant concern. The acquisition turned Mirzan Mahathir into a major petrol pump operator and the largest competitor there was to Petronas, an oil and gas giant fully owned by the Government of Malaysia (GoM).

The son of Malaysia’s longest serving premier, Dr Mahathir Mohamad, Mirzan held shares both in Petron Malaysia (PEM) and its parent concern, PCOR. On the 15^th of December 2010, a Philippine conglomerate specialising in food and beverage, San Miguel Corporation (SMC), exercised a share option that gave it 68.3 percent of PCOR’s stakes. A press release by Petron Malaysia dated the 5^th of June 2013 confirmed that Mirzan did indeed hold substantial shares in the holding company and was a member of its board.
         If that isn’t enough to convince you that Mirzan is behind PEM, several sections of PCOR’s and SMC’s by-laws stipulate that one needs to be a shareholder in order to sit on the directorial board of any of its companies. Mirzan was elected director of PCOR on the 13^th of August 2010. That should put to rest any doubt that the son of Mahathir is indeed a stakeholder in the largest oil refining and marketing company there is in the Philippines.
        Now that we have that covered, let’s move on to the most pressing of all questions, one that probably is on everyone’s mind – just what exactly does Mirzan control? What is it that the Mahathirists – i.e., people who’d die for Mahathir just to keep his material worth a secret – are keeping from us?  Is it true that the family of Mahathir Mohamad controls substantial interests in the oil and gas industry and may be the richest oil baron family there is in Southeast Asia?

         By virtue of PCOR’s holding of ExxonMobile’s downstream business –  or, business that concerns marketing, refining and retail operations, Mirzan has somewhat of an exclusive say in the way retail is handled across the Peninsula of Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak. He does not, however, have access to ExxonMobile’s oil exploration, extraction, shipping and wholesale operations, activity that brings in ten times more profit than retail.  That access was provided to him in 2013 though through a massive network of associations that involved his brother, Tan Sri Mokhzani Mahathir.
        Mokhzani’s flirt with the oil and gas industry began with Kencana Petroleum Berhad, an integrated engineering and fabrication oil and gas production outfit that specialised in building and supplying drilling rigs. Despite being the record holder for providing the world’s tallest movable wellhead platforms, the company lacked deepsea drilling technology on par with what the Chinese had developed for exploration in the South China Sea. Mokhzani began looking for partners who could provide the service and knowhow but refused to consider Petronas as an option.

Mokhzani’s father, Mahathir, was sore that Najib had not revived plans to build a crooked bridge to replace the Malaysian side of the Johor-Singapore causeway. The whole purpose of the bridge was to force Singapore into renegotiating Maritime Security arrangements with Malaysia in ways that would grant our country access to oil rich areas at the edge of the South China Sea. Najib’s refusal to revive the project made dealing with Petronas less appealing.  While Mahathir sat contriving plans to oust Najib as a measure of vendetta, Mokhzani turned to his childhood friend and longtime associate, Tan Sri Shahril Shamsuddin.
        Shahril was then the co-owner of his family telecommunications concern, Sapura.   In 2011, he undertook in a massive RM12 billion deal with Mokhzani to merge SapuraCrest Petroleum Bhd with Kencana. The deal came to be known as “the largest ever in the history of corporate Malaysia” and resulted in the establishment of SapuraKencana (SK) Petroleum, an integrated oil and gas service and solutions provider.  Late in 2012, both Shahril and Mokhzani turned Seadrill Ltd into SK’s second largest shareholder by getting the Bermuda based deepwater drilling company to part with 49 percent of its stake in the tender-rig business.

         The deal cost SK USD2.9 billion and earned the company substantial control of the tender-rig market, then estimated to be worth some USD2 trillion. Seadrill’s owner, a Norwegian tycoon named Fredriksen, hopped on to SK’s board and helped Shahril secure some terms of associations with ExxonMobil and Chevron. That immediately turned SK into one of the world’s largest integrated oil and gas services and solutions provider and offered Mokhzani an opportunity to tap into ExxonMobil’s upstream business.
        With the help of some nominee concerns that had direct and beneficial ownerships in oil related companies, Mokhzani was able to penetrate the exploration, extraction, shipping, and wholesale part of ExxonMobile’s operations, which, in Malaysia and Indonesia alone, covered an expanse of over 1.3 million acres.  That gave Mahathir’s sons significant control of ExxonMobil’s upstream and downstream business within the region and turned them into the richest and most manipulative oil barons there were in Southeast Asia.
To be continued…

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How Daim’s China trip has to do with Mahathir’s sons (Part Two)

Raggie Jessy

Daim Zainuddin is in China for two reasons.

First, he is seeking to tie some financial institutions he owns together with China’s CITIC Bank and Export-Import Bank (EXIM).

Second, he is seeking a quid pro quo that will ultimately see Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s son acquire the beneficial ownership of an oil and gas concern that the Chinese government is expected to commit to.

The deal is expected to rake in some RM20 billion for Daim and gang from out of thin air.

THE THIRD FORCE
Daim Zainuddin is in China.
The Council of Eminent Persons (CEP) de facto chief, tasked with advising Dr Mahathir Mohamad on economic matters, is really there to negotiate the establishment of a banking nexus involving some financial institutions he owns together with China’s CITIC Bank and Export-Import Bank (EXIM). On the 15^th of July 2018, The Third Force took the wraps of a conspiracy involving Daim and Tan Sri Vincent Tan to part finance the construction of the East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) project (READ FULL STORY HERE). Vincent, who currently is the beneficial owner of a local entity that jointly bid for the project, is seeking Daim’s assistance to provide that entity assistance in the form of soft loans.

The said entity, Syarikat T7 Global Sdn Bhd, happens to be an oil and gas service provider that both Mahathir and his sons have a great deal of interest in. On the 1^st of June 2018, The Third Force made known the extent of control Mahathir’s sons once had over ExxonMobil’s upstream and downstream business within the region (READ FULL STORY HERE). Mokhzani Mahathir lost a chunk of that control in 2017 when he undertook to dispose of his 190.3 million stake in SapuraKenchana Petroleum Bhd (SK), an oilfield services company he established six years earlier together with childhood friend,Tan Sri Shahril Shamsuddin.

Mahathir wants that control back.
That explains why he’s interested in building a new island where the once disputed Middle Rocks cluster (known also as the Pedra Branca island) stands. After meeting Singaporean premier Lee Hsien Long on the 19^th of May 2018, he quickly announced the scrapping of the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore High-Speed Rail (HSR) Link between Kuala Lumpur and the southern republic before making known his plan to expand Malaysian territory southward. The expansion involves the introduction of non-submerged land mass around the Middle Rocks cluster, which happens to sit within the eastern opening of the Singapore Straits and the western edge of the South China Sea.

The area is rich with oil and is of interest to both Singapore and the People’s Republic of China. Mahathir is aware that the Chinese government has long had disputes with the Singaporean government and is desperate to work with Malaysia in exploiting the region. The building of an island where Middle Rocks stands seemed a perfect opportunity for him to redraw territorial borders and force Singapore into renegotiating Maritime Security arrangements. The renegotiation would immediately grant Malaysia exclusive rights to the edge of the South China Sea and allow China to participate in deep sea drilling.
But the only Malaysian oil and gas entity that currently has access to deep sea technology is Petronas, a company neither Mokhzani nor Mirzan Mahathir have control over. Mokhzani lost access to that technology when he got Khasera to dispose of its holdings in SK and beneficial ownerships in some oil and gas concerns worldwide. Mirzan is working to regain that access by interesting San Miguel Corporation into purchasing a chunk of Petronas’ interests. Just so that you know, San Miguel is a food and beverages (F&B) conglomerate that owns 63 percent of Petron Corporation.

Mahathir is backing Mirzan all the way in his pursuit for deep water technology. To prevent the possibility of there being competition for his sons in the near or distant future, the Prime Minister is undertaking to consolidate all oil and gas related entities in Malaysia that are service based under the roofs of his cronies. That helps explain Vincent’s recent purchase of T7 shares and the initial scrapping of the HSR project. By calling off the project, Mahathir effected a 37.6 percent decline in the price of Gamuda Berhad’s shares which Daim’s and Vincent’s people have since purchased.

Gamuda had previously partaken in a 50:50 joint venture (JV) to provide solutions mainly to the Government of Malaysia (GoM). The company it partnered with, MMC Corporation Berhad, is an investment holding entity that is 51.8 percent owned by Tan Sr Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary. Syed was the onetime owner of an oil and gas concern that he recently sold to one of his own companies, Melati Pertiwi Sdn Bhd.

Thus, not only is Bukhari in the business of oil and gas, he is a joint shareholder with Gamuda in a company that constructs airports, highways, bridges and railway links. That is another reason why Daim is seeking to renegotiate terms associated with the construction of the ECRL. Apart from looking at ways to establish a banking nexus with EXIM and CITIC, the Council of Eminent Persons (CEP) de facto chief is seeking to offer MMC-Gamuda a lucrative slice of the ECRL project in a quid pro quo that involves the transfer of Melati Pertiwi shares to his people. The Chinese government is expected to commit itself to Melati Pertiwi in deep sea drilling at the edge of the South China Sea.
The deal would ultimately allow Syed Mokhtar to partake with Vincent in a cost-appreciated version of the railway project and Mahathir to sink his teeth into Syed’s oil and gas interest. And if you’re thinking that Tan Sri Zeti Akhtar Aziz has nothing to do with all this, you’re dead wrong…
To be continued…

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MISC to Pay $220 Million Price For Assets From Mahathir's Son

Chen May YeeStaff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

        KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- Easing fears of an expensive, politically motivated rescue, a state-controlled shipper said it would pay $220 million for assets from Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's eldest son, a price many analysts called fair.
When Malaysia International Shipping Corp., or MISC, in March said it would buy the shipping assets of Mirzan Mahathir's company, Konsortium Perkapalan Bhd., whose primary activity is providing container-haulage services, it provoked accusations of a bailout, especially since Mr. Mirzan revealed that the sale would reduce his company's debt to almost zero. Many analysts viewed the deal as another example of the rescues that have put in doubt Malaysia's commitment to face its economic troubles, mainly by using state funds to help sickly private companies.

        These analysts came away happier Thursday. "Yes, [MISC is] helping out Mirzan, but they are not paying a hefty price for it," said Alan Inn, an analyst with Caspian Securities. "MISC got away quite nicely," he added.
        "The entire exercise will make MISC a stronger organization," said MISC's chairman, Tan Sri Hassan Marican, who is also president of state oil company Petroliam Nasional Bhd., or Petronas.
        "Overall," he added, "it is a fair deal for everyone."
        The entire deal comes in several parts. MISC will buy the entire share capital of Petronas Tankers Sdn. Bhd. from Petronas by issuing 859.91 million new MISC ordinary shares of one ringgit (26.8 U.S. cents) each at 6.96 ringgit per share to Petronas.  This will result in Petronas owning 62.01% of MISC, from 29.34% currently.
MISC will also buy Hong Kong-based PNSL Ltd., formerly known as Pacific Basin Bulk Shipping Ltd., from Konsortium Perkapalan, or KPB, for US$55 million. Analysts described the price as low but fair considering the expected hit the company's business will take from the Asian economic turmoil in the next few years. Mr. Mirzan had bought Pacific Basin in 1996 for US$230 million.
        In addition, MISC will buy the assets of KPB's Malaysia-based PNSL Bhd. for US$165 million.  Mr. Mirzan purchased PNSL Bhd. for 247.4 million ringgit from a state agency in 1992.  The higher price MISC is paying partly stems from the charters and therefore fixed revenues these assets come with.
        That means MISC will hand over a total of $220 million to Mr. Mirzan. That figure is just below the range of $224 million to $313 million at which the assets were valued by an independent appraiser appointed by MISC's bankers. That valuation assumed that MISC would also take over net debt of $311 million from the acquired companies.
        Tan Sri Hassan said the parties expect to wrap up the deal by the end of August, subject to regulatory approval. MISC will pay for the deal partly from internal funds and partly from borrowings, he added.

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New Straits Times31 Mar 2017

Se­lan­gor Umno wants Mukhriz to ad­mit how he got money to run multi-bil­lion ring­git busi­nesses

• New Straits Times
• 31 Mar 2017

Parti Pribumi Ber­satu Malaysia deputy president Datuk Seri Mukhriz Ma­hathir was slated to de­bate his for­mer spe­cial of­fi­cer Haris Che Mat to­mor­row, but it has been post­poned un­til fur­ther no­tice.

        DATUK Seri Mukhriz Ma­hathir’s for­mer spe­cial of­fi­cer Haris Che Mat should ask the for­mer Kedah menteri be­sar, dur­ing a de­bate ini­tially slated for to­mor­row, how he and his brother ac­quired cap­i­tal to con­duct their multi-bil­lion ring­git busi­nesses.

        Se­lan­gor Umno in­for­ma­tion chief Datuk Zein Isma Is­mail said he hoped Mukhriz could an­swer the ques­tion.

       “We all re­mem­ber Tun Dr Ma­hathir Mo­hamad as a clean and trust­wor­thy per­son, but when it was found that some of his chil­dren be­came ‘in­stant multi-bil­lion­aires’, it opened the peo­ple’s eyes.
      “Even if you take out a bank loan, you need mort­gages and col­lat­eral worth bil­lions of ring­git. Banks will not give out loans with­out col­lat­eral.
     “Ev­ery­one is ask­ing how Mirzan Ma­hathir (Mukhriz’s brother) ac­quired the money to buy San Miguel and Petron.  I urge Haris to ask Mukhriz this.”

        Mukhriz and Mirzan are the sons of Dr Ma­hathir, who was prime min­is­ter from 1981 to 2003.
        Haris, who is also Pokok Sena Umno di­vi­sion vice-chief, had re­cently chal­lenged Mukhriz to an open de­bate over al­le­ga­tions that Mukhriz had amassed bil­lions of ring­git within a short pe­riod.
        Mukhriz, who is Parti Pribumi Ber­satu Malaysia deputy president, had ac­cepted the chal­lenge un­con­di­tion­ally.
        Be­fore en­ter­ing pol­i­tics, Mukhriz was ac­tive in the cor­po­rate sec­tor, where he held sev­eral po­si­tions, in­clud­ing M Ocean Div­ing Sdn Bhd man­ag­ing di­rec­tor, Op­com Hold­ings Bhd chair­man and man­ag­ing di­rec­tor and Ajiya Bhd ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer.

        Mukhriz has a 23.5 per cent di­rect stake in Op­com, while his wife, Norzi­eta Zakaria, has a 26.9 per cent in­di­rect stake.  The com­pany was in­cor­po­rated in 1994 and was co­founded by Mukhriz and Ch­hoa Kwang Hua.  The firm’s cur­rent chair­man is Mukhriz’s el­der brother, Tan Sri Mokhzani Ma­hathir.
        Ac­cord­ing to a let­ter dated Oct 7, 2003, that has been cir­cu­lat­ing, the Fi­nance Min­istry had, that same year, ap­proved an ap­pli­ca­tion for Op­com to ob­tain a con­tract worth RM214.2 mil­lion with­out go­ing through a ten­der process.
        The let­ter bore the Fi­nance Min­istry’s let­ter­head.   It stated that Op­com was awarded the con­tract via di­rect ne­go­ti­a­tions, and that the project would in­volve Op­com sup­ply­ing fi­bre op­tic ca­bles to Telekom Malaysia Bhd over three years.
Dr Ma­hathir was, at the time, serv­ing as fi­nance min­is­ter.

        Mukhriz said he was shocked by the al­le­ga­tions that he had amassed bil­lions of ring­git.
        In Alor Star, Haris told the New Straits Times that the de­bate would be post­poned un­til fur­ther no­tice as he needed three weeks to re­cover from a surgery to re­move kid­ney stones.

         He said he un­der­went the twohour surgery at Kedah Med­i­cal Cen­tre yes­ter­day.
“The surgery went well, but I need about three weeks to re­cover. The de­bate is still on, but al­low me to re­cover first.”
        In Yan, Mukhriz wished Haris a speedy re­cov­ery, adding that he would wait for him to re­cover be­fore pro­ceed­ing with the de­bate.
     “I will wait for him to re­cover. I have no prob­lem with the de­bate be­ing held in Jer­lun as in­sisted by Haris,” he said af­ter a gath­er­ing with res­i­dents of Kam­pung Kuala Du­lang Be­sar here.
        Mukhriz said he would do­nate RM500 mil­lion each to the Jer­lun and Pokok Sena con­stituen­cies if Haris pro­vided proof that he had amassed RM1 bil­lion in wealth.

New Straits Times

31 Mar 2017

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Claims of nepotism after Petron, linked to Mahathir's son, gets government fuel contract

PETALING JAYA (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - The Malaysian government faces accusations of cronyism and nepotism after news emerged that the Ministry of Finance has appointed a unit of Petron Malaysia as one of the fuel providers for government vehicles.
        A letter of appointment addressed to Petron Fuel International Bhd has gone viral on social media, as the Prime Minister's son, Mr Mirzan Mahathir,  is a director of Philippine-based Petron Corporation, which owns Petron Malaysia.
        News site Malaysiakini reported that it had verified with government sources that the letter had been distributed to government ministries.
        The letter stated that the Petron Malaysia unit had been appointed a fuel provider for government vehicles through indent cards.
        It added that it hoped the appointment of the Petron unit would provide "a better choice and alternative" to existing fuel providers.
Mr Mirzan has been a director of Petron Corporation since 2010 and held 1,000 shares in that year.
        In 2013, Petron Malaysia said Mr Mirzan did not have any shares or a role in its Malaysian operations.
        The Ministry of Finance has been contacted for comments.

My comments:
The devil is always "me first" in the named Malay privileges and Nasional Bhd businesses.  Hence, he ran public funded companies so privately with the accomplices, the cronies all for the Mahathirs first and always.  He is extremely nepotistic, autocratic, selfish, greedy, megalomaniac, evil  .....           

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S’wak wants IGC model in talk

Jacqueline David, reporters@theborneopost.com

Abang Johari says MA63 negotiation lopsided in favour of federal govt, suggests talks be based on the IGC setup

Abang Johari (front row, sixth right) and his wife Datin Patinggi Datuk Amar Juma’ani Tuanku Bujang, on his left, join Sarawak MPs, members of Sarawak cabinet and other participants of the townhall session in a wefie taken at Mitec in Kuala Lumpur. Deputy Chief Minister III Datuk Amar Awang Tengah Ali Hasan is at front row, third left.

        KUALA LUMPUR: The Sarawak government is mulling over setting up a Special Cabinet Committee to negotiate with the federal government on the Malaysia Agreement 1963 (MA63) and wants the talk modelled on the Inter-Governmental Committee (IGC).
        In saying this, Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Abang Johari Tun Openg observes that currently, what has been proposed for Sarawak is that only the Chief Minister and Sarawak Attorney-General be included in the special committee, which is meant to implement the MA63.
        “We have suggested to the federal government that we would like to have another model based on the Inter-Governmental Committee (IGC), which should be done because the federal government has recognised that we (Sarawak) are a partner in the formation of Malaysia.
        “Therefore, we have representatives from the governments of Sarawak and Sabah, and the federal government; and it must be in equal numbers so that you can deliberate on issues concerning the Malaysia Agreement; otherwise, it would be lopsided.
       “Assuming (that) there’s an issue that we want to discuss; if based on majority-voting, then we (Sarawak) would be voted out.  This is a serious issue that we have to deliberate,” he said when met after the town hall session     ‘#TanyakAbgJo’ at the Malaysia International Trade and Exhibition Centre (Mitec) here yesterday.
          The session was a part of the ‘Lan Berambeh Anak Sarawak 2018’ programme, slated for Sarawakians studying or working in Peninsular Malaysia.
Recently, Minister in Prime Minister’s Department (Law) Datuk Liew Vui Keong announced that Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad would lead the Special Cabinet Committee on MA63, with a line-up comprising Chief Secretary to the Government Datuk Seri Sr Ismail Bakar, Attorney-General Tommy Thomas, federal ministers, Abang Johari and Sabah Chief Minister Datuk Seri Shafie Apdal, Chief Judge of Sarawak and Sabah Datuk David Wong Dak Wah, Sarawak Attorney-General Datuk Talat Mahmood Abdul Rashid and Sabah Attorney-General Zaleha Rose Pandin, and Universiti Malays Professor of Law Datuk Dr Shad Saleem Faruqi.
The federal ministers are Liew himself, Lim Guan Eng (Finance), Datuk Seri Mohamed Azmin Ali (Economic Affairs), Baru Bian (Works), Gobind Singh Deo (Communications and Multimedia), Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah (Foreign), Anthony Loke Siew Fook (Transport) and Darell Leiking (International Trade and Industry).
        Liew had said that among issues to be discussed would be oil royalties, equal distribution, the Petroleum Development Act 1974, and regional development that were close to ‘the hearts and minds’ of Sarawakians and Sabahans.

My Comments:
        There is nothing further to discuss for MA63.  It is a criminal case for the breach of Trust.  To deal with it, it is to sue the "breachers", the devils in the United Nations Court of Justice since MA63 is an international treaty.  That's it!
         To avoid to get entangled further, on behalf of Sarawakians, I plead Aband Johari to reject this devil's invitation to be lured to that autocratic-and federal-centric committee.
        Let the whole-wide world know what these devils from Malaya want to do again to dominate Sarawak and Sabah.  Shamelessly, this evil-minded devil devised the committee headed by him to review MA63 which 80% of Sarawak see it a ploy of the Malayan government who expect to continue their evil intentions to plunder, exploit, rob, suppress, oppress and bully us at will.  Now 70-80% of us Sarawakians are standing up and out in defence of our rights.  There is no way now for those evil Malayan political devils to do what they desire to us. This makes us even more determined to vote to quit from the federation of Malaysia which stands for plundering, exploitation, robbing, suppression, oppression and bullying.