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SUPP wants equal footing for federal govt, Sarawak and Sabah in MA63 Committee

Michael Tiang

        KUCHING: The Pakatan Harapan (PH) government must initiate an Inter-Governmental Committee (IGC) for the Federation of Malaya, Sabah and Sarawak to meet and honour the Malaysia Agreement 1963 (MA63).
The PH government, by heading and dominating the MA63 Special Cabinet Committee, will defeat the original spirit and intent of the three regions coming together to form Malaysia in 1963, said Sarawak United People’s Party (SUPP) Youth chief Michael Tiang.
     “In order to sincerely and effectively review the enforcement of MA63 after 55 years of the formation of Malaysia, for a start, the PH government must initiate an IGC for Malaya, Sabah and Sarawak to meet and honour MA63,” he said yesterday.
Tiang, who is a political secretary to the chief minister, noted that the MA63 Special Cabinet Committee has only two state representatives each from Sabah and Sarawak.
        The two representatives are the Chief Minister and State Attorney General (AG), he said.
     “The rest are mostly federal cabinet members and federal officers. I’m afraid by setting up the committee in such composition, it is definitely not intended to set a convincing platform for inter-governmental in nature, not to mention to review equal partnership of both Sabah and Sarawak in the federation,” he said.
Works Minister Baru Bian from Sarawak and International Trade and Industry Darell Leiking from Sabah are among the federal cabinet ministers in the special committee.
        As such, Tiang said he supported Chief Minister Datuk Patinggi Abang Johari Tun Openg’s earlier suggestion that the special committee should follow in the footsteps of the IGC 1962 structure.
       The SUPP man said the committee should comprise the three governments (federal government, Sarawak government and Sabah government) headed by the British, which serves as a neutral party to the federation.
    “It should not be a steering committee under the federal cabinet headed by the prime minister. The first footing is already not made on the right path.
    “To review MA63 enforcement in Malaysia, the three governments should be given chances to meet on an equal footing too,” asserted Tiang.
Back in 1962, he said there were five representatives from the British, eight from Malaya, 10 from Sarawak and eight from Sabah.
   “Each brought their own AG, state secretary, financial secretary, chief minister and other relevant members of the state assembly,” he added.
Last Wednesday, de-facto Law Minister Datuk Liew Vui Keong announced the formation of the MA63 Special Cabinet Committee to review and propose measures to rectify the status of Sabah and Sarawak.
      He said the committee, headed by the prime minister, comprised eight federal ministers and other members including Abang Johari and Sabah Chief Minister  Datuk Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal.
      The eight ministers are Liew, Baru, Darell, Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng, Economic Affairs Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Azmin Ali, Communications and Multimedia Minister Gobind Singh Deo, Foreign Minister Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah and Transport Minister Anthony Loke.
       According to Liew, the committee will meet in a month’s time, after which it will hold a meeting once a month for the next six months.
       He said everything including oil royalty and other developments will be discussed, adding: “We would like to go to the core of  the matter, mainly the implementation of the Malaysia Agreement.”

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Grounds to sue UK Government and Federal Government

By Voon Lee Shan

Voon Lee Shan

        The Cobbold Commission Report was misleading and should not be used to draft the Malaysia Agreement 1963 (MA63) for the formation of the Federation of Malaysia.
        This is because the inquiry conducted by the Commission interviewed only about 4,000 out of the 700,000 people in Sarawak to assess whether they wanted Sarawak to be included in the formation of Malaysia.
        It revealed that only 1/3 agreed to the formation of Malaysia, 1/3 disagreed and the other 1/3 doubtful. The 4,000 people interviewed (less than 1 per cent of the population) could not represent the voice of the whole people of Sarawak at that time.
         Therefore, MA63 should be declared null and void because it was based on a misleading report of the Cobbold Commission to the British government at that time.
        The effect of any null and void agreement could not be used to form a binding contract be it an agreement like MA63.
        Worse still, MA63 is an International Treaty which should be perfectly drafted and should not be based on misleading findings or information. My humble view is that Malaysia should not be formed based on a void MA63.
        Now, the federal government wants to rectify the wrongs caused by the Cobbold Commission and is trying to convince the peoples of Sabah and Sarawak that MA63 is a valid Agreement.
        The formation of Malaysia had not benefitted the peoples of Sabah and Sarawak and, being sovereign nations before Malaysia, both Sabah and Sarawak were then reduced in status to states only.
        The sovereignty of these nations had been affected.  The federal government wants to overcome the unhappiness of the peoples of Sabah and Sarawak by first amending Article 1(2) Federal Constitution by putting back the status of Sabah and Sarawak from states to their rightful status as nations of their own within the Federation.
        The federal government argued that the erosion of rights of the peoples of Sabah and Sarawak as entrenched in MA63 could not be rectified unless the Constitution is amended.
       My humble opinion is: What have we to rectify when the legality of the formation of Malaysia is questionable?
       Even if MA63 had been legally passed or constructed, the several fundamental breaches of MA63 by the federal government had made Malaysia no more a sensible political union between Sabah and Sarawak with the Federation of Malaya.
Now, we are waiting in suspense how and when all flaws caused by MA63 could be rectified.  The governments of Sabah and Sarawak should not be trapped by the call by the federal government through the Law Minister, YB Liew Vui Keong, a Sabahan, to go to the negotiation table to review and to rectify the loss or erosion of rights caused by the federal government as entrenched in MA63.
         To put all things right that went wrong which began nearly 60 years ago may take 60 years or longer to undo. Our pride that Sabah and Sarawak are sovereign nations had been affected.
        Since there is an admission of the erosion of the rights of the peoples of Sabah and Sarawak by the federal government, this perhaps could be a good ground to sue the federal government for loss caused till now.
       My humble opinion is also that since MA63 should be flawed the UK government should be responsible for the loss incurred by the peoples of Sabah and Sarawak.
       The Sarawak government is urged to sue UK and federal government for loss incurred by the peoples of Sarawak.  Such a legal process is possible because if Hindraf could do it or file such suits in UK, there is no reason the Sarawak Government could not do it.
The writer is a lawyer and former Batu Lintang state assemblyman.

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Soo asks why Sarawak PH silent on revenue sharing

Lina Soo

KUCHING: Sarawak Reform Party (STAR) president Lina Soo is puzzled as to why Sarawak Pakatan Harapan (PH) seemed to be muzzled and failed to address Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng’s statement in Parliament that revenue sharing with Sarawak will only be upon improvement of the Malaysia economy.
        Soo also questions Lim’s ambiguity and political doublespeak in saying that the federal government requires more time, or Sarawak has to wait until next year and also to wait until the country’s financial position permits, before sharing revenue with Sarawak.
    “What excuse is he using, to hoodwink Sarawakians to cover up their tracks to continue to plunder Sarawak’s resources, specifically oil and gas, and taxes contributed by Sarawak?” she said in a statement issued here.
       Soo also named Pakatan MPs from Sarawak – Chong Chieng Jen, Baru Bian and Dr Kelvin Yii – for failing to live up to their promise of increased royalty to 20 per cent and the return of 50 per cent of Sarawak’s taxes to Sarawak.
     “Are their pledges just empty words before general election? Why are they lost for words now?
     “It is the duty of the federal government to ensure that Sarawak has money for development after collecting Sarawak’s oil revenue and taxes.   Furthermore Pakatan had promised that there will be more money as there will be no more corruption. Why is it not happening?” she asserted.
        Soo also alleged that the previous Barisan Nasional (BN) regime took oil-producing states’ wealth and taxes, and made sure that no state could survive without federal aid.
     “And now the Pakatan regime is simply continuing the exploitation of Sarawak’s wealth and making Sarawak a beggar state.  This is not by accident but by design,” she added.
        Soo reminded the Pakatan government that there is no condition in the Malaysia Agreement 1963 (MA63) that revenue sharing is subject to the economic and fiscal condition of Malaysia.
        She said this was another unilateral or one-sided imposition of terms and conditions by the federal government which repudiates the MA63, and compounds the multiple breaches of the international treaty upon which the Federation of Malaysia exists.
       “If the federal government refuses to return its revenue, then Soo questions what is the meaning of Sarawak remaining in the federation when it defeats its very purpose, in a situation where the federal government sabotages Sarawak’s economy and continues its flagrant breaches of the Malaysia Agreement.
     “Sarawak is at the crossroads, and the Sarawak people must be wise to stand up to more bullying and exploitation, regardless of whichever regime is in power,” she said.
      According to news reports, Lim had said in the Parliament on Wednesday that although a formula on revenue sharing with Sabah and Sarawak will be inked next year, this will only be implemented when government’s finances permit it.
      Revenue sharing with Sabah, and Sarawak as well as higher oil royalties are among the promises made by the Pakatan Harapan government in its election manifesto.
       Datuk Seri Nancy Shukri (GPS-Batang Sadong) then asked Lim to give a proper deadline on the implementation.
      Telling her to be patient, Lim said before Pakatan came to power, there was no plan to share revenue with Sabah and Sarawak.
   “This is wrong.   I was involved in the committee discussions. Please retract the statement,” countered Nancy, the former minister in the Prime Minister’s Department.

My comments:
The Sarawak government headed by Abang Johari should take the stronger stand to stop the taxes collected in Sarawak to go into the federal coffer.  The Sarawak government should cut short the grace period from the end of 2019 to the end of 2018 for Petronas to apply for the licences to do businesses in Sarawak.  Abang Johari should be strong and has no fear when Sarawakians 95% are behind him. 

Blog and Tweet 27/10/2018 希望有人会把这恶魔控上法庭

Blog and Tweet 27/10/2018    希望有人会把这恶魔控上法庭 （重抄一遍）

不懂去那里copy&paste. 

老马独裁劣政数不尽，千亿罪恶账目算不完  （别人的简报）

1．1981 

上任首相后加强新经济政策的执行，强制规定非土著上市公司必须将

     30%股权送给土族，然后私下分发给朋党和亲友，让自己的孩子一夜间暴 

     发成为大马10 首富之一。

2． 1981

      仿效英国将国有企业私营化，十多年来将超过400家赚钱的国企赚卖给朋

      党，造成水电费和各种基建成本剧增，全民为此苦30年。

3． 1983

      不雇民间反对启动砂州Bakun水坝计划，逼迁1万原住民和牺牲近7万公

       顷森林，前后30年耗资巨款从6亿严重超支至85亿令吉，以失败告

       终 ， 沦为本区最大的白象计划。

4． 1987

       巫统爆发党争，却利用华小课题制造种族冲突，再以茅草行动违捕106反

       对党及社运领袖，并关闭三家报馆。     

5． 1988

      Mahathir不满法庭作出数项不利政府的判决，违宪革除联邦法院院长敦沙

      烈阿巴斯和两名法官，轰动国内外司法界。

6． 1992

      发生全国大停电后，马哈迪拟定独立发电厂计划。 不过，前国能主席阿尼

      阿鲁拒绝签署不平等合约，被逼辞职。多家由马哈迪朋党组成的电供公

      司，获得特权供电给国能，牟取暴利，全民从此付高昂电费21年。

7． 1998

      为了扶持国产车，先后推行4个不衔接的吉隆坡公共交通系统，朋党承建

      和营运不但超支，全都破产告终，由政府以超过100亿令吉来替它们收拾

      残局。

8.   1999

      大选前，假意接受华团诉求，胜选后反悔，还咒华社是威胁政府的恐怖份 

      子和共产党，指示巫青团到雪华堂示威，并恫言火烧雪华堂。

9． 其他遗害

      汽车入口准证（AP）政策让朋党不劳而获赚取暴利，英语教数理计划误了

      两代学子。 第一方程式赛车烧尽国家财富，关闭告终。

Sabah activist Zainnal Ajamain. (Facebook pic)         KOTA KINABALU: Sabah rights activist Zainnal Ajamain has accused Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng of impertinence for saying that the formula for revenue sharing between Putrajaya and the East Malaysian states cannot be applied until the federal government can afford to do so.
        Zainnal told FMT Lim was presuming he had the power to decide when to give Sabah and Sarawak their rights and displaying his ignorance of the Federal Constitution’s position on the issue.
He was referring to a statement Lim made in the Dewan Rakyat on Wednesday.
       “Lim may be the finance minister, but this does not give him the authority to make an announcement on this important issue,” he said.
      “Putrajaya has no choice but to pay Sabah and Sarawak what is due to them. This is provided for in the Federal Constitution. There are no two ways about it.”
Under the constitution, Putrajaya is obliged to pay Sabah 40% of the net revenue it collects from the state. For Sarawak, the amount is fixed as an annual income but is subject to review under Article 112D of the constitution.

        However, Sabah too has been receiving a fixed amount – RM26 million a year – since 1964, although the annual revenue the federal government collects from the state has been increasing since. International Trade and Industry Minister Darell Leiking has said Putrajaya’s total debt to Sabah has come to about RM1 trillion.
Zainnal spoke of the 1990s as a time of plenty and noted that Dr Mahathir Mohamad was then serving as prime minister.
      “He did not pay Sabah and Sarawak then because he was so busy constructing the Petronas Twin Towers, Sepang Circuit and KLIA and organising LIMA (Langkawi International Maritime & Aerospace Exhibition).
      “Now Putrajaya is saying the government is in debt and therefore will pay only when it is able.”
         He pointed out that the revenue-sharing terms are specified in Annex A of the Malaysia Agreement and that the annex is now part of the Federal Constitution.
He accused Putrajaya of mismanaging funds and penalising Sabah and Sarawak for its own negligence.
        The federal government had spent extravagantly to benefit only Peninsular Malaysia, he said.
     “Therefore, Putrajaya should excuse us if we don’t have any empathy for the problem it is facing,” he added. “Its debts have nothing to do with Sabah and Sarawak.”
        He suggested what he said was a “simple” way to fulfil Putrajaya’s obligation to Sabah: let the Sabah finance ministry collect all taxes and other payments due to the federal government and surrender only 60% of the collection to Putrajaya.
     “Sabah can retain 40% of the collection as provided for in Schedule 10, Part IV, Item 2 of the Federal Constitution,” he said. “In this way, Sabahans are assured that whatever is collected from them is given back directly to them.
    “For more than five decades, we’ve allowed Kuala Lumpur, and then Putrajaya, to collect for us. And always Kuala Lumpur or Putrajaya will come up with some excuse or other to deny Sabah and Sarawak what is due to them.
    “This is a very unequal partnership. Putrajaya is taking advantage of the Sabah and Sarawak governments’ passivity.”

My comments:
        The governments of Sabah and Sarawak should take right course of actions based on MA63 to claim back all the revenues that belong to Sarawak and Sabah.  To do so, the governments of both countries should turn off all the taps for the flow of revenues to the Malaya coffer.  Abang Johari of Sarawak should shorten the grace of Petronas from end of 2019 to end of 2018 to teach the Malayan colonial power a lesson of respect and integrity.

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Liew: I did not misuse RM3.5mil - Nation | The Star Online

KOTA KINABALU: Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Liew Vui Keong (pic) has denied claims that he misspent RM3.5mil from 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) credited into his former party’s, Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), account in 2013.
Liew said no money in the party’s accounts had been misspent and all transactions were recorded in the accounting books, which were subsequently audited after acceptance and approval by the party’s delegates from 2006 to 2012.
The ousted LDP president, who left the party earlier this year and is now permanent chairman of the ruling Parti Warisan Sabah, said he had no knowledge of what happened to the party’s monies from 2013 onwards as he was no longer the party’s president then.
“There were still monies left in the party’s account when I was suspended as a member and unconstitutionally removed as the party chief in October 2013,” he said.

        Liew said former party president and state Special Tasks Minister Datuk Teo Chee Kang and the current LDP acting president Datuk Chin Su Phin would be accountable from the moment they suspended him from office in 2013 and seized the monies in the bank’s account without his knowledge.
       “How can I have access to the office when they locked it?
       “They even changed my signatory in the bank without my knowledge and took away all the party’s files, statements of account and other related documents,” he said in a statement issued yesterday from London.
        Liew was with Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad on the second leg of the Prime Minister’s working visit to Britain after the United Nations General Assembly in New York last week.
         Liew’s response came after a blogger known as steadyaku47.com claimed that former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak had issued two cheques for RM3.5mil under LDP’s name in 2013.
         The blog writer alleged that Liew, the LDP president then, had pressured and forced the party’s treasurer to co-sign the cheques and cashed them without the know­ledge of other members.
The claims by the blogger were deemed as factual after Chin claimed that the party secretary-general had given a similar statement to the police investigating 1MDB two weeks ago.
         Liew said whoever the secretary-general was who gave the statement to the police had no knowledge of the matter and believed it based on hearsay and speculation.
        He said the accusation that he had pressured and forced the then treasurer-general Ken Fong was simply unbelievable.
“      It shows the extent of lies they are willing to go just to achieve their vicious agenda,” he said.
         He added that all withdrawals of monies from the party’s account would require the compulsory signature of the treasurer with other signatories – either the president or the secretary-general, who was Teo at the time.
      “I was LDP’s chief for seven years from 2006 to 2013, and there was no way it could be run without political funding as everyone would know,” said Liew, adding that when he lost the Sandakan parliamentary seat in 2013, LDP ousted him as president.


 

lauhsion73 11:03 PM《始終說不出口的I told you so》

2018年10月4日

文：许俊富

選前，好心勸導「馬來西亞人」老馬是頭號種族主義份子，他上台後肯定會推行提高馬來人特權的政策，肯定又會說華人有錢，馬來人貧困，所以要剝奪華人機會給馬來人，到時華人困境更加艱辛，但「馬來西亞人」不聽，說老馬已經懺悔了，這麼老的人還這麼奔波勞碌救國，我不應該在此說風涼話。選後我有多次機會說I told you so，但善良的我認為還是不要對「馬來西亞人」落井下石，I told you so還是無法說出口。

選前，好心勸導「馬來西亞人」老馬不可信，他一上台肯定會先分發政府合約給朋黨，老馬兒子一定會拿到政府各種合約，但「馬來西亞人」不聽，說老馬家族已經很有錢，不會貪政府合約。選後我有多次機會說I told you so，但體諒到「馬來西亞人」現在肯定很尷尬，I told you so還是不忍心說出口。

選前，好心勸導「馬來西亞人」獨裁是老馬本性，他不會分享權力，肯定會獨攬大權，架空多個部門權利，但「馬來西亞人」不聽，說希盟多黨會相互制衡。選後看到老馬架空財政部和交通部，另設經濟部，再把國家控股等機構轉嫁首相署，小黨把各大黨玩弄於股掌間，我又想要說I told you so，但看到「馬來西亞人」神壇上的神權利被架空，心裡痛苦萬分，I told you so仍然無法說出口。

選前，好心勸導「馬來西亞人」火箭已經背信棄義，為了當官，不會為華人請命了，為了討好馬來人而為馬來女路霸提供法律援助和去馬來少年飆車黨葬禮，華小和統考只是在騙取選票而已。選後看到增建華小無望，承認統考即刻變一年再變五年研究，這時我想說I told you so，但想到「馬來西亞人」從此可能沒有華小，從此可能要勒緊褲帶存錢送小孩出國唸書，心情頓時非常沈重，I told you so又說不出口了。

選前，好心勸導「馬來西亞人」老馬剛復自用，國家前景一絲都從來不在他腦海裡閃過，他老人家面子大過天，因為對華人的仇視，重新上台後肯定會跟新加坡對峙和跟中國交惡，到時也會跟美國對抗，國家經濟承擔不起這個風險，但被「馬來西亞人」說是賣華狗。選後看到國家經濟每況愈下，想到大家從此沒好日子過，I told you so又被我吞進肚子裡，說不出口。

選前，好心勸導「馬來西亞人」老馬肯定會重啟國產車計畫，壯大朋黨帝國，忽略公交系統，人民到時要買貴車，還要大塞車，但「馬來西亞人」說林伯伯說老馬不會貪污而且會非常體恤人民，所以肯定不會有國產車。現在我每一天都有衝動要說I told you so，但想到大家都要陪著「馬來西亞人」買貴車塞在路上，還是覺得沒必要，I told you so還是沒說出口。

選前，好心勸導「馬來西亞人」，取消了GST，政府必須設立另外一種稅收來平衡開支，貨物價格到時可能不降反升，透明化的GST會確保商家和政府都無法作假，但「馬來西亞人」說GST是納吉弄來吃錢的，不吃錢老馬政府是不抽稅的。選後人民迎來SST，貨物價格真的不降反升，苦日子在前方，想到大家已經是天涯淪落人了，說什麼I told you so也沒什麼意思了，最後還是沒說出來。

有這麼多次機會可以對「馬來西亞人」說I told you so，但善良又體貼的我又覺得I told you so會傷到「馬來西亞人」的心，而且現在他們也應該很尷尬之前對我的破口大罵，大方的我也覺得I told you so一直掛在嘴邊講也很沒風度，還是算了吧，沒必要再多踩人一腳，反正有的是下次，老馬和火箭絕對不會讓我失望的。

只是覺得那些長期住在外國，選舉期間回去投票的人是最卑鄙的虛偽人，國家因為你們的無知短視而陷入更深的泥沼。你們把國家當兒戲，當成實驗室。萬一國家變好，你們可以多一條後路，在國外過的不開心的話也可以回國。萬一國家情況變糟，你們大不了繼續在國外討吃，「馬來西亞人」的生死對你們這些住在外國的人是多麼遙遠的事啊。「救國」一直只是你們撈取廉價政治光環的虛假口號而已，把國家前景當賭注才是你們的真正目的。