Retract, Nancy told on 'greedy beggars' claim
Minderjeet Kaur Batang
Sadong MP Nancy Shukri.
KUALA LUMPUR: Batang Sadong MP Nancy Shukri was today
told to retract her claim that Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng had referred to
the people of Sarawak as “greedy beggars”.
Deputy
Dewan Rakyat speaker Nga Kor Ming said the decision was made following a review
of the documents she had sent to the speaker’s office on Dec 4.
Adding
that both he and speaker Mohamad Ariff Md Yusof had examined the documents, he
said there was a lack of evidence against Lim and that Nancy’s statement
appeared to be based on “bad intent”.
Nancy said she would only retract her statement if Lim
apologised for his.
However, Nga said the speaker’s decision was final, and
that she had been given adequate space to prove her stand.
“If he
didn’t say it, it would not be right to ask him to apologise.
“As an honourable member of the house, that is the most
appropriate thing to do. We are not asking you to apologise, but to retract,”
he said.
Nancy then
asked if this was part of the parliamentary reforms the new government had been
talking about, adding that the issue concerned the dignity of Sarawakians.
But Nga
told her not to hurl such accusations, adding that it had nothing to do with
Sarawak.
“This is a
personal issue,” he said. “Don’t link it to the people of Sarawak.”
Nancy said
as a Sarawak MP, she spoke on behalf of the people.
“But the people of Sarawak did not elect you to
slander,” Nga said. “As a responsible MP, we talk based on facts.”
Nancy
eventually retracted her statement after asking if she would be referred to
Parliament’s select committee if she did not apologise.
She said on Oct 14 that Sarawak had only received about
half of the funds promised by Pakatan Harapan in its manifesto, adding that
Sarawakians were “not hard to please”.
“I want to
strongly refute Bagan’s allegation, which is clearly a lie,” she had said during
the debate on the 2020 Budget, referring to Lim, who is the MP for Bagan.
“A few days
ago, he insulted the people of Sarawak by calling us greedy beggars when we,
Gabungan Parti Sarawak, were only carrying out our responsibility with regards
to the budget.”
My comments:
How much wealth in revenues in the forms of oil and gas, income tax,
stamp duty and so on does the Malayan government in the name of Malaysia plunder
and exploit from Sarawak every year? And
how much allocation does the Malayan government give back in return? Who is so greedy? It is said that about RM200 billion plus of
revenues is robbed from Sarawak but the so called “Federal government” only
gives back RM4.5 billion for development. Is Sarawak “hard to please”? Let the
figures tell.
It is a curse that AbangJohari-led
the GPS-crowned government just refuses to declare Sarawak independence
unilaterally so that we can keep 100% revenues of different nature in Sarawak
for proper development. Is it no time to
sever this entanglement once and for all?
Sarawakian representatives
should not have been present in this grosteque so called “national parliament”. Everything about Malaysia is in a mess when
there is no base for the formation of Malaysia when MA63 is found to be a
fraud. I wish that not one Sarawakian
would be present in this Malayan-based national parliament from 2023 onwards. GE14 should be the last one for us
Sarawak.
I mind PH government
especially, DAP, don’t bully any Sarawakian!
Ling Moi Hung
