KOTA KINABALU: A senior Sabah PKR leader has slammed the state government for being irresponsible in granting citizenship to illegal immigrants and allowing them to infiltrate Sabah's electoral rolls as proven in courts.
Daniel John Jambun, the PKR coordinator for Inanam, said State Umno Youth chief Azman Ruslan should reflect on why mass poverty has become a permanent problem in Sabah, before asking PKR not to politicise poverty.
"He knows this poverty is prolonged because of a bad political culture and corruption. Sabahans are poor because of corruption.
"Singapore has no natural resources but it is one of the richest countries in the world. Sabah is rich in resources… in oil, gas, timber, fertile land, and yet the poorest under Umno rule," he said in a statement here yesterday.
Bernama had reported Azman censuring PKR, urging the party not politicise poverty in Sabah. Azman said PKR should instead help alleviate the problem.
He also claimed that Umno was a responsible party and that is why many Sabahans had joined the party.
But Daniel, who is deputising for Jeffrey Kitingan in an NGO called CigMa or Common Interest Group Malaysia, alleged that Umno was far from being a responsible party, citing corruption among its leaders as an example.
"There are many examples of Umno being an irresponsible party but for the time being, I will just cite a few examples for Azman and the people to ponder.
"For instance, a former Sabah chief minister from Umno gambled away people's money in a London casino to the tune of RM50 million. Is this being responsible?
"Senior ministers having fat bank account overseas … is this being responsible? Is giving MyKads to illegal immigrants from Mindanao, Sulawesi and Java being responsible?
"The list of Umno's wrongdoings in Sabah alone is very long and surely will be distributed to the rakyat at the right time soon," he said.
Malaysia in a mess
On Azman's advice that PKR or Jeffrey should instead help solve Sabah's problems like poverty, Daniel said the latter had helped by lodging several reports with the police and the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission of the alleged corruption.
“But the Umno-led government is either very slow in acting on the reports or has simply dismissed them.
"The root of our problems like mass poverty is corruption. Malaysia is in such a mess because of corruption.
"In 1967, our one dollar was equivalent to a Singapore dollar, but now a Singapore dollar is equivalent to RM2.50. Likewise, the Brunei dollar has appreciated against our ringgit.
"Singapore has no Umno. Though it has no resources besides human resources, it is one of the least-corrupted countries in the world and that is why it is so developed," he said, adding that one can only imagine how resource-rich Sabah could have fared if it had its own way.
19 comments:
i think Daniel can turn Sabah to be like Singapore..
the poverty problem is not only caused by the political party.. it's caused by the individual itself..
Its true we are far behind compare to Singapore. Government must take big step of transformation in order to eliminate poverty in Sabah.
If I'm not mistaken, it is not the entirely the state government's fault that citizenship are granted recklessly, the federal also gave out countless citizenship for those illegal immigrants in Sabah.
i think we should together with government to solve any issue..
I think they should work together to solve this citizenship and poverty issues together with the people. No point in blaming one another.
Singapore? Now I hope to live to see Sabah to be turn into Singapore. Muahahaha~
Agreed with you pirate. No need to blamed others for what happen in our life. If we want to move away from poverty then we must work hard, get an education and help ourself!!!
If there's a will, there's a way. If one really wants to do something, one can. So good luck :)
Entah bilah lah baru isu ni selesai. Tetapi bagi saya berbanding dari cari siapa salah, lagi ada manfaat kalau kita cari jalan keluar dari masalah ni kan :)
Pemimpin yang matang dan bertanggungjawab akan menghulurkan bantuan utk berganding bahu dan bukannya tahu tunding jari saja. So agak-agak la ya..
Apapun sama-sama lah kita berharap agar isu ni dapat diselesaikan segera :)
There is nothing wrong with UMNO or BN but...definitely few leaders in BN have something to do with corruption, gambling, etc. This is more like 'humane error' and nothing to with the PARTY itself..and those who caused dirt to the party can be wiped out using tough stain remover such as Clorox etc.! :)
Comparing Sabah..to Singapore?? Is that anything to do with bringing Sabah independently as country?
I Love Sabah-Malaysia!
PRU13 also come with nasty talk and crook mind!!
seems like someone is trying to super duper 'super hero' here...come on lah...Sabahan normally won't buy such issue like this!
Not many know what's going on in Sabah especially when it's about the illegal immigrants issue which even we Sabahans find it very sensitive to speak amongst ourselves. That's because some of them are immigrants!! It's easier for everyone to say, "Ada masalah mesti ada penyelesaian". This issue has been going on for more than 20 years... It all started since BN took over Sabah's resources. Don't you think we would've find the solution now if it weren't for the "insiders" that screw them whole up? Stop saying there's gotta be a way, because we tried and tried but what can we do against power-hungry people that's administrating the government here... I really think Sabah has the potential to raise like Singapore. We have more resources than west malaysia's combined! It's a fact!
its the peoples right to choose which party they wanted to be the next president....
this is democracy & democracy is still blooming here in Sabah...
right now, BN-Umno government is still the people choices, regardless what other people think...
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