Sabah poverty: 'EPU formula all wrong'
KOTA KINABALU: Sabah continues to top the list of poor states in the country because the federal government's allocation for each state is based on the number of Malaysian citizens in each state and not the actual population.
Former Malaysian Human Rights Commission (Suhakam) vice-chairman, Simon Sipaun said the Malaysia Plan formula which was used by the Economic Planning Unit (EPU) was not feasible for Sabah because it did not take into account the thousands of illegal immigrants.
He said nine years ago when Suhakam was under the chairmanship of Musa Hitam, they had a dialogue in Kuala Lumpur which involved the relevant ministers and the EPU.
“During the meeting, I asked (the EPU) how they allocated money to all the states when formulating the Malaysia Plan.
"In the case of Sabah, I said, there are many illegal immigrants in Sabah and supposing that we have half a million illegal immigrants in Sabah, do you take into account the total number of people in Sabah when you allocate the money or not,” he recalled.
Sipaun said the answer given to him was that the EPU only took into account the actual number of Malaysians who are in Sabah.
“I told them this was not fair because if there are only one million registered Malaysian citizens in Sabah, but the overall number of people in Sabah included 500,000 illegal immigrants then when we (in Sabah) get the RM1 million allocation we have to share it among 1.5 million people.
“I also explained to them why it is not fair because the illegal immigrants still have to go to the hospitals, schools maybe, they use the roads and everything and so we (Sabahans) are actually short-changed.
"The EPU's response was that they didn't know the figure. I told them that it is their job to know the actual number of people (in Sabah) because if not who else would know about it.
“When I came back to Sabah later, I wrote to the (then) Sabah state secretary (KY Mustafa) to tell him that I was very surprised with what I heard (during the meeting) and I asked if he can find out what the actual situation was.
“I got a response from KY Mustafa. He said he had referred it to the state cabinet and that was all that I heard about it,” he said.
Siapa suruh PATI itu datang ke Sabah? Mengapa duit cukai yang dikeluarkan oleh rakyat perlu digunakan untuk menanggung kehidupan PATI ini sedangkan mereka tidak bekerja dan tidak membayar cukai. Kalau mereka mahu pendidikan dan perubatan, suruh mereka balik ke tempat asal mereka.
BalasPadamBagaimana mereka boleh tahu bilangan sebenar PATI yang ada di Sabah? Mereka ini menyeludup masuk negeri kita dari pintu belakang. Tiada dokumen pengenalan, tiada rekod kemasukan, bagaimana mengetahui bilangan mereka?
Duit cukai itu sepatutnya digunakan untuk membantu rakyat Sabah. Kita bukan rumah amal untuk membantu semua PATI yang datang. Bagaimana kita boleh bantu? Rakyat sendiri pun tidak mampu kita tolong.
BalasPadamkesenangan yang Malaysia berikan menjadikan PATI juga menikmatinya dan rakyat Sabah sudah muak berkongsi segala-galanya dengan mereka. cuma EPU perlulah mendapatkan jumlah sebenar penduduk Sabah dan mereka kenalah pandai kenalpasti siapa PATI dan siapa M'sian. kalau itu pun tak tahu...bagus jangan kerja..
BalasPadamkadang tu, PATI susah dikenal kerana mereka sudah lama tinggal disini dan lengok bahasa juga adalah seperti Sabahan. Ada yang sudah beranak pinak disini cuma tidak diketahui mereka tu PATI. EPU harus bekerja keras dalam mengenalpasti jumlah sebenar penduduk Sabah
BalasPadamperuntukan EPU berikan tu haruslah menepati jumlah PATI dan penduduk..
BalasPadamPATI ni betul2 menyusahkan, byk wang teleh dihabiskan untuk mengurus dorang ni sahaja hingga menyebabkan pembangunan negeri Sabah terbantut.
BalasPadamLebih banyak peruntukan perlu diberikan kepada Sabah..ini kerana penduduk Sabah x hanya terkumpul di satu tempat saja, tetapi berselerak sehingga ke kawasan pendalaman...utk memastikan peruntukan utk penduduk2 di kawasan pendalaman ini sampai, jg memerlukan belanja yg byk....
BalasPadamPATI memang telah banyak memberi masalah kepada Sabah.
BalasPadamperuntukan yang diberikan haruslah menepati keperluan Sabah dan ia juga perlu digunakan dengan sebaiknya untuk manfaat rakyat.
BalasPadamMemang PATI ini memberikan masalah kepada Sabah. Kalau PATI itu tidak diberikan makan pula nanti dicakap Sabah ini mendera warga asing. Kerajaan negeri perlu mencari perkara yang boleh mengurangkan kedatang pendatang haram ini keSabah.
BalasPadamKerajaan Sabah perlu pandai mengunakan peruntukkan yang telah disediakan.
BalasPadambagaimana agaknya respon beliau sekiranya kerajaan memperuntukkan dana dengan mengambil kira bilangan PATI. sudah tentu kenyataan beliau hari ini berubah kononnya kerajaan mahu menanggung PATI2 yang terdapat di Sabah.
BalasPadamsepatutnya kerajaan serius menangani masalah kebanjiran PATI di negeri ini terlebih dahulu supaya kerja2 pelaksanaan pembangunan sosial, infranstruktur serta ekonomi mudah dilaksanakan.
BalasPadamthen EPU should fix it..
BalasPadamif federal govt cannot solve the PATI issue, then give the autonomy and allocation to state govt..sabahan knows better than orang semenanjung..
BalasPadamPATI and also IMM13 holder is the mother of problems in sabah..solve it!
BalasPadami wonder what najib thinks about this issue?
BalasPadamYa sokong gambir... Kalau itu pun dorang taktau kasi beza, na bagus bagi tu kerja ma aku.. Pandai lagi aku buat kali. hahahhaa
BalasPadamKan best kalau takda Pati, konpom isu2 sebegini tak keluar. huhuu
BalasPadamIsu pati ni betul2 bikin panas... Entah bila lah mahu selesai... Cuba la masuk sabah ikut prosuder kan bagus, tak juga kena caci maki... Tapi kalau masuk pintu belakang pas tu buat hal lagi di tempat org (trep negeri sendiri), konpom la perlu di hantar balik ke tempat asal...
BalasPadamPas tu bila mo hantar balik pun satu hal, terpaksa juga guna duit... Duit dorang sendiri tak pa juga, tp ni duit rakyat.. aduiii..
BalasPadamSaya harap perkara ni dapat ditanggani dgn baik. Pastikan peruntukan yang disediakan digunakan sepenuhnya utk pembangunan negeri Sabah dan rakyat Sabah!
BalasPadamTaking care of the interest of PATI's now? So that it could encourage more PATI to come to Sabah? We want them gone, not invite more to come.
BalasPadamI support 100%. None of them really care about the illegals issue in Sabah.
BalasPadamSebab mereka tidak betul2 mengetahui latar belakang Sabah yang penuh dengan pendatang.
BalasPadamWell, the government should do something about this.
BalasPadamBagi pendapat saya, hal ini harus dipandang serius.
BalasPadamAll wrong? Who's fault is that?
BalasPadamSemua pasal PATI. Kalau tiada PATI semua beres.
BalasPadamSabah will be a better place without the existence of PATI.
BalasPadamGovernment should really take this PATI issue seriously. It may not be easy to solve this issue but I trust the government will try their hardest best to solve it.
BalasPadamWho has brought in the illegals ?
BalasPadamWhy are they in this country esp in Sabah ?
Sure they need to go to school , hospitals ,etc
The employers should not simply engage the illegals.Legalised them so that they could bc counted in the budget/allocation.
Harap isu ini boleh diselesaikan sebaik mungkin.
BalasPadamCarilah langkah yang betul untuk membasmi kemiskinan di Sabah.
BalasPadamThe Sabahans have been facing this sort of issue for a long time. Hopefully the federal government will pay more attention on our problems.
BalasPadamWELL SAID ALL OF YOU! BRAVO!
BalasPadamThe federal should do more to change the situation...
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