Salleh's twisted lies are totally outrageous and shocking!
It was really appalling the way Datuk Salleh Said Keruak tried to explain our problems in Sabah when he gave the closing speech at the social media convention at UMS last Saturday (March 17). He simply said it is all our own faults. Meaning, even if there was no Federal Government, if there was no politics of federalism, we would still be in this mess, because we have faults. So, “Let’s blame ourselves,” he said.
After Datuk Seri Musa Aman accused the opposition of politicizing the illegal immigrants, now we get this total nonsense from Salleh. It looks like Umno Sabah is on a roll, with the leaders taking their turns attacking the opposition’s issues, to try to make the people believe it all has nothing to do with Umno or BN or the Federal Government. It’s all because of the stupidity of Sabahans themselves! So expect the next leader, Datuk Yahya Hussein maybe, to come up with another fairytale about why Sabah is sinking fast.
Maybe he will have a new idea and say it is all because of the opposition which is sabotaging everything the government is doing. Yeah, that will be really good explanation! Also, datuk, don’t forget to mention that the opposition leaders are causing Malaysia’s loss of face in the world, and that it is the opposition causing all the economic problems as well, like inflation, rising national debt, the depletion of the EPF, the losses in Felda, and the Scorpene scandal which is coming up for trial in France. And confirm also that if it hadn’t been because of the opposition there wouldn’t be any poverty or problems, or land grabs by big companies from the Peninsula in Sabah. Yeah, if there was no opposition everything would be well and everyone would be prosperous in Sabah.
Salleh gave assurance the BN government would do all it can to ensure everyone enjoys equal rights in the country. But isn’t that a little bit too late, Datuk? Inequality is already here and it is so bad that the KDMs feel they are second class citizens. We have racial and religious schisms caused by racial discrimination and favouritism started and perpetuated by BN and Umno leaders. We don’t have equal rights with the Peninsular. Yes inequality has been here a long, long time, so what’s the point of assuring us we will have equal rights?
The opposition parties are not promoting their own agenda, but promoting the agenda of the people, such as NCR. And Datuk, we are not complaining about our lands which some of our people had sold. We are complaining about our NCR lands which are being taken by the big companies with the help of our own so-called leaders.
But Salleh’s worst statement was when he said “why are there so many illegal immigrants? Where did they get their ICs? Well, it may be because a certain person here says this person is his long distant relative, or that leader might say those people are his brothers.” It is already bad that he has to deny the existence of the Project IC for which many people had been arrested under the ISA, but to say that foreigners get ICs because they had relatives in here is a totally stupid remark that must go down in history as the biggest political bullshit in the history of Sabah!
Is he saying that a foreigner coming here without any document is automatically given an IC because someone said he is related to him, or he is his brother? So there is no need for the immigration laws then? Just run the country like you manage a club. If someone vouches for you then you automatically become a member. How very convenient? Where on earth did Salleh get his education? Which idiot professor ever taught him that there is sanctity to national sovereignty, no meaning to cross-border legislations, and no point in national security?
Is Salleh telling us that in Sabah, foreigners will continue to easily become Malaysians just because someone claims to be their relatives in Likas? My dear Datuk, do you realize that this is the most outrageous statement ever uttered in a speech by any politician in a long time? For making this kind of very childish reasoning you have gone on record as a liar and pretender whose nonsensical excuses can be discerned by a primary school kid?
And then you made it even worse by saying the people here shouldn’t blame others because we made the decisions to allow illegals in, and that we were not forced by anyone to do so! How revolting! When did we ever bring the foreigners in? Wasn’t it the work of Umno leaders that we are now flooded with illegal immigrants? What a very clever way to turn the table on us, but the trick is not working. What you are trying to do is only making us realize how corrupted Umno Sabah is to the point of blaming the people for something they have never done and actually hate so much they want to scream and vomit!
You assured us BN will stand up to defend our rights but why not give us our rights by solving the problem with illegals? Why not give Sabahans the freedom to decide their own future, to retain more of its revenues, to have higher oil royalty. You are blaming our “forefathers” for the 5% oil royalty, but those who signed off our biggest revenue source are still alive. And also, the BN can change what such forefathers did just by admitting it was wrong, and then immediately correcting it. The Sabah Umno-led government can pass a new ordinance to nullify any law or any agreement and give what is rightly ours. But what you are telling us is, we made a mistake and we can’t do anything about it now. Are you saying the Umno-led state government is a powerless government?
And how ironic that you are advising bloggers to spread truth and facts and not “juicy news.” It is the truth and facts which we have been telling the people through the printed and online media. The revelations we have been making are juicy because they expose how corrupted and twisted the BN government is, how much we lost through decades of injustices, not because we made up the stories. We don’t lie. We tell the truth, and as you said, because we tell the truth that people follow us. It is the BN leaders like you who lie, deny the truth, and twist history for their own selfish purpose.
AWANG AHMAD SAH, Deputy Chairman, STAR Sabah
Hope that all politicians will be more careful when making statements in public such as this case.
BalasPadamThis should serve as a lesson to all politicians to watch what they are saying before making a statement in public when it comes to a sensitive issue such as this.
PadamHEAD of State Tun Juhar Mahiruddin on Thursday said the perennial issue of illegal immigrants in Sabah must be handled in a collective manner and at the same time resolved wisely.
BalasPadamWhile the State and Federal Governments view the matter very seriously and have taken integrated action to settle it, he said everyone must render their cooperation to ensure the issue is resolved.
BalasPadam"The problem must be settled together and wisely but, everyone must be prepared to render firm co-operation to ensure the illegal immigrant issue would be overcome for the sake of our wellbeing and prosperity," he said at the opening of the State Assembly sitting.
BalasPadamThe illegal immigrant issue has become a focal point among the State Barisan Nasional (BN) component parties and almost all have agreed to the setting up of a Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) to investigate it.
BalasPadamPBS urged the Federal Government to speed up the formation of the RCI on illegal immigrants in Sabah. Mositun said PBS' call for urgency was in light of the Semporna Bumiputera Bajau Association's allegation that foreigners were also lining up to get documents during the NRD mobile registration exercise, hence its President, Mansor Santiri, calling for the exercise to be halted. It must be treated with urgency and not wait until the matter gets worse and beyond control
PadamDiharap RCI diumumkan secepat yang mungkin dan dilaksanakan segera.
PadamYa bah Rabbit. Kenapa bah RCI itu mcm nda mahu saja pula kerajaan tubuhkan.
PadamMesti bagus kan kalau RCI ditubuhkan. Ramai berkeyakinan RCI mampu menanggani isu pati, jadi tidak salah kalau kita mencuba:)
PadamMajoriti mahukan RCI. Kerajaan Persekutuan jangan lambat-lambatkan pelaksanaannya. Sekalipun RCI ditubuhkan, rakyat mahukan siasatan yang telus.
Padamamat diharapkan RCI akan ditubuhkan segera.
PadamMajoriti bersetuju maksudnya tiada alasan lagi kenapa penubuhan RCI tidak dilaksanakan. Sebelum PRU dilaksanakan pasti PM akan mengumumkan penubuhan tersebut.
Padamkenalah berhati hati bercakap.
PadamPendek kata, tanya diri sendiri dulu apa yang sudah dilakukan utk membantu menyelesaikan isu-isu yang timbul di negeri ini. Kalau, OK lah; kalau tak???
BalasPadamMemang buat salah sudah
PadamKalau tugas sebagai pengundi pun tidak mampu ditunaikan, ngam jugalah statement ni: “Let’s blame ourselves"!
BalasPadamTakpalah. Tak perlu sakahkan diri atau mana-mana pihak. Fokus saja utk capai perubahan ke arah yang lebih baik. PRU13 kan belum berlalu lagi, so masih ada peluang.
PadamDilaporkan bahawa terdapat lebih 3 juta rakyat yang sudah layak mengundi tetapi masih belum mendaftar sebagai pengundi. Bayangkan jika semua mereka mengundi pada waktu PRU..3 juta sudah mampu membawa perubahan yang besar.
PadamKurang bersetuju dengan kenyataan Salleh. Adakah beliau lupa yang ada kes atau situasi tertentu yang bukan dalam kawalan rakyat? Ada tindakan dan keputusan yang dilakukan oleh pihak tertentu tanpa persetujuan atau sokongan majoriti rakyat. Harap beliau lebih berhati-hati mengeluarkan kenyataan yang tidak mengguris hati rakyat.
BalasPadamHarap masalah akan diselesaikan dengan secepat mungkin.
PadamItu yang kita mahukan. Setiap kata-kata perlulah ditapis sebelum dikatakan. Kerana ini akan menyebabkan penduduk kurang senang.
PadamIt is no denial that Sabahan are partly to be blamed.
BalasPadamThe attitude of certain people, the complaceny of certain people etc..
We look to solving the problems rather than pointing fingers to each others.
There are people among us betrayed our country for money. They are involved in selling ICs to illegal immigrants.
PadamWe must be fair to each other, can't blame anyone for that.
PadamWe can't do much now to solve this issue but to wait for election to come to vote for your preferred kind of government.
BalasPadamApa pun itu cuma padangan peribadi yang dibuat oleh Datuk Salleh.
BalasPadamada lagi kenyataan yang paling bodoh dari ini pernah saya dengar dari mulut pemimpin politik.. kenyataan itu datang dari mulut presiden PAS.. kononnya penduduk asli Sarawak yang tidak mengundi PAS disifatkannya sebagai masih pakai cawat tinggal atas pokok.. tapi yang herannya, tidak ada pula pihak yang 'mengkontroversikan' kenyataan itu..
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