Khamis, Mei 10, 2012

PAIRIN NEEDS NAJIB’S ‘DIRECT’ ENDORSEMENT

Pairin needs Najib’s ‘direct’ endorsement

Rattled by a surging State Reform Party (STAR) led by his brother Jeffrey, Sabah deputy chief minister Pairin Kitingan has sent Najib Tun Razak an SOS.

KOTA KINABALU May 9, 2012: Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak, who had been to Sabah twice this year, is coming again to this state most likely at the end of this month to help steady “paramount chief” Joseph Pairin Kitingan and his under threat Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS).

Najib will travel to Tambunan and Keningau. Security protocol is already busy preparing for the “important one-day trip”, party insiders claim is at the request of the ageing and embattled Pairin, the long-serving Huguan Siou of the Kadazandusuns in Sabah.

Pairin who is a deputy chief minister under Musa Aman, has been under pressure to turn the tide against his once mighty PBS and the Barisan Nasional.

All PBS seats, including Pairin’s Tambunan and Keningau, are now said to be under serious threat from a surging State Reform Party (Star), led by his younger brother Jeffrey.

Sources said local organisers have been busy preparing for Najib to officiate at the ground-breaking of the PBS-initiated KDM College in Tambunan. They are also preparing for Najib’s possible visit to the iconic Rumah Besar OKK Sodomon in Bingkor, Keningau which once hosted his father Razak Hussein.

The Rumah Besar, the home of OKK Sedomon Gunsanad, a revered interior leader, hosted Razak in 1962 when he came to Keningau to explain the proposal to create a new nation called Malaysia to the native chiefs and community leaders in the Sabah’s interior.

At that time the “interior” meant the whole areas of Keningau, Tambunan, Pensiangan, Nabawan, Sook, Ranau, Tenom, Sipitang, Beaufort and even Labuan.

The Gunsanad family gave Sabah one other great leader in Samson Sundang, Sedomon’s younger brother, who is more popularly referred in books as GS Sundang. Sundang went on to become Sabah deputy chief minister in the early Malaysia years.

Both of them represented the overwhelming view of the interior and other parts of then North Borneo, who rejected the Malaysia proposal and instead opted for a different path to independence and possibly create a new federation with other states.

They were eventually won over by assurances and pledges that Sabah was to be a sovereign nation within the new Malaysian federation with the 20 Points laid out as “conditions” for Sabah’s agreeing to federate.

Razak also made several pledges at the Rumah Besar in 1962, trying to convince the skeptical interior leaders of the Malaysia idea. The 20 Points is still considered the very foundation of all “agreements” that culminated into the signing of a simple one-page Malaysia Agreement in London in 1963 that paved the way for the birth of a “new” federation.

Pairin’s deadline

Initially Najib’s visit was to be carried out sometime next week but top political players in the state have now planned for it possibly during the Harvest Festival or “Tadau Kaamatan” which climaxes at the Hongkod Koisaan, the Kadazan Dusun Cultural Association building in Penampang near here on May 30 and 31.

PBS leaders would see it as a coup if they could get Najib to go on his popular handshaking walkabout at the various stalls in the compound of the building on Kaamatan day which would be filled with revelers.

They believe it would be the perfect opportunity for Najib to belatedly announce the setting up of a Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) to investigate the issuance of MyKad to thousands of illegal immigrants in Sabah.

Time is running out for Pairin as well as his ’2012 solve-by-date’ deadline to the federal government to solve the issue of thousands of illegal immigrants having been allowed to make the state their home by being offered citizenship and voting rights.

Any concession by Najib and the federal government would allow Pairin to bask in a pyrrhic victory on the state’s illegal immigrant issue and raise the fortunes of his doddering party.

But any concession will come at a cost as Najib is also expected to reveal some insight into the term of reference (TOR) for any such RCI which skeptics say would castrate it.

Luke Rintod

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  1. PBS still have a great deal of supporters, but they must continue to work hard to retain their votes and support during the next general elections.

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    1. Tetap sokong PBS! PBS is a multiracial party that fight for all races of Sabah.

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    2. Local party kena lebih proaktif untuk berkhidmat dan berjuang untuk rakyat Sabah.

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  2. The Federal Government has said that they are in the process of preparing the Terms of Reference of the RCI, hopefully it will be implemented as urged by the PBS party.

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    1. Hope that the Federal Government will approve the RCI once and for all.

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    2. Sabah really need RCI

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    3. Actually not only Sabah who need the RCI.

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    4. The federal government will feel the pressure to implement RCI. It is just matter of time we will have RCI set up in sabah.

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  3. They believe it would be the perfect opportunity for Najib to belatedly announce the setting up of a Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) to investigate the issuance of MyKad to thousands of illegal immigrants in Sabah.

    If Najib is willing to make this announcement during the walkabout, it would be great news to all indeed.

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    1. Hope for the 3rd times Najib come to Sabah end of this month, he will announce it.

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    2. Maybe Najib is just waiting for the right time to announce it which is on the kaamatan month.

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  4. The multi racial people of Sabah who belong to different faiths have always enjoyed fair treatment from the BN govt

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  5. hraplah RCI akan diumumkan tak lama lagi.

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  6. "Apabila beliau datang ke Sabah, tiada siapa yang bertanyakan kepada beliau. Jadi saya harap anda akan tanya apabila beliau datang lagi ke Sabah," katanya.-Bernard Dompok

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  7. UPKO dan PBS saja yang lantang menyuarakan penubuhan RCI. bagaimana dengan yang lain??

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  8. sememangnya RCI merupakan isu yang paling 'panas' bagi Sabah...

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  9. kebanyakan rakyat Sabah telah menyatakan keinginan mereka untuk melihat RCI dilaksanakan sebelum GE13

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  10. ramai yang menyatakan kebimbangan mereka jika RCI tidak dilaksanakan, kerana tanpanya, PRU tidak akan berlaku adil dan tidak akan ada masa depan lagi bagi Sabah

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    1. Without RCI, it would be difficult to solve the illegal immigrant issue in sabah.

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  11. jika kerajaan prihatin akan masalah PATI/PADI yang dihadapi oleh Sabah, maka, kerajaan harus digesa tubuhkan RCI sebelum PRU-13

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  12. harap ada berita mengenai TOR yang sedang dirumuskan oleh pihak Najib

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  13. Kita percaya pasti suatu hari nanti RCI akan ditubuhkan.

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  14. Parti Bersatu Rakyat Sabah (PBRS) mahu Suruhanjaya Siasatan Diraja (RCI) bagi menyelesaikan isu pendatang tanpa izin di negeri itu.


    “Pendirian PBRS dalam perkara ini amat jelas iaitu mengharap dan mempunyai keyakinan penuh agar kerajaan Pusat menyegerakan pewujudan RCI (Suruhanjaya Siasatan Diraja) untuk mencari penyelesaian masalah tersebut.

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  15. Dalam pertemuan Kabinet pada Rabu, 15 Februari sebelum Najib berangkat ke Sabah, Nazri telah membentangkan draf kasar rujukan RCI untuk perbincangan...

    perdana menteri tidak mengumumkan pengwujudan RCI semasa lawatannya ke sini minggu lepas adalah bagi mendapatkan maklumbalas parti komponen BN di Sabah dan kerajaan negeri tentang terma rujukan dan komposisi panel.

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  16. PM telah dibincangkan namun terma rujukan belum muktamad kerana Kabinet mahukan input lebih daripada parti BN di Sabah dan kerajaan negeri.

    Dan atas sebab itu, walaupun dijangka PM akan mengumumkan RCI pada 16 Februari, namun beliau masih lagi belum bersedia untuk mengumumkannya. Ini bagi memastikan RCI ini benar-benar berkesan.

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  17. Pennjelaskan mengenai perkara ini juga sekiranya Najib mengumumkan pembentukan panel itu ketika lawatannya, beliau akan dikritik kerana gagal memberikan jawapan yang jelas terhadap skop penyiasatan panel dan ahlinya. Maka sebab itulah perkara ini perlu disiasat terlebih dahulu.

    Jangan lupa, isu ini telah menjadi isu yang hangat. Semua orang bercakap mengenainya. Dan (isu) telah berlanjutan bertahun-tahun. Najib tidak boleh membuat pengumuman tanpa sebarang butir tambahan yang lengkap takut memakan diri sendiri.

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    1. macam mana sekalipun dijelaskan, ibarat mencurahkan air ke daun keladi.. jangan harap pemimpin2 pembangkang akan berpuas hati dengan penjelasan itu sekalipun RCI benar2 ditubuhkan dihadapan mata mereka..

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  18. yang pasti, pemimpin2 pembangkang sekarang sedang dalam keadaan terdesak.. mereka akan politikkan apa sahaja yang terlintas dikepala mereka.. mereka lebih suka mempolitikkan lawatan Najib berbanding dengan turun padang membantu menyelesaikan masalah rakyat..

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  19. Pairin pasti dengan keputusan yang akan beliau ambil demi untuk kepentingan Sabah.

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  20. Apa sahaja keputusan itu, pasti ada kebaikkan yang terselindung.

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  21. Semoga Pairin akan tetap berdiri demi untuk rakyat Sabah.

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  22. Clearly that Star is now playing what they deemed as a "historical facts" by twisting it to their own agenda. Apart from that, they too are using certain leaders' 'family ties' to past leaders during the foundings days of Malaysia to justify their cause.

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    1. The bureau should always equipped itself with knowledge and ability to explain to the people about the government’s policies and promises fulfilled by the party.

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    2. The publicity and information bureau is the BN’s font liner in disseminating accurate information to the people at the grassroot.

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    3. All the allegations or issues raised by the opposition, who will constantly try to confuse the people must be countered with the correct information.

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    4. Clear and accurate information given to the people, especially in Sabah, would ensure continuous support for all the efforts taken by the BN-led government.

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    5. The people of Sabah knew how to show their gratitude to the government, especially when their needs and wellbeing were being taken care of.

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    6. It is warranted that gratitude are to be expressed to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak for his continuous ideas to ease the people’s burden.

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    7. This is an example of a caring government and a leader who is concerned about the wellbeing of the people

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    8. Meanwhile, Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Ahmad Maslan, who is also Umno Information chief, hoped that all publicity and information chiefs at the divisional levels, would make optimum use of the face-to-face, print, digital and electronic media in disseminating information to the people.

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    9. This can be done now. We don’t have to wait for general election because we have enough evidence on the success stories created by the BN government.

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    10. “We just need to remind the people again and again so that they will not fall victim to empty promises given by the opposition,” he explained.

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  23. jgn buat janji kosong kalau tidak dpt tunaikan

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