20-points issue creates false hopes – K’gau Umno
KENINGAU August 27, 2012: Keningau Umno Youth has described the opposition’s persistence in raising the 20-points issue relating to Sabah’s position in Malaysia, as unreasonable.
Its chief, Azman Ruslan, said the parties concerned should explain frankly why and how they saw the points in the memorandum as still relevant despite the fact that it had been 49 years since Sabah gained independence within Malaysia.
“It is crucial for them to explain their ‘struggle’ for it, lest they would encourage ‘false hopes’ among the people, especially the bumiputra communities,” he said in his address at the Umno Youth conference here yesterday.
The conference was officiated by Rural and Regional Development Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal, who is also party vice-president.
He cautioned against becoming fanatical in championing a certain issue to the extent that priorities which warranted attention were left ‘suspended’.
Azman said not all Sabahans, especially the young generation, had the opportunity to read and scrutinise the Cobbold Commission report pertaining to the views of the people of Sabah and Sarawak on the formation of Malaysia.
The Cobbold Commission was a commission of enquiry set up in 1962 to determine whether the people of North Borneo (now Sabah) and Sarawak supported the proposal to form Malaysia.
While quoting the Commission report, Azman, a lawyer, said the then Kadazan-based party, United National Kadazan Organisation (Unko) fully supported Malaysia’s formation as the community felt their future would be more assured when North Borneo gained its independence and formed the federation.
He said racial assimilation, including through marriage, could likely influence the attitude and nature of Sabah’s future generations and make them less parochialistic.
“We now have Dusuns, Muruts marrying Malaysians from the peninsula and vice-versa,” he said to stress a point.
Meanwhile, Star Sabah chairman Datuk Dr Jeffrey Kitingan urged the federal government to stop imposing its will on the people of Sabah and Sarawak and fooling them to celebrate Malayan independence 55 years ago and calling it Malaysian independence.
“How could these leaders continue to twist history to suit their political interests without consideration of our feelings and the truth?
“How could they insist us to celebrate Malayan independence which has no relevance to Sabah and Sarawak?” he asked.
Dr Jeffrey was speaking at the launching of Star Kundasang Zon Tengah in Pinampadan, Kundasang on Saturday.
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Jelaskan secara jujur kedudukan sebenar isu 20 Perkara: Pemuda Umno Keningau
20 perkara ini rasanya masih relevan untuk Sabah. Jadi teruskan mempertahankan 20 perkara untuk Sabah ini.
BalasPadamSebaiknya mengenai 20 perkara ini diberikan penjelasan yang terbaik apa status sekarang ini mengenai 20 perkara ini.
BalasPadamSabah still can use English as medium of communication so I don't think this is too far fetched.
BalasPadamCreating false hope?
BalasPadamPerjanjian 20 masih lagi relevan di Sabah, terumatanya pasal bebas agama.
BalasPadamYes, it is still relevant.
BalasPadamPembangkang memang sengaja cari topik.
BalasPadamperkara 20 harus dilaksanakan.
BalasPadamtidak perlulah rumitkan lagi isu ini.. senang cerita, minta saja pemimpin2 pembangkang memfailkan saman terhadap kerajaan persekutuan jika benar kerajaan itu embelakangi atau gagal melaksanakan perjanjian 20 perkara..
BalasPadamSabah and Sarawak, has never been sidelined in terms of development as seen by the big chunk of allocation given under National Key Result Areas (NKRA).
BalasPadamThis spoke volumes about Najib giving priority to development of the state, adding that the opposition front was hard pressed by their lack of issues to harp on.
BalasPadamTaking a swipe at the opposition, they said their unkind remarks were merely sweeping statements made to confuse the people.
BalasPadamBN leaders here in refuting opposition’s allegation that the state had been neglected in terms of development, cited the frequent visits to the state by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak to personally feel and monitor the progress of development in both states.
BalasPadamNKRA is evidence of the prime minister giving priority to the development of infrastructure in Sarawak and Sabah as both states received the biggest allocations, almost the same as the whole of the Peninsula.
BalasPadamCountries such as India for instance, which got their independence much earlier than Malaysia, are still improving on their infrastructure.
BalasPadamThat is why Malaysia is called a developing country. The fact is Sabah and Sarawak has gone far in the improvement of its infrastructure, and is still continuously improving.
BalasPadamThat is why Sabah and Sarawak’s rural development cannot afford to be politicised.
BalasPadamSabahan and Sarawakians should reciprocate by supporting him in his endeavour to bring progress to Malaysia.
BalasPadamNajib’s frequent visits to Sabah and Sarawak reflected his care and concern for both Borneon states.
BalasPadamThe opposition definitely find him a threat in their attempts to take over the government and will always try to show that the federal government has neglected the state’s development.
BalasPadamOn the other hand, what good things have the opposition ever said about Malaysia and the present government? They are an ungrateful and unappreciative lot who only know how to criticise, criticise, and criticise!
BalasPadamEven if there are things that are done good, they will find ways and means to find fault to make it look that the programmes are failures.
BalasPadamNajib had lived up to his slogan of ‘people first, performance now’. The opposition’s action glaringly reflected that they were desperate, feeling the pinch of running out of issues to harp on for their political mileage.
BalasPadamThis was because BN had done a good job in bringing about development to Sabah and Sarawak and its people.
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