KUCHING: Sarawakians should stick with the present state government
as it is led by local-based parties which have the interest of the
people at heart, says State Reform Party (STAR) Sabah chief Datuk Dr
Jeffery Kitingan.
He stressed that the people in Sarawak should be
grateful that they were still being ruled by the local-based political
parties unlike Sabah which is controlled by a peninsula-based party.
“My
advice for Sarawakians is this; why should you support the opposition
especially the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) which is all made up of
peninsula-based parties? The people of Sarawak must learn
from our
(Sabahans) bitter experiences where most of our interests have been
eroded away under the current government,” Jeffery told The Borneo Post
here yesterday.
He said that was why STAR advised the people of
Sabah to reject PR in the coming general election as they did not have
the people’s interests at heart.
Jeffery pointed out that the PR
‘Buku Jingga’ (Orange Book) did not specifically mention and explain how
the people of Sarawak and Sabah would and could benefit if they were to
capture Putrajaya after the general election.
“Be they Pakatan
Rakyat or any other Peninsula-based BN parties, they are all the same. I
can say this from my own experiences dealing with them,” added Jeffery
who was detained under ISA for two years in Kamunting in the 90’s.
He
called on the people of both states to understand and accept STAR’s
‘Borneo Agenda’ whichwas to ensure that the Malaysia Agreement in 1963
would be uphold and not diluted.
“We hope that the people of both
states take this coming general election seriously and vote wisely so
that we can become the real kingmakers, thus can bargain for better
deals with federal leaders,” he said.
Jeffery also hoped that with
better bargaining power after the 13th general election, both Sarawak
and Sabah would be able to fight for at least one third of 222
parliamentary seats as agreed in during the formation of Malaysia.
Currently
Peninsular Malaysia has more than 75 per cent of the seats leaving
Sarawak and Sabah to have only 56 seats with Sarawak having 31 and Sabah
25 seats.
On the same note, Sarawak’s Barisan Nasional (BN)
secretary-general Datuk Dr Stephen Rundi Utom said Pakatan Rakyat de
factor leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim should be rejected along with the
opposition parties as he had done nothing for the development of
Sarawak during his tenure as deputy prime minister in the 90’s.
“There were many projects which were terminated by him. He even wanted to downsize Bakun HEP project,” revealed Dr Rundi.
As
such he said the people should be aware that Pakatan Rakyat’s political
agenda would not benefit them as all they wanted was to take over
Putrajaya.
“Why only now when he is in the opposition that he
promised this and that. What had he done while he was in office before?”
asked the Assistant Minister of Public Utilities.
Sarawak United
People’s Party (SUPP) Bengoh chairman and Assistant Minister of Public
Health Dr Jerip Susil agreed with Dr Rundi and stressed that Pakatan
Rakyat had not mentioned its long term plans for Sarawak.
As such he said voting for them would thwart the state’s development momentum.
“Now
we are in our third wave of development and our major focus is on the
SCORE. But Pakatan Rakyat has not come with any blue print to develop
the state yet,” said Dr Jerip.
Dr Jerip urged the people to be
wary of the opposition’s moves as all they wanted was to use Sarawak to
take over the federal government.
“It’s just about number. They just want as many seats from Sarawak as possible and that’s all,” he added.
Meanwhile,
Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS) president Tan Sri Dr James Jemut Masing
shared Dr Jerip’s opinion that Pakatan Rakyat was insincere with its
agenda to develop the state.
And on the latest report that Pakatan
Rakyat was confident it could capture at least 10 of the 31
parliamentary seats in the state, Masing said, “At best Pakatan Rakyat
may be able to get five seats from Sarawak. But 10 seats, that’s
stretching their imagination a bit too far! - Borneo Post, 6 Feb 2013
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