Sabah, Sarawak papers carry BN threats to voters
The Borneo Post and The Daily Express have carried reports effectively warning voters that they risk losing development grants in their areas if they vote for the opposition
This was a line in a Daily Express report: "Should the opposition win a seat in the coming election, (Sabah Chief Minister) Musa said he would not even want to see the opposition Assemblyman if the latter went to see him."
It is simply amazing that newspaper editors, acting more like messenger boys or stenographers, can publish such threats without any critical response. In any democratic nation worthy of the name, such threats could have met with severe sanctions from independent Election Commissions and would have been condemned in a free press. Alas, not here in Malaysia, where politicians and editors join forces to bombard readers with not only propaganda but also blatant threats.
The BN, along with its sycophantic newspaper editors, has a strange notion of democracy. "Vote us or else!" At least the brutal generals in Burma are more honest: they don't pretend to be democratic.
- The Borneo Post Online - http://www.theborneopost.com -
Grants only in BN-held seats
Posted By rajlira On 28th February 2008 @ 10:00 In Local
Voters should know by now seats won by DAP in last state election
without devt projects: Chan
KUCHING: Constituencies under Democratic Action Party (DAP) after the 2006 state election are suffering today because they have been cut off from government projects and development grants.
Sarawak United People's Party (SUPP) assistant treasurer Chan Seng Khai, one of the casualties of the 2006 election, said Batu Lintang would have suffered more if not for Datuk Yong Khoon Seng who is still the Stampin Member of Parliament.
"In 2007, Yong alone received RM8.29 million in government grant and this grant had helped us a lot in Batu Lintang and Sungai Maong area," he told a press conference here yesterday.
Chan said the people would enjoy more development projects if Barisan Nasional's (BN) candidates for Bandar Kuching and Stampin could win in the March 8 parliamentary polls.
"If elected they will bring in more money to the areas and benefit the people," he said.
Chan who is SUPP Batu Lintang branch chairman said opposition parties had been misleading the people when they claimed that the government would still continue developing the area even if the opposition win.
He urged voters to reflect on their losses after the May 2006 election and discern whether opposition leaders had really been of any help to their plights.
Batu Kawa assemblyman Tan Joo Phoi said his constituency continued to enjoy government grants after the state election two years ago as the people made the right choice in supporting the BN.
Between 2003 and 2007, he said Batu Kawa received RM11.1 million government grants to carry out various projects for the people.
SUPP Pending branch secretary Lu Kim Yong said Bandar Kuching had no government grants in recent years because the party's candidate lost in the 2004 parliamentary election.
"We can't get a single sen from the government," he said pointing out that city dwellers had a hard time since.
He said there were no grants for community-based associations while Bandar Kuching did not have enough fund for economic growth.
"I hope voters will wake up and be more realistic now," he said.
URL to article: http://www.theborneopost.com/?p=31830
Daily Express
UNTHINKABLE, SAYS MUSA
Posted by kasee
Thursday, 28 February 2008
Tuaran: Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Haji Aman said he dread to think what will happen to Sabah if the State falls into the hands of the opposition.
In this respect, he urged the people to ensure the opposition would not gain ground here by giving their fullest support to the Barisan Nasional (BN) to ensure the development programmes are continued.
Addressing a BN rally at Kampung Kota here Wednesday, he said the people should realise by now that the promises made by the opposition could never be fulfilled while most of its talks are concocted with fabrication.
"Even the two seats won by them (Independents) in the last election, they (elected representatives) have not been able to do anything," he said.
Should the opposition win a seat in the coming election, Musa said he would not even want to see the opposition Assemblyman if the latter went to see him.
The Sabah BN-led government on the other hand, he said is really determined to bring changes to people's lives.
He said the Federal Government allocated about RM20 billion to Sabah under the Ninth Malaysia Plan (9MP) and about RM5 billion under the Sabah Development Corridor (SDC).
The SDC, he said, is very special because the development programmes under it encompasses all areas in the state. "This shows the concern of leaders at Federal level on Sabah's predicament."
On the opposition claim that the BN is corrupted, he asked, "If that is so, then why is that the State Government has a financial reserve of about RM2 billion?"
In addition, he said that the Yayasan Sabah Foundation has a financial reserve of about RM7 billion.
Musa pointed out that a hospital costing RM120 million would be built in Tuaran soon while the RM500m water treatment plant in Telibong is another proof of the BN's capability in bringing development to the people.
He urged the BN in Sabah to unite so as to ensure all BN candidates attain victory in the election.
Meanwhile, he explained that he appointed Youth and Sports Assistant Minister Jahid Jahim (PBS-Tamparuli) Datuk Louis Rampas (PBS-Kiulu), Datuk Wilfred Bumburing (Upko-Tuaran parliamentary) to their respective posts because he saw in them dedication, sincerity and commitment.
He said they also have a good track record and showed the capability of good leaders.
Also present were Local Government and Housing Minister Datuk Hajiji Noor, former Chief Minister Datuk Seri Salleh Said and former Tuaran MP Datuk Wilfred Madius Tangau, among others. - Daily Express
URL to article: http://www.dailyexpress.com.my/news.cfm?NewsID=56133
posted by Media Monitors @ 10:17 PM
4 Comments
4 Comments:
Wahai Musa, jangan sembarang gertak! Kenapa pula mau gertak rakyat? Bukankah pembangunan itu adalah hak rakyat yang dijamin dibawah perlembagaan? It seems BN is showing signs of desperation... Time to change!
Those treats are an insult to the inteligent of the people of Sabah. Musa should stop all this nonsence and start looking seriously into the following:-
a) Get rid of all the Indonesians with blue IC or Mycards obtained legally or illegally. It is common knowledge that ketua kampongs were issuing letters certifying there Indonesians were born in the kampong and with that NRD extend them NRIC or Myc
ards. With these Indonesians UMNO will forever be in power!!!
b) Why are the kadazan/chinese in Sabah not getting the fruits of the special preveleges? All go to the the other group? Maybe the kadazan/chinese are stupid and naive.
c) Roads badly damaged and even colapsed are not repaired for years!!!
d) What happened to the vast land of virgin jungles? You can see that logging is going on everywhere. Those reserved funds are nothing compared to the bilions extracted from the timber industry!!! Whose pockets enjoy from this "gold mine"?
e) A friend of mine once told me if the Indonesian or Phillipine wants to take over Semporna or Tawau for example, it can be done in a day as the their people are already here in the thousands.
Sunny Ong
The money or grant does not belong to BN, the grant belongs to the people the government is suposed to take care of the people and not let BN use it to threaten the people.
what kind of government threatens its people?
I am embarrassed.
Sarawakian
Hello BN Sarawak,
What a leader you are! Great care-taker of your own people. You tax your people to fill your pockets. Seems that you fear losing your moral, right? How fortunate you have been in the 8th March GE. The landslides in west Malaysia did not affect you. Your dailies really did a good job in praising you here on earth! Your people have been lied. Your people have been threatened and scared. Your 'gestapos' or 'KGBs' are everywhere, and they enjoy minding other peoples' businesses. Great job, BN Sarawak! You act like gods on your people of your own race, where taboos restrict your peoples' lives.
Mind you, BN Sarawak, ancestors of your people have lived and roamed the state for many many centuries ago. They have acquired lands with their own blood and sweat. Now you simply take away their lands. Good job, BN Sarawak! You even assigned your Lands & Surveys officers to alter land ownership without their knowledge. There have been cases where these officers were treated badly if they failed to listen to your order! An order to satisfy your individual need - not holistically. Not only that! Officers whom you found to stray have been demoted or moved to other divisions or district within your state. Its violating their human rights, right. Yes! They are supposed to say good things about you. But, is that free speech? Only non-govt servants can blasphemy. You want your people to serve you, but, how have you served them? Simply by raising petrol and food prices? Simply by discriminating job applicants? Simply closing your 'far-visioned' eyes to a certain race? Mind you, BN Sarawak, the Iban people forms the majority of your people in the state, followed by the Bidayuhs, the Orangs Ulu, Malays, Chinese and Melanaus and etc... The Melanaus are the least but our TYT (during British times - he's called a governor) and CM are Melanaus. The muslim parliamentarians who won the recent GE are mostly Melanaus. What a hard work you have done in the state to uplift the Melanaus. Good job, BN Sarawak. Your Iban 2nd man is a 'yes-man' fellow. There are rarely any Iban big bosses in the state or federal dept in the state. What is he doing to his own people?
BN Sarawak, we cannot get extra income doing small contracts for our own state. Your reason - we don't have enough funds and machinery. We have no track records in such business. Why don't you provide help and open your tenders? Isn't that your responsibility, being a care-taker? Why must only that stinky Trieneken garbage trucks do the garbage works. Even that stinky job you don't want to let your people do it. You do it alone. What a deligent care-taker. You even maintain the pan-borneo highway yourself - without letting your people do it for themselves. Is that how you teach your people to work? Simply make them see your machines at work, right? If that is how you avoid taxing your people, well, your should be able to build better infrastructure for your people because you have gained so much money from your contracts. But, its funny that, the quality of our infrastructure stays 3rd class even though you want your people to think world class! What are you?
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