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Sunday, February 11, 2018

IF ADENAN SATEM WAS ALIVE, HE WOULD STAND UP TO NAJIB – WOULDN’T HE? 4 YEARS ON, NAJIB STILL SITS ON HIS BUTT, NOTHING DONE ON REINSTATING SARAWAKIANS’ RIGHTS

There are many reasons why Sarawakians miss the late Adenan Satem.
One of them is that the former chief minister was the first Sarawakian leader who told Putrajaya in no uncertain terms that the eroded rights of Sarawak under the Malaysia Agreement (MA63) must be reinstated.
This was in 2014, soon after Adenan became Sarawak’s fifth chief minister, succeeding Abdul Taib Mahmud.
It was the loudest and clearest statement ever from a Sarawak leader on MA63. No other BN leader before Adenan has ever broached the subject.
Many can recall Adenan (right in photo) happily saying then that Prime Minister Najib Razak had also agreed to start negotiations with Sarawak on MA63.
It has been four long years. And what do we see today? Nothing.
Isn’t four years a long time? Isn’t four years enough to produce some tangible results? Is Putrajaya serious about MA63 at all?
These are pertinent questions from many Sarawakians, which Putrajaya must answer or explain.
55-year patience
Don’t blame Sarawakians for being impatient. We have been patient for more than half a century – 55 long years to be exact.
What we hear today is the same old record being played. The prime minister was in Sarawak on Saturday, and what did Sarawakians hear from him but, “we will be discussing MA63,” yet again!
Opening the Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu’s (PBB) triennial delegates conference in Kuching, Najib announced that Putrajaya has agreed to form a high-level committee to discuss state rights with Sarawak’s own high-level committee on the issue.
He assured the people that whatever rights were lost would be reinstated.
“If we have, by design or inadvertently, deprived the state of any of its rights, I am prepared to return them. We don’t have to take other people’s rights,” Najib said.
He said the return of such rights was a “BN fight.”
“We don’t just talk. We deliver,” the prime minister added.
We must have heard Najib repeating himself about “not just talking but delivering” all too often.
With the utmost respect to the prime minister, I have to ask him again – what is the progress of the MA63 negotiations after four years?
What have you delivered on MA63 after Adenan brought up the matter with you in 2014?
Only now, you have agreed to form a high-level committee. Why didn’t you form the committee in 2014 if you are really serious about “not just talking, but delivering?”
You have visited Sarawak a record 59 times over the past years, as you mentioned in your speech on Saturday, but we didn’t hear any progress report from you about MA63.
I am sorry, but I have to honestly tell you that I find it difficult to believe you now.
Enough excuses
Four years later from now in 2022, assuming you are still in power, you would be telling us that another high-powered ministerial committee would be formed to study the technical glitches involving the devolution of power on MA63. Will it be another four years wasted? I think we have heard enough of excuses.image:
Veteran Sarawak politician and former Mas Gading MP Patrick Anek Uren spoke for many when he posted on Facebook: “Najib, do it now before GE14. Don’t just talk. After GE14, your promises will likely be empty. Come GE15, the situation will remain the same, that is, if you are still in power. A Najib trademark.”
Another friend wrote: “We must remember that our desire to gain independence under UN Resolution 1514 (Dec 1960) has nothing to do with the federal government. This is why Najib does not really want to challenge MA63, but he would do what it takes to keep Sarawak under his belt. He needs us to be his ‘fixed deposit’ for GE14”.
I believe these two posts said it all for many Sarawakians.
One, they do not believe in promises made by the prime minister.
Two, they are aware that Najib needs Sarawak badly to win GE14.
Well, to my fellow Sarawakians, you know the deal before you, and you should also know the drill.
Come GE14, vote wisely with your conscience. Think not of yourself but the future generations who deserve better.
Let us be nobody’s “fixed deposit,” not BN’s or Pakatan Harapan’s. Politicians love power, but we love freedom more and that is why most of us are not politicians.
Remember, we are proud and patriotic citizens of our fair land Sarawak, and we are in charge of our own destiny.
FRANCIS PAUL SIAH heads the Movement for Change, Sarawak (MoCS)
– M’kini

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