Thu, 16 Sep 2010 12:56
By Queville To and Dominic Legeh
KOTA KINABALU: Autonomy will be granted to Sabah when Pakatan Rakyat comes to power, the top leaders of the opposition coalition promised yesterday, the eve of Malaysia Day.
Anwar Ibrahim followed by Lim Kit Siang and Nasharudin Mat Isa of PKR, DAP and PAS respectively also pledged to grant Sabah political independence during a special gathering here to formally launch Pakatan Sabah, the opposition coalition.
Earlier, Anwar said the launch of Pakatan Sabah is the start of granting Sabah full autonomy to manage itself within Malaysia, a demand the people in the state have been making for 47 years since independence from Britain in 1963.
“Sabah affairs will be determined by Sabah,” he said, adding that the coalition would not in any way condone nor tolerate abuse of power or corrupt practice.
He also said Pakatan is committed to defending the constitutional rights of all Malaysians, unlike the Umno-led Barisan Nasional coalition which is still defending the NEP, which essentially benefits only a certain race or ethnic group in the country.
Anwar also warned of the worsening political and socio-economic situation in the country under the 53 years of BN rule, saying the people must rise to reject the corrupt regime.
He said the people must reject Umno because "it is corrupt, racist, and arrogant".
'People have voice and power'
Describing it as a “battle of two forces” -- “the people versus the corrupt regime” -- Anwar warned that the present regime must not underestimate the wisdom of the masses.
“The people have the voice and power,” he said.
The supportive crowd of close to 1,000 guests applauded Anwar, Lim and Nasharudin when they likened the coming Umno-BN versus Pakatan fight as a battle for justice, compassion and meritocracy against that of race and religion.
“Our understanding is not race but justice for all,” Anwar said to applause.
A victory over the ruling BN coalition in the coming general election would be a victory for the people and not any individual political party, he added.
He also said meritocracy is important for the country to progress and to be able to compete with the rest of the world.
But he assured that the poor and needy would not be neglected as it is the duty of the government to protect them.
Anwar is convinced that the Sabah Pakatan Rakyat secretariat will help consolidate the opposition coalition to better develop the state.
Present at the function were Penang Deputy Chief Minister Mansor Othman, PKR vice-president Azmin Ali, DAP MPs Lim Lip Eng (Segambut) and Teo Nie Ching (Serdang) , Sabah DAP chief-cum-MP for Kota Kinabalu, Dr Hiew King Cheu, its deputy president-cum-Sri Tanjung assemblyman, Jimmy Wong, and its publicity secretary, Dr Edwin Bosi.
Sabah PKR leaders who were also in attendance were Ahmad Thamrin Jaini, Jeffrey Kitingan, Ansari Abdullah, and Christina Liew, among others.
sarawak nang dah ada autonomy apa....sabah pun kes lain pasal nya di tadbir oleh sidak umno. byk autonomy power dah kena bypass oleh dak umno.
ReplyDeletesama lah juak mun sidak PKR ato DAP ato PAS ato fail merintah...sidak akan bypass kerana bos besar bukan orang sabah ato sarawak
pikir pikir la sendiri
we in Sarawak really enjoy our autonomy but we are not capable to run our own autonomy since we form Malaysia, and we always blame other on this, and blaming those people from simananjung all the while. Sarawak and dits politisions are scared of our state, but we dont know our own stengh and bikkering among our self ever since. For how long we are going to be like this? What had happended to our politikus, they are playing around like small kids.
ReplyDeleteSaudara Alli had said of the good situation we are in, and who to blame for, it is the fauld of our elected reps. What they had been doing ever since prase one another and towkau big guys, and fooling around like bed kids in the town lah. Wait till 2030, more problems come when those had been left out of the main stream pof devilopment that will come and we pray that every one of us in sarawaka will benifit, and now is time for every one to revalue our leaders who had been promiseing of the great devilopment for us all. The nest state election is comming and be rady to vote for our future.
ReplyDeletememandangkan resouces like timber and land dah habis dikebas,generasi akan datang yang tiada apa apa aset selain ilmu, payah sudah.melain ada miracle like spiderman menolong, otherwise mimpi negeri.lihat apa yg berlaku di sungai rajang. itu dah satu petanda masalah yg rakyat dan generasi akan datang akan hadapi.yb2 sekarang tak kan ada lagi pada 20 ke 30 tahun mendatang.muka baru yg mungkin tak peka sejarah dan politik akan mengubah landskap politik sarawak pa lagi dgn kehadiran sidak semenanjung yg tidak boleh disekat lagi pada ketika itu kerna mereka juga orang malaysia, tentu tidak boleh disekat, jika berlaku seperti sekarang ditakut2kan menambah rumit lagi,keadaan macam serba salah.
ReplyDeletesarawak untuk orang sarawak bukan orang luar. kita tolak sebarang parti2 daripada malaya.
ReplyDeletekalau orang sarawak tidak setuju dgn taip kita tubuh parti baru sarawak. kita tolak pkr,pas dan dap
Agreed. No PKR, PAS , DAP or even UMNO, MIC, MCA, Gerakan, or any BN Component from Peninsula be allowed to enter Swk. Let the future of Sarawak be decided by Sarawakians not Malayan. We are the smartest ever people compare with those in Peninsula. Even One Malaysia is copied from Sarawak.
ReplyDeleteSemua komen diatas mudah dibuat tertapi dalam masa 10-20 tahun lagi benar sidak yb2 udah sik ada lagi, yb2 baru akan ujud, sama jua 2 X 5. tetapi kita jangan lupa, negeri sarawak masih dibawah cengkaman idologi komunis dan ramai sidaknya udah menyusup dalam kerajaan dan hanya menunggi masa apa bila semua orang bumi picah belah maka peluang besar kpd sidak komunis ambil aleh kuasa, walau pun udah selasai melalui 'sri aman' tetapi idologi sidaknya mmasih tebal dan senantiasa diasah dan diperbaiki, gerakkan sidaknya cukup halus dan susah dilihat tetapi dalam masa 20 tahun akan datang sidak komunis udah kuat dan udah menguasai semua bidang perniagaan, perladangan, tanah banyak udah dibeli dari kaum bumi yang telah menjual dengan sidak dan apa bila keadaan kita orang terseimpit dimana kita orang minta tolong, dan jangan mudah kata orang Malaya itu nyusah kita, tetapi dalam keadaan apa bila kita tersimpit, sidak dari Malayalah yang dapat bantu kita orang dengan mengunakan askar sidaknya. Kita apa ada? Pasukan wataniah apa ada kuat, Rela apa ada, kini ramai dalam Rela sarawak adalah sidak Cina komunis, bilangan orang bumi walau pun ramai, tetapi ramai yang berpangkat rendah, private, corpral dan segen aja, sidak Cina pangkatPegawai semuanya.Hati hati sebelum terlajak perahu nanti parah akibatnya kita semua. Biar hati hati sebelum terlambat, dan selama tok udah berapa banyak udah dibolot oleh sidak dari Malaya,? yang molot adalah orang kita yang kita pilih dan undi jadikan sidaknya pemimpin, dan jika berlaku ssusah, sidak yang udah kaya, akan lari keluar negeri yang tinggal kita tok aja. Moga moga kita selamat kelak.
ReplyDeleteOOOi sidak kawan kawan tolong ingat balik ejarah pertamanya Konfrontasi tahun 1960hn udahnya Jala Raja, Rascom, akhirnya baru Sri Aman. Coba kita nanya orang kita selepas Sri Aman, siapa orang kita jadi kaya raya.? Adakah. dan jangan cakap sebarang cakap ikut hati masing masing, kalau sik ada sidak Askar dari Malaya nolong, kedudokkan orang kita kaum bumi disarawak jauh pangang dari api siapa lain yang datang nolong adakah? Dari itu cakap kita orang biarlah ber pada pada dan jangan terlajak. Salam 1 Malaysia untuk semua.
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