The Sabah government delivers on the promise to give houses to the poor but fails to give them water and electricty.
Citing the houses in Kinabatangan, State Reform Party (STAR) community leader James Ait said the government was being “dangerously careless” in the construction of these houses just because the recipients were impoverishd.
“Look for yourself the shoddy workmanship in this government-funded housing project for the poor.
“Eleven poor families have taken possession of their new homes in Kampung Pelangi. They are getting a raw deal, “Ait said.
Ait, who brought along Kinabatangan STAR division head, Cyril Palantis, and Sukau STAR coordinator, Juhori Paritai, on a visit to the kampung on April 8, found out that the 11 houses in the PPRT (public housing project) had been handed over to their occupants without providing electricity or piped water.
“The poor families are forced to use dirty rainwater for their daily chores such as washing clothes and cleaning cooking utensils and so on. We believe this is the case in other places in Sabah too,” Ait said.
The families and their relatives are nevertheless the last to complain and are thankful for the houses built for them.
“But this does not mean that they are not hoping the authorities will provide them with basic necessities like water and electricity.
“A local leader, Asmat Majud, told us that the families are very grateful for the houses but the state government must look into their plight more compassionately and not just help them half-heartedly like this,” Ait said.
He said it is most deplorable and irresponsible for government leaders to carry out such programmes without considering the plight of the recipients.
“It is even more irresponsible when we contrast it with the huge amount in taxes collected by the federal (government) from Sabah. Last year, it was estimated that RM22.7 billion was collected from Sabah alone.
“There is so much money collected from Sabah via Petronas and yet they do this to these poor people,” said Ait
SABAHANS ARE ILLEGALLY TAXED
ReplyDeleteThe 20 Points agreement Point 11: Tariffs and Finance says:
"North Borneo should retain control of its own finance, development and tariff,[13] and should have the right to work up its own taxation and to raise loans on its own credit."
Malaya has totally ignored this agreement and illegally taxed Sabahans for 49 years. If an average of 15 billion were used as an average this would be $735 BILLION Dollars!
If Sabah had this money and the petro dollars have been kept in Sabah, our country would have been able to have fully develop economy and infrastructure with transport health sand education properly catered for.
This really means Sabah is really colony which is being pillaged and kept poor to develop Malaya.
If Sabah politicians and people do not yet wake up and unite to fight for real independence from Malayan rule, we will only continue to be colonized and stripped of our wealth.
We must all unite to throw out the UMNO Malayan colonialists!
Sabahans- Unite to fight for a free Sabah & take back our country!
We should all be thankful and grateful to BN and Sabah's AAA rated best-ever CEO for making Sabah the poorest in the country.
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