KOTA KINABALU: Former Sabah Chief Minister Harris Salleh has been advised to stand up for Sabah, if not for Sarawak as well, and thereby redeem himself in time finally in the eyes of the people instead of continuing to defend Putrajaya, for no rhyme or reason, “in defiance of the longterm interest of the state”.
This is the best advice that the State Reform Party (Star) can give Harris “who appears determined to commit political suicide a second time, the first being in 1985”.
“If Harris really cares about the future of our children, grandchildren and the generations unborn, he will not continue to support our present status of being virtually enslaved by Putrajaya,” said Star deputy chairman Daniel John Jambun. “If we still have any dignity left at all in us, we would forge our own destiny and be masters of our own house instead of continuing to kowtow to Putrajaya.”
Daniel was responding to a statement by Harris in the local media on Sat and in which he renewed his dare to Star chairman Jeffrey Kitingan to debate him on the allegation that Putrajaya was pursuing internal colonization policies in Sabah and Sarawak.
Daniel said that unless Harris proved locus standi on the issue; the people will still be left with the same impression that they had of him since 1985 i.e. Big Nuisance Value, Small Political Value.
Asked to explain the people’s lingering “perception” of Harris, Daniel said this was related among others to former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, the handover of Labuan to Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia), and the signing of the so-called oil agreement when the related Petroleum Development Act was unconstitutional.
“Harris was tainted forever by Mahathir raising his hands in 1985 and declaring that Umno will swim or sink with Berjaya,” said Daniel. “Sabahans knew that day for the first time who was Harris. That was the trigger off point for Sabahans to kick out Berjaya by voting for the Parti Bersatu Sabah.”
The people of Sabah, he stressed, were merely endorsing in their “perception” what Mahathir himself had once said in describing Harris.
Harris, continued Daniel, “had still not learnt the lessons of 1985” and was continuing to root unasked for Putrajaya in Sabah instead of distancing himself from the Federal Government, remaining neutral, holding his peace or at least agreeing to disagree to disagree like a gentleman on the issue of internal colonization.
Harris, reminded Daniel, could not be the honest broker for us with Putrajaya on the internal colonization issue if he at the same continued to remain in a state of denial.
“The evidence of internal colonization is all around us from Putrajaya’s ketuanan Melayu concept to Sabah being the poorest state in Malaysia and many other issues in between,” said Daniel. “Yet Harris remains deaf, dumb and blind to our continued servitude. Why should we be linked with Peninsular Malaysia, across the South China Sea, when we can be on our own like Brunei and Singapore and doing well instead of being dirt poor?”
Touching on Harris’ expressed intention to debate Jeffrey on internal colonization through the media, matching statement for statement, Daniel welcomed the intended move “provided the former Chief Minister could contribute something more than hot air”.
The issues related to internal colonization, according to Daniel, include marginalisation and disenfranchisement of locals through the continuing influx of illegal immigrants; and the illegals entering the electoral rolls after misleading the authorities, and by fraud and deception, obtaining Malaysian personal documents in defiance of the Constitution.
He does not rule out the possibility that National Registration Department (NRD) officials in Putrajaya, as previously alleged numerous times, had either knowingly or unknowingly issued Malaysian personal documents to these illegal immigrants. Those who received Malaysian personal documents from Putrajaya must leave Sabah, he added. “Only those eligible foreigners recommended for Malaysian personal documents by the state government can stay in Sabah.”
The enormous and excessive power of the Federal Government can, must and should be taken away and returned to the states in keeping with the concept of Federation, stressed Daniel, the federal civil service downsized and reined in on administrative law, the autonomy of Sabah and Sarawak restored with the Federal Government confining itself to defence, foreign affairs and national economic planning in Borneo; Malaysia brought back as a two-tier Federation; the Federal Government shared equally by Malaya, Sabah and Sarawak; the Doctrine of the Separation of Powers restored; and “fanatics and racists” denied the Prime Minister’s post which should be open to Sabah and Sarawak as well.
Daniel suggested that besides defending Putrajaya against the allegations of pursuing internal colonization policies in Sabah and Sarawak, Harris could also explain the loss of the self-determination that both states obtained on 31 Aug 1963 and subsequently left dormant after the Federal Government pledged to comply with four constitutional documents and/or conventions on Malaysia viz. the 1963 Malaysia Agreement (MA63); the 20/18 Points (20/18 P); the Inter-governmental Committee Report (IGCR); and the Cobbold Commission Report (CCR).
“The non-compliance of these four constitutional documents/conventions not only equates with internal colonization but means that Malaysia did not come into being at all on 16 Sept 1963 and our status of 31 Aug 1963 therefore remains undiminished under international law,” said Daniel. “Harris should keep this in mind when he tries to root for Putrajaya.”
Daniel said that Star and its allies in the United Borneo Alliance (UBA) took the view that Putrajaya would have been in compliance if “local traitors had not been willing to be proxies and stooges for the Federal Government to facilitate internal colonization policies in Sabah and Sarawak”.
“It’s these traitors who had emboldened Putrajaya to embark on colonial divide-and-rule tactics like pitting the Muslims and non-Muslims against each to create racial polarisation a la Peninsular Malaysia,” said Daniel. “Borneonisation, which is being observed more often than not in the breach, is one example being used by Putrajaya to pit the people against each other.”
Daniel, in summing up, said that Putrajaya had no option but reverse its internal colonization policies in Sabah and Sarawak and comply with the four constitutional documents/conventions or accept the reality that Malaysia does not exist in the two Borneo states whose self-determination of 31 Aug 1963 remains undiminished by 16 Sept 1963 i.e. the latter date being a nullity in international law and the Constitution.
“In short, Sabah and Sarawak are independent countries and have been so since 31 Aug 1963 and are not members of the so-called Malaysian Federation,” said Daniel. “That’s the position that a UBA-led state government would take in Sabah and Sarawak and advise the United Nations Security Council accordingly if there’s continued non-compliance.”
The Star Sabah and Sarawak initiated, formed and led UBA includes the Sarawak National Party (Snap); the Borneo Heritage Foundation (BHF), the Borneo Forum (BF), the Common Interest Group Malaysia (CigMA), KoKaKoBa, an NGO in Penampang, other NGOS still in the process of signing up, and the proposed Star chapter in Peninsular Malaysia to help build a Borneo-based and led 3rd Force in the Malaysian Parliament.
Daniel John Jambun is Deputy Chairman, the State Reform Party (Star)
UBS don't waste time anymore. Lets start the break away/independence process now. They will never give us autonomy or agree to any of the points because that means lost of power and money.
ReplyDeleteHarris Salleh and all the traitors. Yes, time to beg for forgiveness for soon we will be knocking your doors
TORCH OF INDEPENDENCE NOW STARTS BURNING BRIGHT
Delete"Why should we be linked with Peninsular Malaysia, across the South China Sea, when we can be on our own like Brunei and Singapore and doing well instead of being dirt poor?”
Daniel is correct argue that we had independent countries before 31 August 1963. The mystery is why we bothered to become part of neo-colonial Malaysia?
Yes Brunei and Singapore both minuscule in size can survive without being in Malaysia and better!
Brunei made a smart decision not to be ensnared by the Malayans who demanded Brunei oil but refused the Sultan the right to be Agong. So the Bruneans immediately saw through their double dealing. It was only after the anti-Malaysia Brunei independence uprising that they decided not to force Brunei into Malaysia.
Singapore was lucky to get out and re-invent itself as a colonial free port into a giant in S.E. Asia.
Sabah and Sarawak rich in resources reduced to poverty by the corruption an pillage of UMNO BN and local traitor regimes for 49 years!
Yes, Daniel we are behind you and if you lead us to independence we will fight with you!
Why be enslaved?
We must free ourselves from the Malayan colonial bondage!
THE BEST START FOR OUR INDEPENDENCE IS TO GO TO THE UN TO RE-OPEN THE MALAYSIA ISSUE....
DeleteSome smart people like to rely on the Cobbold Commission findings that the Sabah Sarawak people supported the creation of "Malaysia".
But the Cobbold Commission Report was a sham report based on guess work "survey" since it failed to comply with the UN requirement to carry out a proper thorough survey of the people's view and hold a referendum.
Its hazy conclusions was used as a justification to incorporate Sabah and Sarawak into Malaysia.
There were various pressing reasons as to why UK/Malaya were in a hurry to push Sabah and Sarawak into Malaysia.
1. The Brunei Uprising broke out and the region was in the grip of an emergency and the British were in a hurry to withdraw.
2. The second matter was the Indonesian Confrontation following the Uprising
3. The third matter was the Sarawak guerilla independence war against the Malaysia proposal.
A full scale emergency was on and yet they brought Malaysia into being.
Why?
There was no fairness nor transparency or democracy in their actions since most of the people in Sabah and Sarawak hardly knew what was happening to them in such an important matter about their right to self-determination.
Both Sabah and Sarawak were granted independence by the British and incorporated into Malaysia within a month on 16 September 1963.
Simon Sipaun the Sabah human rights lawyer in his comments made in 2009 has much to say about the background to Malaysia.
http://sabahkinimirror.blogspot.com.au/2011/03/inside-story-of-malaysia-formation.html
He said "In school my teacher used to discuss with students the possible merger of North Borneo (as Sabah was then known) Sarawak and Brunei, all British Colonies. Malaya was never mentioned."
I expressed the following views, amongst others, to him:-
i) Sabah would lose the only opportunity to experience being a truly independent sovereign state.
ii) It would simply be a transfer of power from the British to Malaya.
iii) Sabah did not have the people qualified and experienced enough to negotiate with Malaya and Singapore.
iv) Sabah should demand for self-rule initially followed by full independence from the British.
v) Sabah should then go to the negotiating table without the British if the people, via referendum, wished to federate with Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak and Brunei.
vi) Sabah should examine carefully the pros and cons of joining the proposed federation both in the short and long term before deciding.
vii) Sabah should insist on an escape clause in the event it found itself short-changed.
viii) At best it should only be a lose federation. And finally,
ix) The political union between Malaya and North Borneo would be artificial because the two territories had very little, if any, in common and separated by almost 2000 km of sea. North Borneo’s case could not be compared with Singapore. "
What Simon says is still true.
We need to think deeply over his words......"The political union between Malaya and North Borneo would be artificial because the two territories had very little, if any, in common"
Simply Sabah and Sarawak can exist without being ruled by Malaya.
IT JUST DOES NOT MAKE SENSE TO CONTINUE TO REMAIN IN A LOUSY UNEQUAL COLONIAL RELATIONSHIP WHICH IS NOT EVEN A PARTNERSHIP!
The time will come and the traitors will be revealed.
Deletesuruh dia datang ke Tenom untuk tanding nanti kami kasi dia hilang duit depositnya...asyik menipu saja ini benggali.
ReplyDeleteHarris sudah bersara daripada politik, tidak payahlah melibatkan diri dalam politik lagi.
Deletekenapa Harris tiba2 aktif pla ni?
DeleteHarris should give chance to the younger generation.
DeleteHelp the ball rolling... I hate to live in denial
ReplyDeleteI dont understand WHY Jeffrey is so bothered with this hasbeen. He is no longer relevant.. Why waste time. You people should think and figure out how or what is the best way to make an impanct or wrest the state from BN in the next GE..
ReplyDeleteI have read so many things on recent Sabah political scenario and all i can see, its going to be the same thing.
A BIG ZERO on the quality of the local oppositions.. All you guys are saying how BAD the present government is, what have they done.. BLA BLA BLA..
WHAT Sabah need is a fresh party, young leader with a clear vision. Not these people who was part of the present government before and have done nothing when they were in power and i'm sure they will not do anything when they are in power again.. Look at Jeffrey and YTL.. what have they done?? Only when they were kicked out then they started to bark.. Everything is wrong with the government.. YTL !!! What have you done for the people of Sabah when you were the CM ?? Nothing.. Jeffrey ?? Nothing.
And now, you want to drag this old man into the picture.. How Stupid of a leader you all are.. A big embarassment to all Sabahan..
You two never learned with Sarawak Last State election.. Coz you two are soooooo arrogant and still want to be the next PM..
Didnt you learned anything?? How many BN old timers lost in Sarawak to a young and fresh candidates.. All i see is old people as your choice.. Basic thing and yet, you still failed to see.
I'm an UMNO member but lately, my vote is vulnerable.. But i still dont see a good choice for me to give my vote.. I want changes, current BN is corrupt, i admit.
IF U R A LOYAL SABAHAN U WOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN AN UMNO SUPPORTER!
DeleteAnonymous says...'I'm an UMNO member but lately, my vote is vulnerable....I want changes, current BN is corrupt, i admit.'
ReplyDeleteI believe it when they say that an 'admission' is akin to 'humbling' oneself to receive the truth. What does your gut instinct tell you? Let it be your guide. What can you do to help? Don't just wait to be shown a/the door.
Anonymous says..."I want changes, current BN is corrupt, i admit."
ReplyDeleteKnowingly, what you said that the current BN is corrupt meanwhile you are also attacking the opposition party leadership such thinking will only give BN the edge. The coming GE13 is for Sabahans to choose either BN or local opposition parties. With the historical performance of BN led govt for the past decades, it is well known that Sabah & Sarawak are being utilized and use as 'fixed deposits' for Umno/Bn to take control of all our natural resources and wealth. As far as umno/bn led govt is concerned, we can see that national policies implement over the past decades are for the benefited of Malaya and as the same time bn led govt will not agree to implement the 'four constitutional documents and/or conventions on Malaysia viz. the 1963 Malaysia Agreement (MA63); the 20/18 Points (20/18 P); the Inter-governmental Committee Report (IGCR); and the Cobbold Commission Report (CCR)'.
The bn led govt does no benefit to Sabah/Sarawak but their main intention is carried out the internal colonization of Sabah/Sarawak for reasons best known to themselves and is obvious. Unfortunately, over the years these were carried out with the corroboration of those local untrustworthy leaders under umno/bn seeking for personal glory and wealth.
As for the opposition parties especially those local parties are fighting to regain control of our rights and autonomy, for better or for worse we are still in a better position to throw our support to the local opposition parties which we can depend as a change in the coming GE13.
As a fence sitter, putting aside on any personal grudge on some of those opposition leaders I believe that it is still our better bid to support local opposition parties than umno/bn regime.
Unite my people. I long for the day when I, for one, can say that I hail from Sabah. A 'Sabahan' as a global recognition. So God, help us to realize the dream.
ReplyDeleteThat day draws near but every able Sabahans must stand together to fulfill our dreams.
Deleteyeah... goosebumps. Crossing my fingers
DeleteOnly if the opposition practices unity that its possible to win the election.
DeleteWow! It seems many of the commenters are fired-up in seeking something that can never be.This is a case of pushing the guy in front to do something when those behind are 'split-heads' as they themselves do not believe in what the front guy is capable of doing.So when the front guy takes the fall they will clean their hands and pretending that they never exist in the melee.Typical in-borne hypocrites and two-faced scumbags.
ReplyDeleteWhen you try to incite Sabahans into supporting the opposition you must first understand the composition of the races in the state and the representation in all constituencies.Majority of the constituencies are backed by hardcore UMNO/BN supporters.In all UMNO itself even without the support of its partners in BN has 35 'well-oiled' areas that it can easily win.How could then UMNO/BN as a whole be seen to lose in the next GE?The opposition can be fired-up to demand anything but at the end of this coming GE I can assure you that not a flame can be seen to lit-up as all will be in a quandary as to what their political future will be.Thats much I can assure and thats much I can guarantee.
As for Datuk Harris I think he is just trying to do a good deed for Sabahans and for the country as a whole.He has visions of what may transpired should the opposition be left to roam freely and agitating for something hollow that he knows and meant only for political survivals without any relevance to the real political context in hand.Those who bark and shout are the lost souls who are bent of destroying the masses just to remain relevant in the eyes of their supporters.They are not concern.They don't care.The people therefore must be able to draw the line between the opposition and UMNO/BN.BN is a proven administrator and the other is just a 'sheep in wolves skin or should I say,'the shepherds who cry wolves.'
Being visionary now ... my foot. Still kepedasan cili selepas termakan I venture. Someone is bound to hear/face some chilling music
DeleteJeffrey Kitingan and Yong Teck Lee are both from BN, they are recycled politicians.
DeleteYong Teck Lee have his chance as the Sabah Chief Minister, but he did not use the chance to raise these issues.
DeleteSeats allocation need to be revised and let them divided fairly.
Deleteit is the recycled politicians that we need to be careful of.
DeletePengagihan kerusi harus dibuat dengan teliti, pastikan calon-calonnya cukup berkelayakan dan berkemampuan memperjuangkan yang terbaik untuk rakyat.
DeleteThe universe is vast. When a hope comes to pass it will be highlighted. My mind can conceive therefore I believe. Take heed
ReplyDeleteHarris already retired from politics. wonder why he come out suddenly.
ReplyDeleteHarris already retired and should remain retired.
DeleteOnce greedy, will always a greedy. He just can't get enough with everything and still want to involve in politics for his personal interest.
Deletememang pun. Kalau orang tamak tetap tamak juga tu.
DeleteI suppose he is an attention seeker, hoping to go back into politics.
DeleteAzam politik Harris belum lenyap lagi.
DeleteIs Jeffrey still going to debate with Harris Salleh on the KL Colonization on Sabah?
ReplyDeletedebat antara mereka mcm tidak jadi ja.. tiada perkembangan.
DeleteIt will not happen. They are just pushing and pulling with each other in order to get publicity.
Deleteits just talk. non of them really want to debate each other actually.
DeleteI don't think it will happen too, that wouldn't be necessary.
DeleteSi Harris tidak akan dicalonkan juga tu. Lebih baik berehat saja di hari tua.
ReplyDeleteWe must not give up on Sabah or we will give up ourselves.
ReplyDeleteMay be Harris can play as consultant role.
ReplyDeleteDo what is right for the people at least for future purposes.
ReplyDeleteThings always get to reveal themselves over time.
ReplyDeleteWe want better and secured future for the next generation.
ReplyDeleteLet’s appraise the reality of what is happening…self-denial is leads to absolute self-destruction.
ReplyDeleteLet’s see what becomes of him.
DeleteIsu mengenai Datuk Harris dan Datuk JK ini menanti ketibaannya. Semakin hangat kedua-dua pemimpin ini yang berjuang untuk berdebat. Tidak tahu apa yang istemewa dengan debat itu tapi yang pasti kita tunggu apa yang bakal berlaku.
ReplyDeleteApa yang STAR mahu sangat dengan Datuk Harris ini. Adakah apa-apa yang kedua pihak ini sembunyikan.
ReplyDeleteif JK and Sabah Star leaders really cares about the future of our Sabahan children, Sabahan grandchildren and the Sabahan generations unborn, they should help Sabah local based party to topple the current government.. not by bringing Sarawak based party to grab all state seats here..
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