KUCHING -- The state government will discuss the need to review the current five percent petroleum royalty paid to Sarawak with the federal government based on the prevailing close relationship and goodwill between both sides, Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud said today.
Concurring that state leaders from both sides of the political divide had struck a common ground on the issue, he said, both sides needed to sit down and discuss the matter, especially following the recent announcement by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak that a special committee was being set up to study the petroleum royalty to East Coast states.
"The matter will be discussed with the federal government based on my good relationship with the prime minister," he told reporters at his Hari Raya open house at the Borneo Convention Centre Kuching here.
Early this month Najib had announced that the committee was given six months to study the matter before making recommendations to the federal government, which would put to rest all questions surrounding the royalty payment.
However, many state political leaders had said that a review of the petroleum royalty to East Coast states should include Sarawak and Sabah since both were the main contributors to the national petroleum production.
Sarawak Barisan Nasional deputy women chief Datuk Fatimah Abdullah was quoted as saying it was time for the agreement on the five percent oil royalty be revised since it was made more than four decades ago.
DAP state chairman Wong Ho Leng said it was the federal government's duty to look into interest of both states, to elevate their status to be on par with states in the peninsular. -- BERNAMA
HOW ABOUT 100% RETURN OF OUR OIL RIGHTS & REVENUE?
ReplyDeleteNOTHING LESS. IT ALL BELONGS TO SABAH & SARAWAK PEOPLE!
WHY SECRET NEGOTIATIONS- NOTHING OPEN & TRANSPARENT FOR SARAWAK PEOPLE?
DeleteGood on you Baru to stand up for our Sarawak national rights.
The secret has been outed. It explains why Taib wants to continue his government of secrecy and unaccountability. We all have been wondering where all the oil money had disappeared to……
His uncle Rahman in signing away our oil rights in return for crumbs has a company that gets billion dollars contracts from Petronise with 6 other companies controlled by families & cronies of Tunku Abdul Rahman, Razak Najib, Rahman/Taib Harris Salleh and other crooks who have distribution companies pumping out our oil through Petronas since 1976. The secret is Taib’s share.
These are the 7 favoured companies (mentioned by Jeffrey Kitingan) with their pumps permanently pumping our oil and gas out overseas into secret back accounts.
That is why Petronise is not transparent or accountable to anyone except those who really control it.
Sabah has the highest feul prices for being one of the richest oil producers and Sarawak is next in line.
Sarawak leaders must join Sabah compatriots to expose the huge huge robbery of Sabah and Sarawak and put a stop to it as soon as possible.
Demand that Petronas act in a transparent manner and open up its accounts for scrutiny. Only then we can know the extent of the pillaging of Sabah Sarawak wealth.
The value of Sabah Sarawak as parts of Malaya is directly inverse to the amount of wealth Malaya has stolen from us.
So why continue to be stooges and clamour for more rights or autonomy when we should demand outright independence?
Comment in HU by ANTI-MALAYAN COLONIALISM — August 28, 2012
From a post at Sarawak Headhunter B;og page- Thursday, August 9, 2012
ReplyDeleteSarawak & Sabah Want Their Petroleum Resources & Independence Back
See also: "How Does Petronas Think Sarawak, Sabah & Kelantan Feel?"
[Comments below on the above Reuters report were made on Radio Plenty Valley FM 88.6 27/07/12 on this link http://borneoherald.blogspot.com/2012/08/special-report-petronas-chafes-at-its.html]
The news comment mentioned that Petronas has developed into a multi-billion global enterprise. This is thanks to over 35 years of exploiting oil belonging to the resource rich East Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak on Northern Borneo Island.
The news comment also mentioned that last year Petronas contributed to half of the national budget being $60 billion. The rest must be pure profits in Petronas' bank account.
Petronas was created when the Petroleum Development Act was passed in 1974 seizing control of Sabah and Sarawak oilfields. This was made possible when resistant Chief Ministers of Sabah and Sarawak were removed by the Kuala Lumpur government and replaced with chief ministers who willingly signed away their state oil rights to Petronas control. This happened eleven years after the British colonial government transferred control of Sabah and Sarawak to the Malayan government under the Malaysia Plan in 1963.
Listeners can imagine how important Sabah and Sarawak are as parts of Malaysia for their giant contributions to the national wealth which largely goes across the China sea to develop the West Malaysian States. They essentially prop up the whole Malaysian economy.
However, despite their economic importance, in the last 49 years of “independence in Malaysia”, these 2 sparsely populated states have remained the most underdeveloped and under funded states.
In fact the rampant exploitation of the 2 states' resources has reduced Sabah to be the poorest state in Malaysia with Sarawak coming second.
The “gleaming icons” the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur are now being called the Sabah and Sarawak Towers as they were built with Sabah and Sarawak oil money. So was Putra Jaya the new administrative centre, other gleaming palaces and public buildings and much of the infrastructures of West Malaysia that have all been funded by Sabah and Sarawak money.
Part 2
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MALAYSIA A PONZI SCHEME- MALAYA TAKES ALL & GIVES BACK CRUMBS TO SABAH & SARAWAK
A recent news comment found on the Internet described Malaysia as a “ponzi scheme”. The Kuala Lumpur government takes 100% of Sabah and Sarawak oil revenues and taxes and gives them back a miserly 5% royalty. This is especially shocking when the two states originally owned the oil.
It is no wonder that the people in both states have come to see that they have been re-colonised in Malaysia.
A Sarawakian Dr. John B Anthony who publishes an Internet blog page called “Dayakbaru” in an article entitled: “Sarawak-may-leave-Malaysia-sooner-than-expected” said: (Quote)
"In Sarawak, the spirit of anti-Malaya due to its colonizing approach is rising. Sarawak today is being colonized in all aspects, education, commerce, religion, politics, social structure and even government through the BN party.”
Malaya took the wealth of Sarawak and gave back “crumbs” as development funds. Malaya took all the important Ministries, took all the important posts in the civil service...”
The Sabah State Reform Party deputy leader Daniel Jambun wrote in his list of 22 "failed" items by the Kuala Lumpur government (Quote):
"16. Among the biggest source of our dissatisfaction is in how our natural resources are being taken from us. Imagine if the oil royalty for Sabah and Sarawak is reviewed to 70 percent backdated to 1976 and with 8 per cent interest for arrears compounded yearly! That amount would be so much it would take care of all of Sabah’s development needs for decades to come”.
He said.”. This kind of oil royalty rate is nothing fantastic because it is already practised by other countries such as Timor Leste, South Sudan, Darfur, Acheh, and under the nationalist movement in Scotland."
Both these writers have increasingly taken a very strong stand on Sabah and Sarawak re-examining their positions as States of Malaysia.
Posted by ANAKSARAWAK to Sarawak Headhunter at August 8, 2012 10:12 PMart
Pelan Induk Minyak oleh STAR Sabah menyatakan bahawa MINYAK SABAH KEPUNYAAN RAKYAT SABAH dan telah menyiarkan dasar-dasar mengenai minyak yang dihasil dari bumi Sabah termasuk hasil minyak sekurang-kurang 50%.
ReplyDeleteSekarang kerajaan Sarawak mula sudah bersuara menuntutbalik hak minyak Sarawak.
Apa macam dan apakah tindakan akan diambil oleh kerajaan Sabah khasnya Umno Sabah dan parti-parti BN lain di Sabah. Tinguklah mereka berani atau takut-takut. Bersuara, jangan tidak bersuara.
This old man is trying to slow me down with a ruse. Only now ? Finished already your loot?
ReplyDeleteIt could a ruse by white hair..just to give sarawakians a ray of hope and settle to vote for BN again
ReplyDeleteNasib mungkin baik utk Sarawak, white hair berani minta review.
ReplyDeleteMalangnya kita diSabah nda nasib bagitu. MP Kota Belud tinggal biji separuh. Yang lain, MA, JPK, BD mungkin kurang lagi. Suara pun tidak berani.
Memang betul cakap kamu,MP Kota Belud yang kami pilih adalah penipu dan pengampu KL.Inikali saya rasa walaupun apa kesudahannya,saya HARAMKAN undi saya untuk MP Kota Belud daripada Sallaeh atau Abd Rahman.
DeleteZalis Zulian Maznee
Kg Taun Gusi II Bt 54
Kota Belud.
Berani kah, kalau Taib keluar dari BN! If your request is not granted....Don't be like Sabah BN suckers..they are condemned to hell!
ReplyDeleteThe 13th GE must see that all BN candidates lose...We must drop off the tag that Sabah is BN's fixed deposit...Sabah is Sabah and Sabah should NOT be controlled by BN federalism. Change the government and we will see the difference, if we want a better deal!
Nah, mana bloggers dan penyokong Umno/Bn lain diSabah? Kenapa membisu saja. Takut kerana benar sebab memang baik untuk Sabah jika minyak Sabah diambilbalik daripada Petronas dan kerajaan BN? Atau tiada biji untuk bersuara atau kerana kepentingan sendiri-sendiri dan projek-projek kroni-kroni setakat menggadaikan masa depan Sabah dan rakyatnya?
ReplyDeleteBeranikah BN Sabah meminta kenaikan hasil minyak untuk Sabah?
Ketua Menteri Sarawak sudah menyatakan kehendak rakyat sarawak mengenai minyak petroleum, Ketua Menteri Sabah bila lagi? Rakyat Sabah mengharapkan suara dari CM Sabah. Tak kan menyepi saja?
ReplyDeleteMALAYSIA - pengeluar minyak ke-27 didunia. Petrol RM2.90 seliter.
ReplyDeleteQATAR - pengeluar minyak ke-22 didunia. Petrol RM0.75 seliter.
OMAN - pengeluar minyak ke-28 didunia. Petrol RM1.00 seliter.
MESIR (Egypt) - pengeluar minyak ke-29 didunia. Petrol RM1.06 seliter.
IRAN - pengeluar minyak ke-8 didunia. Petrol RM0.35 seliter.
DiBrunei, minyak BND0.53 seliter (RM1.25 seliter).
Bolehkah kalo minyak diSabah RM1.25 seliter sama2 dgn jiran Brunei. Minyak Brunei dan Sabah datang dari telaga yg sama dibawah laut yg sama dan sama2 minyak dikurniakan oleh Allah/Tuhan.
Sabah dan Sarawak pengeluar minyak, harga sama dengan Perlis, Johor, Selangor, dll yang tidak mengeluar minyak. Harga minyak di Sabah, Sarawak, Kelantan dan Trengganu harus jauh lebih murah daripada negeri2 lain yg tidak mengeluar minyak. Proton dikeluarkan oleh GLC berkaitan kerajaan dan Umno. Harga jualan Proton diSemananjung lebih murah drpd harga jualan diSabah. Sama erti kalau minyak dikeluar diSabah harga diSabah lebih murah drpd harga diSemananjung. Ngamkan kalo bagitu?
Gas dikeluarkan dari bumi Sabah dan Sarawak. Gas tu dihantar keSemananjung dan pengeluar letrik IPP disana diberi subsidi sebanyak RM19 billion setahun supaya kadar letrik lebih murah utk pengguna disana. Kalo RM1.0 billion diberi kpd pengguna letrik diSabah, 833,333 rumah akan mendapat letrik free sebanyak RM100 sebulan untuk satu tahun.
Janji Ditepati
1 Malaysia, Rakyat didahulukan, Pencapaian diutamakan.
Undilah BN di Sabah.
Sabah dikekalkan negeri termiskin sambil menjadi fixed deposit BN.
Undilah BN UMNO perompak ini.Kumpulan BN yang hatu tahu menipu dan memelihara pendatang PATI.
DeleteGonzalis Lasak
Ex 1 RGKM
THIS EVIL MAN KEPT QUIET FOR OVER 35 YEARS WHILE HE LOOTED SARAWAK.
ReplyDeleteTHE OLD ADAGE APPLIES- DOGS SHOULD BITE THE HAND OF THOSE (UMNO) WHO FEEDS HIM
2 THINGS: 1. HIS UNCLE JUST AS EVIL & GREEDY SIMPLY SIGNED AWAY SARAWAK OIL RIGHTS- WITHOUT PROPER AUTHORITY OR CONSULTATION OF THE PEOPLE HE WAS GOING TO MAKE POOR.
2. WHO KNOWS LIKE MAHATHIR, THESE 2 CROOKS MAY BE GETTING SECRET PROFITS FROM COMPANIES LINKED TO PETRONAS?
DOG SHOULD NOT BITE THE HAND OF THOSE (UMNO) WHO FEEDS HIM
DeleteBerita terbaru, CM sabah telahpun menyuarakan review semula minyak petroleum, dan di sokong oleh pairin. Star nak kan 50%, PR beri 20%, umno nanti beri berapa? Atau hanys pemanis dekat pilihanraya je...
ReplyDeleteBos, suarakan review tidak mencukupi. Umno mesti mau champion. Mari-mari kita tuntut 55% lebih daripada STAR. Kalau tidak, STAR nanti jadi Champion Sabah.
DeleteReview ini akan ambil masa 6 bulan. Bukanlah serius, tipu orang Sabah & Sarawak saja untuk pancing undi BN.
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