By Mr Fredoline Edwin Lojingki
PENAMPANG : As a veteran activist of Sabah issues, i would like to advise my old friend Joseph Pairin Kitingan, the President of Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) who is also the Huguan Siou of the Kadazandusuns, to consider paying "sogit" to his younger bother Dr Jeffrey, if indeed he has uttered the word "mendiang" (the late) on his brother.
If Pairin really and actually did utter the word "mendiang" on Jeffrey in Beluran as claimed by some, i advise Pairin to promptly do the honourable thing to pay "sogit" in the form of one buffaloe, a pig and a chicken as is the way of our custom when one utter such word on a living person.
As chief custodian of the Kadazandusuns customs and laws, Pairin knows best what to do in cases like this. So please be honourable so that everything is balanced again.
Lojingki, 71, was active together with the late Peter Mojuntin in now-defunct UNKO in the 1960s. Lojingki who claimed once a close friend of Pairin and many PBS leaders, had recently joined the State Reform Party (STAR) and was appointed its state committee member.
Mr Fredoline Edwin Lojingki, STAR State Committee Member / also former UNKO activist
It was a slip of tongue.
ReplyDeletesilap sebut ja tu.. kalau nak sogit2 buat ja lah..
ReplyDeleteSogit main-main bolehlah mungkin.
ReplyDeletekalau mahu ambil kira perkataan2 yang digunakan oleh semua pemimpin2 politik Sabah sebelum ini, sudah ramai yang kena sogit.. bahasa politik, jarang sekali ada yang sopan..
ReplyDeletebetul..kalau mau dikira ikut perkataan sudah ramai ahli politik kena sogit.
DeleteTapi Pairin menafikan. Pairin menyatakan yang dia tidak pernah cakap macam tu. jadi buat apa mahu sogit.
ReplyDeletekalau dia tidak pernah menggunakan perkataan tersebut jadi tidak perlulah isu ini ditimbulkan lagi.
DeleteTakkan Lonjinki satu orang saja yang terdengar, jika Pairin betul-betul pernah cakap, tak mungkin tiada orang lain yang menjadi bukti.
Deletelebih baik jika semua fokus terhadap pekara-pekara lain yang lebih penting kepada rakyat.
ReplyDeletePairin said he never said such a word to his brother, maybe Lojinki misinterpret.
ReplyDelete