I asked my father on the last election issue and I asked who he voted for. “Of course Barisan Nasional. What else should we do without Barisan in our area?” he answered me. I asked my mom the same question too. “It is useless if we vote for opposition. What opposition can do to us? They have no money to develop us”. We talk a lot about the last election story and which village was affected by the apposition. Kampung Simpok had a very strong apposition spirit until Dawos withdrew the entire budget from the kampung. That was according to my mom and I have not met anyone from Simpok to ask the truth but I believe due to slow development along the Padawan road.
As the conversation goes on, I slowly stepped into my bedroom and show my “The Broken Shield” book to my dad. “It was signed by Joseph Tawie (author) himself” I told my dad. He asked me this “What is the story all about?” As I am now in chapter 5, I told him that the Dayak has done a very silly mistake and Joseph Tawie is telling us a good story tale about the Dayak puzzle under Barisan Nasional. He seems to be interested and did read a few chapters and last night, he asked me to pass the book to him once I have finished reading.
Deep inside my heart, I believe that my dad will know the mistakes that have been made by the Dayak once he has finished reading soon. He started to filter what is told by the RTM news and media prima news. I told my dad and mom that Bersih Assembly was held to reform the election process to be more transparent and fair and not because there are many gangsters on the street as what Pemuda UMNO has reared (mat rempit). I told that the people have to open the road at Kota Cheras area because they are burdened by toll and not because they are gangster as per claimed by TV3 news. Nobody hates Badawi but the rakyat deserve a good leaders and team members. I told my family members on the dinner table that there is nothing wrong if Pakatan Rakyat rules, in fact, the five state are trying their very best to recover the state government previous debt. Lim Guan Eng is working very hard to make Penang on a solid ground and so Selangor.
Yes, there are several issues that need to be well measured especially the promises of the opposition party to help the young couple, students, the poor and needy. Somehow, it cannot be done in one or two month because the new state government is facing a terrible debt. Hence, there are several groups of people being paid by UMNO to make an accusation to the new government due to their failure to deliver their promises to the people.
Let us talk about logic and real issue about the new governments in those five states. Khir Toyo had given the ‘broom award’ to the local authorities due to their failure to collect taxes and therefore, Selangor is struggling with debt. Lim Guan Eng claimed that Penang is facing a terrible debt that has been made by the previous government under Koh Tsu Koon. This has indicated that the previous governments has practiced corruption and fail in running the state. Now, those states are looking their very best approaches to recover from debt. That is the story that I have explained to them at the dinner table.
“What those thing have to be done with the Dayak? We are well taken care by Barisan Nasional” asked my dad. I smiled at him and tell this. “It is Barisan Nasional that needs us and we are forced to help Barisan Nasional. Without the Dayaks, Kadazan, Dusun, Murut, Rungus, etc BN will be buried under the deep sea. You can see what the UMNO is doing with the Sabahan. IMM13 is always available for the “UMNO refugees” at anytime and any place as long as it is concern with UMNO.”
The Dayak even special, they are squatters at their very own ancestor land. Taib has declared all those NCR lands as state properties where logging and plantation should be done by rumpling down those houses and scattered the villages to a new rehab. “They should Rejoi and bear all The Pain while the Semban has no place to Sait (sit)” is such a good quote actually. “They should rejoice and bear all the pain while semban has no place to sit”.
Barisan Nasional’s promises of development are the intimidation to the Dayak. Therefore, the physical development is the only propaganda that always being used to terrify the Dayak. Therefore, voting for Barisan Nasional is the best way to receive the “development” from the government. Somehow, the Dayak has not realized that they are landless and being manipulated and intimidated by those corrupted politicians and soon they will be helpless and regret. But, I started my campaign in my own house because trust and confident must be planted within the household before we talk rubbish to the crowd.
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Mr. Musa my most honourable friend. Do you think your poor dad and mom have made the wrong choice by voting for the BN candidate all this while? Mr. Musa, when you wrote about Dawos withdrew the allocation for Kampong Simpok when the opposition was strong at that kampung you are actually spreading lies, because the YB did not have any power to grant and approve allocation what more to withdrew it. What the YB can do is to channel the request of the villages folk to the authority concer. The person who has the authority are the Residents Office or the District Office or the State Development office not the YB or Dawos. Dawos merely chanelled the kampong’s request to the right ministry for approval. It is those guys in the Ministry that would either consider the proposal and grant funds for develpment puroses. The YB is just a ‘bridge between the electtorates and the government. Hennce, the BN YB is the bridge between the government of the day and the constituencies, it is only appropriate that that whatever the proposal made by the electorate be chanelled to him and to the relevant authorities concern.
You mentioned about Khir Toyo In Selangor and also Kho Tsu Koon in Penang and alleged that these two state are in terrible debts owing to the incapabilities of the Menteri Besar of Selangor and Chief Minister of Penang. But you did not know that these two states form the bulks of the country GDP, Penang contibuted about 30 percent of the GDP and also is Selangor. I don’t find your analysis of these two states very convincing either. You mentioned that these two states are struggling with debts? Well let me ask you, how much did Selangor and Penang owe and who do they owe? The failure of collecting assessment rates is not because the local authorities are corrupted, it is because the rate payers who refuse to pay their rates. It is the ratepayers who owe the local authorities because of their refusal to pay for their rates. Let me ask you again, do you father pay his rates to Majlis Perbandaran Padawan? How much does it pay? I know local authorities are having difficulties to collect rates/revenues from the constituents. Look at MPP alone, each year there are about half a million rates not collected. The answer is simple, the houseowners, the factory owners, property owners are the one who defaults payment. If the local authorities initiate court action against the property owners, the opposition may accuse the local authorities being too harsh in dealing with the property owners and even the hawkers. Look at your friend Chong Chieng Jen, he even dare to sue the DBKU for reallocating the Gambier Street Howkers to Stutong, because he wants to be the hero in the eyes of the hawkers. So, if you were the Chief Minister or the Menteri Besar what would you do? To blame Khir Toyo or Kho Tsu Koon is not right.
Musa, you also mentioned about Lim Guan Eng in your posting. It is just a matter of time that Penang will not be able to attract foreign direct Investment (FDI), Penang will crumble the state will face financial crisis. However, it is still premature to see how these four state government fare, I only hope that these four state won’t be like their counterpart in the east eg Kelantan, without the financial assistance from the Federal Government, the cofffers of these state BN will soon dried up and in no time Lim Guan Eng will bow down to Pak Lah and ask Pak Lah to release funds from the Federal Treasury for the development of the state. Just bear in mind, the power of the state is limited to unlike the power of the federal government. That is why after Lim Guan Eng took is oath of office he immediately went and ‘merapat sembah’ to Pak Lah and asked the federal government not to stop the federal funded projects in the state. So now who need who?
Musa, my dear friend, you also mentioned about the new mentality of the aborigines, but you did not spell out clearly what those mentality are. Our leaders always want us to focus on a number of important issues namely education, human resource development, life long learning, peaceful co-existence with other communities, power sharing, believe in God and also respect the other culture. So what is your new mentality like? Destroy the community and throw your support for PKR? If that is the case, our leaders in the State BN will never ever let PKR win especially in the Bumiputera constituencies. PKR does not believe in the NEP, an affirmative action plan to assist the Bumiputera and the Dayaks so that we can play our part in making Malaysia an industrialise nation.
I don’t want to debate on the issue of Bengoh Dam again with you. Because, I would really love to see those poor kampong folks to have a better quality of life once they are resettled.
Happy Gawai don drink and drive otherwise you won't be able to go back to Labuan.
Mr. TBS, you should not have tarnish my kapung name based on hearsay of your ignorance and ill informed mom. We Kpg Simpok have been solidly behind BN and YB James and our community relationship with YB had always been great. YB project allocation for our kampung and the other 3 related ones has always been very excellent. Never had our kampung enjoy better projects allocation and government recognition like what it is now compared to the rotten days under SUPP.
I hope you mind your facts in future.
Orang Kampung SImpok
Mr. TBS, you have tarnished my Kampung image. How can you use your ignorance and ill informed mum hearsay words to paint a picture on our kampung people. For your information, relationship between YB and Kampung has always been of the highest one. YB had always been fair in allocating his fund for project to our kampung basically because of the size of the Kampung. And mind you, YB has always won each election in our Kampung. We love him too.
The next time you blog, write on your own kampung instead.
Grow up!!!
Facts counts.
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