The Taib Succession Dilemma

Taib just does not want to make a decision about his successor. That is clear. No matter what he says or does. He is in a dilemma because he does not want to make the biggest mistake of his entire "career", one that could haunt him for the rest of his ever shortening life.

He has made many mistakes of course, although he pretends to know all and to be always right - the mere fact that nobody in PBB dares to dissent does not make it any right, even if this charade has kept him in power for so long. This is the evil power of deception and the politics of manipulation.

He knows who his successor should be and it is not anyone who is presently or has previously been in PBB (and that both includes as well as excludes his own son, Suleiman Abdul Rahman). However, he still hopes to deny reality.

If this were not the case surely it would be an easy matter for him to just decide who it should be from among the ranks of the present line-up of PBB. There is so much misplaced and misused talent there if he just wanted someone like himself to take over. What is so difficult about it, especially since he has known and worked with them for such a long time? However, Taib also knows that none of them would be good for Sarawak and that paradoxically is why he has kept them all out of the equation.

Not that he is or has been any better for Sarawak of course. They are all so scared of dissent that they have to manipulate the PBB party polls to ensure that there are no contests, thereby depriving their members the right - at the very least - to democratically elect their leaders. If they could do away with general elections they probably gladly would, but since they cannot they have devised other means of manipulation such as bribery and intimidation. Some semblance of democracy must after all be maintained.

Do you think that Taib doesn't know what he has done to Sarawak and what needs to be done to undo what he has done? He knows it better than anyone else. He knows that Sarawak needs reform and that there is no one in PBB capable of undertaking such reform, least of all himself. PBB, just like UMNO and the rest of the BN baggage train, is incapable of reform unless it is led by a real reformist-minded leader. There is none, not even pretenders.

Taib, more than anyone else in PBB, knows that it cannot be business as usual. If PBB tries to carry on with business as usual, even with Taib himself at the helm, that will be the end of PBB and Taib as well. As they say, the writing is on the wall.

Taib has deceived everyone, including members of his own party, that what he has been doing has been good and right for Sarawak, knowing that the opposite has been true. His dilemma now is how to undo all the damage without admitting his wrongs and wrongdoings. He knows that he will be remembered for the latter if he does not undertake the former or at the very least put someone in place to succeed him who can do it without succumbing to PBB's divisive, destructive and corrupt politics - largely caused by him.

Taib's successor may very well be rejected by the older echelon of PBB, who are in any event due for replacement, but with the younger generation with him he will have to ride the tiger and conquer it. Now is the time for Taib to be bold enough to put a successor in place who will do it for it is only by doing so that Taib will redeem himself. Will Taib be bold enough to admit and attempt to right his own wrongs? Does such a person exist in the whole of Sarawak?

If he does, you can be sure that Taib knows who that person is and what he (Taib) needs to do.

Anything else will lead to unmitigated disaster and an uncertain and bleak future for Sarawak and its people.

Bagaimana Taib Terselamat Pada Pilihanraya 1987...

dan mengapa Sarawak hari ini dalam cengkaman penguasaan gang perompak tauke-tauke balak...

Apabila "Peristiwa Ming Court" – satu pemberontakan terhadap Taib oleh ahli, sama ada wakil rakyat dan bukan wakil rakyat, dari kemnya sendiri yang diketuai oleh bapa saudaranya sendiri, Tun Rahman – telah terjadi pada Mac 1987, Taib pada waktu itu sudah menjadi Ketua Menteri selama 6 tahun.

Dalam 6 tahun tersebut, dia telah berjaya untuk menimbulkan kemarahan ahli-ahli tersebut dengan berat sebelah menyokong dan memberi kontrak serta konsesi kepada sekumpulan baru kroni kapitalis yang kebanyakannya adalah Cina Foochow, dari atau dekat dengan parti SUPP, dan terlibat secara khasnya dalam industri pembalakan dan pembinaan.

Yang ironiknya, bapa saudaranya sendiri yang telah memulakan tren ini, semasa menjadi Ketua Menteri pada tahun 1970 dia terpaksa bergantung kepada sokongan parti SUPP dan dengan demikian menghalang percubaan SNAP untuk berkuasa semula di negeri ini.

Bapa saudaranya telah berkuasa hampir 12 tahun tetapi dalam masa 6 tahun kroni-kroni Taib telah pun merapatkan jarak dengan hampir menyamai jumlah konsesi balak yang dipegang oleh kroni-kroni Rahman.

Walaupun Taib telah mendapatkan nikmat secara peribadi daripada pengaturan bersama dengan kumpulan kroni-kroninya, pada masa itu kemungkinan besar dia masih tidak bersetanding dengan kuasa-kewangan kroni-kroni bapa saudaranya. Dia juga mengetahui bahawa pilihanraya 1987 yang terpaksa diadakan kerana pemberontakan yang telah berlaku sangat mahal kosnya, dengan kumpulan bapa saudaranya membelanjakan sebanyak wang yang mungkin untuk menggulingkan dia, sementara dia (Taib) harus membelanjakan sejumlah wang yang sekurang-kurangnya hampir sama seperti perbelanjaan mereka demi mempertahankan dirinya dan kroni-kroninya.

Untuk separuhnya menyekatkan kuasa-kewangan pihak lawan dan juga untuk mendapat akses kepada sumber kewangan yang diperlukan untuk dirinya, dia telah mengarahkan semua dana kerajaan negeri dipindahkan daripada Bank Utama yang mana pada ketika itu dikuasai oleh salah seorang kroni bapa saudaranya Bidari, yang juga Bendahari PBB.

Ini dapat dia lakukan dengan bantuan baik iparnya, Aziz Hussain, yang pada ketika itu kebetulannya adalah Pembantu atau Timbalan Pegawai Kewangan Negeri. Sebenarnya Aziz Hussain lah yang membongkarkan rahsia tersebut, tanpa disedarinya kepada Sarawak Headhunter pada suatu ketika.

Taib telah membuat perjanjian dengan 5 ketua gang tauke balak – jika anda tidak tahu siapa mereka, lihat sahaja siapa 5 pemegang konsesi balak utama di Sarawak. Perjanjiannya adalah bahawa mereka akan membayar Taib RM30 juta setiap seorang jika dia memenangi pilihanraya itu. Sebagai balasan mereka bukan sahaja akan dapat mengekalkan konsesi balak yang sedia ada tetapi mereka juga akan diberi banyak konsesi lagi – dan Taib juga akan menerima banyak lagi, ia itu RM30 juta setiap orang yang bakal diterima Taib hanyalah suatu bayaran muka yang kecil.

Jadi Taib telah menggunakan RM150 juta wang kerajaan negeri untuk menampung kempen pilihanrayanya (dan BN). Wang mengalir umpama air daripada kedua-dua pihak, tetapi di sebelah Rahman kelihatan seolah-olah lebih banyak wang tidak dibelanjakan seperti sepatutnya, maka selepas pilihanraya, rumah Nor Tahir di Satok telah digeledah oleh pihak berkuasa persekutuan dan lebih RM90 juta wang tunai haram yang tidak sempat dibelanjakan telah dirampas.

Ya, rakyat Sarawak yang baik, itulah pendapatan haram dari sumber alam saudara-saudara, yang mereka telah gunakan bagi “merasuah” anda untuk menyokong mereka.

Apabila pilihanraya selesai dan kumpulan Taib telah memenanginya dengan kelebihan hanya 4 kerusi, RM150 juta tersebut telah dengan segera digantikan dan tiada sesiapa pun tahu atau sedari apa yang telah Taib lakukan untuk menyelamatkan diri dalam pilihanraya 1987.

Inilah cara bagaimana Taib terselamat dalam pilihanraya 1987 dan bagaimana sekurang-kurangnya 7 juta hektar konsesi balak telah jatuh ke dalam kawalan keluarga Taib, konco-konco dan kroni-kroni mereka (yang tidak kurang 5 juta hektar telah dikuasai 5 perompak tauke balak paling besar yang telah membayar balik Taib bagi memulangkan wang kerajaan negeri yang telah dia gunakan dalam pilihanraya tersebut).

Pilihanraya di Sarawak dan di banyak bahagian Malaysia tidak lebih dari hanya sekadar demokrasi olok-olok dan suatu penyelewengan demokrasi, sehinggalah sampai suatu ketika di mana rakyat sendiri memutuskan bahawa mereka tidak boleh dirasuah lagi dengan wang mereka sendiri untuk menyokong serta mengundi wakil rakyat yang kemudiannya akan menyalahgunakan amanah mereka.

Daripada: http://abunsuianyit.blogspot.com/

How Taib Survived The 1987 Elections...

and why Sarawak is today in the grip of the robber baron timber gang lords...

When the "Ming Court Affair" - a rebellion against Taib by members, both elected and non-elected, of his own coalition led by his own uncle, Tun Rahman - took place in March 1987, Taib had already been Chief Minister for 6 years.

In those 6 years, he had managed to antagonize these members by one-sidedly supporting and giving contracts and concessions to a new group of crony capitalists who were mostly Foochow Chinese, from or close to SUPP, and mainly involved in the timber and construction industries.

Ironically, it was his uncle who had started this trend, when to become Chief Minister in 1970 he had to depend on the support of SUPP and thereby thwart SNAP's attempt to come back to power in the state.

His uncle was in power for almost 12 years, but in 6 years Taib's group of cronies had almost closed the gap in terms of the timber concessions held by them as against those held by Rahman's cronies.

While Taib did benefit personally from arrangements with his group of cronies, by that time it is likely that he could not as yet match the money-power of his uncle's group of cronies. He also knew that the 1987 elections which he was forced to call because of the rebellion was going to be a very costly affair, with his uncle's group spending as much as they could to try and overthrow him, while he had to at least match their spending to defend himself and his cronies.

Partly to neutralize his opponents' money-power and also to gain access to the necessary funds for himself, he ordered the transfer of all state government funds out from Bank Utama which was then under the control of one of his uncle's cronies, Bidari, who was also PBB Treasurer.

This he was able to do with the kind assistance of his brother-in-law, Aziz Hussain, who then just happened to be the Assistant or Deputy State Financial Officer. In fact it was Aziz Hussain who inadvertently spilled the beans, unaware that he was talking to the Sarawak Headhunter at the time.

Taib then made a deal with 5 robber baron timber gang lords - if you don't know who they are, just look for the top 5 timber concession holders in Sarawak. The deal was that they would each pay him RM30 million if he won the elections. In return they would not only get to keep the concessions they already had but they would also be given many more - and Taib would also make much more, the RM30 million each just a small down-payment.

So Taib used RM150 million of state government money to fund his (and the BN's) election campaign. Money flowed like water on both sides, but it would appear that on Rahman's side much of the money did not get where it was supposed to go, so much so that after the elections, Nor Tahir's house in Satok was raided by the federal authorities who found and confiscated more than RM90 million in unaccounted for cash that had not been spent.

Yes, good folks of Sarawak, that's the illegally-earned money from your own natural resources, particularly timber, that they were using to bribe you to support them.

When the elections were over and Taib's group had won by a mere 4 seats, the RM150 million was immediately replaced and no one was any the wiser what Taib had done to survive the 1987 elections.

This is how Taib survived the 1987 elections and how at least 7 million hectares of timber concessions came to be controlled by Taib's family, henchmen and cronies (of which no less than 5 million hectares came under the dominion of the top 5 robber baron timber lords who had reimbursed Taib the state government money that he had used for the elections).

Elections in Sarawak and many other parts of Malaysia are nothing more than a mockery and subversion of democracy, until the people decide that they cannot be bribed with their own money to support and vote for their elected representatives to abuse their trust.

Gong Xi Fa Cai!

HAPPY & PROSPEROUS CHINESE NEW YEAR TO ALL SARAWAK HEADHUNTER'S CHINESE FRIENDS AND FOES ALIKE

Another UMNO Racist Idiot Caught Lying With His Pants Down

See the report at Malaysia Today: "UMNO official denies making racist remarks in London"

This letter to Malaysiakini started it: "Racist UMNO Youth propaganda in London"

What is obvious is that UMNO will never learn to accept the non-Malays in Malaysia. Sarawak, with its majority non-Malay population, should GET OUT OF MALAYSIA, the sooner the better. Furthermore, the Sarawak Malays (other than those who are BN cronies) are not like the Malayan Malays.

Perakians Lead The Way!