THE
SARAWAK DILEMMA
To Leave or to Stay in
Malaysia
There
are some Sarawakians who still think that staying in Malaysia is an option for
Sarawak. Many, possibly the majority of Sarawakians, however have come to the
conclusion that it is not. If a referendum were to be held today, most Sarawakians
would undoubtedly vote to become an independent nation, most probably a Republic.
The
colonial Malayans self-servingly consider this to be “treason” and “sedition”, even
though there is absolutely nothing in the Malaysia Agreement 1963 (MA63) and
the Federal Constitution that prohibits secession. After all they themselves
forced Singapore to secede, without even consulting Sarawak or Sabah, when they
could no longer tolerate Singapore’s resistance to their racist and opportunist agenda.
The
Malayans have never been sincere, and since the very formation of Malaysia to
this very day have treated Sarawak like a colony, in spite of their avowed
intention otherwise and notwithstanding their present hollow and hypocritical
pledges of greater autonomy and return of Sarawak’s rights under MA63.
Instead
of Borneonising the State’s administration, they Malayanised it. They never
bothered to appoint Sarawakians to any senior or important positions in the
Federal government or civil service. Instead they found all kinds of ways and
means, mostly unconstitutional and in breach of the Federal Constitution itself
as well as the spirit if not the very letter of the Malaysia Agreement 1963
(MA63), to dictate to and control the Sarawak government and civil service through
their policies, finance, taxation and development expenditure, to name a few.
The
only Sarawakians they were happy to deal with and honour were those traitors who
collaborated with them in subjugating Sarawak and its people to their will and in
furthering their racist and piratical political agendas. The useless Rahman Ya’kub
and Taib Mahmud were thus able to divide and rule Sarawak for their own and the
Malayans’ benefit, a situation that is continued to this day by the even more
useless Abang Johari.
The
Malayans and their lackeys Rahman and Taib and precipitated a constitutional
crisis through instigating the unconstitutional removal of the first Chief
Minister of Sarawak, Stephen Kalong Ningkan, who to them was troublesome and unwilling
to cooperate in their colonisation schemes. When the case was decided against
them they conspired to create a false state of emergency and direct rule and installed
a puppet Chief Minister, who was then later expediently replaced by Rahman as a
reward for his loyalty to the Malayan agenda.
Taib
was rewarded with a Federal Ministership and soon set about to please his
Malayan masters by conspiring with them to bring Sarawak’s (and Sabah’s) oil
and gas resources under Federal and Malayan control. They succeeded in this nefarious
and diabolical agenda by by-passing the Sarawak Legislative Assembly, by
getting Rahman as Chief Minister to expediently and single-handedly sign away
all of Sarawak’s oil and gas wealth to the Federal government via Petronas.
There
was no discussion or debate at all in Sarawak nor a single sound in the Sarawak
Legislative Assembly. Under the orchestration of the Malayans, particularly
Razak and Razaleigh, in cahoots with Rahman and Taib, Sarawakians didn’t even
realise what was really going on.
After
the Malayans got their dirty hands on Sarawak’s petroleum resources via the
illegal and unconstitutional Petroleum Development Act 1974 (PDA74), presented
by Taib and supported by his and Rahman’s lackey Sarawakian members of Parliament
themselves, for a paltry royalty payment of 5% of gross production (amounting
to only 1% to 1.5% of the total petroleum value chain), they did as they
pleased with those resources and the revenues derived from them.
Having
been manipulated into giving up control of their oil and gas wealth to the
Malayans, Sarawakians were forced to beg for the funds needed for their
development, and Sarawak has been reduced to becoming one of the most backward
and poorest states in Malaysia, in spite of having among the highest GDP.
Many Sarawakians, especially from the rural areas have been forced to work outside of Sarawak, while Malayans deprive Sarawakians of work and tens if not hundreds of billions of contracts in the petroleum industry.
The
Malayans never even bothered to appoint any Sarawakians to the Board of Directors
of Petronas or its senior management until recently when the State Secretary of
Sarawak became the first after more than 40 years of its existence, even then
only after Sarawakians started making noise.
Rahman
and Taib were allowed to do as they pleased to Sarawak and Taib in particular
became rich beyond belief from his corrupt control of Sarawak’s timber and land
resources. They never bothered at all about how much wealth the Malayans were
siphoning off from Sarawak’s petroleum resources.
It is this wealth that has given the Malayans the opportunity to mismanage, waste and siphon off hundreds of billions for their personal benefit at the expense of ordinary Sarawakians.
Over
the years, in spite of Sarawak’s major contribution to the national coffers via
Malayan exploitation of its oil and gas resources, its dilapidated schools,
lack of clinics, hospitals, electricity, clean water and other basic amenities,
especially in the rural areas, speak volumes not only for the gross neglect by
the Federal government but also by the GPS Sarawak government itself that until
recently was part of BN Malayan-controlled coalition of parties.
The
so-called "New Malaysia" Pakatan Harapan (PH) Federal government (also
Malayan-controlled) is no better than the Old Malaysia either, and has back-tracked on its promise
for higher oil royalties for Sarawak. In reality they don’t care and should
have no say at all in Sarawak’s petroleum resources, nor should they dictate
how much Sarawak should get from its own petroleum resources.
Given
all that has happened and the above scenario, the Sarawak Dilemma is not really
a dilemma and must be answered by Sarawak leaving Malaysia as its only option.
Sarawakians can no longer put their trust in the Malayans nor their present leaders,
all of whom have proven treacherous. Sarawakians must be the masters of their
own destiny and must create and build a New Sarawak without GPS and/or PH or any of their useless
component parties.
Rise,
my fellow Sarawakians! We have nothing to lose and everything to gain! Take
your destiny in your own hands, for the sake of your future generations, for
justice and equity for all Sarawakians, for Fair Land Sarawak!
Agi
Idup Agi Ngelaban!
Long
live the Republic of Sarawak!
Al Tugauw
The Sarawak Headhunter
27th
September, 2018
