Sarawak & 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]

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.

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 PM

 

How Does Petronas Think Sarawak, Sabah, Kelantan & Terengganu Feel?

Petronas chafes at being country’s piggy bank

July 02, 2012

 A Petronas worker inspects a tanker in Kuala Lumpur 

July 3, 2006. — Reuters pics

 

(Comments by Sarawak Headhunter in red).

 

KUALA LUMPUR, July 2 — State oil company Petronas is tired of being Malaysia’s cash trough. Its growing pique at the government flared into public view here in early June at the World Gas Conference.

 

If this is how Petronas, which doesn't own any territory from which it exploits the nation's petroleum resources, how does it think Sarawak, Sabah, Kelantan and Terengganu, which own those territories, feel?

 

They are the nation's real piggy bank, even though they get minimal revenues from their own petroleum resources - and in the case of Kelantan not even a single sen.

 

UMNO can claim it gives billions of development funds to Kelantan, but the reality is that these funds are spent to benefit cronies and areas that voted for UMNO, leaving the other areas to fend for themselves under an impoverished state government that has been deprived of its rightful petroleum resources.   

 

Chief executive Datuk Shamsul Azhar Abbas took to the stage and declared that the government’s policy of subsidising fuel was plain wrong. A murmur ran through the crowd — his boss, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, was sitting in the front row.

By right, at the very least, the oil and gas producing territories of the nation should enjoy subsidized fuel. Yet they now have the highest number of poor people in the country. There is certainly something wrong here. Who have these so-called subsidies benefited and are they really subsidies? 

Moments later, Najib went to the podium himself to remind everybody that the subsidies — for which Petronas foots the bill — have “social-economic objectives.”

Petronas must certainly have a certain corporate social responsibility to meet sensible and proper soci0-economic objectives, but certainly not political objectives, as has become the case - transforming Petronas into the political piggy-bank controlled by the Prime Minister and no one else, without any responsibility or accountability, not even to Parliament.

 

The subtext of that rejoinder: Malaysians pay among the lowest electricity rates and petrol-pump prices in Asia. While the government has vowed to “rationalize” that, it is highly unlikely to happen before elections expected in a few months.

This is certainly not true and must be seen in the overall context of consumer prices generally. Any purported "rationalization" would result in further distortion of an economy already burdened by leakages due to corruption, mismanagement, extravagance, bloated project pricing, plain looting, pre-election largesse and bribery and many other fiscal scandals that have drained the economy but have been covered by petroleum revenues.  

The polite but pointed disagreement was the latest sign of assertiveness from an oil company that prime ministers have treated as a piggy bank for pet projects since it was established in 1974.

Interviews with current and former officials, and an examination of Petronas and government documents show that strains have been building behind the scenes over how much money the company hands over to the government in the form of fuel subsidies, dividends and taxes.

Financial data reviewed by Reuters show the government has increasingly relied on Petronas’s payments — a “dividend” to its sole shareholder — to plug fiscal deficits that have begun to alarm ratings agencies and analysts.

The data also show these payments grew over the past several years as oil prices soared, along with government spending. But Malaysia’s official accounts do not show how the money is being spent — and the government has steadfastly refused to disclose any details about that.

The government in particular the Prime Ministers past and present are obviously not going to disclose just how irresponsible they have been with the nation's petroleum revenues coughed up by Petronas.

“We need cash”

Shamsul delivers his address during the World Gas Conference 2012 in Kuala Lumpur June 4, 2012.

Petronas is Malaysia’s largest single taxpayer and biggest source of revenue, covering as much as 45 per cent of the government’s budget. Unlike other oil-rich nations such as Saudi Arabia, Norway or Brazil, Malaysia runs chronic, large budget deficits that have expanded even as oil revenues increased. Last year’s fiscal gap, at 5 per cent of gross domestic product, trailed only India’s for the dubious distinction of biggest in emerging Asia, and it may widen this year.

 

Subsidies account for a big chunk of the deficit. They have other downsides as well, Shamsul noted in his speech to the gas conference.

“Subsidies distort transparency, reduce competition and deter new investments,” he said, adding that Petronas paid between RM18 billion and RM20 billion a year to subsidize gas consumption.

Why should Petronas pay to subsidize gas consumption and who benefits from these "subsidies", directly or indirectly? Could the chief beneficiaries in fact be the crony-run IPPs? Yet electricity consumers are facing threats of higher "costs". Is Petronas being forced to subsidize inefficiency of and profiteering by UMNO's cronies? 

Malaysia is not facing a fiscal crisis. Foreign investors eagerly buy Malaysian government bonds, confident the country’s reserves of oil, gas and foreign currency are deep enough to ensure the debt will be repaid.

That faith will be tested over the next few months.

Falling oil and gas prices will likely constrain Petronas’s 2012 profits, and a worsening euro-zone crisis may hurt the country’s exports. Smaller Petronas payouts and slowing economic growth would pinch government finances.

Shamsul argues now is an opportune time to pursue foreign acquisitions on the cheap as Malaysia’s domestic energy supplies deplete. On Thursday, the company announced it was acquiring its Canadian joint-venture partner, Progress Energy Resources Corp, for US$4.7 billion (RM14.1 billion). More may be in the offing.

“Mind you, for that to happen, we need cash,” Shamsul said in his speech.

The trouble is, the government needs the cash, too.

People walk outside the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, September 12, 2001

Towers over Malaysia

Petronas, Malaysia’s only global Fortune 500 company, towers over the country — literally and figuratively. Its 88-storey twin towers, once the world’s tallest buildings, dominate the skyline of Kuala Lumpur.

Petronas’s oil and gas reserves rank 28th in the world, according to data from PetroStrategies in Plano, Texas, ahead of some better known players such as Norway’s Statoil and CNOOC, China National Offshore Oil Corp.

Unusual for a state-owned enterprise, Petronas’s debt is rated stronger than the sovereign state’s. The company had about US$15.6 billion in total borrowing as of March 31 and counts U.S. insurer Aflac Inc among the debt holders.

Petronas’ CEO and board, however, serve at the pleasure of the prime minister. Over the years, prime ministers have tapped into Petronas funds to build their dream projects and bail out their mistakes. Political leaders were used to dealing with yes-men in the company, which on Malaysia’s organisation chart is part of the prime minister’s office.

Now Petronas is trying to say no.

UMNO and the present Prime Minister aren't going to like that, since that could put a spanner in the UMNO works and plans especially for the coming 13th general elections that they hope to steal.

Like all state-owned oil companies, Petronas is expected to pass along a share of profit to the government, just as a private sector oil company pays dividends to shareholders.

Those dividends gobbled up almost 55 per cent of its net profits in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2011, well above the average of 38 per cent paid by national oil companies around the world, Petronas figures show.

Only sheer greed and a "couldn't care less" attitude about prudent management can account for this.

 

Including taxes, export duties and the dividend, Petronas estimates its total payments to the Malaysian government added up to RM65.7 billion in that fiscal year.

Swelling deficit

Najib would be forced to cut spending if he did not have access to Petronas funds.

 

Petronas has been pushing for a new dividend policy that would set the annual payout to the government at 30 per cent of profits instead of the flat RM28 billion it will pay this year.

 

A lower payout would preserve money to reinvest in global oil and gas exploration in order to compensate for declining domestic supplies.

A Reuters analysis of Petronas and government financial data shows Petronas would have paid close to RM17 billion in the March 2011 fiscal year if the 30 per cent dividend formula was in place.

A smaller dividend payment would have deepened Malaysia’s fiscal deficit, swelling it to about 6.5 per cent of gross domestic product. That is nearly triple the average among the world’s emerging-market economies, according to International Monetary Fund data.

With less Petronas money under the new formula, Prime Minister Najib would have three unpopular options: cutting spending, increasing taxes or ramping up the deficit. Worsening public finances could unsettle foreign investors, who hold about 39 per cent of the government’s local currency debt, the highest share in emerging Asia.

The Petronas CEO put a brave face on it when Reuters asked him if the new formula might be put in place this year, with elections now expected as soon as September.

“The government is fairly aware of Petronas’s need to have our own funding for growth,” Shamsul said after the company released financial results on May 31. “They respect that and they will agree to our request.”

Since when did the UMNO/BN government respect anything other than what they and their cronies want?

Najib’s office declined to comment.

Respectfully?

 

Election stimulus?

Najib, who took over mid-term from his predecessor and has yet to receive an electoral mandate as prime minister, can ill-afford to accommodate Petronas right now on the dividend. He has raised civil-servant wages and approved cash payouts to low-income households — vote-winning measures paid for in part by Petronas.

In reality paid for by Sarawak, Sabah, Kelantan and Terengganu.

 

Ratings agency Fitch warned in February that Malaysia’s budget was too reliant on petroleum receipts, and elections could drive up spending and deepen the budget deficit.

“If aggressive stimulus measures were implemented and this led to a sustained increase in public debt ratios, it would be negative for the ratings,” Fitch wrote.

That may already be happening. The government in June asked parliament to approve another RM13.8 billion in supplementary spending — more than half of it for food and fuel subsidies — which would swell the fiscal deficit to 6 per cent of GDP.

Petronas only began detailing its contributions to the government two years ago — around the time it began lobbying for a change in the dividend policy. Indeed, the word “dividend” does not even appear in its annual reports for 2001 through 2009.

Reuters has filled in some of the gaps from previous years, obtaining figures from former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, now adviser to the oil company, dating back to 1976. Petronas declined to confirm their accuracy.

No public disclosure

Dr Mahathir’s data show Petronas payments to the state more than doubled between 2005 and 2011 as oil prices soared. Malaysia’s spending swelled, too, widening the budget deficit even though revenues rose. But Malaysia would not disclose what the Petronas money is being spent on.

Reuters placed an official request for that data from Malaysia’s accountant general’s office, but the audit agency said it could provide budgetary figures for everything except Petronas’s contributions.

Without access to official figures, it is difficult to determine how the government spends Petronas money. Dr Mahathir told Reuters he released additional Petronas data on his blog as an “appeal” for more clarity on where the money went after he stepped down from office in 2003.

The bulk of it appears to be going into operating expenses, including higher wages for the more than 1.4 million civil servants who are mostly Malays, Dr Mahathir said.

Since Najib took office in 2009, operating expenses have risen by almost 16 per cent. Development spending, which includes education, security and healthcare, has stayed flat.

Increased wages are a recurring cost, Dr Mahathir pointed out in an interview from his office on the 83rd floor of the Petronas Towers. Once pay goes up, he said, it is difficult to cut in lean years.

“So the result is, you take more from development expenditure because development expenditure is not a statutory requirement,” he said. “You can cut.”

Not a word about the development and maintenance costs of Putrajaya. Who knows what these are and what kind of a burden they have become to the government. Indeed, even a new government would find itself grossly over-burdened, the extent of which is something the present government is desperately trying to hide.

Other than the other undesirable legacies Mahathir @ Dr Malignant has left the nation, this would also be an enduring burden upon the country that nothing that comes out of a non-revenue generating Putrajaya and its over-paid and highly bloated Malay-stuffed civil service can ever justify.  

Dr Mahathir smiles in his office at the top of the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur November 2, 2004.

Expanding abroad

As domestic oil supplies shrink, Petronas has been expanding abroad, investing in Sudanese oil, South African petrol stations and European liquefied natural gas. Its corporate operations map shows a presence on five continents.

But 29 per cent of the company’s international production is concentrated in Sudan and South Sudan, and clashes along their border have virtually shut down most of the pipelines. Shamsul warned that a halt in Sudan production would cost the company RM3 billion.

That is one reason behind the planned purchase of Canada’s Progress Energy. Shamsul said Thursday that the deal would boost the company’s gas resources in “a geopolitically stable region.”

Deals like this take money, and Petronas argues it cannot fulfil its mission when it is handing over more than half its profits to the government.

Petronas board member Mohammed Azhar Osman Khairuddin told unidentified US diplomats that the oil company “feels tremendous pressure to grow its business in order to maintain Malaysia’s political status.”

That is to say keep a totally and irredeemably corrupt and mismanaged UMNO/BN regime in place. What a complete waste of Petronas revenues contributed to the UMNO/BN government.  

Azhar said Petronas wanted the money invested in oil and gas assets “to promote future profitability rather than be spent now on domestic programmes for political gain”, according to a diplomatic cable released by Wikileaks in June of last year.

Neither Azhar nor Petronas responded to requests for comment.

How can they defy the nation's CEO, the Prime Minister, who has already embarked upon laying waste to Felda?

The tug-of-war between government payments and corporate investments is a sore point with other oil companies as well.

Petronas faces a milder version of the dilemma facing Mexico’s national oil company, Pemex. The Mexican government is extracting so much cash from the business that Pemex is having trouble investing in production — and output has waned. Fitch assigned a “BBB” rating to the oil company’s latest debt issuance, citing a substantial tax burden and “exposure to political interference risk.”

With global energy demand expected to rise by around 30 per cent by 2050 as the population rises to 9 billion, oil executives are asking whether governments are a major obstacle to ensuring future supplies at affordable levels.

Exxon Mobil Chief Executive Rex Tillerson told the World Gas Conference that regulation, taxes and subsidies are placing at risk the projects needed to fuel global growth. If the situation persists, governments will find their economies “walking backwards,” he said.

Petronas has four oil projects in Iraq, which are expected to achieve commercial production this year. Shamsul estimates that Petronas’s share of Iraqi output will peak at 800,000 barrels of oil per day by 2015 — about 45 per cent more than Malaysia’s annual crude oil production.

The company has not disclosed how much it is investing in Iraq, but as much as US$8 billion is going into one field alone, Gharf Oilfield, which Petronas is developing along with Japan Petroleum Exploration Co.

“The reason (Petronas) does not want to give money to the government is because it needs the money to reinvest,” Dr Mahathir said. “This is a very costly business as you know. Everything runs into the billions of dollars.”

Mahathir of course is shy to mention how costly his running of Malaysia has been and will continue to be, even though he is no longer Prime Minister.

 

Najib (right) talks to Hassan as they arrive for the opening of 14th Asia Oil & Gas Conference in Kuala Lumpur June 8, 2009.

Good governance

As state oil companies go, Petronas has a good reputation for governance. A 2011 World Bank working paper on governance and performance of national oil companies ranked Petronas slightly above the global average.

But it has been called upon to bankroll some questionable projects, both under Najib and his predecessors. Twice — in 1984 and 1989 — Dr Mahathir asked Petronas to bail out scandal-ridden Bank Bumiputra Bhd from collapse. In those two rescues, Petronas injected a total of RM3.3 billion into the bank.

The only reason for Bank Bumiputra needing to be bailed out twice can be traced to the shenanigans perpetrated by UMNO's own cronies as well as its own deliberate refusal to pay its own debts incurred for the UMNO PWTC HQ and owing to the bank.

These have presumably been written off by Bank Bumiputra which conveniently also no longer exists.

UMNO has thus been in possession and occupation of its PWTC HQ free of charge courtesy of Petronas and the petroleum revenues of Sarawak, Sabah, Kelantan and Terengganu.

 

Dr Mahathir drew criticism for tapping Petronas to bail out a debt-burdened shipping concern controlled by his eldest son, Mirzan, and again to support auto company Proton, which makes the Lotus Formula One car.

Dr Mahathir denied he had bailed out his son. Petronas “drove a very hard bargain” and ended up turning a profit on the deal, he insisted. Petronas has repeatedly declined to discuss the bailouts.

Easy for Mahathir to say, but where's the proof that Petronas made a profit from the deal?

 

The strains between Petronas and the government spilled out into the public after Najib took office in 2009.

Tan Sri Hassan Marican, Petronas’s CEO at the time, disagreed with Najib over issues ranging from who should be named to the Petronas board to which Formula One car to sponsor.

Reuters has learned that Najib gave Hassan just six days’ notice that his contract would not be renewed in 2010, ending a 21-year career. Three people with direct knowledge of the situation said Hassan was let go because he did not get along with Najib.

“Six days to pack up a career spanning more than two decades,” said a person close to Hassan.

Hassan, now a board member at US oil major ConocoPhillips and chairman of utilities company Singapore Power, did not respond to repeated interview requests.

Appointed by Dr Mahathir, the 59-year-old accountant by training had considerable freedom before the clashes with Najib. Dr Mahathir said Hassan often said “no” to his suggestions, though he did agree to bail out the national car company that was the prime minister’s pride and joy and the company owned by Dr Mahathir’s son.

In the whole history of Mahathir's government, who from the establishment ever dared to say "no" to him and survived to tell the tale?

Hassan refused to use inexperienced Malaysian companies to develop Malaysia’s oil and gas industry, or to pursue costly ventures to develop the country’s marginal oil fields, the source close to Hassan said.

Those two projects are now part of Najib’s ambitious US$444 billion economic transformation programme launched in September 2010 — just seven months after Hassan’s removal. — Reuters

For the sake of not just Petronas, but the nation as a whole, it should be obvious to all right-thinking Malaysians that UMNO/BN's unholy reign of corruption, extravagance and mismanagement MUST come to an end in the coming GE-13 - Sarawak Headhunter

 

The Ghosts Of Malaysia

 

A real Malaysian ghost story

S Thayaparan 8:39AM Jun 30, 2012

You realise that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past. - Chuck Palahniuk (Survivor)

COMMENT Here we go again. The central theme of my previous piece was how we as Malaysians willingly played Dr Mahathir Mohamad's race game and lost.

That's not surprising since the Umno house always wins. We are still playing the same game only this time, we have changed the rules. Prime Minister Najib Razak and MCA chief Dr Chua Soi Lek obviously have not caught on to this fact.

I don't find either Najib's mendacious assurances to the Chinese community that the systemic racism faced by them is a fringe ideology and not mainstream Umno dogma or the predictable banal backlash by a certain section of the Chinese community, particularly newsworthy.

Perceptive observers would understand that race relations in Malaysia is solely defined by these two communities - Umnoputra and the Chinese community, while the Orang Asli, non-Umno Malays, Indian, et al, are merely ‘passengers' (or traitors in the case of non-Umno Malays) - a step-up from ‘pendatangs' I suppose.

Pointing out the inconsistencies in Najib's ‘reassurances' would be like shooting fish in a barrel but there are some insights to be gained from the rhetoric oozing forth from the regime with regards to the political reality of Malaysia.

"We don't intend to lose," Najib proclaims so sure of he of the democratic process in Malaysia, and seeing as how the numbers are constantly being manipulated I don't doubt him. But by ‘we' he doesn't really mean BN but Umno.

He warns the Chinese if they want to have a ‘voice' in the system, they should vote for MCA, never mind that having a voice hasn't halted the institutional racism that is the foundation of Umno policy or that he (and Umno) are supposed to represent every Malaysian regardless of race, or so they claim.

But the questions still remains, what would Umno do as far as communal expectations are concerned if their coalition partners lose?

Malays go at it alone

Well, the answer to that is simple. The hawks in Umno have already decided that a "Malay go at it alone" policy is the best strategy. No doubt buttressed by the corrupt coalitions from Sabah and Sarawak, Umno could theoretically hold on to power and wait the opposition out.

By maintaining control in the so-called ‘Malay heartland' by any means necessary, they hope to cut off Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim from the mainstream Malay polity. This, and of course the "flawed" electoral process, should keep the game going for some time even if by electoral attrition their influence wanes.

The so-called moderates realising the inevitable futility of this are chaotically coming up with other strategies.

The newish strategy of Najib echoing the Anwar refrain of government aid not being a zero-sum game and implying that BN, or at least his BN, is offering a class-based approach to problems even if BN is in theory a race-based political coalition, has been pretty limp going so far.

The only difference between him and Anwar is that unlike Anwar, who has been pretty consistent in his message to the various communities he is campaigning to (much to the dismay of his political opponents); Najib and his allies have one message for each community, which at least in this regard is consistent with the underlying ideology of their political pact.

This abrupt change of ideological rhetoric of Umno is hardly surprising. Former prime minister and Perkasa patron Dr Mahathir Mohamad claimed not too long ago at the Perkasa/Gertak ‘mega' rally that May 13 was in actuality a class-based conflict but of course his polemic was tinged with the usual ‘communist' undertones aimed at Anwar and the DAP.

The fact that the former premier could suggest such a thing at a supposed ‘race-based awakening' was amusing, but I reckon only to me.

But then again, nobody should be surprised with BN's ideological dissonance since Pakatan Rakyat itself is a bundle of barely suppressed ideological and religious impulses. Not that it matters of course.

Pakatan partisans have displayed a remarkable intolerance at challenging their own political dogma or even possible policies preferring instead to gorge on the daily financial scandals and the resultant shadow play arrests, which are fed to them by canny political operatives.

The opposition coalition has played the political game shrewdly but really Umno's incompetence is half the battle won. Pakatan's own financial and political scandals are dismissed by their supporters as inconsequential (compared to BN's) or as BN propaganda meant to destabilise the fragile coalition.

Modern-day slavery
Najib's latest "goody" - how I loathe that term - bag to taxi drivers is the latest state-sanctioned bribery that has blown up in Umno's face. Predictably Pakatan supporters have lapped this up gleefully pointing out the numerous cronycrats, who have benefitted from this system.

Taxi drivers as a possible voting block are awash with the muck that soils the system. Playing the system with price-fixing gangs, employing ‘foreigners' as proxy drivers, and the list goes on.

Najib's rather preposterous claim that the monopoly of private companies of taxi licences is a form of modern-day slavery is despicable but fits in nicely with PAS' ‘mahafiraun' narrative with regards to the citizen slavery to Umno.

If Najib really wants to wage a jihad on modern-day slavery here in Malaysia, he should personally look into the human trafficking of children, women and men who service the various industries - both legal and illegal - which contribute to the economy of this country and Umno coffers.

He should look at the ‘slave wages' earned by some in the Indian and Chinese community who have the added indignity of being denied citizenships for bureaucratic reasons. And then of course, there's the ‘Orang Asli problem'.

But all these very real issues are subsumed beneath the political one-upmanship that Umno seems to be losing in the cyber propaganda war and let's face it, Pakatan is unable to address for various reasons. All that is forthcoming are assurances that by winning federal power, they would be able to solve these ‘issues"' Exactly how they intend to do this is something we have to take on faith.

Faith. Something that Umno doesn't seem to realise is practically non-existent in a certain section of the voting public, which Umno is aggressively courting. Najib talks of "ghosts" which are being created out of the Lynas issue and he's right.

There has been very little objective discourse on the Lynas issue so far except appeals to emotion from both sides of the political divide. BN, of course, has got nothing to fall back on because decades of executive interference has left all the government institutions devoid of credibility staffed by cronycrats unable to command an iota of respect.

Pakatan, on the other hand, has had a field day turning this issue into their main environmental and safety (sic) issue in lieu of any substantive environmental policies of their own.

And good for them but bad for us in the long term if any issue will always been used as stakes in a political game because the alternative alliance that claims to be forward thinking and progressive always has the excuse that it is involved in a life and death struggle with their political opponents.

Najib's wingman

I'm not surprised that Umno has some sort of ‘reality distortion field' at work in Putrajaya but I'm surprised that it has affected Najib's wingman to the Chinese community, Chua Soi Lek.

Chua a shifty operator with a good work ethic - he would have done well during Tunku Abdul Rahman's tenure (sex scandal and all) - but seems to have really lost the plot.

His bare naked shilling for Umno has reached preposterous heights. His ‘counseling' of ‘not dwelling' on what happened in 60s and 70s to those youths is bizarre. I doubt most Chinese, or even most Malaysians, are even aware of what happened in the 60s or 70s. What they know of it is probably Umno propaganda or unofficial communal propaganda. I doubt they are up-to-date on the subaltern narratives that are excluded from the discourse.

No. What they are dwelling on is what happened last year. Or last week or yesterday. What they are dwelling on is the murder of Teoh Beng Hock or the demonisation of a Malaysian politician like Lim Guan Eng who is a marked man simply because he is Chinese chief minister not sanctioned by Umno. They are dwelling on the numerous provocations by Umno outsourced thugs who the MCA is guilty by association with.

As I said we are playing the same game but we changed the rules. The main rule change is that the Chinese community doesn't care if they get representation in the cabinet because the MCA has been doing a piss poor job. They don't give a damn about the vigorous discussions behind ‘closed doors'. The communal issues that the MCA championed before is now in the purview of the DAP.

The MCA, unlike Umno, has nothing to fall back on. That's the problem with being a minority race-based party in a multiracial country. Of course, the existential crisis MCA is facing now will eventually be experienced by any minority race-based party. Thinking long-term has never been a strong suit of the Malaysian voting public.

Ghosts from the past haunt this election and every other election. We will never be able to exorcise them because we continue to play the same game.

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S THAYAPARAN is Commander (rtd) of the Royal Malaysian Navy.

Taib & Gang Ignore Penans Yet Again

Tired Penans snubbed

Joseph Tawie | May 23, 2012

Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud and his 56 elected reps turned their backs on a Penan delegation who had journeyed five days to see them at the State Legislative Assembly.

KUCHING: A five-day journey from Long Sa’at in interior Ulu Baram came to nought yesterday when all Barisan Nasional elected leaders spurned a 13-member Penan delegation who came to see them to present the community’s development plan.

All the 71 lawmakers including Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud and his deputy Alfred Jabu Numpang knew the Penans were coming.

In fact, they along with journalists had early yesterday morning received an invitation to attend the Penan community’s development briefing at 12.30pm at the media conference room in the State Legislative Assembly.

But neither Taib nor his 56 elected representatives turned up.

Only the 15 opposition assemblymen from DAP and PKR were present to hear their proposal on how the community could protect their rights, their adat (culture), manage their forests and develop their economy.

A disappointed Siang Ngadau, a spokesman for the group, said: “We are deeply disappointed. They (BN lawmakers) do not care about our plight.

“It is not easy for us to come here. It took us five days to reach Kuching depending on the availability of transport. Firstly, we have to walk through jungle tracks for three hours, use longboats for another three hours, riding on four-wheeled drive for eight hours before we can reach the nearest town.

“From Marudi and Miri, we have to fly to Kuching.”

When asked why they did not approach their assemblyman Dennis Ngau (Telang Usan), Siang said that Ngau knew of their plan, but was not interested in their welfare.

“If the BN assemblymen and the authorities can help us we will not come to Kuching to present our case.

“But they just don’t care about our plight,” Siang added.

Rude BN reps

Explaining the purpose of their visit, Siang said it was to share with all the elected representatives and journalists their proposal through their Penan Peace Park project to develop the community.

“The Penans from 18 Penan villages have since 2009 been discussing how they can uphold and protect their rights and adat, preserve their history, look after their forests, rivers and environment and to develop their economy.

“Thus the idea of Penan Peace Park came into being. We are worried that our survival and our livelihood will be affected once the Baram dam is constructed,” said Siang, pointing out that through this Penan Peace Park a number of projects would be launched not only to ensure their survival but also to carry out all those objectives.

Meanwhile, Sarawak opposition leader Wong Ho Leng pledged DAP’s support for the Penan Peace Park.

Praising them for their bold peace park project, Wong, who is also the Bukit Assek assemblyman, said that it was to preserve their community, their culture and forest resources.

“For all these reasons, DAP will extend its support to and to fight for the Penan cause.

“We cannot allow the Penans to be continually marginalised by the Barisan Nasional,” he said.

Wong also voiced his “disgust” at the BN leaders’ lack of courtesy.

“I must express my disgust at the absence of BN elected representatives at the briefing.

“Although every assemblyman and assemblywoman from BN, DAP and PKR were given an invitation letter to come, not a single minister, assistant minister or assemblyman from BN appeared here.

“I think the Penan community has every right to know the reason for the lack of concern on the part of BN on the plight of the Penan people,” said Wong, who is also state DAP chairman.

‘Nothing wrong in listening’

Sarawak PKR chief Baru Bian also took the BN leadership to task.

“I don’t see why the BN elected representatives were not present. There is nothing wrong in listening to the whole thing.

“The important thing is that we work for everybody and for the good of the rakyat irrespective of their political differences.

“Don’t say that because they are with the opposition, then you don’t support them. That is not good.

“As far as we are concerned, what they (Penans) presented today is very logical and reasonable.

“There is a need for it, and I hope the authorities and ministers would support their project,” said Bian, who is the Ba’Kelalan assemblyman.

Comment by Sarawak Headhunter: Even the White Rajahs treated the Penans better than Taib Mahmud & his regime.

1 Lagi Projek Khianat UMNO-BN Diperlanjutkan

(Sabahkini) - SAYA, Chung Su Li, menujukan surat terbuka ini kepada Perdana Menteri Malaysia, Menteri Dalam Negeri dan Jabatan Penguatkuasa di Malaysia agar memantau kegiatan subversif iaitu pemberian kerakyatan songsang kepada warganegara India di Sabah.

Siasatan saya mendapati seramai lebih kurang 100 orang warga India di Sabah dan lebih kurang 1,500 di Semenanjung Malaysia telah berjaya mendapat Kad Pengenalan dengan membayar sejumlah wang di antara RM 30,000 sehingga RM 75,000 kepada sindiket yang mempunyai rangkaian di seluruh Malaysia.

Saya mewakili majoriti suara rakyat Sabah ingin menarik perhatian kerajaan yang sedang berusaha untuk mencari dalang-dalang dalam aktiviti menjual IC kepada warga asing, terutama daripada India, Pakistan, Indonesia dan Filipina.

HEBAT....Skandal IC Projek terbaru masih menggunakan Modus operandi yang sama iaitu laporan kehilangan kad pengenalan.

Aktiviti membuat IC menggunakan wang telah mula menjadi-jadi di Sabah setelah seorang yang bernama Nasir Bin Yusof berjaya mendapatkan IC untuk dirinya pada awal tahun 2011.

Nasir Bin Yusof atau Latiff, yang berasal daripada RegunathaPatti, Tamil Nadu, India datang ke Malaysia dengan mengunakan Visa Tukang Masak di sebuah Restoran India.

Beliau kemudiannya telah berjaya membuka beberapa kedai sendiri di sekitar Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. Antara bekas Restoran beliau yang terkenal ialah Restoran Salimah berhampiran Hospital Mesra Bukit Padang dan di Terminal Inanam.

Beliau membuka kedai mengunakan nama seorang warganegara Malaysia dan menjalankan perniagaan tersebut sedangkan dia memegang Visa tukang masak pada ketika itu.

PASPORT.....Salinan Pasport India Nasir yang ketika itu menggunakan nama Kader Moideen Latheef. Mustahil Jabatan Imigresen tidak mempunyai salinan kerana beliau mempunyai Permit Kerja sebagai Tukang Masak.

Pada masa itu, beliau mula mengalihkan minat beliau ke bidang lain. Atas sifat-sifat beliau yang berani dan pandai menarik hati dan memikat pegawai kerajaan dengan memberikan suapan tertentu; telah berjaya menjadi agen menguruskan dokumen kepada pekerja asing dan majikan warganegara.

Beliau menjalankan tugas khas ini sedangkan pada hakikatnya beliau hanya seorang tukang masak di kaca mata undang-undang, mengatasi Agensi Pekerjaan Swasta dan Agensi Kerajaan yang mempunyai potfolio mengeluarkan dokumen pengenalan diri.

Latiff mula menjual satu demi satu kedai beliau apabila perniagaan haramnya mula maju. Beliau tidak perlu sakit kepala lagi memikirkan tentang apa juadah yang perlu di masak di kedainya. Beliau juga tidak perlu membayar cukai perniagaan dan pendapatan. Beliau mula memberikan perhatian yang serius dalam aktiviti agen tersebut kerana sudah terkenal di Sabah.

Mengikut pemerhatian saya, beliau keluar masuk hampir setiap hari di Jabatan Imigresen Sabah (JIS). Beliau akan datang biasanya waktu petang dengan membawa beg berisi pasport dan sampul surat berwana coklat. Beliau akan terus berjumpa dengan pegawai yang diperlukannya dan mendapat layanan istimewa.

Kenapa perkara ini boleh terjadi? Latiff telah pun membeli dua organisasi penting iaitu Jabatan Imigresen Sabah (JIS) dan Jabatan Pendaftaran Sabah. Beliau merasuah hampir semua kakitangan JIS bermula daripada sumbangan sarapan pagi, makan tengah hari, minuman, alat solek, peralatan rumah dan kredit telefon bimbit. Jika disemak telefon bimbitnya, sudah tentu terdapat nombor telefon semua pegawai pegawai tinggi kerajaan terutama Imigresen, JPN dan Polis.

Latiff akan menguruskan visa pekerja asing dengan bayaran bermula daripada RM600 sehingga RM 1,000. Majikan lain yang cuba berurusan sendiri di kaunter akan mengalami pelbagai kerumitan dan kelewatan serta syarat yang sangat ketat.

Pegawai JIS tanpa segan silu akan mencadangkan kepada majikan untuk bertemu Latiff untuk memudahkan urusan mereka. Ini semua hasil tunjuk ajar Latiff. Namun setakat ini, hanya Pengarah Imigresen Sabah, Mohd Mentek sahaja yang tidak dapat dibeli kerana ketegasan dan prinsip y utuh yang dimilikinya.

Latiff tidak berjaya meraih simpati daripada Mentek yang kental dengan semangat kenegerian dan memahami masalah Sabah. Agensi Pekerja Asing yang berdaftar dengan Pasukan Petugas Khas Persekutuan hanya bermimpi di siang hari untuk mendapatkan layanan serupa dengan Latiff.

SEGERA.....Nasir menjadi pemilih ekpress dengan kad pengenalan yang ada padanya.

Latiff juga membantu orang ramai untuk mendaftarkan pekerja asing mereka secara haram, menguruskan penubuhan syarikat secara haram untuk memastikan warga asing dapat membawa kaum keluarga dan kerabat mereka masuk ke Malaysia melalui visa pegawai dagang.

Beliau juga mempunyai kenalan pengawai yang telah dirasuah di Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Kota Kinabalu terutama Pegawai Kanan Imigresen untuk membenarkan pekerja yang mengunakan visa bekerja di Semenajung Malaysia masuk bekerja di Sabah selain menguruskan urusan balik warga asing yang mempunyai masalah Imigresen.

Selain itu, beliau turut membantu orang ramai dengan bayaran tertentu untuk menguruskan dokumen lain seperti urusan membuat sijil nikah dan urusan JPN yang lain. Beliau juga sudah semakin berani apabila menjadi Setiausaha Parti Kimma sejurus mendapat IC Projeknya. Beliau mempunyai ramai kenalan dalam facebooknya terutama ahli Kimma seluruh negara.

Latiff kemudian membuka sebuah kedai setelah memiliki banyak wang, semata-mata untuk menutupi segala aktiviti haramnya. Kedai tersebut ialah JJ One Phone di Lot 57, Bandaran Berjaya, Kota Kinabalu.

Dalam kedai ini, terdapat sekurang-kurangnya 50 pasport dalam satu-satu masa. Kedai ini dibuka untuk mengelirukan pihak berkuasa dan menutup mata orang ramai. Namun kedai ini hanya menjadi mesin 'Money Laundering' kerana hanya menjual kredit telefon dan telah memindahkan operasi haramnya ke Asia City, Kota Kinabalu.

Latiff ini berjaya melepaskan diri daripada tindakan undang undang kerana memiliki pengaruh yang kuat serta memiliki keajaiban. Beliau pernah ditahan kerana menipu dalam menurunkan tandatangan seorang majikan setelah pekerja asingnya yang ditahan di Kudat oleh Pegawai Penguatkuasa Imigresen Sabah yang dikenali sebagai Halid. Namun, kes itu ditutup tanpa sebarang tindakan.

Beliau juga berkawan rapat dengan seorang polis yang bernama Ayub kerana Ayub mengenali hampir semua polis berpangkat tinggi di Sabah kerana dahulunya mempunyai sebuah kedai runcit dalam kawasan Ibu Pejabat Polis Kepayan.

Dengan Ayub, semua kawan beliau terutama orang India boleh keluar daripada tahanan dengan mudah tanpa sebarang kerumitan. Selain itu, di setiap pusat tahanan terutama di Kimanis Papar, Latiff mempunyai orang untuk mengeluarkan sesiapa saja yang ditahan dengan mengenakan bayaran antara RM2,000 hingga RM5,000 setiap seorang dan wang tersebut akan dikongsi bersama pegawai yang terlibat.

Pendedahan saya ini khas untuk menekankan bagaimana Latiff, seorang warga India yang telah lahir semula di Malaysia dan menjadi Warganegara Malaysia seterusnya menjadi salah satu kepala dalam membuat IC di Sabah.

Mengikut rekod, Latiff atau nama asalnya, Kader Moideen Latheef yang mengunakan Passport India bernombor E3171231 yang sah sehingga 08.10.2012 dan visa juga sah sehingga hujung 2011 dengan tarikh lahir dalam pasport 10 Oktober 1972.

Kini beliau tidak lagi menggunakan pasport India setelah mendapat resit kad pengenalan Malaysia 620605-12-6421 dengan identiti dan nama baru iaitu Nasir Bin Yusof dan tarikh lahirnya di kebelakangkan pada 05 Jun 1962. Perkara ini sangat jelas menunjukan berlaku banyak penipuan yang dilakukan oleh Latiff. Bagaimana beliau boleh tua 10 tahun dalam IC berbanding Pasport beliau?

Siapakah Nasir Bin Yusof ini sebenarnya? Adakah orang yang telah meninggal atau pun orang yang tidak menuntut ICnya? Ini bukan fitnah. Saya sertakan salinan pasport dan semakan daftar pemilih beliau.

Saya percaya bahawa Tuhan akan meninggal bukti bagi menumpaskan semua kejahatan di dunia ini. Bukti yang saya berikan sangat jelas. Namun, bagaimana pula Latiff ini berjaya memiliki IC ini?

Adakah hal ini seperti yang dibangkitkan oleh Naib Presiden PAS, Dato Mahfuz Bin Omar baru-baru ini? Apa pun saya akan memberikan serba sedikit maklumat mereka yang terlibat dan terpulang kepada kerajaan Malaysia untuk menyiasatnya.

Jangan kerana nila setitik, rosak susu sebelanga. Orang macam Latifflah yang menyebabkan desakan terhadap RCI terus dilaungkan oleh rakyat Sabah. Saya berpendapat, penahanan beberapa individu yang saya berikan ini akan mencari penyelesaian masalah IC di Sabah.

Latiff ini berjaya mendapatkan IC beliau melalui pertolongan Datuk Haji Jaffaer Henry, bekas Pengarah JPN Sabah melalui bantuan Suzina Binti Mohd Rahfee. Puan Suzina mempunyai hubungan rapat dengan Latiff. Latiff sentiasa mengambil dan menghantar Puan Suzina apabila pergi atau balik daripada mana-mana urusan di luar negeri terutama daripada Kuala Lumpur dan Labuan.

Selain itu, Latiff sentiasa mengunakan kereta Puan Suzina apabila dia tiada di Sabah. Latiff juga menyediakan semua keperluan rumah kepada Puan Suzina. Saya hairan bagaimana Puan Suzina yang bergred KP 27 yang juga baru mengangkat sumpah sebagai Penolong Pegawai Pendaftaran pada tahun 2009 dan menerima penempatan baru di JPN Kota Kinabalu boleh menandatangani resit laporan kehilangan kad pengenalan pada tahun 2004 dan 1996?

Beliau yang baru mengangkat sumpah untuk bertugas di JPN Kota Kinabalu pada 28 Mei 2009 bertempat di 'The Regency, Tanjung Tuan Beach Resort, Port Dickson berjaya menyediakan semua dokumen secara sempurna untuk mendapatkan IC kepada Latiff; tetapi tidak berjaya membuatnya tanpa meninggalkan bukti kukuh.

Selepas berjaya mendapatkan IC, Latiff melihat perkara ini daripada sudut perniagaan. Beliau ingin mengaut keuntungan besar dengan menjual IC seperti ini. Beliau kemudianya mencari jalan dan beliau mula bersekongkol dengan rangkaian Musakkar Bin Abdullah (Kadersha) yang juga memiliki ‘IC MASIH PANAS’ yang maklumatnya disertakan bersama ini.

Rangkaian Musakkar ini terdiri daripada beberapa orang daripada Jabatan Pendaftaran Negara. Mereka diketui oleh Abdul Rahman bin Md Noor (Gred 42) Ketua Unit Khas Sabah (KUS) di Putrajaya; diikuti Puan Farrah Izanni Binti Mohamad Ismail, Penolong Pengarah Unit Khas Sabah; Md. Solehan bin Omar, Pengarah Bahagian; Ruslan Bin Alias, Penolong Pegawai Pendaftaran; Susilan dan Puan Sulaiha dan beberapa pegawai di Bahagian Kad Pengenalan.

Mereka menerima permohonan Kad Pengenalan seperti ini hanya daripada Latiff, Musakkar dan beberapa orang lagi. Mereka akan meminta menyediakan butiran serta gambar dan kemudian mereka akan diberikan resit IC, Sijil Lahir dan seterusnya Maykad berserta dokumen lain oleh pegawai di atas.

Saya tidak mengenali semua pegawai tersebut, akan tetapi semua mereka ini benar-benar terlibat. Saya tiada memiliki bukti lain selain daripada ini. Namun, saya yakin dengan bantuan semua individu tersebut, Latiff berjaya mendapatkan IC seseorang yang telah mati ataupun yang tidak dituntut oleh pemohon.

Kejayaan Latiff ini berjaya menambah ahli rangkaian dan agen di Sabah. Latiff kemudian bertukar menjadi salah satu ahli rangkaian ini dengan harapan dapat menguat untung yang besar. Rangkaian ini kemudian di sertai oleh Salim Khan Bin Kaboor dengan IC bernombor 681012-12-5123 iaitu pemilik sebuah restoran terkenal di Sabah iaitu Restoran Salim, di Lintas Plaza, Kota Kinabalu.

Setelah beliau berkahwin kali kedua, beliau telah jatuh dalam perniagaan dan setelah mula berniaga IC, beliau kini sudah naik semula dan semakin kaya. Rangkaian ini kemudian berjaya mendaftarkan seramai 100 orang setakat ini di Sabah dan di Semenanjung 1,500 lebih.

Semua orang yang telah meninggal di Semenanjung Malaysia telah lahir semula dengan bantuan pendekar-pendekar yang baru wujud di Sabah ini. Adakah ini zaman batu atau zaman moden? Salim dan Latiff sentiasa menjemput Rahman apabila sampai di Sabah dengan menyediakan semua kemudahan termasuk hotel mewah dan sebagainya. Perkara ini amat merisaukan saya dan seluruh rakyat Sabah.

IC yang dimiliki oleh Latiff telah dibuat sebegitu sempurna tanpa boleh dipertikaikan lagi. Siap dengan salinan laporan kehilangan kad pengenalan yang kononnya pernah hilang pada 12 Mac 2004 dan 30 Disembet 1996 yang ditandatangani oleh Puan Suzina yang saya sertakan sekali dengan laporan saya ini.

Namun dengan kuasa tuhan, saya telah menjumpai beberapa kelemahan dalam laporan ini kerana nama penuh dalam laporan ini ialah Nasir @ Lathiep Bin Yusuf yang mana sangat berbeza dengan IC beliau. Adakah Puan Suzina ini bekerja dari tahun 1997 sehingga 2011 dalam satu bahagian yang sama dalam JPN Kota Kinabalu atau beliau baru ditempatkan di Kota Kinabalu pada Mei 2009? Adakah perkara ini boleh masuk akal?

Latiff mempunyai dua orang adik beradik lagi di Sabah yang mana salah satunya berada di Papar dan tidak mempunyai IC dan salah satunya yang bernama Peer Mohammad Bin Kadeer dengan no Maykad 600323-12-5465. Adik beradik satu bapa tetapi dibinkan kepada orang lain. Tidakkah pihak kerajaan boleh menyiasat hal ini?

Seorang lagi agen khas untuk pekerja asing India yang terlibat dalam rangkaian ini ialah Musakar Bin Abdullah dengan IC No 620305-12-5961. Jika meneliti kisah Musakar, beliau ini boleh dianggap sangat berbahaya dan saya memiliki beberapa dokumen untuk membuktikan bahawa IC Musakar ini baru di beli.

Beliau datang daripada India mengunakan Visa Tukang Masak untuk Kedai Kopi Farvin Inanam yang dijamin oleh Majikannya, Aziz Bin Kasim. Kemudian Aziz telah membatalkan visa tersebut dan menghantarnya balik ke India. Salinan tersebut turut disertakan. Beliau kemudiannya balik ke Malaysia dengan jaminan seseorang lagi.

Beliau kemudian membuka sebuah kedai barang-barang aneka kecil di belakang kedai Farveen Curry House berhampiran Shell, Kampung Air Kota Kinabalu. Seratus peratus barang dalam kedai ini ialah barang curi yang dibekalkan oleh sindikit tertentu dan menjadikan tingkat atas kedai beliau tempat menyimpan barang atau stor.

Kemudian beliau akan menjualnya di kedai tersebut. Pihak kerajaan boleh menyiasat hal ini dengan lebih lanjut lagi. Tambahan pula, nama Musakkar ini sewemangnya nama bukan India. Tentu sekali, Mykad ini milik rakyat Malaysia atau Indonesia.

Musakkar datang ke Malaysia dengan nama Kadersha Mydeen atau nama gelaran Katta Kaja dengan pasport India bernombor A7754373. Kemudian beliau membuat IC dengan bayaran RM 30,000 melalui rangkaiannya. Beliau berasal daripada Asoor, Trichy, Tamilnadu dan pasportnya sah sehingga 5 Mei 2009.

Beliau kini sudah membuka restoran sendiri di hadapan kedai barang anekanya dengan nama Restoran Farveen Curry House bertentangan Shell Kampung Air. Pada asalnya, beliau hanya bekerja di situ. Apabila berjaya mendapat untung yang banyak daripada penjualan IC, beliau terus membeli kedai tersebut dan menjadikan ia miliknya. Kegiatan Kadersha ini boleh mengancam keselamatan Negara kita.

Kadersha ini pada asalnya bekerja bersama Aziz bin Kasim. Atas kebiadapan terhadap Majikannya dan melakukan kesalahan Imigresen, beliau ditahan oleh Jabatan Imigresen Sabah yang ketika itu laporan ini dibuat oleh Aziz di pejabat lama di Wisma Dang Bandang, Kampung Air.

Semasa dalam tahanan, Aziz telah membatalkan visanya dan membeli tiket penerbangannya untuk balik ke India. Salinan tiket tersebut turut disertakan. Namun, Kadersha berjaya keluar daripada tahanan dengan bantuan seseorang.

Beliau kemudian membuat muslihat dan tinggal di Sabah. Sekarang ini beliau kembali ke Malaysia dan berjaya membeli Restoran majikannya sendiri. Fakta ini benar sekali, pihak berkuasa boleh menghubungi bekas majikannya, Aziz bin Kasim di talian 016-8105XXXX (nombor sebenar sila email ke Sabahkini) untuk maklumat lanjut.

Selain itu, satu kes yang masih dalam siasatan di Balai Polis Lama Kota Kinabalu terhadap Kadersha mengenai cek tendang yang dilaporkan oleh Aziz Bin Kasim, bekas majikannya. Baru baru ini, ada orang yang melaporkan tentang IC Musakkar (Kadersha) di Balai Polis Karamusing.

Tetapi kes ini berjaya ditutup olehnya dengan wang ringgit Malaysia. Kadersha juga menyembunyikan dirinya selama seminggu di rumah banglonya yang dibeli dengan wang hasil kerja kerasnya membuat IC di Semenanjung Malaysia sebelum menutup kes ini. SB Mohan daripada Balai Polis Karamusing juga mengetahui hal ini. Dialah yang menguruskan kes-kes India di Kota Kinabalu.

Sehubungan itu, saya mengharapkan satu penyiasatan khas dibuat mengenai hal ini. Saya bersama ratusan rakan saya tidak akan teragak-agak untuk mengumpulkan tandatangan bagi memastikan kerajaan Malaysia menyiasat hal ini dan tidak memberikan sebarang alasan.

Kami mahu IC mereka yang terlibat harus ditarik balik. Kami rakyat Sabah tidak mahu mereka menjadi salah satu pengundi dalam pilihanraya 13 akan datang. Kami mahukan penyelesaian menyeluruh.

Sekiranya kerajaan Malaysia tidak menyiasat dan mengenakan tindakan undang-undang ke atas semua suspek ini, maka kami akan meminta bantuan pembangkang untuk menuntut penyiasatan ke atas isu ini yang kami kira amat penting untuk kami warga Sabah. Kami hilang punca pendapatan angkara warga asing seperti Latiff dan Kadersha yang diberikan IC.

Saya berharap agar agensi kerajaan yang terlibat menyiasat hal ini serta merta sebelum pilihanraya akan datang. Penerima IC seperti ini harus dibuang dahulu. Mereka tiada hak memegang kad pengenalan Malaysia.

Pendedahan saya ini membantu kerajaan untuk mengesan individu yang bersalah dan seharusnya inilah peluang yang baik kepada kerajaan Malaysia untuk membersihkan nama daripada dakwaan pembangkang.

Apa pun jutaan rakyat Sabah akan menantikan berita gembira tentang dalang-dalang dan pemegang IC ini ditangkap secepat mungkin. Kami menaruh harapan pada kerajaan yang kami sanjung selama ini. Kami sentiasa menantikan langkah daripada kerajaan selepas ini dengan harapan yang besar.

Penuntutan pembangkang untuk menubuhkan RCI akan terjawab dengan tertangkapnya rangkaian ini. Maklumat ini saya kumpul daripada agen-agen SAH di Sabah dan orang ramai. Selepas penahanan rangkaian ini, Ini kalilah, terjawabnya semua misteri di sebalik desakan penubuhan RCI. Apabila berita ini diketahui oleh mereka, tentu mereka akan bersembunyi dan keluar selepas keadaan baik semula. Tapi ingat, kami tidak akan biarkan rangkaian ini berleluasa sampai bila-bila pun.

Kami tidak mendedahkan identiti kami seperti nombor telefon selengkapnya kerana risau tentang keselamatan kami. Semua yang terlibat amat berbahaya. Pegawai kerajaan juga dikira amat takut dengan mereka ini. Namun jika diperlukan, bukan saya seorang yang akan tampil nanti, ribuan orang yang menyokong saya dalam hal ini akan tampil ke hadapan.

Saya harap kerajaan mulakan dahulu penyiasatan. Semua bukti kukuh telah saya berikan. Tiada satu pun tuduhan saya ini boleh dianggap fitnah. Kami sedang mengumpulkan nama-nama dan biodata mereka yang baru sahaja membeli IC daripada rangkaian ini dan akan didedahkan kemudian hari.

Sedangkan masih ramai pemegang kad bunga raya di Sabah akibat daripada kelewatan JPN menguruskanya yang berpunca daripada kekurangan maklumat, bagaimana kerajaan boleh bertindak mengeluarkan IC berbayar seperti ini yang seratus peratusnya haram?

Sekian, Terima Kasih,

Salam Satu Malaysia,

CHUNG SU LI