PRESS STATEMENT
( In response to the Press Statement made by CCJ yesterday 30.8.2019)
( In response to the Press Statement made by CCJ yesterday 30.8.2019)
May I advise YB Mr Chong to stop bickering like “a grumpy old lady “ over the dilapidated school issue and just start doing his own work tackling the nail-biting daily issues of high cost of basic goods etc , as a deputy minister of Domestic Trade .
Our YAB CM Datuk Patinggi Abang Johari, has been very considerate though unhappy and in fact “exasperated”, apart from being frustrated and “fed-up” with the bully attitude of the PH Federal Government since quite sometime already.
The inviolable fact remains that it is constitutionally their ( Federal Govt) responsibility to do all these. Who does not get fed up that even after one solid year there was barely any move or at all by them, until our CM , Abang Jo , suggested to use our State coffer to advance towards the said purpose , because he , like all the parents and teachers in Sarawak , could not bear to see our children suffer any longer, attending schools that are not up to the universal standard and some are really unsafe to be in . Who does not get frustrated or fed up and angry?
Ministers LGE, Mazlee and many others had made little or no financial solution or in road at all before CM Abang Jo provided the fund. What if CM Abang did not provide this initial RM350 million or at all? Would this problem perpetuate further until next year or beyond? To may Sarawakians , that is highly probable .
If they ( PH ministers) say there was no fund at their end to finance the restoration of our dilapidated schools, like what happened to our earlier-approved but later cancelled bridge projects, flood mitigation projects, and many more, then it is utmost fair to say that they are very bias and unjust to Sarawak because while giving such an excuse how could they easily approve and proceed with mega projects in other states as announced in Sandakan for Sabah , and also as announced for the multi-billion ringgit new Kedah Airport, Penang LRT and transportation system , and latest, the RM 21.6 Billion Fiberization project !
How would we and the parents , teachers and school going children in Sarawak feel? What can we say in frustration. No fund is not the excuse since they also have secured foreign loans by issuing the samurai bonds, for example , to see to their needs, Please lah , YB Mr Chong, stop being dexterous with your rhetorics, .. mincing your words like you are “a fixative 24/7 political animal” with no sympathy and empathy towards our fate, when such blatant bias and injustice is being smacked like a foul dirt on our faces by your federal seigneurs and party supremos from the other side of the China sea? Unlike us, you do not and will never be able to empathise our predicament in the spirit of Sarawak First because you still, no matter how you want to deny it , will have to kowtow to your KL bosses. The RM350 million advanced by our CM is out of love and care for Sarawak and its school going children. Don’t you remember the case of a school that virtually fell over unto the river, schools that caught fire and killed a teacher and many more sad incidents. These dilapidation , wear and tear and problems of erosions , soil settlements, etc affecting our thousands of schools are on going. Our efforts must not be stalled or stifled for what ever reason.
Say what you like, whether or not that sum is to be deducted from the constitutionally permitted loan to Sarawak ( which by the way, Sarawak has never defaulted and the payment thereof has never cropped up as being due ) ... it is just a matter of making a small book-keeping entry for your guys at the federal level without any pain at all? It is just a matter of small accounting work..so what is the fuss about?
I suggest that let us hear more of the positive commitments and real efforts by the federal government in fulfilling the many jobs undone and high required by Sarawak which constitutionally and legally are the bounden responsibility of the Federal Government to provide and execute. Even though our CM and the GPS Government of Sarawak are keen and sincere to assist the Federal Govt in solving this matter, that does not mean that the latter is relieved of its Constitutional duty ! Remember that we also have alternative avenue to go for legal recourse to seek justice and even ask the court of law to impose the equitable remedy of “Mandamus” to force the Federal Government to provide execute and/or implement the needful things they are bound by the law as entrenched in the Federal Constitution as well as in the MA63 read with the IGC Report thereon, to provide execute and/or implement.
Our YAB CM Datuk Patinggi Abang Johari, has been very considerate though unhappy and in fact “exasperated”, apart from being frustrated and “fed-up” with the bully attitude of the PH Federal Government since quite sometime already.
The inviolable fact remains that it is constitutionally their ( Federal Govt) responsibility to do all these. Who does not get fed up that even after one solid year there was barely any move or at all by them, until our CM , Abang Jo , suggested to use our State coffer to advance towards the said purpose , because he , like all the parents and teachers in Sarawak , could not bear to see our children suffer any longer, attending schools that are not up to the universal standard and some are really unsafe to be in . Who does not get frustrated or fed up and angry?
Ministers LGE, Mazlee and many others had made little or no financial solution or in road at all before CM Abang Jo provided the fund. What if CM Abang did not provide this initial RM350 million or at all? Would this problem perpetuate further until next year or beyond? To may Sarawakians , that is highly probable .
If they ( PH ministers) say there was no fund at their end to finance the restoration of our dilapidated schools, like what happened to our earlier-approved but later cancelled bridge projects, flood mitigation projects, and many more, then it is utmost fair to say that they are very bias and unjust to Sarawak because while giving such an excuse how could they easily approve and proceed with mega projects in other states as announced in Sandakan for Sabah , and also as announced for the multi-billion ringgit new Kedah Airport, Penang LRT and transportation system , and latest, the RM 21.6 Billion Fiberization project !
How would we and the parents , teachers and school going children in Sarawak feel? What can we say in frustration. No fund is not the excuse since they also have secured foreign loans by issuing the samurai bonds, for example , to see to their needs, Please lah , YB Mr Chong, stop being dexterous with your rhetorics, .. mincing your words like you are “a fixative 24/7 political animal” with no sympathy and empathy towards our fate, when such blatant bias and injustice is being smacked like a foul dirt on our faces by your federal seigneurs and party supremos from the other side of the China sea? Unlike us, you do not and will never be able to empathise our predicament in the spirit of Sarawak First because you still, no matter how you want to deny it , will have to kowtow to your KL bosses. The RM350 million advanced by our CM is out of love and care for Sarawak and its school going children. Don’t you remember the case of a school that virtually fell over unto the river, schools that caught fire and killed a teacher and many more sad incidents. These dilapidation , wear and tear and problems of erosions , soil settlements, etc affecting our thousands of schools are on going. Our efforts must not be stalled or stifled for what ever reason.
Say what you like, whether or not that sum is to be deducted from the constitutionally permitted loan to Sarawak ( which by the way, Sarawak has never defaulted and the payment thereof has never cropped up as being due ) ... it is just a matter of making a small book-keeping entry for your guys at the federal level without any pain at all? It is just a matter of small accounting work..so what is the fuss about?
I suggest that let us hear more of the positive commitments and real efforts by the federal government in fulfilling the many jobs undone and high required by Sarawak which constitutionally and legally are the bounden responsibility of the Federal Government to provide and execute. Even though our CM and the GPS Government of Sarawak are keen and sincere to assist the Federal Govt in solving this matter, that does not mean that the latter is relieved of its Constitutional duty ! Remember that we also have alternative avenue to go for legal recourse to seek justice and even ask the court of law to impose the equitable remedy of “Mandamus” to force the Federal Government to provide execute and/or implement the needful things they are bound by the law as entrenched in the Federal Constitution as well as in the MA63 read with the IGC Report thereon, to provide execute and/or implement.
Salam Merdeka !
Dato’ Idris Buang
Information Chief
Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu
Sarawak
31 August 2019
Information Chief
Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu
Sarawak
31 August 2019
