By Burak S. Sem, Senior Correspondent
Ladies & Gentlement,
I read in FMT, Alfred
Jabu answered YB Violet
Yong,
“do not import
Datuk Sahrizat’s cowgate scandal” in his proposal to make Sarawak to become a beef
exporter and be self-sufficient in beef through SEDC. In my opinion, Alfred
Jabu is right when saying that, because Datuk Sahrizat cowgate scandal swindled
RM250 million from the state coffer for his family luxuries is going to be different compared to Taib Mahmud/SEDC
scandal. You can imagine, to build an industrial cattle farming require at
least few thousand hacters/acres of lands, but where the hell does Alfred Jabu
going to get this size of lands for the cattle farm?
Nonetheless,
working at offshore rig is always exposed to high risks. Our working
environment is within high level of hydrocarbons. That is the reason why we
enforced high level safety measures, we create policies, learning points and
procedures to prevent us to fall in any forms of accidents. We prioritized safety
in every aspect of our activities. Anyone of us who are caught breaking our
safety rules are request to pack their belongings and home for good. You may
ask, why it is so stringent? Well,…breaking safety rules mean putting someone
else life at risk. That’s the pattern of lives working on offshore drilling rig.
Or,
maybe you may ask, how the heck do I know about Sarawak ministers, politics
and corruptions while living few thousand nautical miles isolated at offshore
Brazil? If you may have this question about my comments, let me share with you
how I defined political corruption in a simple analysis verses the political pattern
of this country works.
To
begin with, the forms of corruption are diverse in
terms of who are the actors, initiators and profiteers, how it is done, and to
what extent it is practiced. Also the causes and the consequences of corruption
are complex and diverse, and have been sought in both individual ethics and
civic cultures, in history and tradition, in the economic system, in the
institutional arrangements, and in the political system, the pattern of corruptions
work systematically as follows:-
1.
Actor
Alfred Jabu, who happen to be Dayak, though to have perfect influences
among the Iban/Dayak,
2.
Initiator
SEDC – Taib Mahmud’s financier - piggy bank,
3.
Profiteers
Taib Mahmud and his family members.
If you are in double in
what I’ve mentioned, look at the main actor (Alfred Jabu) himself, he has in
planned to make business as usual, create another controversial recipes, add more
“spices and herbs” in his speeches to influence the Dayaks to surrender their
NCR lands that will not benefit them.
Land robbing is the
only solution to begin with. Telling the Dayaks people their NCR lands are
state lands and entertaining the Dayaks with empty promises to surrender their
lands. As matter of fact, people with the right minds are not new to this misleading
policy. If Alfred Jabu is to work in oild & gas company, he may be fired
from job long time ago. That’s to say, Alfred Jabu is dangerous monster –
putting people’s lives at risk. If he is serious to bring about major
developments, he should look at his own backyard in his Layar constituency,
where his people are without the basic necessities such as electricity, treated
water, good road.
Nonetheless, the real
devil behind the scene is the Profiteer, none other than the “old goat father” Taib
Mahmud and his family members who struggles “tooth and nail” to win more
businesses for themselves through actor (Alfred Jabu) and initiator (SEDC).
It is the same
pattern they are doing in proposing of the Baram dam, engaging another
“no-brain actors” as Lihan Jok, Temengong Pahang, Alfred Jabu, Initiator is
SEDC and the Profiteer is Taib Mahmud and his
family members (CMS).
The worse hit victims, the losers are the Dayak people
especially the the Kayan Kenyah, Kelabit, Penan etc, because all what they had
are directly benefiting the Profiteer in the name of development.
Everyone knows what political
manipulation is, but it is notoriously hard to define when ones at desperate
situations to earn quick cash are the victims. Different cultures and
mentalities have different conceptions of corruption: what would be considered corruption
and manipulation among the urban people might be seen as simply polite among
the people in rural areas.
Business monopoly implanted to the Sarawak
with Barisan National’s colonial policies. Barisan National and their
minister’s companies are granted exclusive contracts for these works by the
colonial administrations. Even after the American Revolution, many of these
colonial holdovers still functioned due to the contracts and land they held.
Monopoly is the extreme case of power abuses and corruptions. It is characterized by a lack of competition, which means only the ministers and their family members are the major owners of multibillion ringgit projects.
Monopoly is the extreme case of power abuses and corruptions. It is characterized by a lack of competition, which means only the ministers and their family members are the major owners of multibillion ringgit projects.
Before speaks out his
mind on the new project to so call to benefit the people, he should ask
himself, how many of his colleagues ministers and their family members are not implicated
in corruption? I am sorry to say, there’s none, there is no sanest ministers in
Sarawak so far.
Many
Sarawakians (especially the Dayaks) are upset over the robbing, snatching up
their lands of their lands in the name of “government developments”.
I will
admit that we are literally selling our souls to every promise given to us by
Alfred Jabu, and if this trend should continue in that trajectory there will be
nothing left for the future generations.
When
Alfred Jabu told YB Violet
Yong,
“do not import
Datuk Sharizat’s cowgate scandal” into Sarawak. What Alfred
Jabu try to say is that Taib Mahmud new scandal is going to be known as “Land
Robbing Cowgate”.
Ladies & gentlemen, I’d listened to several promises by Alfred Jabu,
since I was in my younger days. My young mind thought, after listening to him;
that we are headed to being a very prosperous nation. I’ve grown up…nothing
changed…in truth…the state of Sarawak has gotten worse. Alfred Jabu will be an
Illusion of Prosperity to the Dayaks…the success of imagined projects…and his
delusion of progress.
We must exert efforts to search for the truth on our own, and not merely
rely on what some stupid deputy chief minister tells us. If we Sarawakians
especially we Dayak blindly believe everything, I don’t think we even deserve
civilization.
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