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KOTA KINABALU: Local opposition State Reform Party (STAR) has taken offence to caretaker Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak’s reference that the opposition parties were a threat to national security.
Accusing Najib of being hypocritical towards security in Sabah, STAR chief Jeffrey Kitingan reminded the prime minister that it was his administration that had ignored the pleas of a former OCPD for help in Sabah and was slow to act on the Lahad Datu incursion.
“Let us not forget that the ex-OCPD of Lahad Datu, Khamis Daming, had revealed that for years the federal government had ignored his pleas for help in strengthening the weak defence preparedness in Lahad Datu.
“Daming had said, ‘If only KL had listened…’ pointing out that the Lahad Datu police never had sufficient equipment and their four-wheel drive vehicles always broke down and the petrol boats were in dire condition, among numerous defence weaknesses and neglect.
“The federal government under the BN acted too late, and only after the loss of lives and property, ” he said.
Jeffrey said Najib’s assurance in a speech in Bongawan yesterday that only Barisan Nasional can defend Sabah from external threats was ridiculous.
“Since when did the opposition become a threat to the nation? Najib is deliberately twisting the facts. The one to defend a Malaysian state or the nation is not BN, not a political party but the government of Malaysia.
“To say that only BN can provide such a defence is nonsensical because no political party or coalition in Malaysia has any police force or army. The police and the army belong to the people of Malaysia, not to BN,” he said.
Jeffrey added that by making such statements, Naijb was only “confirming the accusations” that the Lahad Datu incursion was staged by BN to frighten people.
“The prime minister shouldn’t be making statements about security to frighten Sabahan voters into voting for the BN.
“This behaviour on the part of the prime minister seems to confirm the accusation that the Lahad Datu intrusion was staged to frighten the people into supporting the BN, and that there was a lot of sandiwara in the whole affair,” he said.
Ignorant Najib
Meanwhile, another STAR leader Daniel Jambun also took Najib’s to task over his “ignorance about Malaysian history”.
Jambun said he was shocked to hear Najib say that “Sabah had made the right decision to join the Malaysian federation, which paved its path to independence on Sept 16, 1963 “.
“This is really shocking coming from the prime minister, as it shows his ignorance about Malaysian history. He does not know the genesis of Malaysia, his own country.
“No wonder the Malayan attitude towards Sabah ‘s rights and autonomy will never change,” he said.
Jambun said this ignorance about historical facts was not just limited to Najib but was also seen in all Malayan ministers and government officers.
“Obviously, Najib needs to be educated that Sabah never joined Malaysia, but formed Malaysia together with Malaya, Singapore and Sarawak.
“This creation of Malaysia did not lead to Sabah ‘s independence. We became an independent and free nation two weeks before that, on Aug 31, 1963,” he said.
hanya tentera Bn dapat menjamin keselamatan Sabah..???
ReplyDeletedi mana peranan tentera di-raja Malaysia..??
di mana peranan polis di-raja Malaysia..??
BN lebih tinggi dari yang di Pertuan Agong..??
apa makna demokrasi untuk mengundi kerajaan jika kerajaan yang dipilih itu tidak menjamin keselamatan negara....seolah-olah kerajaan selain BN tidak mengutamakan keselamatan negara..??.
this is bullshit..!!
-INI KALI LAH-
-TATAP BE END-
ReplyDeleteSafety and security are foundational issues facing Malaysia. Is Pakatan Rakyat or Barisan Nasional better equipped to handle these issues?
Barisan Nasional's approach to improving safety and security is to stop threats before they become attacks. Pakatan Rakyat's is to investigate those attacks after they are complete.
Clearly, BN has immersed itself in modern theories of policing – increasing police presence and mobility, and making concealment more difficult to prevent crime.
BN has committed to an additional 20,000 police, an extra 5,000 police motorcycles, and increased staffing of the Armed Forces. This allows a visible presence to deter threats and allow rapid response to those acts that occur.
Although increased police presence is vital to maintaining and enhancing safety, that task is much easier with a better-ordered and maintained environment. BN offers a comprehensive plan for housing reform that includes promises to revive abandoned housing projects, take over the maintenance and upkeep of public housing projects, replace squatter settlements, and rehabilitate low cost houses and flats in urban areas.
Where people have safe housing and ample police presence, crime universally recedes.
Additionally, BN promises enhanced use of CCTV, lighting and other efforts that prevent crime. These simple measures are now considered good governance the world over, and BN is making them its own.
BN has adopted the idea that it is better to prevent crime than to merely work to prosecute criminals. By contrast, Pakatan Rakyat appears resigned to the fact of crime and intends to see criminals caught after committing their crimes.
In a typically sparse half page on crime issues, Pakatan's manifesto first attacks BN for "the immense failure of the policing system we have today", before promising to drive the police away from preventing crimes and into investigating them once the crime is complete.
Thus, the force will be "rationalised" (read: job cuts) and directed to investigative work, with RM1 billion spent on forensics. There will be an "allocation of RM50 million a year to build police posts in places of high public concentration", so that police will have central places to gather before investigating crimes, rather than dispersing in the community to deter criminals before the crimes take place.
Police will no longer focus on the intensive work of preventing crime by their presence and analytical work, instead, once the crime has been committed, more police will be there to determine what happened.
In the wake of Lahad Datu, Pakatan is silent on enhancing the role and capabilities of the Armed Forces. However, the Opposition pact appears to plan a decrease in the size of the Armed Forces, as the only mention it merits in the Pakatan manifesto is two sentences promising an extra RM500 million to a fund for ex-servicemen and women.
The choice is between BN's plan to prevent crime and security threats to improve the rakyat's well-being, and Pakatan's plan to investigate attacks after they end and the damage is done.
Put that way, the choice should be clear.
AFTER THE SULU INCIDENT & THE 1995 HUMAN WAVE INVASION OF ILLEGALS SMUGGLED IN BY UMNO'S HIRED TERRORIST ABU SAYYAF GROUP & FUNDED BY LIBYA, I AM JUST NOT CONVINCED BY THIS ARGUMENT.
DeleteIT IS NOT SURPRISING THAT AN EX-POLICE COMMISSIONER COMFIRMED THAT IN 1994 THE AERIAL SURVEILLANCE WAS SHUT DOWN SO MAHATHIR COULD FACILITATE THAT INVASION TO RIG THE ELECTION SYSTEM WITH INSTANT VOTERS?????????
READERS WILL NOTICE THAT THE MEASURES LISTED ARE AFTER, REPEAT "AFTER" THE LAHAD DATU SHOWDOWN.
BEFORE THAT THE UMNO BN GOV'T WAS WELCOMING THE BSRA WITH FOODS AND SHELTER AND A PAT ON THE BACK?
WHY NO SECURITY BEFORE IT HAPPENED? WHO IS THE GOV'T THAT IS SUPPOSE TO BE PROTECTING US FROM THIS TYPE OF INVASION?
ISN'T THE ONLY JUSTIFICATION FOR FORMING MALAYSIA WAS "SECURITY & PROSPERITY" & UMNO HAS FAILED SPECTACULARLY ON BOTH COUNTS?
THERE IS ONLY ONE AND ONLY ONE CHOICE - VOTE OUT UMNO BY VOTING FOR A REAL SABAHAN PARTY!
ALL MALAYANS & THE APOLOGIST SHOULD THINK OF MIGRATING BACK TO MALAYA & TAKE ALL ILLEGALS WITH THEM- THEN YOU WILL HAVE A HAPPY MELAYU RAYA!
The police will not hesitate to act against any interference from foreign parties during the upcoming 13th general election.
ReplyDeleteInternal Security and Public Order Department director Datuk Seri Salleh Mat Rasid said police were monitoring the possibility of such situations.
Delete“So far there is no information on such interference,’ he told reporters after a briefing on road safety at the district police head quarters here today.
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DeleteAlso present were Kelantan deputy police chief Datuk Mazlan Lazim and district police chiefs.
He was commenting on fears by certain parties of the possibility of foreign interference in the 13th general election due to the current political scenario.
DeleteOn concerns that the opposition may cause an “Arab Spring” if it loses in the general election, he was confident such a thing would not occur as people were increasingly aware of the importance of national security.
DeleteHe added that the police were prepared to face the general election and will co-operate fully with the Election Commission.
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DeleteThe police also needed the co-operation of the people for the general election to proceed smoothly, without any untoward incidents.
Pihak polis harus memastikan PRu yang selamat dan aman.
DeleteThe police will do anything against criminal.
Deletekeselamtan Sabah menjadi keutamaan kerajaan
ReplyDelete“The federal government under the BN acted too late, and only after the loss of lives and property, ” he said.
ReplyDeleteTindakan serta merta diperlukan jika berlakunya kes emergency.
pointing out that the Lahad Datu police never had sufficient equipment and their four-wheel drive vehicles always broke down and the petrol boats were in dire condition, among numerous defence weaknesses and neglect.
ReplyDeleteKelemahan harus diperbaiki agar pretasi polis dapat dipertingkatkan dari masa ke semasa.
“The prime minister shouldn’t be making statements about security to frighten Sabahan voters into voting for the BN.
ReplyDeleteInilah teknik untuk mengancam minda pengundi secara tidak langsung.
We have what we called strategies.
ReplyDeleteWe know what we are doing for people sake.
ReplyDeleteIf we are not working hard, how we suppose to make so much thing
ReplyDeleteUSAHA TANGGA KEJAYAAN
ReplyDeleteThis is an absurd allegation
ReplyDeleteSaying Najib is stealing your belongings is stupid
ReplyDeleteWe are living peacefully and when something comes up, you blame BN?
ReplyDeletePeduli orang2 yang tidak bertamadun langsung.
ReplyDeleteNo one will believe your drivelling!
ReplyDeleteSolutions after problems created by UMNO? NO NO NO!
NO UMNO! NO MORE RACIST & FASCIST DICTATORSHIP!
VOTE UMNO OUT OF SABAH!
No political party in any country should exploit national security issues for their own political gain, said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak.
ReplyDeleteEven in the United States, the Democrats and Republicans, regardless of political ideology, are united when it comes to matters regarding national security.
ReplyDeleteNeither side would take advantage of situations that can put their nation's stability at risk.
ReplyDeleteRather than prioritising the need to work together to protect our nation's peace, oppositions are using what is happening in Sabah to gain political mileage, which is disappointing.-Najib
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