Borneo Alliance to be formalised with SAPP – Jeffrey

KOTA KINABALU: The Borneo Allience of parties and NGOs is set to be formalized soon with the partnership between Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) and a political party in which UBF chairman Datuk Dr Jeffrey Kitingan will be a member.

 

Announcing this in a statement here yesterday, Jeffrey said it is high time the alliance is formalized and mobilized under the stracture and movement of political parties.

“As a result of the continuous tea parties UBF has been holding all over Sabah, the people heve been waiting very impatiently for the movement to become a full-fledged political reality rather then merely an NGO,” he said.

“I have been asked all the time what political vehicle will be used for the Borneo Allience which will move the Borneo Agenda.”

Jeffrey said the date for the launch of Borneo Alliance (Pakatan Borneo) will be next month. He said he is in the final stage of joining a political party in which he is being offered a state leadership role.

He also confirmed that he has reached “very close cooperation and arrangement” with SAPP President Datuk Yong Teck Lee on the matter and both parties are set to be theprimer initial movers of the alliance. Restating the vision of Borneo Alliance, Jeffrey said the alliance’s pranciple is for the Borneo states to become the combined force to decide who will form the next federal government after the coming general election.

“We must get hold of the autonomy to be kingmakers,” he said. “This means local states and stand for their right within the federation. This cannot be done if we remain under the control of Peninsular Malaysia, or peninsular-based parties.”

He said what the Borneo alliance wants is nothing drastic or radical because all it wants is the rightful reinstatement of the four merging entities,” he strerred.

“we need to create a new political and administrative system to replace the present one in which only one party is controlling all the others who are subservient. This is definitely a new choice for Sabahans who now have realized that if they go by the formula of the Pakatan Rakyat, the same system will be perpetuanted and we will continue to lose,” he said.

The Borneo Post

Sunday 11 September 2011

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