TENOM: Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) on Wednesday gave its assurance that it will continue to defend the people, especially those affected by land grabbing and whose native customary rights (NCR) have been mistreated, even after the party has formed the next government following the elections.
Its President Datuk Seri Yong Teck Lee said there are many natives such as in Kinabatangan, Tawau, Kudat, Tenom and Lahad Datu facing this dilemma.
He said the people, especially the poor, have really been suffering because their rights have been abused.
"Their lands were seized and their houses burnt by huge corporations from outside Sabah and yet the authorities did not do anything (to help them)," he said in a statement.
Speaking at the Sabah Land Reformation Policy and Economy Planning Plan talk at Hotel Perkasa here, he denied public perception that the Forest Management Unit (FMU) that was formed in 1998 was a form of land abuse and that it did not benefit the people.
According to him, when he was the Chief Minister under the rotation system introduced by the Barisan Nasional (BN) Government, they studied Second Class Forest Reserves to be conserved and placed under the FMU to give a second chance to the people who do not own land.
"Our purpos was to help raise their income and not to grab their wealth," he said.
To this, he expressed sorrow over reports that many farmers in rural areas still do not own land title to their land property.
He said when he was the Chief Minister, the Government managed to issue 44,000 land titles during the two-year tenure.
He said the communal land title is a loss to the people and only gives empty hopes to those who have the right to settle in theil respective locations.
This is because they have lost absolute rights to own and develop their lands individually.
He said the practice now is to issue a single land title with the names of the owners in it irrespective of their origin and that all cultivation works are carried out by appointed corporations.
The people, he said, are only merely onlookers.
On other developments, Yong urged the division leadership to formulate separate manifesto for each state constituency so that the people would know their plans after winning in the election.
“The people need to be informed of the party's direction through the election manifesto so that they don't have any doubt in giving their support to SAPP candidates," he said.
The election manifesto, he said, contains the halatuju, which also is the leader's promise to the people that must be implemented after being elected in the general election.
On this, he urged the party's election michinery in each division to be updated and ready to be mobilised at any time to face the 13th General Election.
He said the BN Government could be defeated if the party's machinery is strong and ready to face the election.
Nevertheless, he did not state whether there is a need to combine the strength of all opposition parties from outside Sabah to defeat the BN.
He welcomed about 80 applicants led by former Private Secretary to the Culture, Youth and Sports Ministry, Dzulkifli Gunsika, and former press secretary to Datuk Kadoh Agundong, Wahab Timpai, to join the party.
Daily Ekspress
Thursday, February 23, 2012
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If only the people still put their trust on SAPP during the next GE.
ReplyDeleteThe people will decide when the time is come, wait and see.
ReplyDeleteIt takes time for the people to accept SAPP these days. Time to serve the people more and show results.
ReplyDeleteOtherwise .....
I don't think SAPP can solve the problem.
ReplyDeleteya.. rasanya SAPP takkan mampu laksanakan. SAPP bukan boleh harap sangat.
DeleteSAPP hanya tau bercakap sahaja, belum tentu dapat selesaikan masalah dengan cepat.
DeleteJika SAPP jadi pemerintah sekalipun, masalah yang di hadapi oleh rakyat sabah tidak akan selesai dengan segera.
DeleteSAPP should prove that they can solve the problem so that people can trust them.
DeleteI wonder what is the current status of these 44,000 land titles recipients.
ReplyDeleteMaybe the land title recipients can come forward and make their stand.
Delete"...he did not state whether there is a need to combine the strength of all opposition parties from outside Sabah to defeat the BN."
ReplyDeleteSAPP should know better than having all opposition parties united is one of the way to win.
SAPP does not seem to be able to work together with other opposition parties? Especially when they are currently bickering with DAP.
Deleteterpulanglah pada rakyat nak percaya pada SAPP atau tidak.
ReplyDeleteBased on the Batu Sapi by-election results, most people does not seem to be able to trust SAPP.
DeleteYa betul. Tapi politik ni sukar diramal. Kalau SAPP terus berusaha rasanya begegar juga tu BN/UMNO nanti. hahhaa
DeleteBN tidak akan membiarkan SAPP menang di Sabah.
DeleteRakyat jangan mudah terpedaya dengan janji yang di berikan.
DeleteAre these land titles given to natives or illegal immigrants? SAPP did not specified?
ReplyDeletehope it is not given to illegal immigrants.
DeleteKalau orang masih percaya sama si YTL ni, tak mustahil YTL akan dapat raih sokongan yang banyak next GE nanti.
ReplyDeletemasalahnya rakyat susah untuk mempercayai YTL, hanya segelintir sahaja yang masih setia bersama beliau.
DeleteTapi selagi keputusan belum diumumkan, selagi itulah pelbagai kemungkinan boleh berlaku. So kita tengok sajalah nanti.
ReplyDeleteMusa Aman admitted that the bold decision to push for a sustainably harvested forests in 1997 (during the tenure of former chief minister Datuk Yong Teck Lee) has passed the litmus test and has proven the naysayers wrong.
ReplyDeletethe BN government under Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Haji Aman is the one who trying to make the situation better than before..
Deletewhen he was the chief minister [1996–1998], lands allocated to natives were actually ‘stolen’ and given to public-listed companies. a good example is the Tongod Region where not less than 20,000 acres of land earlier set aside for native socio-economic projects, under the ‘Tongod Regional Planning Study’, mooted during the Berjaya era, were given away to a public-listed company. This is blatant Daylight Robbery!!
ReplyDeleteduring the tenure of Yong Teck Lee in as little as 2 years, he approved some 265 logging licences covering over 300,000 ha (an area 5 times larger than the island of Singapore). these licences were given to cronies, associates, non-Sabahans included, and is clearly an act of gross irresponsibility at the expense of environmental conservation, sustainability and public interest.
ReplyDeleteDon't to lie with people with give a promise to them. SAPP need consciousness before give thousand of promises.
ReplyDeleteWe are talking about now. Yes, you have granted 44,000 land. What happen to them already?
ReplyDelete