Stop the Hypocrisy — GRS Can’t Preach Integrity While Corruption Festers Within

      Daniel John Jambun     Datuk Nizam Abu Bakar

                                               Titingan

By Daniel John Jambun, 20-6-2025

THE recent statement by Datuk Nizam Abu Bakar Titingan, that appeared in Sabahnews.com.my, is a textbook example of political gaslighting — laced with hollow platitudes and stunning hypocrisy.

For a government whose leadership has presided over timber concessions awarded without open tender, mineral licenses given to cronies, and a dramatic rise in non-Malaysian citizens due to Project IC-type manipulation, to now claim they "do not protect wrongdoing" is an insult to the intelligence of the Sabah people.

Let us be clear — when two serving GRS assemblymen are charged by the MACC, it is not just a matter of individual wrongdoing. It is a reflection of the political culture that GRS has cultivated, tolerated, and rewarded. GRS cannot wash its hands of this rot while continuing to defend the very system that breeds it.

Nizam’s attempt to draw a line between individual prosecution and government responsibility is cowardly. In any functioning democracy, the buck stops with the leadership. The people expect accountability not just in words — but in action.

And yet, no internal investigation has been launched, no party suspensions issued, no clear steps taken to review the abuse of power or systemic loopholes that allowed these crimes to occur in the first place.

What kind of "integrity" is this?

Let us also remind Nizam: the same government he defends has handed out key appointments and state awards to individuals with questionable backgrounds, including those who have publicly admitted to obtaining their MyKad through dubious means. Three years after promising to investigate such matters, the Chief Minister has done nothing. Absolutely nothing.

So please — spare us the sanctimonious lectures about letting the law take its course. We have heard this all before, especially from governments that are happy to weaponize the law selectively while shielding their own.

GRS is not a victim of perception. It is the architect of its own disgrace.

Sabahans are not fooled. What we are witnessing is not political persecution — but the inevitable collapse of a government built on betrayal, patronage, and hypocrisy.

The people of Sabah deserve better — and they know it.

Daniel John Jambun is President of

Borneo's Plight in Malaysia Foundation (BoPiMaFo)

&

Change Advocate Movement Sabah (CAMOS).#~Borneo Herald™