KDMM a desperate attempt to entice KDMs to Umno

By Daniel John Jambun

Datuk John Ambrose, as the founder and President of the newly registered KDM Malaysia (KDMM) has been making a lot of publicity about the new association. Immediately we can sense that, although it is an NGO, it is not your usual type of voluntary organization. Firstly, it unashamedly declared that it number one purpose is to get KDMs to support Umno. KDMM has no intention to go into cultural and identity preservation work for the KDMs. It aims mainly to break the KDMs further by enticing them to Umno, i.e. away from PBS, Upko, PBRS and the opposition. So Datuk Dr. Jeffrey Kitingan is right in saying it a tool of divide and rule by Barisan Nasional.

EC chief: See no Evil, Hear no Evil

By Aidila Razak

INTERVIEW Claims about the systematic granting of Malaysian citizenship to thousands of illegal immigrants in Sabah in the 1990s is the stuff of legends.

And like all good legends, evidence of such a happening may seem aplenty, but there is nothing to irrefutably prove that it had occurred.

At least, that is what former Election Commission chief Abdul Rashid Abdul Rahman believes of the dubious operation popularly dubbed Project IC or Project M.

SAPP to raise SAS issue again in next sitting

TAWAU: Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) will again raise the Saham Amanah Sabah (SAS) issue in the State Legislative Assembly (SLA) sitting in November and call for a white paper to reveal who was responsible for the shares losses amounting to RM500 million.

SAPP Women chief Melanie Chia said it was an issue which the Barisan Nasional (BN) had not tackled and Tawau people were talking on the issue.

Ustaz's 1Malaysia Plan for East Malaysia...proselytisation

An alleged move to second 80,000 teachers to Sarawak could trigger social
implications, says Parti Rakyat Sarawak president James Masing.

SIBU: Is an alleged move by the Education Ministry to transfer 80,000 teachers from Peninsular Malaysia to Sarawak an insidious plan to “convert” locals?

If it is, then Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak’s ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) government is digging itself into an even deeper hole here.

Already, the majority Christian Sarawakians are seething at the Umno-led government’s high-handedness and arrogant dismissal of the Federal Constitution in relation to freedom to practise one’s own religion.

Skandal Jabatan Tanah Dan Ukur

BANTAH......Karamah menunjukkan surat bantahan mengenai
tanah tersebut tetapi tidak menerima sebarang respon
daripada Jabatan Tanah dan Ukur.

Oleh : SHAIMON S JUMADI

KETUA Pemohon Tanah seluas 40 ekar di Kampung Sungai Sumpit, kawasan Nipah Tambisan, Tungku, Abdullah Hj Hamid yang mewakilkan kuasa kepada bapa mertuanya, Karamah Sajae (gambar) mendakwa bahawa Jabatan Tanah dan Ukur Kinabatangan melakukan penyelewengan dalam proses pengukuran tanah di kawasan tersebut.

Karamah mendakwa Pegawai Jabatan Tanah dan Ukur Negeri Sabah, Thomas Wong telah mengetuai kerja-kerja pengukuran di kawasan tanah yang bukan dipohon, tetapi tanah milik orang lain dan mereka mengukur tanah secara rambang; termasuk di atas meja mereka sahaja.

Land grabs: ‘Police colluding with company’

By Luke Rintod of FMT

Villagers in remote Sabah have accused police
of helping a company occupy their land.

KOTA KINABALU: The displacement of villagers is continuing unabated in remote corners of Sabah – out of the public eye despite claims to the contrary by the Barisan Nasional (BN) state government.

Yet another land-grab case has surfaced. This time, it is in Kampung Mapat and Kampung Mapad in Pitas.

The victims lodged a police report here yesterday claiming that police had assisted a private company, Syarikat Jayasama Sdn Bhd, alienate their NCR (native customary rights) land.

Billions spent on Sabah infrastructures, but how come not much improvements?

By Fredoline Edwin Lojingki
EACH year both the Federal Government and State Government announced hundreds of millions of ringgits for Sabah and in fact thousands of millions ringgits for the whole country for so-called rural development which focussed on basic infrastructures. What astonish me is little is felt here in many rural areas in Sabah. I have travelled to many parts of Sabah in recent times and i found it scaring to claim that those billions were ever spent for the Sabahan people.

No Thinking Muslim Support for Himpunan Sejuta Umat

by Dr. Ahmad Farouk Musa

3:15PM Oct 24, 2011

After much hype, the Himpun gathering at Shah Alam Stadium on Saturday was a non-event.  The dismal attendance of roughly 5,000 hankering souls was a total letdown from the expected one million.

Despite the claim that Himpun was a success by the organisers, it was clear that it was more of a self-reassurance. Himpun failed miserably in their effort to instigate thinking Muslims into supporting their crusade.

Gejala Rampasan Tanah Menghantui Etnik Bumiputra Sabah

Tanah merupakan nadi dan berkait rapat dengan kehidupan masyarakat etnik bumiputera Sabah. Namun kehidupan ini semakin lama semakin terhakis dan menjadi satu mimpi igauan yang ngeri terhadap masa depan generasi anak watan Sabah tulen yang bergantung hidup pada tanah. Ini disebabkan kejadian rampasan tanah yang semakin berleluasa oleh pihak - pihak yang berkepentingan dalam ketamakan mengaut keuntungan tanpa menghiraukan keperitan yang ditanggung oleh kaum etnik bumiputera.

‘Cease attacks on SAPP’

Lim Kit Siang has reminded Sabah DAP that their fight
is with Umno-Barisan Nasional not SAPP.

By Michael Kaung

PENAMPANG: DAP strongman Lim Kit Siang has directed party leaders in Sabah to bury the hatchet and stop the on-going war of words with fellow opposition member, Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP).
Lim, the DAP adviser, is worried that the quarrel between the party’s state branch and SAPP is distracting them from the real challenge in the 13th general election that could be called by Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak any time now.