TERKINI : 100 ahli Umno dan SAPP Parlimen Kinabatangan sertai KEADILAN ... Depa dah meluat dengan Bung Mokhtar

KeadilanDaily

Lebih 100 ahli Umno dan Parti Maju Sabah (SAPP) dalam Parlimen Kinabatangan hari ini menyertai KEADILAN di Sandakan, Sabah, kata Ketua Srikandi KEADILAN, Siti Aishah Shaik.

Semua borang penyertaan itu katanya diserah seorang pimpinan Umno Parlimen Kinabatangan kepada Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim pada program ceramah umum anjuran KEADILAN Sabah.

“Penyertaan itu membuktikan lonjakan sokongan berterusan rakyat Sabah kepada KEADILAN dan Pakatan Rakyat sekaligus signal jelas rakyat negeri ini sudah bersedia menukar kerajaan,” katanya kepada Keadilan Daily, petang ini.

Selain Aishah, Pengerusi Majlis Pimpinan KEADILAN Sabah, Ahmad Thamrin Jaini; Timbalan Pesuruhjaya PAS Sabah, Hamzah Abdullah; pimpinan DAP Sabah, Steven wong hadir bersama kira-kira 1,500 rakyat pelbagai kaum.

Aishah berharap pimpinan KEADILAN Sabah mengatur pelbagai program bagi memastikan keanggotaan baru itu memahami perjuangan parti dan membantu kemenangan pada pilihan raya umum akan datang.

Parlimen Kinabatangan diwakili Timbalan Pengerusi Kelab Penyokong Umno BN di Parlimen yang terkenal dengan kontroversinya mengungkap perkataan lucah, Datuk Bung Mokhtar Radin.

Kerajaan Persekutuan (BN) lebih teruk dari Ah Long : SAPP

The Sabah Progressive Party is of the view that the Barisan Nasional federal government is worse than a loan shark as it has failed to ensure uniformity in the prices of goods across West and East Malaysia.

SAPP secretary general Richard Yong We Kong that the federal government’s move to impose the goods and services tax (GST) will make Sabahans poorer as prices in the Borneo states were already higher than on the peninsula.

He said the federal government should reconsider any move that will burden Sabah, which is the poorest state in the country.

He said Sabahans were already paying between 10 and 40 percent more for almost all services and goods.

The GST, he said, would raise the cost of doing business in Sabah, which is known for its poor infrastructure and unreliable supply of water, power and other utilities.

He also accused the federal government of using the tax collected from oil palm planters in the state under the Cooking Oil Subsidy Scheme (COSS) to subsidise consumers in Peninsular Malaysia.

“ But nothing has been done to subsidise the high costs of living, transportation and shipping burdening people of Sabah,” he said.

“And don’t forget that 95 percent of Sabah’s oil and gas revenues are taken by the federal government to fund infrastructure and socio-economic development in Peninsular Malaysia and even to subsidise the toll concessionaires, while a majority of Sabahans continue to live in poverty.”

Imposing the GST, he said, would be “no different from sucking the blood of Sabah people. Is this the kind of treatment that Sabahans deserve despite being regarded as the ‘fixed-deposit’ of Barisan Nasional?”

He concluded that the federal government was worse than the Ah Long .

SAPP mungkin keluar BN 17 Sept

Tony Thien Sep 13, 08 3:54pm

Majlis Tertinggi Parti Maju Sabah (SAPP) akan bermesyuarat Rabu depan untuk membincangkan status parti itu dalam Barisan Nasional.Ketika mengesahkannya, Setiausaha Agung SAPP, Richard Yong memberitahu Malaysiakini bahawa kesemua 35 ahli MT dijangka hadir dan membuat keputusan mengenai keahlian parti itu dalam BN.

Menurut Yong (foto), yang merupakan orang kanan presiden SAPP yang juga bekas ketua menteri Sabah, Datuk Yong Teck Lee, parti tersebut tidak dijemput menghadiri mesyuarat dewan tertinggi BN sebanyak enam kali dalam bulan-bulan kebelakangan ini.

“Jika tiada keputusan dibuat (oleh dewan tertinggi BN), maka kita akan membuat keputusan sendiri," katanya, merujuk kepada surat tunjuk sebab yang dikeluarkan oleh BN kepada SAPP selepas parti itu berhasrat mengemukakan undi tidak percaya terhadap Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.

BN tidak membincangkan isu membabitkan SAPP selepas menghantar surat tunjuk sebab tersebut. ... seterusnya DISINI

- malaysiakini