Saturday, June 1, 2013

130. Musa Aman, no Peace or Aman with almost 2 million EPIC

"Musa Aman, no Peace or Aman with almost 2 million EPIC as your crime" Joshua We Want Peace, Harmony In Sabah - Musa http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v7/ge/newsgeneral.php?id=953511 KOTA KINABALU, June 1 (Bernama) -- Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman said Sabah's doors are always open to those who want to see and embrace its ethnic and cultural diversities, as well as participate in the state's festivities. He said Sabah also welcomed those who respected a civil society, whereby there was law and order to uphold the prevailing peace and harmony. "However, if we have reason to believe that your presence here will pose a threat to these ideals that Sabah has enjoyed all this while, you are not welcome here," he said in a statement here Saturday. Musa said contrary to what was being spread in the social media, the ban on PKR vice-president Nurul Izzah Anwar from entering the state was not politically motivated. "Other opposition leaders have come and moved freely throughout Sabah, especially during the run-up to the elections. They spread the same old recipe of lies, deceit and slander to hoodwink the people. We didn't stop them," he said. "Now that the elections are over, their leader refuses to accept the verdict. It is a case of sour grapes and ungentlemanly conduct. He wants to rile up the masses to rally throughout the country to show his, and I repeat, his discontent," he said. "We have reason to believe that Nurul Izzah's intentions to come to Sabah, this time around, may not be as innocent as she or her fellow opposition members make it out to be," he added. She was barred from entering the state on Thursday. Musa said Sabah and its people did not need the endless propaganda by the opposition to incite hatred and mistrust among the people against the Barisan Nasional government. "Enough is enough. We need to move on. The opposition has been politicking for the last five years. Are we going to get bogged down by more politicking in the next five? "There's work to be done. The country needs to be administered, the economy needs to grow and the people's welfare, taken care of," he said. -- BERNAMA

129. Many millions of PTI have perished in NB too

So what is the curse of illegal human dying in NB? http://www.malaysiakini.com/letters/231500 Curse of the poisoned pygmy elephants S Param 5:08PM May 29, 2013 I whole heartedly support the urging by Sahabat Alam Malaysia's (SAM) president, the honourable SM Mohd Idris, that if the Sabah Wildlife Department, Natural Resources and Environment Ministry and the Sabah police continue to play dumb on the callous poisoning of the 14 pygmy elephants that took place six months ago in North Borneo, the public should join hands to show their displeasure in a great way. It is indeed disturbing and mind boggling to learn that after more than six months the authorities have yet to arrest anyone for the brutal poisoning of our rare endangered pygmy elephants. We are getting all kinds of excuses for the delay in the investigation. It is understandable for some delay in revealing the investigations due to GE13 but not to this point. It's almost half a year now! It is a shame and laughable to learn of the claim that even an advanced country like Australia which is well known in the world for its competence in analysing veterinary specimens has not been able to identify the poison. Are we dealing with some kind of alien poison from outer space? I cannot comprehend why the authorities are still unable to solve the issue. I hope the authorities are not trying to protect the culprits whoever they may be. This is a serious and unpardonable crime. The culprits who poisoned the pygmy elephants must be brought to bear the full weight of the law. The natural resources and environment minister, who I believe understands the gravity of the wildlife poisoning incident, should realise that the world is watching and the need to be proactive and transparent. If the authorities continues to be silent on the issue it's only going to infuriate the local and the international community further which will be very damaging to the image of the country. On another note I wish to point out that elephants are said to be highly sensitive and fine-tuned to nature and its environment. Ancient literature is full of awesome stories linking elephants to mystical powers and its position in the jungle and in some early and modern kingdoms. Forest dwellers/tribes and folk cultures in some parts of the world refer to these gentle giants as protectors and guardians of the jungle spirits. In some cultures it is believed that any deliberate injury or killing of these elephants by humans will upset the peaceful and harmonious vibes in the region. When this happens they believe that it will bring bad luck to the place. Although I don't normally subscribe to such folklore or superstitions, I cannot help believing it this time, when all of a sudden North Borneo was involved in a bloody war with the Sulu insurgents just a couple of weeks after the poisoning of the elephants. This invasion took place close to the area where these elephants were poisoned (Lahad Datu). Call it humbug or mere coincidence but it cannot be denied that we have lost so many lives including our brave and dedicated police and army personnel just like that. There was so much unwanted bloodshed and the region was in turmoil for some time with so many families displaced and forced to bear the consequences of the unforeseen turn of events. Nobody in their wildest dreams would have expected such a bloody episode to unveil in this peaceful region of North Borneo. Was it the curse of the 14 poisoned pygmy elephants? Some who dwell in the forest and live in harmony with nature believe the only way to stabilise the disturbed vibes in the area where the pygmy elephants were killed is to appease the "spirits" of these animals. I don't know what do these folks mean but I just hope once the elephant killers are brought to justice, the wildlife in North Borneo will continue to roam in their environment safely and peacefully knowing that we are there to protect them.

Thursday, May 30, 2013

128. Subpeona Tan Sri Rashid Abdul Rahman Ex EC chairman

Oh, no, you don’t, Abdul Rashid

Posted on January 24, 2013

By Singa Terhormat
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The Daily Express, an East Malaysian newspaper, in an article dated 23^rd September, 2011, reported that Tan Sri Abdul Rashid Abdul Rahman,

former Election Commission (EC) Chairman (and before that its Secretary since at least the early 1980s), denied the truth of a United States embassy cable posted on WikiLeaks (which) revealed that he had admitted to issuing more than 60,000 fake Malaysian identity cards in Sabah on Umno’s instructions.
This is how the Daily Express reports his reaction:
“That can’t be true. I had nothing to do at all with this and I was never involved in issuing Ics.”What the EC did was only to register citizens with ICs as voters,” he said, adding that IC matters were within the National Registration Department’s prerogative. The cable quoted former Malaysians for Free and Fair Elections (Mafrel) chief Malek Husin as claiming that Rashid had confessed this to him during a private meeting at the latter’s house on Oct 25, 2006. It also stated that Malek was said to have informed the US embassy officials that Rashid allegedly confirmed that this strategy was meant to wrest political control of Sabah which was held until 1994 by then opposition front Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS).
During that decade, claimed the cable, Umno had granted citizenship and Malaysian identity cards to over 600,000 foreign migrant workers (predominantly Muslims from Indonesia and Mindanao in the Philippines) in Sabah, in exchange for their votes in state Assembly Elections.”
The Daily Express added:
“Rashid however recalled being informed by the opposition parties in Sabah about an allegation of registering foreigners as voters.
“They then asked me to check the ICs of these people, which I refused as this was not within our authority but NRD’s.”
The Harakah Daily of 23^rd January, 2013 speaking of this same Abdul Rashid reports:
“ Rashid admitted that there were major issues with regards to the electoral roll, but said cases of foreigners being registered as voters should be blamed on the National Registration Department.
“EC has no powers to intervene in such cases. This mess… it is NRD’s,” he said, admitting that foreigners were issued with Malaysian identity cards and had signed up as voters in Sabah.”
So Abdul Rashid says he was never involved in issuing ICs as IC matters were within the National Registration Department’s prerogative.
Of course the National Registration Department is the one that issues ICs.
Any fool knows that. Any fool knows that it is not the EC that issues ICs.
Could there have been complicity between both bodies, the EC and the NRD, to carry out these unholy acts though?
Mohd Nasir Sugip, a former Sabah National Registration Department (NRD) officer, alleges so.
Abdul Rashid, you now admit that there were major issues in the electoral rolls but maintain that the blame lies with NRD and not you or the EC and so you did nothing about it.
Was that responsible of you, Abdul Rashid?
On an issue that affects the sovereignty of this nation and the democratic rights of its peoples you did nothing about it?
And you were the Secretary and later Chairman of the EC!
Did your job scope as such not require you to ensure the integrity of the electoral rolls?
Was it not a duty you owed to the nation and all its peoples?
As a Kelantanese, Abdul Rashid, you surely have come across and understand the meaning of “Kami tok se oren make gaji buto”. (We do not want those who take their salary without earning it.)
On reflection now, do you feel you fully earned yours?
And Abdul Rashid, what do you now have to say about the evidence given at the ongoing Royal Commission of Inquiry on this matter where it is reported that Mohd Nasir Sugip, a former Sabah National Registration Department (NRD) officer, is reported to have said that “the operation involved providing the immigrants with new identity card numbers based on the date of birth, photographs and names provided by the EC” and that “the names were changed, IC numbers were changed, date of birth was changed… and their pictures,” ?
Now Abdul Rashid, pray tell us what was the EC doing providing the NRD with dates of birth, photographs and names to the NRD, as alleged?
How did it fall within the scope of functions of the EC to provide such information, if that is true?
For what purpose, pray tell?
As reported, Mohd Nasir Sugip also claimed that “his department had once taken instructions from the state Election Commission (EC) to provide unqualified immigrants with identity card numbers so that they could vote in the election.”
Please enlighten us on all these matters, Abdul Rashid.
Do not patronize us by now saying that the “present electoral system must be reformed” and that you “propose that voters are re-registered the way population census is done” as reported by Harakah Daily.
Harakah Daily also reports that you said “by carrying out a completely new registration process, the suspicions and allegations over the reliability of the voters list could be put to rest once and for all.”
Eureka!
All problems solved?
No, Abdul Rashid, things do not work that way.
The matter will not disappear just by now undertaking a new electoral rolls exercise.
It is understandable that you may wish that the problem can be dealt with and discarded in that manner.
What wrongs have been committed can be overlooked and forgotten?
A great injustice appears to have been done to this nation and its peoples during the time you were EC Secretary and later Chairman and you have to take the responsibility to answer all those allegations, which if true, amounts to high treason.

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

127 distraction by design of local tolerance against illegal

what a misleading piece here? Joshua

http://www.theborneopost.com/2013/05/30/high-racial-tolerance-in-sabah-sliding-rci-told/

High racial tolerance in Sabah sliding, RCI told

Posted on May 30, 2013, Thursday

KOTA KINABALU: Ethnic tolerance among Sabahans is very high but on the way down, Universiti Malaysia Sabah’s (UMS) social expert told the Royal Commission of Inquiry on illegal immigrants in Sabah.
Associate Prof Dr Kntayya A/L Mariapan from the School of Sociology UMS, said a study he conducted in 2007 to measure the level of acceptance between different races in Sabah showed that the people at grassroots level were very tolerant towards each other.
The study involving respondents mainly from the native Bajau, Suluk, Kadazandusun and Murut, tried to quantify the level of acceptance among the different ethnic groups.
Over 1,000 households from Sandakan, Keningau and Kota Kinabalu, were selected as respondents using the random sampling method in the research, which also used the focus group interview approach.
Testifying as an expert witness during the inquiry yesterday, Dr Kntayya explained a set of 16 questions covering social, political, economic as well as religious aspect were given to the respondents.
The questionnaire among others asked the respondents their level of willingness to marry someone from outside their own ethnic group, form a join business venture with partners from other races, join political parties whose members are predominantly from other races and so on.
He said analysis of the data gathered led him to conclude that the ethnic groups in Sabah involved had very high tolerance towards each other, scoring between 1 and 2 on the Bogardus social distance scale.
“This is very high, with 1 being the highest or very tolerant and five the lowest or no tolerance,” said Dr Kntayya who specializes in ethnic Malaysia relationship studies.
However, he clarified that the study only captured the ethnic tolerance at the particular time it was conducted and ethnic tolerance is not a static but a fluid entity that could change at any time.
He explained the level of tolerance or acceptance between ethnics could either improve or worsen depending on any given triggering factors, and based on his observation the ethnic tolerance in Sabah was going down rather than going up.
“In Bosnia, before the war, the ethnic tolerance was very high too. The acceptance of the people at grassroots level was very good, but then it collapsed so spectacularly,” he said.
While he did not explain what were the factors causing the changes in ethnic tolerance in Sabah, Dr Kntayya said the collapse of inter-racial trust was often caused by “ethnic mobilization by the leaders”, which in sociology is termed as “ethnic entrepreneurs”.
He said no other studies had been conducted anywhere else in Malaysia, making it difficult to conclude if Sabah had better ethnic tolerance compared to the other states in the country.
However, it can be deduced that ethnic relation in Sabah is different than that in Peninsular Malaysia.
“I do not see the same segregation like in the peninsula, where communal political parties are prominent. Here, even Umno is not exclusively for the Malay. So, the political influence in dividing races is not that evident as in the peninsula, although the tendency is always there,” he said.
Dr Kntayya also agreed with the Commission that one of the factors contributing to the high tolerance was the fact that most Sabahans were from mixed parentage.
He noted that most of the people interviewed in the study, nine out of 10, could be those from mixed origin.

126. Enough is Enough with Project IC & Street kids

Got to send them away immediately -- Joshua

http://www.theborneopost.com/2013/05/30/findings-on-street-kids-kept-under-wraps-sociologist/

Findings on street kids kept under wraps – sociologist

by Murib Morpi. Posted on May 30, 2013, Thursday

KOTA KINABALU: A sociologist yesterday suggested stateless street kids be given some kind of status so that they can be recognized as part of the community.
“This would attract less objection from the local communities while at the same time help towards addressing the issue of stateless children in Sabah,” said Prof Dr Kntayya A/L Mariapan from Universiti Malaysia School’s School of Sociology when testifying in the Royal Commission of Inquiry on illegal immigrants in Sabah.
He stressed that while directly giving immigrant children citizenship would draw strong objection from the local communities, a middle way was needed to be taken to address the issue.
Dr Kntayya, who appeared before the Commission as an expert witness, said these children could pose social threats if they continued to be rejected by the community as the chances of them getting involved in criminal activities such as prostitution and gangsterism were very high.
He informed the Commission that the Women and Family Development Ministry had asked him to conduct a research on street kids in Sabah but kept the findings confidential and prohibited him from publishing any materials from the study.
“I could not reveal anything from my study, but it is (the number of street kids in Sabah) very big. I must be careful not to reveal anything,” he said, when asked if the street kids were mostly foreigners and from which country.
To a question from panel chairman Tan Sri Steve Shim Lip Kiong, Dr Kntayya said he was not satisfied with how the street kids were being treated at the moment.
Earlier, he reckoned the government needed to be seen as sincere towards all parties in resolving the issue of refugees in Sabah.
He said based on his observation, giving citizenship to refugees in Sabah would cause resentment among the native communities, in particular the Kadazandusun and Murut (KDM) who are already feeling marginalized and outnumbered by the immigrants.
He said introducing such a sudden change would not go down well in the current situation of inter-racial ties in the State.
He noted that the KDM, who represented the majority of the population in the State before independence, felt that their way of life was being threatened as now the situation was reversed, where they are fast becoming the minority.
“Currently, a lot of changes are already taking place in the demography; when people are already marginalized, it will be difficult for them to accept further changes,” he told the Commission of Inquiry on Illegal Immigrants in Sabah, yesterday.
Dr Kntayya suggested that the authority take a more cautious approach before making it a policy to give citizenship to refugees.
“The street kids issue for example, when I said they should be absorbed into the community, the people in the meeting said no, our own children are suffering so why do we need to give welfare to foreigners? This is the kind of rejection… even for children; imagine the rejection for adults,” he said.
The Commission also suggested Dr Kntayya carry out a study on ethnic tolerance between the local and immigrant communities, to which he said he would if the government was willing to provide the funding.
Meanwhile, a witness told the RCI that she could not open a bank account in 2007 because somebody was using her identity card.
Chia Oi Len, 59, from Papar said this happened in 2007 after she had upgraded her old IC bearing a number starting with ‘H’ to the Bunga Raya version.
There were no problems using her IC until she tried to open an account with Maybank Karamunsing, and was told that someone else in Kuala Lumpur was already using her old IC with the bank.
Chia said she lodged a police report and decided to upgrade to MyKad after the incident.
As for voting, she said she never missed casting her vote in every election in her constituency and did not encounter any problems.
Another witness, Sabah Water Department chief engineer Quirine @ Quirinus Jokinol told the RCI that they suffered increasing losses and unnecessary costs between 2008 and 2012 due to illegal connections and water thefts in five districts in Sabah.
Making a comparison, he said the amount of water losses in 2008 was 71,394 cubic metres per year while 2012 recorded 259,734 cubic metre per year losses.
“Every cubic metre accounts for 90 sen and this translated to RM233,760.60 in losses last year, a jump from RM64,254.60 losses in 2008.
“As for unnecessary costs which include works to fix tampered pipes and meters, RM78,150 was spent in 2008 while RM275,690 was incurred in 2012,” he added.

Friday, May 24, 2013

125. Project IC holders in Electoral Rolls

http://malaysiange13.blogspot.com/2013/05/156-ge2004-2008-and-2013-all-null-and.html

OPEN LETTER TO THE HOME AFFAIRS MINISTER, MALAYSIA Datuk Ahmad Zahid Hamidi challenged us to show proof that Electoral Rolls are improper hence affecting the General Elections results.

124. Part and parcel of Project IC nationwide

Genuine loss could be penalised when the criminals get away with murders. Joshua

133,000 Mykads Lost In First Qtr Of 2013 Worrying, Says Ahmad Zahid

http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v7/ge/newsgeneral.php?id=951858

PUTRAJAYA, May 23 (Bernama) -- The loss of 133,000 MyKads in the first three months (January-March) of this year alone is worrying to the government; whether these cases were due to the identity cardholders' negligence or the work of syndicates.

Describing the number as high, Home Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said he was concerned that some of the lost MyKads might be used by syndicates for criminal purposes.

"This issue needs to be tackled fast by the National Registration Department (NRD) to prevent misuse of the lost MyKads and to avoid the Home Ministry from being accused by any quarters of creating phantom voters for the general election."

Ahmad Zahid said this to reporters after his visit to the NRD, in Putrajaya, Thursday.

He was, however, confident that the NRD, which won eight awards including an international one last year for its excellent service, would be able to check the problem.

"If investigations reveal that syndicates were involved in the loss of MyKads for the purpose of committing crime and so on, I think a fine imposed on the cardholders is not enough as the NRD should also do monitoring, undertake prevention measures and provide solutions to the problem," he said.

He said the fine for those who lost their MyKad might be increased after this.

"I'm asking the NRD director-general to suggest the amount which I will bring up to the cabinet for consideration and approval," he said.

Currently, the fine for losing the MyKad for the first time is RM100, RM200 for the second time and RM300 for the third.

--BERNAMA