Baru takes charge of Sarawak PKR

By Joseph Tawie, Malaysian Mirror

A prominent native customary rights (NCR) land lawyer, Baru Bian, has been named to head the Sarawak PKR, it is reliably learnt.

The official announcement from PKR on the appointment will be made on Sunday after a supreme council meeting of the party. Baru is also a council member.

Baru’s appointment is expected to close the chapter on the disillusionment expressed by certain quarters within Sarawak PKR that the party in the state was controlled by ‘outsiders’.

The party also hopes to prop up its image in Sarawak with the appointment of a local guy to take charge.

Baru will replace Mustaffa Kamil Ayub who was appointed as interim chief of the State PKR in May this year.

‘Show East Malaysians more respect’

“With Baru’s appointment, we hope more professionals and the hardcore members of the deregistered Parti Bansa Dayak Sarawak (PBDS) who have remained partyless will join the party,” a PKR leader who requested anonymity told Malaysian Mirror here this morning.

“It was a wrong move in the first place to put a West Malaysian in charge of Sarawak PKR. It’s as if there is no one capable in Sarawak to lead the party in the state. Those in Kuala Lumpur must learn to give us face.

“Anwar Ibrahim and his people in KL must show us more respect, otherwise they are like Umno leaders treating Sarawak and Sabah like ‘stepchildren’. We have enough of such treatment,” he added.

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