Jeffrey: Ku Li’s disclosure links crash to oil deal
By Queville To, Free Malaysia Today
Common Interest Group Malaysia (CigMa), an ad-hoc apolitical NGO, said a re-visit of the 1976 crash which killed Sabah chief minister Donald Fuad Stephens would answer the question of whether the subsequent oil agreement between Sabah and the federal government was valid.
The NGO, which is dedicated to “reversing the re-colonialisation of Sabah and Sarawak since 1963”, said it was now imperative that the matter be re-investigated because the crash had occurred hours before Stephens was to have handed over Sabah’s oil rights to the federal government.
There has long been a suspicion that there was no proper investigation of the June 6,1976 air crash which killed Stephens and half his Cabinet.
Until today there are also many conspiracy theories surrounding the causes of the crash.
Said CigMa chairman Dr Jeffrey Kitingan: “His (Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah’s) talk is enough for the authorities to re-open the probe into the air crash.”
Tengku Razaleigh, former Petronas chairman and finance minister, had during a talk, “Minyak Sabah Untuk Siapa” (Sabah’s Oil for Whom?) at the Hongkod Koisaan last Friday made new disclosures of the 1976 air crash.
In an immediate reaction, former chief minister and Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) president Yong Teck Lee had on Sunday called for investigations to be re-opened based on Tengku Razaleigh’s disclosure.
