Oil ‘sell-out’: All avoiding answers, says Lim
(Free Malaysia Today) – The statements by Wisma Putra, Petronas, Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak and former premier Abdullah Ahmad Badawi regarding the oil “sell-out” to Brunei all have one common purpose – to avoid answering two important questions, said DAP leader Lim Kit Siang.
The two questions are:
- When and why Malaysia ceded away Malaysian sovereignty to two oil and gas-rich offshore areas in South China Sea, namely Block L and Block M, in favour of Brunei? and
- When did Brunei surrender its territorial claim of sovereignty to Limbang and recognise full Malaysian sovereignty instead?
Lim said although Wisma Putra, Najib and Abdullah knew fully well that their statements would be scrutinised for answers to these two most pertinent questions, all their verbiage have one common thrust: to avoid answering them.
He added that this could only raise suspicions to crisis point.
He urged Najib to release a full chronological order of the events resulting in the ceding of Malaysian sovereignty to Blocks L and M to Brunei and the position of Brunei’s territorial claim to Limbang.
Lim said the people also want to know whether and if so when, Brunei had surrendered its claim of sovereignty to Limbang.
