Ladies With Titles
By Sarawak Report
There is a sprinkling of Sarawakian women who have gone into the plantation business according to the land records. One can’t help noticing how well-connected they are!
For example Datin Thersa Toyat, who is a relative of the Chief Minister. Theresa is also married to the former State Secretary and CEO of the company managing SCORE (Taib’s pet development concept) Wilson Baya Dandot. In such an important position Dandot should of course avoid conflicts of interest, so presumably this is why the large plantation way over in the Baram region is registered in the name of his wife?
Theresa is also the highly successful owner of the company Saredah Sdn Bhd (which is the address given for Amazing Green). Saredah is a cleaning company and has managed to get many lucrative contracts handling the cleaning of state government buildings and offices!
So, it is not hard to understand why so many people in the state complain that there is no chance of getting on in business or of landing contracts or concessions without being connected in some way to the Taibs or their cronies! Take Sarawak’s top plantation women Raziah and Eliah Geneid – sister and niece of Taib, of course.
The Tun Rahman daughters
Another lady who features as a plantation owner is Fatimah Abdul Rahman. She has managed to acquire a very large plantation title in Sri Aman region, according to the records.
She is of course the daughter of the former Chief Minister and State Governor Tun Rahman Ya’kub, who is now reconciled with his nephew the Current Chief Minister and pushing his other daughter Norah to be the next Chief Minister herself!