‘Throw out incompetent Jabu’
By Mohd Ariff Sabri Aziz, Free Malaysia Today
Democracy means exercising a choice. You can choose to throw out incompetent, negligent and corrupt leadership such as deputy chief minister Alfred Jabu.
So don’t let his alleged RM500 and RM1,000 ‘gift’ erase the bitter memory of having to put up with incompetent and negligent leaders like him.
Who is Jabu? Jabu is a Dayak and the chairman of the Sarawak Land Consolidation and Rehabilitation Authority (Salcra).
So let’s judge Jabu in his capacity of chairman of Salcra. Would you entrust him to manage your company?
Elsewhere people sack incompetent managers. Here you are willing to put with masochistic pains inflicted by Jabu and his gang of cabals.
Just look at Jabu’s lifestyle. Jabu has a palatial house and is noted for the conspicuous wealth of his family.
Look at the decor inside the house. Look at the additional wing to his already large mansion.
But he can’t give out dividends to the native customary rights (NCR) landowners whose land he manages.
So, could it be that this most incompetent manager is nevertheless a highly competent thief?
You can’t call such a person by any other term. Compare his lifestyle with that of those poor native customary rights (NCR) landowners, who participated in Salcra scheme more than 30 years ago.
Scrapping a living
Salcra is something like our own Felda or Felcra schemes. Owners of small parcels of land pool their land resource under one centralized, economies of scale justified management.
The management company is called Salcra. The original aim was to rescue the NCR land owners from poverty.
After 30 years, they are still scraping a living from the most miserable dividends that could possibly be imagined from the so-called business partnership run on their behalf by Jabu.
You can judge him solely on this. Forget the Dayak-kinship. Forget being from the same ancestral bloodline.
You have two leaders at the helm doing the same thing.
What Taib Mahmud does with his rapacious ‘Joint Venture Companies’, Jabu is doing the same screw job through his chairmanship of Salcra.
How does the Salcra scheme work? Under the programme the state government offers NCR landowners formal title to their customary lands, if they agree to join in the Salcra state-run palm oil plantations.
So Salcra is the state-run palm oil plantation. In return the landowners will get formal title which is claimable against the whole world and also promised a share of the proceeds.
What can participants expect? They can and should expect a well-run management company, whose management is transparent and accountable and which gives out dividends.
No one who owns palm oil plantations does not make money. More so in recent years when the price for palm oil has been good.
If Jabu does not make money, or make as much money at the average industry players and is not forthcoming about the management of the company and does not give out dividends or gives out below industry dividends, what do these things show?
These show that Jabu and his cabals are incompetent fools who are hiding so many things.
If they don’t give out dividends or give below industry average dividends and returns, thats because they are lining up their own pockets.
These are valid and justifiable conclusions to make.
